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There is no visa to be transferred. Just an admitted until stamp.

Does anyone know if you are required to transfer to a new passport (new passport received while in Thailand) at the airport, or can it be done at a land border? Thanks...

Did the helper march you to the front of the line to wait, or were you just called over at the appropriate time to hand the docs in?

It is a bit of a lottery. A friend of mine got his UK PP back within a month. I applied a week before him and got it a week later, so it was 6 weeks for me.

Aren't PP applications from Thailand processed in India anyway now? Hopefully the strike won't affect things too much.

How can a vaccine be considered effective if it does not provoke an immune response?

I went there a couple of months ago and part of the park is closed to dogs but the rest of it is open.

Yes. We are ALL going to get it and it is very mild, akin to the common cold, so why not? Also, for those that have not had a previous strain, Omicron seems to provide immunity, or at least protection against all previous strains.

The data from the UK for months now has been suggesting that for certain age groups you a more likely to be infected if you are VACCINATED. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1043608/Vaccine_surveillance_report_-_week_51.pdf This is the UK Covid surveillance report. Table 11 on p40 shows that for the ages 18 - 69 it is the VACCINATED who are more likely to be infected (per 100,000) than the unvaccinated. For the age group 40 - 49 you are more than twice as likely to be infected if vaccinated.

The point is they are taking up medical attention that could otherwise be directed to others who have not put themselves at risk. The reply I made was too someone who said the unvaccinated should be put at the back of the queue for treatment.

Ahhh changing the goalposts when your hypocrisy gets exposed. Predictable. Smokers/the obese have known the risks of their life choices for years yet carried on regardless. I don't think they should be denied treatment, but if you are going to be an authoritarian at least have the decency to be somewhat consistent,

The spin on this is so strong I am surprised it didn't create a tornado. What about morphine? That is used in animals. Should cancer patients refuse it because it happens to be used in animals?

What about smokers, the obese, those with lifestyle induced diabetes etc..?

In 1976 the swine flu vaccine was halted after people developed disease and some died....were the researchers involved anti-vaxxers? Polio was epidemic for decades before a vaccine was created. Attempts to find a vaccine started a couple of decades before Salk finally developed his vaccine, which he began testing in 1952, and wasn't rolled out until 1955. Compare this to covid. The vaccine was rolled out less than a year after covid was first identified, something which usually takes 5-10 years for adequate testing.

The best way to promote mutants would be to slowly roll out the vaccine (9 months in and some countries barely have 50% vaccinated) and at very different rates in different countries. Which is exactly what is happening now.

People very often don't rationally think about the risks. They are pumped full of fear by the media and they are fuelled by emotion. A friend/acquaintance of mine came up to me one day, visibly panicked, saying that the construction workers in the lot next to his apartment were not wearing masks and that he was worried that he could catch covid and asked me what he should do. He had shut all window etc and was wearing a mask, but wanted to know if I thought he should move somewhere else until they had finished. Yet, he happily gets on a motorbike taxi to work without a second thought. Around 20,000 people die on Thai roads each year. Since the start of the covid crisis (1 year and 5 months?) a total of around 10,000 have died of covid.

What about people who have recovered from covid? They have a more robust immunity than the current vaccine which wanes after only a few months. Surely there is no need for them to be vaxed. The problem with vaccinating the entire population is that it will drive mutations, as the virus evolves to the changing environmental pressures (which will inevitably be eroniously blamed on the unvaxed) . We should have vaxed the most vulnerable and left everyone else that has a greater than 99% chance of survival.

No limit in terms of how long it has been since you received 2 shots (even though the evidence is clear that it wanes considerably after a few months). Yet if you have recovered from cover (the best form of protection as studies are increasingly showing) there is a 90 day limit. Utter BS.

Have a look at what is got on in Israel for a reality check.