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Looks like surfing tar baby.

Maybe a redesign might be in order.

I find it hilarious how concerned the police are with technology and social media to issue such broad and sweeping statements.

It's crony covid conspirators ($$) + old guard political hacks (elections, protests) - many of the same individuals. Imagine if you will a Venn diagram.

If the concerns were deaths I'd be looking at road safety. Moreover, it's been better part of three years about time for any and everyone that wants to get *vaccined* to have had one ...or two...or five how many it ever takes now.

On 4/1/2022 at 1:02 AM, mlkik said:

Dont like it dont come.

 

Simple.

Evidently, they are not.

Genius

3 minutes ago, xtrnuno41 said:

plastics in  oceans.

5000000 TONS of plastic every year in oceans !

Totally agree. Absolutely dire and easily fixable.

EV you'd have to be a complete idiot to have a fully ev in Thailand.

Pollution gets worse by the year and a huge part of that is government transport.

Those electric buses were complete <deleted> I'm not certain any are running now.

NGV is a far better solution. It's clean and Thailand has a bit of gas in country.

I think green is just a scam. Let the industries develop on their own and without government subsidies then in a free and open market compete to sell their products.

Oil shortage is just fiction. Plenty of oil for 50 years.

1 hour ago, Mises said:

You had it for 14 days.  I felt ill on a Friday afternoon, tested positive on Saturday morning and started a course of Ivermectin.  Felt fine Sunday afternoon and negative test on Tuesday.  Maybe the quick recovery is because I have not had the gene therapy or is it the "horse wormer"?  Ditto wife and daughter.

My wife's immediate family all caught it. They are all 100% now and 500k thb (5x100k) better banked thanks to my Covid coverage for them. They are so non plussed by it all they see getting covid as nothing but a positive.

I'm by no means a general insurance expert and specifically an expert in Thai insurance but it is my understanding the insurance never pays the hospital. The only case that this might be different is with SSO.

A stated in above post it is a cash embursement to you.

If you end up with covert be absolutely certain that you have a PCR test and that shows as positive!!!

16 hours ago, impulse said:

I got spoiled many years ago when traveling for the company.  We just gave them our passport and they hired a visa agency to do all the legwork.  It was a couple of hundred $$$, and they'd tell us what documents they needed, what we lacked, etc.  They'd wait in the consulate queues and deal with the frustrations. 

 

So after I started traveling on my own, I still tend to use visa agencies when it's anything but a visa exempt.  They only get paid when I pick up my passport with the visa in it, and they know what they're doing...

I'm not advocating it to everyone, especially if your process has gone swimmingly.  But sometimes, it's worth it to suck it up and pay a pro to solve a problem.

 

Just this week there was a post about someone and his wife having their passport stolen from an agency.

A number of posters responded that there was some rumor or otherwise going around that there were agencies that were holding passports hostage.

Up to you.

As for myself no matter how tedious, time consuming or logistically full of headaches I'll do it myself.

30 years ago on my first trip to East Asia it was in Vietnam and I asked a German traveler with me if I should bring my passport along or leave it in the room. He replied you can always guard your passport if it's on your person, your passport is your life! I must say I've never forgotten that.

Probably murky lagoon like water. That's not a fish I'm familiar with as ocean species.

Suggest he swim in clear waters where there are only frogfish, scorpion fish, jellyfish to worry about haha.

Beware of the fish lol.

33 minutes ago, billd766 said:

Does it really matter to the public, not knowing the truth? 

Yes. I think that's cynical. Crimes need to be solved especially crimes that have every appearance of duplicity and conspiracy. It's a question of law in public interest and has nothing to do with lurid details.

34 minutes ago, mtls2005 said:

There are far too many variables. known only to you, for anyone to make any sort of blanket recommendation.

 

Will you stay in thailand permanently? Return to the U.S. often?

 

Depends on the banks, cards, financial services companies, your state, who manages the mail, state taxes, jury duty, credit reports......

 

Personally I maintain an address in the U.S., family member, and have done so for ~ 15-ish years. I've encountered no issues. I've changed my address with SSA and the IRS to thailand.

