DogNo1
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I don’t take any chances. I always do an international wire transfer (SWIFT) from my brokerage in USD to my Bangkok Bank account. Brokerage charges me nothing and Bangkok Bank charges me 200 baht. The rate is favorable. There has never been an error and the transfer arrives one working day later. I use the monthly 65,000 baht option so that I can spend the money immediately. The downside is that I must telephone the brokerage to initiate the transfer every month. There is a standing order on file so I don’t need to provide the details. I just specify the amount in USD and my Bangkok Bank account. Some people are willing to chance transfer errors to save a little money. I am not. Also, I never cut it close on the amount transferred and leave a generous margin to avoid an insufficient amount of baht transferred.
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90-day visa first, then one-year extension of stay.
About the 50,000 insurance upon entry - it will just be required for the duration of the visa-exempt stay, right? The 90-day non-O and one-year extension of stay don’t require insurance coverage do they?
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I bought the Moderna booster at St. Louis Hospital. It will be administered there between 9:00 and 2:00. You can just walk in between those two times.
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There are reports of Transferwise transfers not being coded as transfers from abroad. Apparently there is a special box to check if the transfer is for visa (extension) purposes but that doesn't always work. I always transfer directly to Bangkok Bank from my brokerage in America. I don't know how many 65,000 baht transfers must be completed before you can apply for the 90-day Non-O but you could start transferring this month. Maybe that transfer and one in February may be accepted.
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I bought the Moderna booster today. I will receive the shot on the 22nd. Cost 1,200.
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Thanks kidneyw. I know a vaccine manager at St. Louis. I understand from her that I can buy a Moderna shot on the 23rd for 1,200. I'll take that option because I want the booster ASAP. My advanced age makes me vulnerable to severe symptoms.
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Did you use the DTAC link? I just tried again and still couldn't get a date to appear. Maybe it's because I'm using an iPad?
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It wasn’t free of crowding yesterday. There were thousands of people there at 3:30. They weren’t accepting any more walk-ins. Maybe I’ll try again tomorrow afternoon. Any advice?
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I tried to sign up using the DTAC link but couldn't get a date to appear and couldn't complete the registration.
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Bang Sue is terribly crowded. When I got there this afternoon, they had already stopped accepting walk-ins. A staff member said that number of walk-ins accepted would be limited. Although I received my second AZ shot there on October 6th, I have not received any appointment for my Pfizer booster. I attempted to register through the AIS app but my birth date wasn’t accepted even though it was in the specified format. I am reluctant to get up early enough to be there at 9:00 to get in the walk-in queue. I’ll wait a couple of days to see what happens. Maybe they will accept more walk-ins after a while.
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On what does Dr. Campbell rake in money? The dirt cheap vitamin D or Ivermectin? Do you have him confused with another doctor?
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On what does Dr. Campbell rake in money? The dirt cheap vitamin D or Ivermectin? Do you have him confused with another doctor?
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I tried to register using the AIS link but my date of birth wasn't accepted.
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I think that Dr. Campbell was referring to the US study and that it was peer reviewed but don't remember exactly. He emphasized that we were very lucky that Omicron evolved as it did. Drbeen has explained Omicron's evolution in detail if you have the patience to watch all the details.
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According to Dr. John Campbell, whose YouTube channel I watch daily, the reason that the present vaccines are not very effective against Omicron is because the animal vector of Omicron is different. It originates from mice. It is very transmissible. Various members of my family living in different locations in the US have caught the virus from people who thought that they only had colds. They are now quarantining.
Due to my advanced age, I will try to get a booster shot tomorrow at Bang Sue. The Moderna shots that I have bought are still not available. When they are, there may be a competitive signup crunch as in the past. I don’t like the way that the distribution of the vaccines is being handled in Thailand. There is no priority given to foreigners of an advanced age. I hope that I can get the Pfizer booster quickly.
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I bought a Moderna booster at Bumrungrad for 1,650. They still don't have the vaccine. St. Louis has it NOW for 1,200. Bang Sue may have the booster available for free on January 6th, three months after my second AZ there. Don't know what's wrong at Bum. Same confused state as last year.
Incidentally, Morphrom disappeared from my phone. Luckily, I had printed a hard copy of my two shot certificate and a nurse at St. Louis was able to install a new version of Morphrom, enter the correct 13-digit number from my hard copy and get a new password by SMS. Disappearing applications. What's next. Probably a mandatory hospital stay for Omicron. Must buy a new insurance policy soon!
In the US, people with no apparent exposure to Omicron are getting it anyway! Mild symptoms though. What. is worse here is the mandatory hospitalization.
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Christmas and New Year events are still scheduled for large groups of people. What could go wrong? The slow development of Omicron symptoms does not fit in the present quarantine calculations. Are the symptoms for elderly people mild? Perhaps the severity of symptoms will depend on the strength of the infected person's immune system. I believe that American hospitals are full of people infected with the Omicron variant.
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I bought a single shot of Moderna at Bumrungrad on September 2 but am not able to book a date for it. The hospital says that they don't know when they will receive it from the GPO. i have not been successful in getting a shot from Bum yet and had to get my first two AZ shots at Bang Sue. I'm not confident that I will be able to get the Moderna shot from them even though I've paid for it and have a voucher. Has any farang been successful getting a shot at Bumrungrad?
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Yes, you can get good health care in Thailand except if you need to be vaccinated or join a waiting queue at a hospital where you often won't be seen until all the Thais have been seen before you. I didn't know that this discrimination still existed until I heard it in a conversation between nurses at a big-name hospital last week.
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I will just continue to mail mine in. Simple and it always works.
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There is a lot of gratuitous violence between young Thai people now. The murder rate is up. Maybe due to PSS (pandemic stress syndrome)
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The mail-in report papers are a bit more work to prepare than doing an on-line filing but i keep the TM 47 on my computer as an editable PDF and just change the date of submission before I send the package out. The 10 baht stamp helps because all of your photocopies are mailed back so you don't need to make new copies.
i don't sign each copy of my passport pages but that hasn't been a problem. I send to Chaeng Wattana and sometimes have had to wait for 45 days to have the 90 day receipt returned. The concierge mails the packet and gives me the EMS receipt so I can track its delivery at Lak Si. All together the cost is less than 100 baht.
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If private hospitals and individuals had been allowed to buy vaccines 18-20 months ago, Thailand could have opened to tourists much sooner. Financial losses would have been much smaller. Who was it that decided that vaccines could only be bought by the GPO? What was the reason for that decision?
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For people on one-year extensions, instead of paying for many months of insurance from the time that you return until your extension expires, why not leave without a re-entry permit. When you return, enter with visa-exempt status and insurance for 30 days, then apply for a 90-day non-O visa followed by a one-year extension of stay. It would entail a lot of paperwork and two visits to immigration but would save a lot of money on insurance. My next renewal date is in May and I plan to travel to Japan for a month in June. If I were to return with a re-entry permit in July, I would need eleven months of the $50,000 insurance. It would be cheaper to return with a visa-exempt entry and start anew on a 90-day non-O Visa and then a one-year extension. I understand that, at my age of 78, the required insurance would cost me $250 to $300 per month. The non-O and one-year extension would cost me 2,000 plus 1,900 plus incidental expenses or roughly one-tenth as much as the 11 months of insurance.
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Government Urges Caution Against COVID-19 During Chinese New Year
in Thailand News Headlines
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Some cognitive dissonance here. Exercise great caution while we admit large numbers of tourists during the same time period. What could possibly go wrong?