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Going by their track record of 1st date announced, then postponements ... short answer - NO

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Since located in bkk, I guess you are deep rooted in Thailand and can't / won't leave. There are AA meeting every day & night somewhere for you. Or simple sip at home. Family forum, do we need to hear about your addiction .... keep your private life private ... ????

Old people die, get over it. Getting a jab isn't going to prevent that, as you can get and or transmit the virus after receiving the jab, just like any other virus or infectious disease that the older immune systems can't handle. Subjecting healthy people to boosters every 6 or 12 months is just silly. Especially after already having had the virus. It just a money maker for big pharma apparently. Only after the virus, like every other runs it's course through the world population will it slowly disperse. This virus has only done 1 thing, enlightened people to proper hygiene practices they should have been exercising decades ago. Maybe grandmas of days pass dying from the common annual flu could have been saved. The silly lockdowns have done nothing but weaken people's immune system. Fresh air, exercise, sunlight / vit D are all immune system builders. Shuttering indoors is killing people & economies. Wake up.

You might want to actually do a wee bit of research before posting. Volvo makes cars, trucks, and apparently excavators in the USA. Can't fault a company for maximizing profits and staying in business, providing jobs worldwide. https://imakeamerica.com/?s=volvo http://tiny.cc/dd1kuz The "Made in ??? " home country BS is just that....BS. Provide the best product for the best price. If you had to only purchase and use products / food, made & produced in your home country, you'd be screwed for any choice or competition, and things would be outrageously expensive. Auto industry in USA is prime example, of the c r a p they produced until foreign competition arrived. Then to complete, the USA auto makers simply rebranded imports for themselves. Unions priced themselves out of jobs, along with millionaire executives. Competition is a beautiful thing. Welcome it. Businesses fail because of mismanagement, and no other reason.

Need more than $1000 ... think that's more about inflation than anything else. Why would you want to live on less than that here or anywhere. If a mere $1000 is an issue, probably means you don't have an oops fund, or will have health insurance, and then become a burden on your host country. Where will you be allowed to live .... if taking Thailand as an example, the rules haven't changed in decades. But because of the scammers, enforcement has been tightened, and you can blame / thank your fellow country persons for screwing you and future retirees here. I personally love the tightening of Imm rules, and actually wish they were stricter. Many of the bottom feeders had to leave the past couple years, by simply enforcing the rules that they've been violated for decades. No loss to anyone here. Most people seem to want strict immigration in their home country, but not where they think they are entitled to live.....hmm

If free flowing alcohol is your gauge for living somewhere, you may have more issues then you care to admit. I enjoy sipping one or 2 occasionally, maybe every couple weeks, so not an issue for me. Never at a bar, and rarely at a restaurant, as most don't serve my brand. I wouldn't get pass more than one or 2 anyway (490ml), as I'm usually the driver. When sitting surfside also, and had 2, depending on food intake, wife may drive back home, as she doesn't indulge. Not that I'm incapable, but if someone was to hit me, don't need beer breath when talking to whoever shows up. Stats show, no alcohol, and less drunks on the road, has save 1000's here. May this flu hang around for decades to come.????????????

If that half year is all at one time, then I'd pick Thai's high season, NOT to be here. Nov-April. Though catch the cusp of (Sept / Oct then April May rains start), whether just before or after to enjoy the Andaman Sea side without tourist, during normal times. Pre-covid, the millions of tourist in South of Thailand, and wee bit of smog, along the heavy smog from Hua Hin and above, Bkk & the N, really should be avoided, IMHO. Packed beaches in the South, and no mountain visas in the North, really ruin a holiday. Rainy season here 'was', is one of my favorites. Actually went to the N during, first time I think, and lovely vistas, that I missed in the past. Same with Andaman Sea (Phuket). Perfection this past year, high season, without the tourist, as I stopped going 10 yrs ago, and never during high season, as low season was too crowded for me. If not living in, the USA, if never been or limited traveling, during high season here, as low season there in many places, since most travel during summer school breaks. Size & diversity of the country makes it amazing. All the Americas IMO.

