Now the other side of the Covid expat coin

[JTXR 748]

For a year I had friends in the U.S. telling me how envious they were of me.  COVID-19 raging everywhere  there and very little here.

Now, almost all my US-based friends in my age group are posting online about receiving their second Moderna or Pfizer jab, while here there's no telling when we'll even start.  How things can change....

[HampiK 794]

I think if Thailand would have the same amount of dead persons because of covid, maybe they would also be interested in faster ongoing.

 

But now even when your age almost all your friends received a shot, it's still more dangerous in US than here in Thailand. I am very impressed about how people always find something to complain. But of course it's the same as in the news.. nobody want talk about good things.. only always about something which they not like...

[dodgybros 148]

6 minutes ago, JTXR said:

For a year I had friends in the U.S. telling me how envious they were of me.  COVID-19 raging everywhere  there and very little here.

Now, almost all my US-based friends in my age group are posting online about receiving their second Moderna or Pfizer jab, while here there's no telling when we'll even start.  How things can change....

And you know they are the perfect answer how????

[Antonymous 2,944]

So, if living in fear of catching Covid for a year wasn't enough, now they've had to take an experimental vaccine. Sheesh, double whammy.

 

We are so lucky to be in Thailand. Tell 'em.

[internationalism 846]

well, so now time for you and them change countries.

would you swap?

[cmarshall 3,177]

So, the OP might have been better off in the US, unless Covid killed him.

[Kiujunn 150]

3 hours ago, JTXR said:

For a year I had friends in the U.S. telling me how envious they were of me.  COVID-19 raging everywhere  there and very little here.

Now, almost all my US-based friends in my age group are posting online about receiving their second Moderna or Pfizer jab, while here there's no telling when we'll even start.  How things can change....

I begin to have the same feeling. 

It's still much better here than in the West

 But if they let the mutants in via Burma, or if they accept "vaccinated" (which proof?) tourists or tourists who say they staid in "home quarantine" before traveling..(there is another thread about this)

If they let these into  an immunological naive Thai population,  we may still regret living here. 

And don't think that you get a vaccine in Thailand before 2022.

[KC 71 1,853]

14 minutes ago, Kiujunn said:

I begin to have the same feeling. 

It's still much better here than in the West

 But if they let the mutants in via Burma, or if they accept "vaccinated" (which proof?) tourists or tourists who say they staid in "home quarantine" before traveling..(there is another thread about this)

If they let these into  an immunological naive Thai population,  we may still regret living here. 

And don't think that you get a vaccine in Thailand before 2022.

MyanmarBorders are closed

[billd766 26,722]

5 minutes ago, KC 71 said:

MyanmarBorders are closed

There are more holes in the border than you will find in Gruyere cheese.

 

Most days on the other EL newspaper there are reports of illegal immigrants.

[impulse 21,103]

Another big difference is that most of the expats in Thailand don't have to go out and make a living every day.  Another way to say that is that most can't work in Thailand.  Unlike most of the folks we left back home.

 

If they could (and had to), the Thai restrictions would look a lot more onerous, as business after business closes down.

 

[mstevens 2,424]

Same situation here in New Zealand. The media here has made a big point of reporting how bad things are in the UK and the USA (and by definition, how lucky we in New Zealand are) but now we see that those same countries are vaccinating at speed while we just started vaccinating yesterday with 70 - yes, just seventy - people vaccinated. The rest of the New Zealand population can expect to get vaccinated some time over the next year - and that is assuming everything goes to plan. When the UK and the USA are travelling and enjoying full freedoms again, we'll still be stuck here.

[Puccini 702]

9 hours ago, billd766 said:

There are more holes in the border than you will find in Gruyere cheese...

You got your types of cheese mixed up but never mind, we would be off topic discussing this here. Go to the forum "Farang food" or whatever it is called for enlightenment.

[KarenBravo 10,628]

10 hours ago, billd766 said:

There are more holes in the border than you will find in Gruyere cheese.

 

Most days on the other EL newspaper there are reports of illegal immigrants.

 

Gruyere? I think you mean Emmental, also Swiss.

[faraday 11,900]

57 minutes ago, Puccini said:

You got your types of cheese mixed up but never mind, we would be off topic discussing this here. Go to the forum "Farang food" or whatever it is called for enlightenment.

 

Depends on whether it's French or Swiss. 

 

https://www.rfi.fr/en/europe/20121207-french-cheese-makers-can-make-gruyere-it-must-have-holes

 

But to keep on topic... I have no idea what the op is about.

 

Perhaps you can enlighten me? 

[sammieuk1 20,819]

Got my first jab last week but will never come back with the current restrictions and rinsing techniques employed by this rancid government it was never going to be anything different