nattaya09

Drop the tests on arrival if you want tourists to come

Had Pfizer x2. Waiting on a shot of Omicron as a chaser

I'll give Boris credit if he changed after being caught violating his policy. In the US, politicians that get caught like that usually double down on their hypocrisy.

You mean when there's unlimited supply and almost zero demand, you don't raise the prices?? lol

Until it isn't

With all the testing done in the US, the CDC estimates only 1 in 4 infections were identified between Feb 2020 -Sept 2021. It's probably 1 in 10 or much higher with Omicron. Looking at the chart and Thailand's testing vs the UK & US, one can only imagine how many actual infections there are https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/full-list-covid-19-tests-per-day?country=USA~THA~GBR

Wonder if the lads over at CCSA slap each other on the back and do high fives when they put together these byzantine "solutions"

But one shot of Omicron gives better immunity than two shots of Sinovac followed by a booster shot of AstraZeneca

Rinse & repeat

Omicron will blow through and be on to other places before you get any mass booster/testing program established. The good thing is that it appears to peak fast and dissipate fast which also gives governments their opening to claim they "eradicated Omicron" in record time.

If those "quality wealthy tourists" weren't coming pre-COVID when ingress/egress and movement was unobstructed, why do the Govt brainiacs think they will come knowing their entire experience while here will now be encumbered by unpredictable govt rules?

Great time to break the news that the actual case number is probably 10x higher. Then leverage the renewed panic into reviving your fading vax rate

The vax rate had been doing well up until mid November but has dropped precipitously since to almost nothing. I was wondering if they had a vaccine shortage or had just hit the ceiling of those who wanted to get it. They have about 66% fully vaxed now. I figured they could leverage the current Omicron scare into reviving it had it been the latter

Add three zeros on the end and it will probably be in the ballpark

And likely several times that many walking about asymptomatic with no clue they're infected

...and likely be surrounded by many others also wandering around with Covid

Will his campaign platform include the purging of westerners

They seem to genuinely believe that the entire world is clamoring to get into Thailand and the only thing holding these tourists back is their own home country's travel restrictions

If Omnicron spreads like they say, probably everyone on the planet will have had COVID of one variant or the other by this time next year.

You likely have a few thousand there right now Khun Somsak

I agree. The first thing I thought about when they reported it was the lack of any detail regarding the age and circumstances

What is it...like a bone chilling 15 C in Isaan last night? My wife was facetiming her sister and mother in Udon and they were bundled up like eskimos ????

Likely, if the individual was under....say 50, it would have been in the headlines

Their regular vax rate, which had been really moving well for about four months, has slowed significantly over the last three weeks. Maybe they're reaching the end of the willing recipients and now need a coerced approach...?

While Travelers who are fully vaxed likely will be unfazed by the Omicron, or other variants, they will be fazed/deterred by how the local government's response to it affects their experience