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2 hours ago, cheapcanuck said:

If you're testing positive then you are a spreader. 

Unless you've HAD Covid, then the dead remnants in your system can still show positive on the test.  But you're safe to be around. it's dead.

Test & Go.

Or Test & Fail the test, locked up.

You take your chances.

I'm in country, post-Vaccine (x 3) post-Covid, and will avoid any official test points because I doubt if they would consider me safe and I do not want hospital again.

I'm trying to get a claim through them at the moment, they aren't being helpful.  I'll see if my Agent can help on Monday.

2 hours ago, HashBrownHarry said:

Wow - that sounds awful!

Wouldn't recommend it.

5 hours ago, HashBrownHarry said:

Maybe wifey won't be so keen next time, what were the reported conditions she was in, grim?

 

Speedy recovery to yourself.

She got hospitel, basically 3 women in a 4 bed hotel room, no nurses, they had to do their own tests and Line in the results many times a day.  Looked nice & comfortable.

I was put in a 30 bed hospital room, no air con, no privacy, almost all Thai, not even lockers for your stuff.  I and another who went at the same time just kept saying no, politely.  After a couple of hours, they found us a 2 bed room which was bad, but much better.  I think it was down to him being South African; they were p00ing themselves over Omicron being from SA.  That it isn't and that he hadn't left Thailand in 5 years didn't matter at all.  Got me a room anyway.  ????

I was mainly over the Covid before I went in, but something showed on my lungs, so, injections and pills, and tests, tests, tests.  5 days in and I got home to self-isolate for 6 days with a bunch of pills (steroids) to take.  Freedom Day Saturday, but I feel fine now.  Better actually, I've been having knee problems for a while which the steroids seem to have sorted - for now anyway.

One thing for sure; if they leave it a month, there is no way that they can isolate asymptomatic cases.  There just isn't the capacity, so self-isolating at home has to be the way to go.

25 minutes ago, HashBrownHarry said:

IF you or wife has minor symptoms or none at all then there was really no point going to the hospital at all, don't see the reason behind that decision, why did they wife insist?

 

Why did they x-ray you, just to rack up the bill?

Wife was minor, but you know Thais and how they like to "go doctor".  I was worse, got over the Covid fast, but something settled in my lungs, so I did need hospital for a few days.  5 days in, I got home to self-isolate for 6 days with 50 (fifty!) pills a day to take. 

Ends Saturday.  Not planning to go far, but there's a legal bar/restaurant under my condo, that'll do for now.

Just have the asymptomatic self-isolate at home, hospitals can cope with those actually sick.

5 hours ago, Gsxrnz said:

Can you expand on the situation you found yourself in, how you wound up in hospital and the conditions/rules etc?   I'm sure many of us would appreciate more information.

Failed a home test, wife insisted on hospital test (Banglamung).  She got hospitel, I had something show on x-ray, so hospital, not a nice place.  Never saw hide nor hair of a doctor, managed to speak on intercom after 5 days and convinced him that I could isolate and take pills at home, freeing the bed for someone who needed it.  And here I am, self-isolation and pills stop Saturday. 

Not risking going back.

2 minutes ago, Gsxrnz said:

Didn't they give you some sort of get out of jail free card?  

 

You know, like when you get nicked for not wearing a helmet and pay the official fine, they give you a receipt that exonerates you from guilt for the same offence for seven days.

Nope.

Unfortunately, the final decision is not the mayor's to make.

I won't be doing the official checks at the checkpoints they've set up, I'm just out of hospital (not hospitel) and apparently could test positive for a few weeks.  NOT being dragged back, wasn't a nice place to spend time in.

Masks on land yes, but you can't breathe in a wet mask, so not for swimming.

Entitled idiot.

I still can't understand why, with all the restrictions in place, they still allow people to drive all over Thailand.

As a condo dweller, I can't charge one.  So, no.

2 and 3.

Opened, closed, opened again..... 

A bit late for me; I started 10 days in hospital quarantine yesterday. ????

Just now, thierryviteau said:

jealous ?

 

 

Coming to recognise the attitude.

I would keep the tyres on one axle the same model and age.  If the other axle has a different brand and age, I don't see an issue.