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belfast3

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  1. My friend (foreigner) wants to sell her bike and I'm interested in buying it - the problem is that she's no longer in Thailand.

    The bike is in her friends garage, along with the papers, green book.
     
    Is it possible to transfer the bike into my name if she's abroad and without a residency certificate? 
     
  2. 27 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

    Hand carry ‘should’ be no problem at all... Never heard of anyone facing issues carrying a helmet on international or domestic flights. 

     

    As others have written, the standard ‘helmet sack’ which comes with the helmet. 

     

    Decent places to purchase a new helmet in Bangkok: Paddock (Ratchadapisek Rd) & Panda Rider (Kasaet-Nawamin rd).

     

    Don’t worry about size with the carry on - you will be able to place it on the empty seat next to you - not too many ppl travelling around at the moment. 

     

    If you wanted to be 100% sure, call the airline and ask if you can hand carry a Motorcycle helmet. 

    Awesome, thank you! Do these shops sell western brands?

  3. 1 hour ago, shy coconut said:

    The AZ Oxford vaccine will be made in Thailand for domestic and SE Asian markets.

    Maybe their regulatory rules are stricter than the UK's as the vaccine passed there.

     

    Mind you the Pfizer vaccine was ok'd in the UK a few days before anywhere else which makes

    me a little nervous, especially as they have stuck the first dose into my mother already.


    British regulatory and safety standards are some of the strictest and best in the world, I doubt there is much to worry about. 

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  4. 20 hours ago, misterjames said:

    They ordered 26 million doses of the Oxford vaccine from UK but I speculate the Oxford vaccine will go to the richest people while the poor will probably get some shady Chinese one.


    Oxford plan to distribute the vaccine globally at no profit, and at just £3 a shot it's very cost effective. The bottleneck for other countries will be the distribution pipeline, as the UK has the first 100 million doses on pre-order while other nations are not as well prepared. 

     

  5. 10 hours ago, Andreas2 said:

    Please stop complaining or making fun of the Thai government as they try so hard to contain this very deadly disease, this pandemic. They just care about all of us.
    According to the CDC, this is the actual Infection Fatality Ratio:

    • 0-19 years: 0.00003
    • 20-49 years: 0.0002
    • 50-69 years: 0.005
    • 70+ years: 0.054

    Source: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scenarios.html

     

    As I'm in the group "50-69", does this mean that 5 out 100,000 people in this segment are going to die from this super lethal disease?

    I really hope, this high number - 5 - is a massive exaggeration! I'm seriously scared now.

    In mentally terrible situations like this, it always helps me a lot if I go and I sit on my scooter for a little ride to relax.


    Tracking devices have absolutely nothing to do with disease prevention. 

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  6. 3 hours ago, Nout said:

    Charter flights used to be very common in UK. They were organised by travel agents called bucket shops. Charter flights are much cheaper than regular flights. As is not uncommon on this forum a lot of comments are based on ignorance ,   hysteria and a desire to to find fault and seek failure in Thai endeavors. So to clarify. Individuals travelers to not charter a flight. An organization does so and then sell the tickets.  The buyer/travelers are not part of the charter process they just buy a ticket in the normal way.

    The total daily intake on the STV is ~40 people (globally) - how many of those 40 people are going to be travelling from the same destination on the same flight? 1, 2? Which organisation is going to run a chartered flight for such a low number of people? Even if they did - who's paying for it?

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  7. 1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

    Have you ever noticed that the only people who advocate for closure, economic shutdown, keeping the borders locked down and preventing foreigners from coming into the country, are people that are collecting a full salary, with major benefits?

     

    A message to this doctor. Keeping the country closed another 6 months will be a complete catastrophe for millions of people who are not earning the kind of money you are earning you simple minded man. You are blind. You have no compassion, only fear and timidity. 

     

    The country needs to be open tomorrow to everyone from any country, who is willing to undergo quarantine. It is zero risk for Thailand if they follow protocols, there's no need to have foreigners go to the consulate to beg for permission. Just buy a ticket get a covid test, and jump on a plane. If you are willing to pay an exorbitant amount of money to be locked up for two weeks in a hotel room. Anybody who's willing to do that should be allowed with open arms. 

     

    The panic mongers should be jailed. 

    The covid test is part of the issue, they are difficult to come by and there's no guarantee if getting results within the timeframe required. Most tourists will not take that risk. It's also completely pointless asking for this if people will be quarantined regardless. 

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  8. These horrendous PR releases have no consideration for the Thai people the government are supposed to represent. Almost all of my Thai friends are in terrible situations right now ad because their jobs and businesses depend on tourism and the gov. is doing everything it can to drive tourists away. 

    Travel is going to be disrupted for a long time and selecting people based on social class isn't going to help drive the numbers up. 

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