Lizzy Duang

No. 1952 outbreak US: "Of the 57,628 cases reported that year, 3,145 died." ( Wikipedia) You need to see the ratio of infected and dead. More than 5 percent died. And a lot were crippled. So much deadlier and long term damaging than SARS COV2.

Okay, that's interesting, esp. because some of those locations are on my list. Natural immunity should be good for years, according to studies - but 3 months are sufficient for traveling. Also interesting that the Nan traveller was stopped on a bike. This seems to be a lottery, I heard from a biker and one who rented a car that they had no problem to go from Pattaya to Buriram. How is it in buses? Would be nice to hear concrete examples from train riders. Do they really have to show the app? 3rd class is pretty well ventilated due to open windows, so if they restrict the number of passengers, it should be safe for all. ( I won't comment on the vaccine stuff as that is not my topic here, My opinion about current vaccines will be clear from my comments on those topic somewhere else.)

I guess you demanded that all your life, as the flu killed millions. Sick people went to work, to office, without masks, and they are still doing it. A young colleague died of a heart attack after having gotten the flu like that. Let's find the person who killed him.

Please check the Worldometer graph for outcome of cases. The delta variant is not significantly deadlier, it just spreads faster. Outcome hasn't changed for 1,5 years.

Right for that age group. But they give Favipiravir to anyone, I had contact with a symptomless young Thai in hotel quarantine in BKK ( privately insured). Look up the success rate of it according to studies. Seems a bit helpless to me.

That can perhaps be changed. But you might just accept the status quo. Which is different, by the way. Thais confirmed that one jab is okay, and foreigners have gone from Chonburi to BKK and checked in hotels without any questions. So it might be good to read more travel experiences than unsolicited advice.

I don't know how your second sentence is meant but it is useless to me. I am immunized due to previous contact with the virus and thus have time to wait for newer vaccines like Novavax. The problem is that this immunization is not yet accepted as the gold standard. Therefore I just try to avoid the stupidity of common measures like PCR, quarantine for the healthy etc.

A test named T-Detect or perhaps T-Spot (no response from that Oxford Biomedical Website so far) should clear your T-cell status and if you ever have been in contact with SARS-COV 2. It goes further back into the past as PCR testing and is preciser. Has anyone found a way to get it done here? I phoned Bangkok Hospital, Bumrungrad, Chulalungkorn and Mahidol, all denied providing such a test.

I'd like to travel by train through Thailand. Any recent experiences? I don't want to get entangled in PCR tests and quarantine. Can it be avoided in certain provinces? Unfortunately no one picks up to answer at the Department for Disease Control (1422).