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Somebody mentioned fever checks. I wish that went away. It's mostly theater. People get fevers for lots of reasons including vaccine side effects. Omicron is less associated with fevers and people can just take Tylenol anyway.

Are there any other countries playing this silly show a test to eat at restaurants game? I'm not aware of another one but of course needing to show vaccination proof is still a thing some places internationally.

So according to your theory the applicants that were actually getting the income were lying under oath to their own embassy or perhaps you think no Americans actually qualify by income. Or lower to use the combo method when it was actually feasible. Utterly ridiculous. Again the US would refuse to even look at proof. If you brought it they would say keep it. That was hardly the fault of expats.

False.

As most people would, adding to the absurdity of the advert.

Just stop it! I never claimed there weren't some that lied. Also I didn't call.you a liar. I said stop lying. Not the same thing. So you know three people. Big whoop. Simply anecdotal.

Restaurants demanding a recent Covid antigen test that is. Have you heard the local expat radio ad saying if they don't ask, you walk? In general I'm in favor of Covid mitigation measures but this I find ridiculous and the ad seriously grating and goody two shoes. What do you think? On a similar note a local restaurant is running an ad claiming they are Covid free. They can't possibly know that. https://www.pattayamail.com/latestnews/news/pattaya-restaurants-ignoring-health-tests-on-entry-388546 Pattaya “restaurants” ignoring health tests on entry BY BARRY KENYON Thai law is explicit. When you enter an eatery, whether one serving hearty meals or a booze bar offering stale nuts, you should prove you have had an antigen test within the last 72 hours or submit to one at the entrance administered by staff. In the optimistic words of the government-friendly Pattaya radio ad, “If they don’t ask, you walk.”

Yes Thai immigration was insisting that those governments own the legal responsibility for the income claim. They said not gonna do it.

Stop lying. I NEVER denied some lied. I do strongly push back against those saying all or most lied. AGAIN, when the US was doing the letters, expats weren't even ALLOWED to show proof.

You have no idea why that was. The alternatives were: 800 k in bank Monthly transfer 65k difficult for many to set up Attempt combo method, for many months the rules for that were extremely unclear, especially if doing monthly transfers plus dealing with concurrent radical onerous changes to money seasoning rules. I think you are probably implying they were all cheating. In reality there were other good reasons to leave at the time.

This topic has no basis in reality. Ignore. Next ....

No. That is NOT what happened. It is a complete distortion. What REALLY happened is that Thai immigration decided to make it a problem that the US income letters were done with a sworn affidavit without asking for or even allowing Americans to present proof of the income. So then Thai immigration pressured the US to start demanding proof and to take responsibility the proof was valid. The US responded with a hard no. They wouldn't be bothered with the additional work and responsibility shift So then the US decided if Thai immigration refuses to accept our sworn affidavit policy, fine, no more letters. The US would have never stopped the letters (they were a cash cow) if Thai immigration hadn't made what they considered were unreasonable demands to dramatically change their long standing policy. This was NOT the fault of American expats. They got caught in the cross fire.

I would be happy to.

My guess if they ever get marriage equality here is that they'll simply exclude foreigners.

This is what the right wing does. Call the other side what they are. Thankfully their game is transparent. Dude please start your own topic if you insist on hijacking this one to promote your political agenda

You've got all the canned phrases. Please don't hijack this topic.

Putin is very dangerous but he's not as brilliant as most people seem to think.

Yes right now Putin is channeling his inner gazpacho. WW3? Up to him.

The last one the loser anyway.

I don't plan either frequent travel or repatriation to the US but I decided to enroll in B anyway. Just in case. You never know. The fee while not cheap and its a shame to flush it down the toilet won't really change my quality of life in Thailand.

Obviously a list about working expats. Not relevant here.

There are other retired expat destinations more suitable for the non wealthy other than Thailand.

This is about RETIRED expats. Canada has no retirement visa and Australia's retirement rules only allow the very wealthy.

You don't need to hijack every topic to promote the right wing side of western culture wars.

Obviously.