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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.

You're confusing antibody count with efficacy. Many of us who were jabbed for measles, polio, etc. are still protected decades later, in spite of the fact that the antibody count has dwindled to a tiny percentage of what it was the day we got the vaccines.

Maybe they don't want to work for the same wages and under the same horrendous conditions as a Cambodian migrant?

How much would Air Asia charge if they had to pay Samui private airport landing fees? Since BKK Airways owns and operates Samui airport, doesn't that cast the onus completely onto them? They could reduce the fees they charge themselves...

1) There's idiots on both sides. Like the ones that want me to wear a mask fishing 100 yards away from them. Or even the ones that want us all to stay locked up in our homes until Covid blows over. Or, in this case, those who claim that the vaccines must be pumped into every man, woman, child, infant and pet because the MSM and Big Pharma say they're safe. Yup. Dogs and cats can get and spread Covid... Maybe we need to euthanize them all? Or at least mask them... https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/animals.html 2) The first paragraph on your link says it all. One of the largest reports on COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy bolsters evidence that it is safe although the authors say more comprehensive research is needed. Some very reasonable people want to see that comprehensive research before they risk the future of their family line... for generations.

1) No, I don't automatically (and arrogantly) believe that people who hold opinions contrary to mine are less intelligent than I am. Maybe at a different stage in their life, since I'm an old fart with heart problems, and won't be spawning any kids in the future. 2) The vaccines have not been around long enough to do any definitive studies on how they'll affect the unborn. That will take years. You have drunk the Kool Aid. It's okay to say "probably", but not okay to say "the results are in". That's demonstrably false, a lie. All you have to do is look at a calendar and understand that they can't test for learning disabilities right out of the womb. It's that exact phenomena -being lied to- that's causing a lot of the hesitancy.

What's that? That she didn't mention foreigners specifically? When it's apparent from posters on this thread that foreigners are currently receiving the Pfizer. I'd suggest focusing on understanding how they're making it happen, instead of focusing on how mistreated the forlorn foreigners are.

Pretty arrogant to believe that any of us is qualified to lecture the embassy staff on Thai politics. They're playing chess, and you're kibitzing a game of checkers.