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Take one for the team there's a good sport!

This is what happens when you advertise a country as being 'open' again when really it's just a lie. The law regarding mask wearing should be made very clear on the website where you apply for your visa or 'entry pass' / whatever they're calling it this week, make it a checkbox that they acknowledge they know it's the law, that it is enforced and that there are large fines.

I think that's the solution here and I know someone who did it in his late 60's after spending a lifetime abroad. Once he's recovered he may change his mind but who can predict the future?

This bit - that's the important part ^

I am disappointed, I expected much more, that's all you need to know Given enough time I'm sure things will improve a lot as will our ability to fight this and other pandemics.

The vaccines have been disappointing at best. In the years to come as this drags on and on I hope there are more effective antivirals and vaccines which work better. Until then it will rage on regardless of what anyone does, that's just the way it is.

I've been sending between 75 and 100k+ a month every month for about the last 10 years and never been asked anything, ever. Then there's the times when I needed more to buy something specific, and transferred perhaps up to a million Baht like when I bought a car or one of those 5 year Thailand Elite visas (which I did twice), also no questions were ever asked, even when I withdrew 500k in cash to pay for the visa at the bank next door, I did that procedure twice as well as it was 'too late in the day' to do an inter bank transfer so I had to withdraw the cash and 'walk it over' to the other bank ???? It's really weird that they checked you out over 80,000 Baht. I use a very basic Kasikorn 'savings account' which comes with only an ATM card - I believe this is the lowest form of bank account they offer, as such I only use it for day to day expenses. They don't seem to trust foreigners here so I do my real banking elsewhere.

They call it 'winter pressures' - it happens every winter and has been going on for decades. These days they normally they blame 'norovirus' and it's been closing hospital admissions in the middle of winter for a very long time.

Tut, tut, tut, you're not allowed to speak badly about the vaccine. Lets see how long this lasts ????

I don't need a backup, I just find it convenient as like you say there will always be outages for one reason or another, there has never been a time when they both went offline at the same time...

They're good at fixing things around here too which is why I continue to keep 3BB as well as CAT, it is the backup though. CAT is far faster for everything in my area

Yes, it will be an interesting few weeks when they do open up but it won't last, at the first sign of an uptick in infections which is inevitable they will flip flop and revert to how it is now.

They're OK, iuse them as a backup connection for my main ISP which is CAT. 3BB was great until I got CAT.....all it takes is one unpruned tree and your connection will suck for months - every year.

Correct, however if you're under 50 years of age and not married to a local and don't want to take a job with visa/work permit then this is the only way to stay uninterrupted for extended periods of time. The extension process takes 5 minutes and involves a single form, no bank statement nonsense either.

This winter will make last winter look like a rehearsal, there's very little reason to think things will recover in 2022.

I used to go to the Sunday Lunch buffet nearly every week at The Londoner in Bangkok many years ago, I'd take one plate of tasty food, eat it and then leave.I don't eat appetisers, cakes or any kind of 'sweet course' and would consider myself completely full after one plate of food. They asked on more than one occasion if I knew I could go back for more ????

I've seen many such 'dips' before where the price has retraced some 20% to 30%+ in the extremes followed by a massive swing to the upside. Based on what I'm seeing, I would suggest we are in an accumulation zone where those market movers with truly massive amounts of cash due to their earlier selling are now re-buying again. I won't be surprised if it hits new highs before about the middle of December. I'm often wrong about such short term things but in general over the years I've always had the feeling that it can always go far higher than I would ever anticipate reglardless of where it is at the time. I wouldn't rule out a dip to the $50-$52k kind of level though

No, you never need to leave you just do 1 year extensions every year for the duration of your membership but if you do exit the country at some point then you get a 1 year stamp when you return, every time.

Insurance companies which don't do their job properly already have a procedure to follow. It's called bankruptcy and that should be the end of the matter.

If you've got 600k Baht to spare you could buy an Elite visa and stay for 5 years without leaving, or 20 years (also no need to leave) with the 1 million baht option. Not so cheap but it's the nearest thing to permanent residency you can simply pay for.

Yes, that's quite curious isn't it, why the fear? Maybe he's scared his mother in law will get ill but I don't think that's it.

Seems a bit too much paperwork to go on holiday, if it were me and it was just a regular holiday in a place where I didn't own a condo then I wouldn't bother with this whole process. Proving you have 20,000 Baht for 6 months, what's all that about - it's nuts!

Sell it for a higher price, fortune favours the patient.

...and that right there is the problem. The science around immunity gained through infection is being completely ignored by the politicians. They pretend it doesn't exist. Over time thinking will change on this and I have a feeling it won't take that long, as in by next summer once this winters carnage is over.

You really think every country in the world ruined their economy so a couple of companies can make a few tens of billions? ???? The economic damage is well into the trillions world wide. Forbes put it at $24 Trillion back in February this year so it's far more than that.