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32 minutes ago, smutcakes said:If he wants to retire in Thailand, could he hunker down and wait a few more months until Thailand becomes viable? There are many people, in many different situations, many probably more important cases than your friends retirement wanting to and needing to enter Thailand at the current time. First Thailand needs to get the business travelers back (easier to control than wholesale tourism), then they can concentrate on workable solutions for others wanting to enter.
Your friend has worked for 30 years, surely he can wait another 6 months or so if Thailand is his 1st choice rather than setting down roots in a country which is albeit a close second for retirement. He maybe living retired for 20+ years, so better to hold out and go where he really wants.
Why hang in Singapore waiting, when you can go to Bali and wait?
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If I was looking for a warm SE location to take my annual winterbird holiday for a few months, I'd be looking at Bali. Basically $500 to get in, 1 covid test to take within 7 days of arrival, no quarantine, no nonsense.
A business visa gets you 60 days, then that can be extended 4 more months, one month at a time.
Good luck for TH to get anyone coming when there are alternatives which are cheaper, faster, and less hassle.
https://www.balivisas.com/enter-indonesia-during-covid-19-pandemic/
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A friend of mine who has lived in and worked in Asia for 30 years has given up the corp life and has been trying to get into Thailand for the last few months, either on STV or Elite. He has had enough of the nonsense that has been coming from TH in regards to requirements, hoops needed to jump through etc.
I followed up with him yesterday and he said he's all set on retirement visas in Bali for him and his wife. 4K USD total and a covid test 7 days before arriving.
Maybe TH could learn a thing or two...........Maybe.
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37 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:
So tested positive on day 13 and yet was Covid certificate free before boarding the plane. You have to wonder where he picked it up, in the airport, onboard the plane, or in his room? This is starting to become ridiculous with all of those testing positive on Day 13, and just being asymptomatic. Ad to it those that are now found positive again after having had the virus previously. Could those tests be false positives based upon the antibodies, or just how are they coming down with the virus again in such a short time. Covid is starting to sound like an allergy to me, it just never goes away and returns when the wind blows.
From everything I have been reading, the PCR test picks up a lot of dead genetic material and renders a false positive and should not be relied upon. Here's an ex Pfizer guy speaking about it.
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6 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:
The only 60 day extension possible is one to visit a Thai wife or child.
Not sure where your heard about the extension you mentioned since it does not exist.
That's the one year visa I'm addressing. Anyway back on topic, it seems there is no answer for this for those that got the 60 day extension to visit the Thai wife or child the week before September 26th.
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27 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:
What 60 day report? Only 30 day extensions were allowed on or before September 26th.
Immigration still has not formally announced the 60 day extensions yet.
For those who's one year visa expired, people qualified for a one time 60 day extension. I do not know of any other 60 day extensions. The current new announcement says " all extensions" yet in the article specifically mentions the 30 day extensions. So the answer seems to be that no one knows about the 60 day extension status.
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9 minutes ago, simple1 said:
In the USA 210,000 deaths and increasing daily. Don't know stats on these suffering ongoing severe health issues, but must be substantial.
Besides this retraction in the Lancet based on false data, there are a lot of studies worldwide showing HCQ+zinc+ zpack are lowering the deaths by a substantial number.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31324-6/fulltext
Let's not even go into numbers of how many people that have cancer have not been able to get treatments and have died, or the numbers of suicides, cardiac events and other things that have not been treated. It will be way more than the 1 million worldwide who have died of covid, of which, the vast majority were over 80 years of age and had multiple cormorbidities.
Then we can add starvation, depression, unemployment and a myriad of other detrimental effects of this panic and fear mongering.
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12 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:
September 26th???
If there will be announcement about 60 day extensions it might happen before the 31st of this month.
If you applied for a 30 days extension you can already stamp until until November 30th.
Many people did the 60 day report before the announced deadline of September 26th. What the op was asking I believe is what is the status of those that did the 60 day report before this deadline? Are they also to receive 60 days from November 1st?
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1 hour ago, ubonjoe said:
Reading the immigration announcement done on October 1st that is volume 2 of the one that went info effect on August 1st I would say your 60 day extension should be changed to start on November 1st according to the new announcement.
I think immigration offices/officers are probably as confused by the new announcement as anybody else would be the way it is written.
I had look at both announcements again before I could give you an answer to your question.
You have until October 31st to ask for the additional 30 days be added to your extension.
Hopefully some sort of confirmed answer about this in regards to the 60 day extensions done prior to September 26 will be forthcoming.
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Here's a good documentary from DW about tourism ( or lact thereof) in Sayaulita Mexico right now covering both the side of the locals trying to earn a living, and the fear of MX doctors about the coronavirus. Note that Mexico is open, but yet few tourists are coming.
Imagine Mexico required a two week expensive quarantine at the visitors expense, they would have basically no tourism.................. Just like Thailand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrbyyIKariE
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8 minutes ago, ezzra said:Because unlike Trump, no other influential world leader stand up there no mask on belittling and encouraging people to pay no minds to the Covid 19, and as for the TB, Aids, Flu type A, Flu type B, Bubonic plague and other infectious diseases that kill people the world has learn to live and treat most if not all and to know what to expect, unlike Covid 19 that no one knows what tomorrow will bring and what the long terms implications of it...
Exactly correct. The world needs to learn to live with the virus and personally, you need to assess your risk profile and act accordingly. Take some personal responsibility!
