nattaya09

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

Looks like Biden's keepers, including Walensky, were in a hurry to make it look like they were doing something and didn't noodle it through

There's probably already been a few thousand cases circulate through

41.7M 2nd doses as of Dec 01. Another 6.8M with single dose. I assume by "2nd dose", they mean fully vaxed. That would be about 60%

The vaccination rates overall have dropped over the last two weeks . They might have all the willing recipients vaxed. 70% is still within range by mid-January though

I agree with that number (54%). But it's based on the total population of 70 million which includes those under 12 years old as well. My original comment above that you replied to ("..Thailand currently has 77% fully vaxed if you exclude under 12's...") was a response to a comment referencing the population over 12 years old vaxed in Canberra, Australia. As I also mentioned , I should have said 65% as my math was wrong

Thanks, but I can't read Thai

They are reporting the numbers based on the total population, not the eligible (ie: 12 years and older) population. If you note the context of my original reply to CygnusX1 above, we were referencing "eligible" population

Assuming about 15% of the population is under 12 years old, that leaves an eligible population of about 60M. That gives 65% of the eligible population currently fully vaxed currently so I botched my math

Understood. Even the USA is at 80% for those over 12. They usually give the vax rates as a % of total population. Thailand currently has 77% fully vaxed if you exclude under 12's.