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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...
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On 6/30/2023 at 3:42 PM, ChaiyaTH said:
I have done my visa for a non-o single entry visa based on a child, see all highlights below:
Experience itself and details:
- Extremely busy it seems as reported earlier, I think even on tuesday or wednesday this is similar.
- Tuk tuk / fixers offer to cut you in front of the entire queue for 500 baht, I did this and yet it still took over 2 hours, to process just 35 people or so.
- My application itself was in under 30 seconds, no questions asked, number given and collected the next day.
- Many tourist visa applications were refused, including a friend who was travelling with me, this while he never had a tourist visa this year before, german, 100K euro in bank, ticket, hotel booked.
- Laos visa rip off now 1800 baht cash + 100 baht on departure. It is worth it to change it into USD I think.
Documents used for this application:
- Original passport + copy of passport page, signed.
- Copy ID Thai mother / girlfriend, signed.
- Copy birth certificate, signed + original to show on application.
- Copy house book registration both my son and mother / girlfriend, signed.
- Application form with 2 pictures + 2000 baht
To conclude: for non-o visa it is still a hassle free place, bring a umbrella for both sun and rain, as well consider paying the 500 to cut in front, well worth it.
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?
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On 7/3/2023 at 9:26 PM, OJAS said:
Hats off to the OP's home country for letting him have a new passport within 60 days!???? Would never have happened had he been a Brit☹️
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.
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Aren't PP applications from Thailand processed in India anyway now? Hopefully the strike won't affect things too much.
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3 hours ago, ozimoron said:
Until it's "relatively" (relative to what) harmless to all people we have no business ignoring it. You are still spreading the debunked "vaccines are ineffective" LIE.
How can a vaccine be considered effective if it does not provoke an immune response?
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I went there a couple of months ago and part of the park is closed to dogs but the rest of it is open.
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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.
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On 12/13/2021 at 4:55 PM, richard_smith237 said:
how are people still struggling with this ???
Vaccinated people have less chance of contracting Covid-19 in the first place... thus, those who don’t contract Covid-19 won’t spread it !!!!.... unless of course we have a waiter handling a glass which is all some posters seem concerned about !!! ????
Additionally, in aggregate vaccination reduces the symptoms in breakthrough cases, thus those who suffer breakthrough cases suffer symptoms for a more brief period than those who are not vaccinated and are thus contagious for a shorter period of time and cough less, sneeze less and generally transmit less.
The idea that Vaccinated and unvaccinated people present the same risk of transmission highlights how significantly some people fail to understand this very basic principle.
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.
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.
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8 hours ago, BusyB said:
Smokers may be anti-social, but they don't infect me. In fact none of those are infectious.
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.
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5 hours ago, cdemundo said:
That is a false analogy.
Those 3 are intractable public health problems that have multiple causes and to the extent that they are manageable, take time to correct. ( Anti-smoking programs have taken decades to show progress for instance.)
If you have a solution to these problems other than to blame those that have them; keep your phone handy, the Nobel prize committee is trying to reach you.
The difference with the non-vaccinated that they can become vaccinated with one or two trips to the clinic.
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,
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On 8/24/2021 at 4:36 PM, HappyExpat57 said:
There's no question the FDA is crooked as a dog's hind leg. As such, the creators of ivermectin would gladly send their version of brown envelopes and the FDA would accept them if there were any chance this animal deworming product was viable for Covid. Instead, the FDA posted this (as a result of many calls to the Poison Control Center because people were getting sick from taking ivermectin):
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?
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13 hours ago, BusyB said:
They are also taking up beds for others in serious need of ICUs, which has resulted in massive delays of cancer OPs for instance.
The problem with them is, whether or not they are deluded or clinically insane, they are very definitely immature - and therefore cannot understand that it's not about 'their' 'freedom'. It's about others.
What about smokers, the obese, those with lifestyle induced diabetes etc..?
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9 minutes ago, fusion58 said:Actually, the more the vaccine refuseniks dig in their heels, the more opportunities the virus has to mutate, and, eventually, it can mutate to the point where it's resistant to any vaccine. Had these tin foil hat-wearing idiots been around in the 1950s, then developed countries like the U.S. would still be fighting polio today.
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.
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28 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:
Wow. How much misinformation can you pack into a post?
the best way to promote mutations is to vaccinate a small portion of the population, as you suggest.
