TallGuyJohninBKK

Anything that doesn't line up with his nonsense narratives has to be attacked and the people voicing those opinions muzzled -- even if they happen to be accurate and true. Truthfulness has never been a particular attribute of Trumpworld or MAGA.

The imbecile has been doing a whole lot of frustrated "lashing out" lately... His list of perceived personal grievances and grudges is long and ill-suited to anyone who calls themself the "President of the United States." But as the saying goes, "it is what it is..."

The Thai Travel Clinic at Mahidol University near the Victory Monument BTS station is listing availabiliity of the COVID JN.2 version vaccine for their price of 1,762 baht. https://www.thaitravelclinic.com/cost.html The Thai Red Cross Clinic (Travel and Immunization Clinic) in the past also had the COVID vaccine at a similar price, though you'd have to check with them about their current status. Their vaccines list on their website says they have it available, but the posted list seems to be from 2021 and hasn't been updated. https://www.facebook.com/QSMITRCS/posts/pfbid02X2MW3goL9xzNmdBKohKu91V1NZF4fcrkZPYGC2NZqoPXSyybZ5Uke6tLGr7iExW8l https://saovabha.org/service_saovabha/Our-Clinic https://saovabha.org/home Contact Us 1871 Rama 4 Road, Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330 info[at]saovabha.org 0 2252 0161 Office Hours Monday – Friday 08.30 – 16.30 hrs. clinic opens on Monday-Friday : 1.00 PM - 4.00 PM Saturday Sunday and Public Holiday : closed ------------------------------------- Last time I checked in BKK, both Bumrungrad and Praram 9 private hospitals were providing COVID vaccines as well, but at substantially higher prices. ------------------------------------- The former free COVID vaccination clinics were sponsored by / run by the Thai Government and its Ministry of Public Health. But I've heard/seen nothing from them lately on that subject. The MOPH / Department of Disease Control does have an English-speaking call center reachable via phone 1422 that in the past has had info about the extent of COVID vaccines available around BKK, both from public and private sources (though their private source details were not always accurate/up-to-date). Believe the hotline is staffed M-F 8 am to 8 pm. The last time I checked more than a year ago, MOPH was providing COVID vaccines on just certain days at various of their community public health clinics scattered around BKK, and at some of their public hospitals... But you'd have to check with MOPH/DDC about whether those offerings have lapsed or are still continuing (albeit unpublicized). Anything you find in the way of results, please do post that info back here for others to see. Thx.

Off to Police General Hospital he'll soon be going, or some similar arrangement owing to his "health."

Wonder where the steel came from? Wonder where the concrete came from? Wonder who built the project? Perhaps the same suppliers and contractors as with the (similarly collapsed) State Audit Office Building.

Thanks for the above. Don't think I'd ever seen / noticed the #2 item you quoted above. Very helpful, as regards the Schwab Intl. account and the U.S. tax implications for it!

I think the gift tax scenario @Yumthai is talking about is the up to 40% U.S. gift tax that comes into play where a NRA (in this case Thai spouse) inherits U.S. brokerage assets from an American spouse accountholder.

Following thru on your scenario above, however, if my Thai wife had a Schwab Intl account with U.S. holdings that produced interest or dividends, then she would be earning U.S. source income. Wouldn't that trigger a U.S. tax filing obligation on her part? Right now, I do married filing separately, file my own individual U.S. tax return, and tell the U.S. my wife doesn't have a U.S. tax filing obligation because she has no U.S. source income. But she does have a pretty well paid Thai job, and the last thing I want to do is trigger the U.S. IRS coming to take their cut of that alongside the Thai Revenue Dept.

I'm trying to follow the sum of what you're saying above... I've been thinking about having my Thai wife open a Schwab intl account, which ultimately should ease her inheriting the Schwab U.S. accounts that I have with her as my POD beneficiary. But one fear I had about that was the prospect of landing her, as a Thai citizen and resident, in the complicated and sometimes arcane world of U.S. IRS taxation. However, if I'm understanding you above, you're saying a Thai citizen NRA for U.S. purposes would have NO U.S. tax filing obligation based on a Schwab Intl account, and Schwab would simply automatically take out the DTA mandated withholding, and she wouldn't have any U.S. tax filing headaches. Is that correct as best as you understand it?

The Thai authorities seem to have a standard playbook they work from in these kinds of high-profile cases -- publicly announce the planned arrests in the news media ahead of time, ensuring that the influentials or connected folks involved have plenty of time to exit Thailand before the police come knocking....

Just curious... if anyone here has asked and gotten the answer: Re the Schwab international brokerage accounts, assuming the accountholder is listed as residing in Thailand, how would Schwab handle estate planning / succession for the account, and in what country jurisdiction-wise, given that apparently the international accounts don't allow for POD beneficiaries? And Thailand has no such POD process in its civil law framework.

This OP source rubbish purveyor has been at it for a long time relating to COVID... Here he was 4 years back still spouting nonsense: https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.9PW8PJ Whenever I need authoritative info regarding COVID and vaccines, retired chiropractors are the very FIRST experts I seek out, of course!!! YEEESH!!! Interesting that the above AFP Fact Check report from Oct. 2021 concludes with the following tidbit: "AFP Fact Check has debunked more than 1,000 false or misleading claims about the virus and the vaccines." That was almost FOUR years ago. Just think how many thousands more there have been since then, including probably hundreds of nonsense posts right here that would not survive any actual fact checking, were it to be done. But hey, this is part of the "Off the Beaten Track" forum, where demonstrably false information and non-credible sources are officially encouraged!

That's the kind of non-"expert" that the OP poster here tirelessly spams the forum with. Because the actual scientists and medical researchers with expertise in COVID, infectious diseases and vaccines typically would regard all of his posting and cited sources as RUBBISH!

New York Times May 1, 2024 "There remains no evidence that the Wuhan institute stored any virus that could have become the coronavirus and caused Covid, with or without scientific tinkering, researchers have said. Scientists who specialize in tracing outbreaks have published analyses of early cases and viral genomes that they say point to the pandemic’s starting at an illegal wild-animal market in Wuhan. The presence of the coronavirus in samples from the market containing genetic material linked to raccoon dogs, they have said, is consistent with that scenario." https://archive.ph/Ho5gO#selection-7035.0-7043.51

I agree with your general comments above, SpikerM.... It's not just the fact that there have been SOME construction mishaps there resulting in fatalities. That's something that can and does happen at times. it's the fact that there CONTINUE to be mishap after mishap over a long period of many months, signaling that despite authorities' promises to "investigate" and take some unspecified action, NOTHING really has changed, and the same dangers remain unabated. The people responsible need to be held accountable, and the ongoing problems fixed. But clearly, that's simply not happening at all...