One cannot get a Non Immigrant O Visa based on Retirement anywhere. (based on being age 50 or above)

Seems you have "First Hand" Experience

My guess is the Thai Border and adjacent borders of neighbor countries (Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar / Burma) will come open sometime before July 15 (with restrictive requirements dropped) . Then large numbers of us who need to do a Border Run / Border Bounce or go to a Thai Consulate / Embassy to get a Visa will do so.

This is not the same kind of general health insurance coverage required for Non Imm O-A Visas.

It is called Covid-19 Insurance Coverage. An Insurance policy could have a face coverage value of 100,000 USD but the small print excludes epidemics or even exclude Covid-19 Disease

the policy needs to specifically say Covid-19

In the first week of February 2010, the Thailand Department of Epidemiology announced the Second Wave of the H1N1 (Swine Flu) outbreak. From May 3rd. 2009 to 10 March 2010(about 9 months).

The accumulated number of confirmed H1N1 flu patients totaled 35,446, infected Thai persons in the 2nd wave.

The number of H1N1 deaths in only the 2nd Wave was 208 persons.

Does anyone who was in Thailand in 2009 - 2010 even remember this what was classed as a severe epidemic?

Remember the drastic control measures? Well - there weren't any.

Today's Covid-19 figures (since Jan 2020) - a little over 5 months of Covid epidemic only had a total of confirmed Covid-19 deaths to date as less than 60.

Extrapolating 57 Covid-19 Deaths to date out to 9 months even at the current number gives a total of an estimated 87 deaths (likely it would surely be less than 95 deaths due to an expected decline in the current Covid-19 Death Rate.

Thailand and the Thai people survived H1N1 without destroying the Thailand Economy.

A Total misnomer - A Quarantine Hotel would be used to isolate SICK people. Who wants to be labeled as being sent to a Sick People Hotel.

@Didier *******

- you really expected people to know what ASQ meant? What kind of Nerd - Noid are you?

Alien Status /365