If actually reading the 'original' sourced info, I don't think Patts fits what the NEO Tourist is looking for. Especially since the groups sited, along with 'nature / sustainable tourism' as part of their criteria. Young families with or without kids, Patts isn't the draw, unless a pit stop to go to Ko Larn or other points beyond. "The research was conducted with 1,098 participants which were divided into 2 groups namely young neo travelers and family neo travelers. Young neo travelers are those at 18-35 years of age with no children. This is the first group that the entrepreneurs have to take into consideration and adapt their services to match with the behavior of this group of customers. Family neo travelers are those at 27-45 years of age with children. This group consists of at least 2 generations of family members, is the majority of current Thai society, and has higher spending per trip than other groups. New information for travel business is found as follows" Had to Google 'neo tourism':

I picked up the POCO X3 NFC last year, a Xiaomi product, and really like it. Also, one of the few left that battery is user replaceable. From LAZ/Xiaomi: https://www.lazada.co.th/products/i1620308672-s4447784478.html?urlFlag=true&mp=1&spm=spm%3Da2o4m.order_details.item_title.1 Excellent camera and screen is fairly indestructible:

Many of these cycle lanes aren't very well thought out, especially with the lack of parking in towns. And seriously, how do you not see that truck. Maybe more to the story, and he got cut off into the truck, and obviously didn't bounce very well.

Nah, hurricane season kept me out of FL, USA, Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico. Natural disasters, lack of, all pluses for Thailand. Typhoons, earthquakes, volcanoes all fairly none existent. Can't think of anywhere I'd want to start over again at, especially knocking on 67 yrs old.

Relative to ... Krung Thep - no Other big metros - yes, maybe. If leaving Thailand for cheaper or less corruption, then not a good choice.

Without a reason ... correct. If every Yank showed up, with I month missing, and 2 deposits in the next month....yea, we'd all be deported. ???? I'd better make some plane reservations back to the USA.

That stat suck, and guessing that's a worldwide stat. Here, not nearly that many, thankfully. I am a bit anti-social, especially now, since anti-vax & mask ???? Few that have pass of late, simply old age, as I'm in that age bracket, when more funerals get attended than weddings. So small circle of what I'd call friend, and all distant at that, even here since moving from NE to S of Thailand, along with most family & friends I haven't seen in 20+ years back in the USA.

You posted an op-ed that quoted a newly appointed politician, of the same party, trying to push a bill through Congress, presently a scenario that has never happened, in a system set up so it doesn't happen. I'd call that scaremongering, not news, or a possibility. cnbc... go figure. The only surprise is they didn't blame it on Trump ???? I'm pretty sure in the very unlikely possibility of it happening, Thai Imm would simply make an exception for any 1 month involved, and simply take the total of the 2 months. Just as all the overstayers of their visa during lockdowns, outside of the country, didn't end up in jail or fined. Actually got a carte blanche pass to avoid most immigration policies for over a year. I've found Imm to be very compassionate & understanding most times.

If going to quote me / repeat what I stated, then at least be accurate ... " anyone who has ... died ... from the virus". Until yesterday, that conversation, no, I didn't know of anyone who has died of. Just strangers in the news, and actually, that kid is a stranger to me. Never met him or his father. Live in Thailand, so easy not know anyone who died from covid, since only < 0.25% of the population has died from covid, and yes, it's caused by a coronavirus, a flu, same as the normal yearly flu, but obviously with a bit of a bite. But still, a viral flu. That's 249 per million died of C19 or 25 per 100k or 2.5 per 10k or .25 per 1000, so yes, not even knowing 1000 people here, I don't know anyone who died of C19, the flu, or the common flu for that matter ... ???? Why is that hard to believe. Do know someone who had covid (not confirmed), my daughter, sick more than a few times last year or so, and hit hard a couple times. Her friends did get tested & positive, so safe to assume she did contract it.

Yes, no argument here. The next decade will dictate what the future will look like .... and it doesn't look very promising. The acceptance of tyranny and the dumbing down is mind boggling.

Nothing but 'scaremongering to get support' ... as same thing happens every time, and SS has never be delayed or stopped due to debt ceiling or budget conflicts / budget not passed.

.... it wasn't weaponized in a lab. SARS - the sequel. The official name says it all ... "SARS-CoV-2"

If people weren't forced to go to the hospital, with few or no symptoms, just because they tested positive, then they'd avoid the 'pressure on health services'. I'm not too concerned about a flu with a 99% recovery rate. TBH, the vaccine scares me (healthy person) more than the virus. I don't personally know anyone, or personally know of anyone who knows anyone who has died from the virus. Although, just yesterday, my brother told me his friend (an anti vaxxer also), got his son vaccinated, as mandated to attend school. And his son died from the vaccine. Not only does he have the loss of his son, but now lives with the thought, 'he knew better', and still let him get vaccinated. That's F'd up.

"Top Thai virologist at Chulalongkorn University" .... ????

And yet .......... ????

Not growing up in this 'texting / twitter' age, I find myself googling acronyms quite often ... IYKWIM ???? Find it better than asking & appearing ignorant. Google ... Bob's your Uncle