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.
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1 hour ago, Danderman123 said:You don’t seem to understand the risks.
If you live in Thailand, you are at greater risk than if you lived in a Western country, due to high number of unrecorded infections.
Another factor is that CDC does not split out infections from Delta.
Another issue is Long Covid.
Your calculations won’t protect you very much.
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.
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9 minutes ago, The Cipher said:
You are right about this, but I've realized that it's a surprisingly difficult point for others to accept. Regular people just aren't used to thinking in percentages.
And sure, we can complain about that, but the truth is that complaining isn't really helpful to actually solving the problem.
Practically, it's better to just accept that the majority view carries policy consequence. Yeah, your quoted solution above would probably work out fine for societies if everyone bought in and just accepted it. But the reality is that, based on the messaging of the past two years, many people aren't prepared to accept it. You can see that in some of the other responses to your comments above.
So what's the right thing to do? Get vaccinated. You may or may not feel that you need the vaccine personally, but every incremental person vaccinated helps us move closer to the herd immunity threshold. Being right is fun and all, but ultimately we should really just want to put this entire thing behind us. Right now getting vaccinated is a low risk, low effort act, and it seems like the most direct path towards getting back to a normal world.
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.
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1 hour ago, jerrymahoney said:
Well for whatever reason it was removed, this is what it said for Phuket as of an hour ago when I posted the link:
Phuket International Airport
Passengers arriving from highly restricted and restricted areas or dark red 10 provinces; Bangkok, Samut Prakan, Nonthaburi, Pathum Thani, Nakhon Pathom, Samut Sakhon, Songkhla, Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Chachoengsao, Suphan Buri, Saraburi, Chainat, Nakhon Nayok, Nakhon Sawan, Ang Thong, Uthai Thani, Prachin Buri, Singburi, Lopburi, Ratchaburi, Samut Songkhram, Kanchanaburi, Ratchaburi, Phetchaburi, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Chonburi, Rayong, Nakhon Ratchasima, Tak, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Krabi, Ranong, must comply with the following:
1. Must have completed 2 doses of COVID-19 vaccine or complete dose of each vaccine. For AstraZeneca must have vaccine more than 14 days or recover from illness with COVID-19 not more than 90 days or have a test certificate for COVID-19 by RT-PCR method or Rapid Antigen Test within 7 days from the date of test.
2. Download “MorChana"(หมอชนะ)application on your mobile and agree to enable location sharing throughout the duration of your stay in Phuket.
3. Online registration through website www.gophuget.com to inform your information of traveling to Phuket.
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.
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On 8/27/2021 at 4:40 PM, Danderman123 said:
Death rates for those vaccinated are very low, around 1 in a million.
Death rates from Covid are about 2000 in a million.
Have a look at what is got on in Israel for a reality check.
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Expect a new war or a massive escalation of existing conflicts under Biden.
For all his many faults Trump was the 1st president in decades avoid taking the US into a major war.
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Surely it depends on a few factors. If the house is in the shade and well insulated then closing everything up may well be cooler.
But if the house sees a lot of sun then closing up would turn it into an oven.
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On 12/17/2020 at 3:06 PM, spidermike007 said:
I do not get what the big deal is. Anything other than breathing, eating, and sleeping, anything done every day, tends to get boring and monotonous. Take a day off! Or stock up in advance, if you do not possess any self discipline. This is such a tiny thing to be wigging out about. Is life really that boring, that one day without a visit to a bar is that hard?
What about someone who doesn't drink very often and just wants to go out on a Saturday night for a nice meal and a few drinks?
What about the dying entertainment industry that is going to suffer as a result of this?
I am guessing the alcoholic have long stocked up on booze for tonight, they will be fine.
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On 11/30/2020 at 5:36 AM, Somtamnication said:
Better a twisted ankle than a twisted brain!
Unfourtunatley, Biden has both.
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Japan is ranked 55...over 30 places better than Thailand.
Anyone who has been to Japan will know that the average level of English is way below that in Thailand and that this infomercial is about as informative as a Biden press conference.
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The ranking is determined by results on an online test and by the results of a language schools enrollment tests.
Hardly good a representation of a nation's English proficiency.
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Transfer to new passport
in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
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There is no visa to be transferred. Just an admitted until stamp.