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It might sound nitpicky but I cannot stand his voice. I've never been able to watch more than 20 seconds of his videos regardless of the content.

Their measures to control Covid are outdated and whack-a-mole in nature. It's beyond the point you can track & trace or isolate the problem when it has become systemic invading all locations and walks of life.  They can either get an effective vaccine & vaccination program going or do numerous China style lockdowns. Anything less and it will grow and grow. I'm starting to wonder if natural herd immunity is even possible since the virus might be lab generated in origin and mutates so fast. The same person can be reinfected with a new strain if depending only on the natural immune system. Given the profound incompetence and hubris of those in command something drastic is needed to turn the tide.

Hopefully the soldiers are equipped with AK47's loaded with Sinovac vials to dish out rapid fire inoculation to the Covid infected scoundrels.

21 minutes ago, Why Me said:

A CM thread had someone reporting from a vaccine trip to Guam. Apparently the closest US territory and flush with vaccines.

I considered going to Guam but after reviewing flight costs and the need for lodging while I waited for both doses of the vaccine I determined going all the way back to SFO was more affordable. Rent prices came down significantly since I was last here so my wife and I were able to get a fully furnished 6 month sublet for a decent price. We've been fully vaccinated over a month now. I'd like to return to Thailand when this short term lease is up in November but if that's not realistic that's okay.

The problem is not the rising numbers the problem is no end in sight and no hope since the virus keeps mutating and reinfecting the same people like a convection oven keeps on cooking. The best Prime minister Pinocchio can do is spray down streets and bark at people to wash their hands. Will he cling to his precious Sinovac brown envelopes until Thailand becomes a 4th world country? He cannot swallow his pride and admit the dirty Farang mRNA vaccines made in filthy Farang land are the answer. 

10 minutes ago, Surelynot said:

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The people running the show have shown a propensity for wildly unrealistic and inaccurate estimates.  The less any trends can be verified the more likely they are to falsify them. Their pride is on the line so the truth is last on the priority list.

They hold all the data so they hold the truth. Therefore they have no reason not to lie.

The only good thing to come out of this pandemic from our paranoid and xenophobic friends in Thailand is that it started in China. Can you imagine the racism, and hatred they would have for "Farang" if it started in any Western country?

14 minutes ago, Caldera said:

I think they should just let anyone who's fully vaccinated with a vaccine that holds up against Delta visit the whole country without quarantine. No special sandbox rules for special provinces, that's just bureaucratic nonsense.

bureaucratic nonsense is the Thai way when it comes to dealing with any of the various ministries and "authorities". In this case they would rather lockdown the whole country and incarcerate paying tourists in hotel prisons than admit their vaccine drive is a near total failure.

Now I love the Thai way when it comes to Thai people and just about everything Thailand -- I am only frustrated with how this corrupt and inept government is ran.

The only way this scheme would work is if Thailand was confident when tourists are fully vaccinated and the Thais are fully vaccinated than the virulence of Covid is in most cases no longer lethal or even requires hospitalization... that is true of many things we are vaccinated against and of those who have the mRNA Covid vaccines in this case. If they want to open to tourists they can't play Covid prison lottery with every flight just because one or more passengers is found to have the virus, and testing itself will have to stop at some point. They are going to have to take some risks and allow some people with Covid into the country to have any semblance of a tourist industry. But the truth seems to be those running the country and these programs do not understand viral transmission as well as not having faith in their own inoculation plan. I doubt a single one of these Sandbox prisoners would've signed up for this scheme if they knew their own tests and vaccinations could be invalidated by the failure of another passenger whom they do not even know. However to the wise men and women on these forums all of this was painfully obvious and another case of sheer buffoonery to watch unravel.