Meanwhile, millions of cancer diagnosis get postponed, cardiac events at home causing death happen, worldwide depression skyrockets, suicides soar etc. How about all the lonely elderly people that were prevented from having loved ones visit. The list goes on and on about all the other health related incidents that seem to be overlooked by the scare and fear mongers.
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I wonder if this includes the 60 day extensions? It seems those who actually adhered to regulations by using legal 60 day extensions haven't fared any better than those who didn't.
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I loved VH and saw Eddie play once in concert. What a show and what a guitarist. He will be missed by rock fans around the world.
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12 hours ago, scoupeo said:
where vets please ? What province ?
This is in Phuket per the OP subject. Every vet will know of or have access to anti venom.
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10 minutes ago, Laza 45 said:...and the secret service security people.. putting them and their colleagues and their families at risk..
How so? Seeing as they were wearing n95 masks and using PPE, I don't see your argument.
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18 hours ago, scoupeo said:by the way, where to buy antivenom ?
One of my dogs got bit by a giant king cobra a few months back. The vet had some anti venom, but they had to call around to other vet offices to find more. Luckily the dog survived the three separate bites, but it took a something like 15 vials. He was in a coma for a couple of days, but he came out of it and is now fine.
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Traffic is a dream compared to a year ago, as are the beaches. However for the common person working for or operating a business here, that's of little consequence when it comes time to feed the family and pay the bills.
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9 minutes ago, J Town said:
Some isn't none, and if it was possibly someone you cared about, those stats would look mighty different.
I seriously doubt the secret service hires people that are high in the risk profile, do you?
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2 hours ago, kwonitoy said:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/04/trump-walter-reed-drive-by-visit-criticism
James Phillips, doctor of emergency medicine at George Washington University, who is an attending physician at Walter Reed, called the stunt “insanity”.
“Every single person in the vehicle during that completely unnecessary Presidential ‘drive-by’ just now has to be quarantined for 14 days. They might get sick. They may die,” he wrote in a tweet.
“For political theater. Commanded by Trump to put their lives at risk for theater. This is insanity.”
Typical Trump stunt, ME ME ME LOOK at ME
Seriously, "THEY MAY DIE" ?
Let's take a look at the secret service risk profile. I would dare say that none of them will die seeing as the risk profile for someone healthy and under 70 is the same as the risk profile for flu.............. or less.
Age Group Probability of Survival
0-19: 99.997%
20-49: 99.98%
50-69: 99.5%
70+: 94.6%
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3 minutes ago, candide said:
There is a very easy way to assess it: the number of excess deaths.
Quote from the linked article:
"Besides visualizing excess mortality as a percentage difference, we can also look at the raw death counts as shown here in this chart. The raw death counts help give us a rough sense of scale: for example, the US suffered some 260,000 more deaths than the five-year average between 1 March and 16 August, compared to 169,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths during that period."
https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid
What does it show?
- There are excess deaths. More people died than expected, and there is no other reason than covid-19 to explain it (I.e. no particular increase of regular flu deaths during this period)
- the number of official covid-19 deaths is well below the number of excess deaths. It shows it is likely that the number of covid-19 deaths has been underestimated.
It would be interesting to know how many people that didn't get necessary cancer treatments will die within the next year or two that could have been prevented. It will be good to know if the number of additional suicides is taken into consideration, or swept under the rug. How deaths by despair. Deaths by cardiac events at home and not being able to go to hospital. The list goes on and on of extra deaths due to the draconian measures imposed.
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Sounds like a barrel of monkeys.
"Luke Hutchison woke up in the middle of the night with chills and a fever after taking the Covid-19 booster shot in Moderna’s vaccine trial. Another coronavirus vaccine trial participant, testing Pfizer’s candidate, similarly woke up with chills, shaking so hard he cracked a tooth after taking the second dose. "
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11 hours ago, vermin on arrival said:And really since it is now well known that it started to spread with the World Military Games in Wuhan in Oct 2019, it was already here in Thailand much before that and nobody knew about it and life was normal. I suspect that deaths from pneumonia were much higher than normal in those late months of 2019.
It's the media hysteria which has really driven things globally and this disease may just turn out to be on a par with the Asian and Hong Kong flus which each killed between 1-4 million people globally. Although if there are huge numbers of unreported deaths, it could end up being worse. I hear the ifr is now considered to be between .1 and .3% which is not terribly bad.
Yep, in 1957 and 1968 there were serious flu outbreaks of something a lot more deadly than this coronavirus, yet life carried on. Social media and news fear mongering is the only thing driving all of this panic over nothing.
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2 hours ago, serenedion said:
And to complete the picture the Trump campaign should run a video of how Trump responded to the news that Hillary Clinton had pneumonia. His viciousness and ridicule were just what the doctor ordered. If the doctor's name was Mengele.
And the fact that Trump and his family have consistently refused to wear a mask and that Trump himself has repeatedly questioned the need for one will count for nothing.
If masks were the end all and be all, by your logic then there would be no covid. Do they help, yes, are they the answer to stop covid, no. Social distancing and good hygiene are needed, which seems to be in short supply around the world.
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Wet slippery roads, no weight in the back of the truck, speeding, sealt belt questionable etc. No knowledge of needing to slow down to the conditions. Unfortunately the same thing will repeat itself over and over.
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Bali retirement vs TH retirement during covid--Amazing difference
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It sure looks like you get one year from everything I have seen. Financial requirements that I saw are $1500/mo. Feel free to do your own research though.
I posted in another thread about how for $500 you can get a business visa for 60 days, and with 4 monthly extensions, stay for up to 6 months.
https://www.balivisas.com/enter-indonesia-during-covid-19-pandemic/