Hua Hin Forum

buksida wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 8:39 am 90% of the people living down here at the arse end of the province haven't had a sniff either. It's all very well rolling out new laws that may work in Bangkok - but the rest of the country gets shafted by them. Luckily the cops don't care out of the towns!

Yes, I understand but you do have the opportunity to get vaccinated if you so wish in Bangers, it's just your reluctance to travel there. If I lived down your way I would go in a flash.

sateeb wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 9:00 am Yes, I understand but you do have the opportunity to get vaccinated if you so wish in Bangers, it's just your reluctance to travel there. If I lived down your way I would go in a flash.

It would involve staying a night there which I'm not prepared to do under the current circumstances. The alternative is 14 hours driving, racing to get back before the curfew which I'm also not prepared to do (and all of that again the following month or so). I also haven't had a reply from BCCT because I'm under 50 so would have to pay in a private hospital. Riding into the eye of the storm to buy an umbrella makes no sense to me!

I have no problem waiting for something better to come along, it is very safe where we are due to the wide-open spaces and lack of people. We all have a choice at the moment, which at least is a good thing.

Luckily the cops don't care out of the towns!

The impression I get is they don't care too much in Hua Hin.

Doesn't the new app on the block (yes, another one ) offer jabs, and decent jabs at that to 40+? I know you used to be the youngest on this forum, but you're no Peter Pan

https://www.thailandintervac.com/

Had a quick glance and it is only for hospitals in Bangkok, Chonburi, Issan, and Phuket, so it'll be another skip from Peter Pan!

buksida wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 9:22 am

sateeb wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 9:00 am Yes, I understand but you do have the opportunity to get vaccinated if you so wish in Bangers, it's just your reluctance to travel there. If I lived down your way I would go in a flash.

It would involve staying a night there which I'm not prepared to do under the current circumstances. The alternative is 14 hours driving, racing to get back before the curfew which I'm also not prepared to do (and all of that again the following month or so). I also haven't had a reply from BCCT because I'm under 50 so would have to pay in a private hospital. Riding into the eye of the storm to buy an umbrella makes no sense to me!

I have no problem waiting for something better to come along, it is very safe where we are due to the wide-open spaces and lack of people. We all have a choice at the moment, which at least is a good thing.

My step-daughter (33 and Thai) had no problem being vaccinated by BCCT. However, I do see your point about the travelling. For me it was just 2½ hours each way.

HHTel wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 10:23 am My step-daughter (33 and Thai) had no problem being vaccinated by BCCT. However, I do see your point about the travelling. For me it was just 2½ hours each way.

By appointment I presume? They have not responded to me and I registered quite a while ago. Currently holding out for locally administered Pfizer from Expatvac.

Yes it was by appointment. I'm surprised you haven't had a response. So far I've found them very helpful.

The link to their application form is:

https://members.bccthai.com/bcct/asp/ap ... sp?TpID=99

Alternatively, the contact there is Jina Phenix - Jina@BCCThai.com

No point mate, I aint going to Bangkok!

apropos to the vaccine situation, is the old song, Manana (Man yan a)

The window she is broken
the rain is coming in,
if someone doesn't fix it
I'll be soaking to my skin.
But if I wait another day
the rain will go away
and who will need a window
on such a sunny day?
CCh.) Manana, manana, manana is good enough for me.

Khaosod has cleaned up its graph, and corrected the numbers.

Note: They are still using the 2nd vaccination in their calculations. I don't think that's the correct approach.

Thailand's Vaccine Tracker (Aug. 24, 2021)
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About 9.41% of the population is fully vaccinated. 20,830,673 (+400,645) people have received the first dose, while 6,230,511 (+165,508) have been fully inoculated.
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At this rate, Thailand needs to administer 528,621 doses per day within 130 days to reach the herd immunity target by the year's end.
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Correction: Our graph formula has been corrected. We apologize for the error and thank you to our readers for pointing it out to us. The herd immunity target is calculated by subtracting from 100 million target doses the sum of the current total doses of the mass inoculation drive starting June 7 and the 4,218,094 doses given from Feb. 28 to June 6, and then dividing that by the number of remaining inoculation days in the year.

Someone on here gave a very useful e mail address for expatvac queries....

So I'm wondering if anyone has one for MOPH(Ministry of Public Health)

I have a specific query on vaccines(nb not vaccination dates) and have been referred to them but without contact details

Had a look on semi translated website, saw 2 e mail addresses that just didn't look right

TIA

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thecolonel wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 11:25 am Someone on here gave a very useful e mail address for expatvac queries....

So I'm wondering if anyone has one for MOPH(Ministry of Public Health)

I have a specific query on vaccines(nb not vaccination dates) and have been referred to them but without contact details

Had a look on semi translated website, saw 2 e mail addresses that just didn't look right

TIA

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I had a heated email discussion with them over the course of 4-5 hours on wednesday,

first they advised me that I should not travel to bkk for a vaccine as I was already in the huahin queue

so I asked them where in the queue I was,

after several emails back and fourth, they could not give me a estimated time for when under 50 non thai would be seen in Hua Hin

so they changed their advice and advised me to get it done in bangkok.


in the meantime, 40+ years old yanks are getting pfizer via walkin in pattaya.

Jose wrote:

thecolonel wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 11:25 am Someone on here gave a very useful e mail address for expatvac queries....

So I'm wondering if anyone has one for MOPH(Ministry of Public Health)

I have a specific query on vaccines(nb not vaccination dates) and have been referred to them but without contact details

Had a look on semi translated website, saw 2 e mail addresses that just didn't look right

TIA

Sent from my M2007J20CT using Tapatalk

I had a heated email discussion with them over the course of 4-5 hours on wednesday,

first they advised me that I should not travel to bkk for a vaccine as I was already in the huahin queue

so I asked them where in the queue I was,

after several emails back and fourth, they could not give me a estimated time for when under 50 non thai would be seen in Hua Hin

so they changed their advice and advised me to get it done in bangkok.


in the meantime, 40+ years old yanks are getting pfizer via walkin in pattaya.

Wish I'd waited 10 minutes longer and I would've got Pfizer(not Sino) the next day at my local hospital. Gutted!

Anyway FWIW I think 40+ will be next week or week after latest, that just my best guess

My other guess is this.... If you were say 48, would they really turn you away? Dunno

It's bedlam up there, I can see them not even caring about age 'rules'

Oh and BTW I have one of the 7 diseases but I was not asked to prove it and there are four desks you have to answer to before being jabbed. Not one asked me to get my paperwork out.





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the impression I got from expatvac emails was if under 50, even when they jab you, it is still pot luck if you get AZ or pfizer.

but if a yank, you will almost certainly get pfizer regardless of age via expatvac,

From what I've read online, if you want Pfizer you need to take a doctors note (no idea what it needs to say), else you will get AZ.