 

Some things I can recommend: sort out telecommunication requirements BEFORE leaving. Have one, two or even three options - mobile phone numbers, security key - for receiving 2FA OTPs. Target at least one which offers WiFi calling.

 

And register for all the government/private pension service options: login.gov, id.me, mySSA, etc.

 

Set-up any standing international wire transfer orders BEFORE leaving, this assumes you have a thai bank account already. Recommend Bangkok Bank and SCB.

 

Get at least two or three credit cards which offer no foreign transaction fee (Cap1, Chase Sapphire Preferred, BofA Travel Rewards).

 

Get at least one ATM Debit Card which offers ATM fee refunds: Schwab or Fidelity.

 

Get familiar with all finserv online and mobile app usage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A large part of living abroad that I enjoy is the simplicity.

Thailand is still very much a cash economy and much can be done online with a debit card.

I guess if I needed a hobby I'd take this advice.

Finally, there's still lots of shenanigans with card fraud here. Bad enough to sort out a Thai card let alone one from abroad.

12 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

I was pretty sick for 10 days.  Just before I cleared covid with a negative test I ended up with a sinus infection and now have an eye infection above the same impacted sinus.....worse than the nastiest flu I ever had, laid me up in bed for several days, had the breathing gotten worse then I would have taken myself to the hospital.  So you say I should not have tested and then just gone about my business and walked around infecting others, is that your plan.....

I think the plan is to stay home and take care of yourself. When you are feeling strong enough and we'll enough to rejoin society. Best for you and us. No different than if you were in US not only by common sense but that seems to be the CDC common dictate.

My two nieces, sil, mil, fil all had covid all entirely recovered. Nieces, sil enjoyed ten day hospitel. Dad was a bit more I'll in hospital. All well. Family made 500k of the enterprise. Best investment I'll ever make here.

Dear Mr First Poster,

Good luck with your leasing arrangements.

On 3/15/2022 at 5:51 AM, CrunchWrapSupreme said:

Word is the start of the next term will be delayed a month or so due to Covid, as it was last year.

I have heard none of that from my current school, my old school, my teacher friends or online.

I'm not only hoping to be back in class but see no reason dates need be pushed back.

Off topic, sorry

Maybe all this also ties into emergency decrees on assembly, etc.

When all covid restrictions lifted what might be the public health basis and legal argument for keeping these more or less extrajudicial laws in place ?

Hmmmmmmmm...

Can we surmise when the next government is firmly entrenched that all will return to normal? Possible.

Here's another solution that will never happen:

Thailand keeps its barriers to entrance. All.

But everything covered for free. All of it from visa to hospitalization, taxi, tests, insurance... all of it.

That would demonstrate it's dedication to public health, tourism and transparency.

That b300 can cover it 555.

51 minutes ago, TheFishman1 said:

Get rid of the Thai Pass I mean how much money are they making off these people from testing when they arrive and demanding the hotel room they make a lot more money if they just got rid of the thia pass

In Thailand profits have always been thin from the somtam seller to big C. It's the cheap labor and only this that makes Thailand appealing - aside from a few national parks.

Top university graduate out if school is paid 12k pm for dead end office job.

It's not the corporations although there must be incentive but rather individuals that personally benefit as largesse streams upward.

7 hours ago, razino said:

Malaysia - Singapore border open today at midnight, no covid test, no need insurance, but must be fully vaccinated.... vehicle can cross too .... 

That's bc they'd never dream of asking neighbors what they ask of international tourists. Moreover, lots of export from Thailand to Malaysia. Finally, lots of Muslims heading for HY for a bit of weekend fun.

But do note the irony and double standard.

I let mine go years ago and very happy. Only needed cc a few times.

The only real issue is renting a car in US but next trip we'll use Uber.

I had a cc here many years ago from SCB. There was a limit of ??? I think they held 80k.

Highly advise not trying to manage it from overseas address

1 minute ago, Ralf001 said:

Cash only it is then !!

Beat me to it 555

No gifts

Cash only

17 minutes ago, howlee101 said:

Here's a few terms to consider:  wokeness, safe spaces, snowflakes

Microaggression

So micro as to be unimportant but what the heck I'll bring it to HR anyway.

The young people truly deserve what they will reap.