My daughter, who buys ours, told me yesterday that most pharmacies in Surin carry the test kits at around 70 baht a test kit. There are 3 or 4 good pharmacies on or next to the Night Market street.
Where to purchase COVID-19 test Antigen Tests
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Prakhonchai Nick
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I fully understand your reasoning. However, at a minimum 70bt/test kit, do you really expect the entire population to spend 700bt+ each, for 10 test kits a month?
Am I alone amongst SF members in not testing? Do you @Cent test yourself every 3/4 days?
Yes, now twice a week. As well as all staff in the restaurant; basically my wife, Sis-in-law, daughter, nephew and his girlfriend. We all have had both jabs and a booster as well to date. But as I said in another post we are dealing with the public 6 days a week (well, they are, I'm not). As is daughter in her acupuncture clinic. We have 21 tests on hand at the moment. I and they will test every Wednesday and Saturday until I deem it superfluous when the numbers again go down to what I consider reasonably safe (if they got it in work they could easily bring it to me). I can afford it for now. I've basically stopped going out again the past couple of weeks. Just hunkering until this latest wave blows through.I fully understand your reasoning. However, at a minimum 70bt/test kit, do you really expect the entire population to spend 700bt+ each, for 10 test kits a month?
Am I alone amongst SF members in not testing? Do you @Cent test yourself every 3/4 days?
It's the poor that cannot afford testing out of pocket, and should be being tested for free as they are doing in the states now. My son's city started sending 4 test kits to each citizen a week just the other day, and the Feds are supposedly sending out 4 a week to every citizen in the next 7 to 10 days it is reported. And please do not tell me the government here and other high ups rich as Midas could not do this as well. And we know why. Don't want the true numbers going up now do we? Might hurt the tourist numbers 'ey?
There's a government testing place I was told about 7 to 10 kilos from Surin that sells them at 35 baht each test kit.
nomad97
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You are not alone. Nomad & family are not testing. Then again, why should we? Basically, we are all living in the house 24/7, and for the most part, not mixing with the community. Apart from essential trips to the shops for food, we are not socialising with anyone.I fully understand your reasoning. However, at a minimum 70bt/test kit, do you really expect the entire population to spend 700bt+ each, for 10 test kits a month?
Am I alone amongst SF members in not testing? Do you @Cent test yourself every 3/4 days?
Prakhonchai Nick
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Cent and family have good reason to test. Those like Nomad and family have no specific reason to test as they rarely venture out.
Rice
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Well I have a report from Bangkok. The bars opened on the 16th as promised. Here is the kicker you want to bar hop? You have to have a bud shoved up your snooter every time. Not a Bud light either a cotton one. Not my idea of fun some guy wearing a Hazmat suit shoving a bud up your nose. Some places charge you some it is free test.
How may bars did I go into ? That would be none. Why don't they do a swab for STI at the same time eh?
Here's the proof.
How may bars did I go into ? That would be none. Why don't they do a swab for STI at the same time eh?
Here's the proof.
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Yorky
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Nope. +1.