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And you are using the Tourist Authority of Thailand as a source. That well known paragon of accurate reporting and estimation. Or, as some might say, a party more interested in creating illusions than the truth.

Indeed, they should be able to and they should have been doing at least as many as Malaysia for months but the fact remains that they haven't and expecting them to suddenly improve is tilting at windmills. Perhaps they will achieve it, but I wouldn't bet the house on it.

71.8m to go in 129 days. That is 556589 per day. A figure achieved a massive 3 times since February (Aug 11/13/19), according to covidvax. https://covidvax.live/en/location/tha

Can't think why you didn't compare against its immediate neighbours, Norway and Finland. One tenth of the death rate of Sweden. - 148 per million in the case of Norway, 182 per million in the case of Finland. Not good for the rhetoric though.

Its only precious to them now because they want to flog it off and make a quick buck.

Surely, if it is 13.8% effective then it is inaccurate to state it is 'not effective'. That would be 0%. Less effective than other vaccines perhaps, but still slightly effective.

Also you can get infected more than once even when fully vaccinated. Vaccines make it more manageable by preventing the health system collapsing and reducing the deaths. Initially it was thought to be like measles - catch it once and you're safe. Once that got debunked, the herd immunity idea was toast.

Another pronouncement from Monty Python's Tourist Authority...

I look at the weekly trends on Worldometers as it gives a better representation of what the current state is. Currently Thailand is 10th in the world for both infections and deaths in the last 7 days.

This idea that herd immunity will make everything fine is nonsense. First, herd immunity works well if catching the disease provides total immunity, which in the case of covid it doesn't. Many people have caught it twice, some after being fully vaccinated. Secondly, the assumption seems to be that vaccination is the magic bullet, but like any vaccine, it is not 100% effective in all cases. Thirdly, even if 100% of adults are vaccinated, it doesn't stop children spreading the disease. About the best you can hope for is to make the disease manageable so that its effects do not require hospitalisation in virtually all cases. At present vaccines are doing this to a great extent but they are not perfect. There again, we are only 20 months into this mess and more knowledge is amassing daily. Maybe in the future a tablet will be produced to counter the worst effects, but it is highly unlikely to just go away. Right now, bickering about whether vaccine X is better than vaccine Y is not helping. All the vaccines provide some protection - certainly more than just shouting at the virus. At the start of this, countries like the US and UK did very little, assuming that, like Sars1, it would only affect one part of the world and could be ignored. A year and a half on, hard lessons have been learnt and both countries are managing the virus much better and the combined daily deaths of both are about the same as Thailands now, even though their population is about 6 times greater. Thailand still seems to be at the stage that they believe the virus will just go away in a few weeks and that the fiction of herd immunity is within touching distance. It isn't and will probably never be. Covid isn't going to get blown away, washed away or even jabbed away. It will be around for years and will continue to take no notice of what politicians say, no matter how important they think they are.

And according to TAT the 120 million will be spending 49 billion baht .....

Good thinking! Russel's viper jelly just doesn't go with ice cream very well...

There might be a clue in the OP... "Thailand is also finally preparing to join the Covax scheme and payments have been made to the WHO to facilitate this. "

It's somewhere between tomorrow and never....

The Russel's viper (which kill c25000 a year) venom turns blood to jelly. https://www.businessinsider.com/snake-venom-coagulates-human-blood-2014-11?r=US&IR=T

That's more a case of a rich country donating to another rich country. Brunei is not poor - its the 4th largest oil producer in SE Asia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Brunei

It was in the hands of a man who had done 20 yaba tablets.

India had a massive spike in mid-May, a month after 10m+ unprotected people gathered for the Kumbh Mela. Coincidence? And could you say why the US hasn't had the same thing as their current infection numbers are 5 times that of India despite having only a quarter of the Indian population figure? And it is rising in the US but falling in India.

8500 in 20 months but 7879 since April 1st (142 days) - about 55 a day on average

Get an OBD2 reader and check the fault codes. The cheap ones only read fault codes (the expensive ones can do many more tricks) but that could be enough to pinpoint the problem. Something like this.. https://www.lazada.co.th/products/obd-ii-elm327-i8555589-s10742883.html?spm=a2o4m.searchlistbrand.list.15.13f21ad3RCST6A&search=1

Well I never! I was sure that the London call was 'Mindless Krap' It seemed to make sense..

It appears the UK will shortly be doing this stupid 'mix and match' bull**** https://www.standard.co.uk/news/pfizer-jab-vaccine-covid-autum-delta-variant-b948689.html and the University of Manchester also states "So there are clearly huge benefits to vaccine mixing." https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/covid-vaccines-combining-astrazeneca-and-pfizer-may-boost-immunity--new-study/

And, as we know, Thais always follow the instructions to the letter ....

It is somewhere between 0% and 100% And that's the most accurate figure you will find.

I just wonder why the Ministry of Justice would need to produce 20000 amphetamine pills per hour. To keep the prisoners busy perhaps??