GroveHillWanderer

That's not what vaccinated means. It simply means that you have been injected with a vaccine. Once you have been injected with it, you are vaccinated and will remain so forever. You can't go back to a status where you haven't been vaccinated (i.e. haven't had the vaccine injected into you). The level of immunity may wane, but that doesn't change the fact that you have been vaccinated.

But the idea that 3 jabs would be required was clearly just a piece of speculation and never made any sense. No-one in the world is using that to mean fully vaccinated and Thailand doesn't either. In fact the very first response in this thread, pointed that out. Anyway, you only had to look at any official government website with an announcement of the policy as of May 1 to see that fully vaccinated means having had two doses of a vaccine recognised by the MOPH (or one if you got the J&J vaccine). Here is some wording from the MFA website's Thailand Pass info page, for instance: Thailand Pass FAQ's

Where are you getting this from? A vaccinated person who has also had Covid is not prevented from coming back to Thailand. The only requirements I can see for a fully vaccinated person to enter, using the Thailand Pass system are a valid passport, vaccination certificate and $10,000 dollars-worth of insurance. See infographic below:

Whereas every person I know who caught Covid after being vaccinated (including myself) suffered either very minor symptoms or none at all. For instance, the only reason my daughter and brother (both fully vaccinated) knew they had Covid was because they had to have regular tests for work. I don't know anyone who had the vaccine and then suffered bad Covid symptoms on getting the virus. So does my anecdotal evidence trump your anecdotal evidence?

A vaccine is simply a medical product that introduces antigens from a disease-causing pathogen into a person's body and stimulates that person's immune system to produce both humoral and cellular responses able to combat that pathogen should the person be exposed to it in future. All currently-approved Covid vaccines do this, so they are all real vaccines.

No, this is not a high speed rail line. It's simply the addition of a second, "normal speed" rail line. The high speed rail project for Hua Hin has not yet been approved.

Not sure what you mean - that's not an important detail. The important things that it adds, are details showing that this was almost indubitably a dispute over a business deal (rather than say, a relationship drama) and a better description of the sequence of events, based on eye-witness testimony.

The thread is about the war in Ukraine. As part of his post states: "Ukrainian authorities unveiled their first war crimes charges Thursday against members of Russia's military, as the U.S. and other countries worked behind the scenes to help Kyiv with more than 8,000 criminal investigations connected to potential atrocities in the two-month old war." (Emphasis mine). So I would say his post is entirely germane to this thread.

But why choose to use a term that only the Russians use? No-one else in the entire world uses that terminology. Even Belarus president Lukashenko refers to it as a war in his latest statements. When absolutely nobody in the world except Russia calls it a "military operation" it's highly revealing that that is the term you also use.

The same way that people such as Milosevic and Karadzic were. I don't expect it to happen for a while, but eventually the political situation in Russia will change (as it did in Serbia). Although if the war continues to go as badly for Russia as it is at the moment, things might change quicker than expected (we can but hope). Just because someone is in power now, and is currently protected by the power structures that are in place, doesn't mean that will be in power and protected forever.

I agree that it's a silly bit of bureaucracy. Not least because it doesn't actually provide assurance that a new passport had been officially issued. It only gives the information that the person submitting it, chooses to put on there and only the person who fills out the form is stipulating to any information or making any request. The form itself doesn't provide proof of anything. It's just a vehicle for transmitting your request to transfer the visa information, to Thai Immigration.

Don't know about other embassies, but the letter from the British embassy isn't verification of anything. It's just a request, to be filled in by the passport holder themselves, asking for the info to be transferred. It doesn't even contain any information about you or your passport. It's blank, and you fill it in yourself.

There's no evidence in the article that supports the idea that the gunman's mother was set up, though. But even if it was the case, it still wasn't any of the people who were killed that were supposed to have set her up, it was supposed to have been a friend of the father. Why shoot people who weren't even the ones who'd supposedly done what you were upset about? It's all totally senseless (and quite, quite tragic).

That's seems to be a much more comprehensive analysis of what it was all about and what probably went down. Some parts are a bit speculative but overall it sounds entirely plausible.

Why would you have to carry both passports (in Thailand, at least)? I recently got a new passport and got all the required info transferred to the new passport. Since that time, the old passport has remained firmly ensconced in a drawer and will stay there permanently - there's no reason (I can think of) that I would need to carry it. If my old passport still had valid visas for somewhere else I might need to carry it when traveling there, but I don't need to carry it in Thailand. I don't think so. Since getting my new passport I have already renewed my extension and as far as I recall they only needed copies of pages from the new passport. All information of any relevance is now contained in the new passport, why would they need copies of the old one?

As far as I'm aware, Omicron-specific vaccines won't be available before autumn. Moderna expects ‘large amounts’ of omicron booster available by fall Pfizer may have COVID-19 booster that addresses omicron, other variants by fall Even if they're available by then though, there's still the question of regulatory approval, which could take months. So if you're wanting a booster and don't want to wait until around the end of the year (or possibly longer) I'd say just go ahead and get it now.

So now you're just responding to your own posts?

As per the official statistics, Suvarnabhumi airport has: Suvarnabhumi Airport Quick Facts

If somebody's having a hard time breathing, they should get their oxygen levels checked using a pulse oximeter. If their SpO2 level is less than 95% they may need further medical attention.

I think it's more the fact that as pointed out in the Thai PBS World article, these figures are only for PCR tests. If Prachuabkhirikhan official figures are anything to go by, about 4 times as many people test positive using ATK tests every day, as via PCR. Plus of course, that's in addition to those who test positive at home but don't bother to report their ATK test results. As @richard_smith237points out, many people just keep their results to themselves and self-isolate.

It's not a question of the police not having the balls. As clearly pointed out in the article it's a case of them being constrained by the law from any stronger action. The law needs to be changed.

He won't find that either. As others have alluded to, UK citizens (which includes the English) are not eligible for visa on arrival, but can get a 30-day visa exempt entry.

No, as quite clearly stated, negligence. At least three people have been charged with "negligence causing the death of another person" (or "recklessness causing death" depending on which report you read). They and others have also been charged with giving false statements to the police and destroying (or concealing) evidence.

They haven't said no-one was at fault - they have said no-one intended to murder her. Negligence, which they've described it as, implies someone was at fault.

I can also confirm from experience that a driver's licence is not required to register a vehicle in a person's name.