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  1. You cannot GET a WP to work for a foreign country remotely in-Thailand, unless that remote work is work performed in Thailand and has a physical work address. Work permits are intended to regulate foreigners' access to Thai jobs. Unless it is a Thai company or the foreign company for which you do business is in Thailand, a work permit is not only not required, it is un-obtainable. Of course, you'll never be able to get a Non-O work visa through foreign employment like that either.
  2. All of us who have been here a while know the lay of the land. I've been here 16 years. But do you ever consider what a pickle Thailand would be in without the "back-hander"? There are literally whole sectors of the work force, cops, immigration and even teachers, who simply could not afford to live teir established lifestyle were they required to get by on just their official salary. Corruption is so embedded that if you ask the average Thai what is and is not a corrupt action, they are unlikely to spot even half of the corruption. Everybody gets the "you got stopped by the cops driving when you were drunk" so you paid 2000-3000 baht to them to let you go, but many don't realize that the envelope with 5000-10,000 baht that you present to the admissions official at a reputable public school for your child to get in is even a bribe.
  3. There are more varients emerging. Sinovac is about 50% effective against the original virus, if you have had two shots. But I have heard that the conferred immunity only last about 6-months for sinovac and 9 months for sinopharm. (also about 50%) effective. So there is a compound problem that new varients that the Chinese vacs are even less effective against are spreading and the originally vaccinated people will start coming out of that 6-9 month window. Kind of like the crew who scrapes the Eiffel tower works year round because by the time they have repainted the whole thing, it's time to start over and repaint what they did a year ago. Add onto that the very odd situation of Bangkok being so huge and densely populated, even if 50% of BKK residents had a Chinese shot which is 50% effective, that's only 25% with immunity. And since BKK is full of people from all over Thailand who come and go for work, BKK will continue to be a Petri dish of COVID and the transient workers will continue to carry it back to the far-flung corners of the country. Even if 100% of the country (70-million) had the Chinese vaccine, it would still be a bad situation because 50% protected could only snuff out COVID if people didn't move about the country. This is going to be what we are looking at a year from now. People getting it and recovering with immunity may end up playing a larger role in the halting of COVID in Thailand than their feeble vaccination efforts.
  4. I work for a Thai school and they have been trying to get all of their new teachers vaccinated for months. Suddenly this urgent notice came tht we would all be eligible for Sinopharm shots at a local mall on Friday. Yes, the shots were all sinovac or sinopharm, excepting those lucky few who were able to privately obtain Moderna or Pfizer on their own. So to me, this smacks of a sham "mass-vaccination" to create a headline. A much better piece of information might be "How many people will receive shots on Monday?".
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