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BoJo the Bumbling Buffoon would love to be able to do that!

All went very well at MedPark Hospital on Saturday. A lovely hospital, very efficient and great staff working hard. My four hour round trip from Pattaya using my favourite taxi firm was good. At the hospital it all took one and a half hours, including the half hour observation time after getting vaccinated. I am so grateful to have had the first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine. I was given an appointment for 30th October to receive the second dose. I shall give it two to three weeks and then decide whether I feel safe enough to finally meet with friends again having kept to myself since the start of April.

You could sleep on my sofa for a very modest 25,000 Baht per night, as long as you wear a full PPE suit at all times inside my condo. TeeHee.

They are probably a little short on Cambodian and Burmese workers to blame this one on, and they definitely won't want it to be another tourist who is guilty of this heinous crime. But the "police" force in Thailand are probably short of people to get tea money out of these days so maybe they are bored and might pretend to do some actual investigation. Duh.

Now with the reported rape and murder of a female tourist on Phuket, I wonder how many people will be rushing to the Sandbox now? RIP poor lady.

Thank you very much aussie_. I emailed the hospital three days ago but never received a reply, so I really appreciate you giving me this useful information. I am looking forward very much to getting my first vaccine dose tomorrow.

I have an appointment at MedPark Hospital on Saturday 7th August. Any tips on where to enter the Hospital for the vaccination would be appreciated.

You are so right sydneyboy1, while my NHS pension is not fantastic, I don't have to worry about how to pay my bills or find money for food while that money arrives in my bank account every month. What the people in Thailand are going through - apart from the 2% who own everything of course - is devastating to watch. As we face another extension to lockdown in Pattaya and the number of infections and deaths continue to escalate daily I can only imagine the appalling financial effects on the people in Thailand. This lockdown will last at least three months I think and I dread to think how many more will be homeless and destitute by then.

After feeling so safe and glad to be in Thailand during the first year and a half of the pandemic I am now increasingly terrified as the number of infections and deaths have soared since the beginning of April and worsen daily. I am isolating in my condo. The only ray of hope for me is that I at least have an appointment at a hospital in Bangkok to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine in just over a week's time. We can but hope that things will improve over the next six to nine months in Thailand, but at the rate they are struggling to vaccinate people here I am seriously concerned.

You are not as green as you are cabbage looking.

And of course no arrest warrant was issued by Interpol ever. I wonder why? And as you say, just another "investigation" and still no Interpol arrest warrant.

Very good for you TotallyOz, if only Pattaya could provide access to any vaccine for expats, particularly for those of us over 60 with underlying conditions, but that appears to be a fading fantasy as the Moderna vaccine most of us have registered for at various hospitals has decreased in number from the projected 10 million doses to 5 million and now 3.9 million maybe arriving at some point in October or thereafter. Sigh.

Thailand handled the pandemic so well for the first fifteen months or so, but now, as people and businesses are barely surviving, this massive surge in infections and deaths is terrifying. When you then look at the incompetence around the vaccination programme, I cannot see any end in sight until well into next year. Meanwhile the deaths mount daily and the "government" carries on chattering about reopening "sandboxes" around the country in July or October............it leaves me speechless with anger.

I am rushing around like a confused very scared crazy soi dog trying to get vaccinated..........not happening anytime soon in dear old Pattaya........

All bars and clubs and go go bars have been closed since the start of April. And this wave of infections in Thailand, along with the absence of vaccines means they will remain closed for some time to come.

same same me, Mr traveller123. I haven't been back to the UK since I moved to live in Thailand ten years ago and now I really want to go back for a long visit, but maybe not until late 2022 or the following year.

Sadly there is no vaccine available to farang in Pattaya. The ThailandIntervac site that was supposed to be for farang to register for the vaccine has been closed down, after leaking people's personal information. I have registered with three hospitals who all tell me that they don't expect to have any vaccine until October at best. If we won't even get the first dose until October then there should be no opening of borders as far as I am concerned.

I was at the International Hospital in Pattaya this morning for my three monthly check on my diabetes only to find that the hospital will no longer accept bookings for the Moderna vaccine. Sigh. We were told to register with the hospital which holds our records. So by the look of things I shall struggle to even access the vaccine in October.

Actually in any decent democracy priority would be given to those at high risk, over 60 with underlying conditions like diabetes. Clearly not in Thailand......

I was so grateful and full of praise for Thailand in it's handling of the pandemic for over a year, so few deaths and infections. Now? The arrogance and incompetence of the junta has now come to bite us. If I could afford it I would be on a plane, any plane, back to the UK to access the vaccine. Instead I face isolating myself, not meeting with my friends, until we eventually get access to the vaccine in Thailand, which will be October/November at best for the first dose, at no doubt a hugely inflated cost for farang. I don't care that I will have to pay for it. I do care, very much, that I will be isolated for the next four to five months if I want to stay alive.

Anyone seen a vaccination programme in Pattaya that actually accepts farang? Over 60's with underlying conditions are still being denied access the the very small supply of vaccines in Thailand. Utterly disgraceful. But then the "Health Minister" will be delighted to see the bodies of dead "smelly farang" piling high.

Absolutely correct. For now, at least.

Well done to the people of Vietnam. Maybe they could send a couple of people with functioning brain cells to Thailand and teach the General how to run a vaccine programme. I should be terribly grateful.

Allow "smelly farang" to access the vaccine? Not on your life! Thais first!

Vaccine available in Pattaya?? Really??