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Having been in several fire departments, I can tell you that water often does a lot more damage than the fire we were putting out. Not to get too technical, but the objective of putting water on a house fire is to have it turn to steam and deprive the fire of oxygen while removing heat through the latent heat of vaporization. If anyone's in the house when you do that, you kill them and steam them like a lobster. And not necessarily in that order. So you don't want someone pouring on the water if you're trapped in a house fire. And that's in addition to the water damage to the furnishings and the structure itself. I'm not anti-vax. I got mine. I'm pro choice. If someone's contemplating having kids, their choice may be much different than mine because their risk profile is much different. They're younger and less likely for the Covid to hurt them, and we have no clue what it's going to do to their unborn kids. It's complicated. Protecting people, their freedoms and the rights of the unborn. Not unlike putting out a house fire without steaming and killing any occupants.

Maybe the NHS should take some of that Mega Lab money and invest it into surgery barns to start in on their 5 million backlog cases... Bringing it back to the OP, I'm not sure the UK model with the NHS in gridlock, nor the US model with 600K deaths are good ones to emulate. I hear there's a proposal to change the name from NHS to NCS, to reflect that Covid has locked it up.

But he has already via 'She receives a decent salary'. Her choice By law, if she's an employee (she is), he should be paying taxes on her and paying into the Thai Social Security fund, which would cover her needed surgery. The income taxes will probably amount to zero because of deductions at a low salary level, but the SS payments would have gone a long way to covering her health needs. In practice, I don't know how her surgery would be handled, but I suspect the Labor Department will be sure she gets the prescribed severance pay if she chooses to contact them.

You still haven't addressed long term effects and the risk to the unborn. Because you can't. We don't know. And won't for years. That's the risk of fast tracking a vaccine on an emergency basis.

I'm no big fan of Thaksin, but I do note that all of the successful Asian economies were started on the road to success by a strong man who may have been corrupt, but at least they controlled the thievery so there was something left over to grow the economy. When they left office (by whatever mechanism), their families were wealthy beyond reason. But their countries were on the path to success. Singapore, Korea, and Taiwan all come to mind. I don't know if Thaksin's that guy. But it's pretty apparent the current batch isn't. And anyone expecting a white knight to get elected and clean it up is just fooling themselves. Whoever it is will need to be ruthless, or they'll just be couped out of office- if they live long enough.

It's not just yourself that covid will kill. It's those you associate with and infected. We're all in this together. Sadly. Yup. It sucks. There's no way around that. Even if you get jabbed, wear a mask and act responsibly, you're still at some risk of catching and spreading it. And if you expect young people to sacrifice their livelihoods and put their unborn children at unknown risks to protect others they come in contact with, you're infringing on their rights in favor of protecting the rights of others. Then who's being unfair? If you're worried, mask up, get jabbed (with an untested long term) vaccine and hunker down in your basement. But don't demand that others make the same decisions. They have rights, too. Controlling what gets put into their bodies is one of the most fundamental of them. Freedom to make a living is another biggie. As I've said before... I got jabbed as soon as it was practical. But I honor the rights of others to make a different decision based on their own age and circumstances, which may be very different than mine. Especially related to the unborn and unknown.

I had to sit in wonder when a guy offered a trash dump millions of GBP to allow him to dumpster dive for his hard drive that was full of crypto that had exploded in value. If losing your hard drive through theft or mechanical failure means you lose access to your crypto, no thank you. And there is no system that can't be hacked.

Spokesperson doesn't exactly scream "power and influence". More like someone whose lips move, and we can blame the misunderstanding on if our message isn't well received. Deputy spokesperson sounds like fodder for tossing under the bus.

They have been proven to be inaffective or less affective against the Delta variant as confirmed by the US and others. Even 50% effective would be saving around 100 lives and 10,000 cases a day. Better than no jabs at all.

I put the Sino's under the category of "better than nothing". If the mRNA's and AZ didn't exist, people would be jumping all over a vaccine that reduced their odds of dying by 50%. The reality is that the mRNA's are a long way out in Thailand. The most reasonable course of action would be to jab people with the Sino's they can buy today, then fortify it with mRNA or AZ as soon as it's available. The biggest fear is that getting the Sino would preclude them from their preferred vaccine in the future. Either because their name shows up as "fully vaccinated" or because some idiot in gub'ment decides not to order enough mRNA and AZ because they got the Sino's. Both are easy for the gub'ment to neutralize by declaring the Sino's will be fortified as soon as they get the doses they ordered. Of course, that means they have to order them. Not discuss them, not plan them... Then instead of 20,000 cases and 200 deaths a day, they can cut it by 50% while waiting on the good stuff. That's a lot of lives saved, even if it's not all of them.

Covid on the other hand, has very short-term effects. The most notorious one is death. If you're on one end of the age curve, that's true. On the other end, potential vaccinees have to consider their unborn children, weighed against the miniscule chance that Covid itself would kill them. That's a much tougher decision given the unknown, untested.

Really? They know where to get them? And you know that how? Do you know where to get some of these vaccines for immediate delivery? If they hadn't held out for tea money over the past year, they'd have plenty in stock already from months ago. The sad thing is that they're still holding up the orders today. They need 100 million doses. How many have they actually ordered? Not discussed. Not planned. Not negotiated. Ordered, with a delivery date?

They know where to get them. But FCPA gets in the way of all but the Sputnik and Sino varieties. The underlying message to the Thai gub'ment is that sometimes public welfare should come before graft and corruption.

I suspect that's what you'll get at the 60,000 baht end of the pricing scale.

And Enron's business model is the innovative future of energy delivery. Until one day, it's not...

They want us barricaded into our basements. Makes their statistics look better. Devastates the economy, but that's another Department's problem.

Hopefully, you won't be allowed to buy one. The idea of the general public running around in top heavy 3 wheel vehicles loaded to one ton is scary. They'll be limited to public conveyance. I'm surprised they even allow them for the nostalgia. There's a reason they don't build 3 wheel golf carts and ATV's any more. Deadly rollovers.

Yeah, but the title here isn't clickbait like last time when they indicated "Thailand bans sunscreen". That was like blowing a dog whistle here on TVF.

What part of "no strings attached" did that violate?

As long as we don't have to, like, do anything...

Michigan boy dies 3 days after getting Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Can you see the folly of posting one link to one article? It's blatant fear mongering. https://www.freep.com/story/news/2021/07/02/jacob-clynick-pfizer-covid-vaccine/5323095001/

But not a lick of data on long term effects. For that, the vaccine has to be tested for a long term. None of them have.

Your sister needs to contact an immigration attorney. There are many questions, like what is the child's passport, is your sister listed as the mother, what were the custody arrangements when her father took her to the USA, will the grandparents agree to her plans (or will they object), does the child want to return to Thailand, etc.

I wasn't there, so I don't claim to know in this case. But a good percentage of domestic violence is perpetrated by women, forcing the men to either take a beating, or defend themselves.

Smoke and mirrors and deflection. Thailand needs over 100 million doses and they're bickering over where 1.5 million went. Hoping to divert the public's attention from the real issues.