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If you have lived in Thailand for a while you just knew how this was going to play out....????

--And the Teelack's boss is already massaging the rules to suit their need for sales staff before the anticipated September 1st opening of the mall: --You can work if you have had two jabs of Sinno-something or one jab of Astra Zenica and are scheduled for your second. --Screening of customers is going to be lax or non-existent. Come on in and bring your money.

The "Quality Tourist" is another name for a foreigner with big bucks who shows up and spends a wad and leaves soon. Those folks are almost unheard of in Thailand because they want good facilities, drinking water they can drink, streets that are not lumpy cobblestones littered with trash and imported human detritus and unpolluted seas and beaches. Thailand needs to re-make herself and spend a whole lot of money to offer up the sort of experience they demand. Those vacationers are not looking for the flock of 3 star hotels opening up to dirty, dangerous streets which only offer cheap beer and second hand single mothers from the poorest section of Thailand.

The prepaid Moderna jabs were scheduled for October but I've read that some hospitals who already have the money are admitting it is unlikely they will have the vaccine before May of next year. That is par for the course from my two decades of experience in Thailand: once it is paid for your order is on the back burner.

The Thai significant other wasn't surprised when I told her that 50% of foreigners vaccinated were Burmese. Factory and construction owners want to keep their cheap labor working so they arrange jabs, even if it's Sinno-something. She was surprised that I was surprised. They are so accustomed to being low on the totem pole that is is a given that the moneyed will act in their own interest.......always. And the Thai working class can go fish.

That sounds pretty Ozzie & Harriet to me, hahaha. Some of us grew-up poor white trash in rural America with a single parent who was more interested in where the next bottle was coming from than the education of the seven kids. Didn't stop most of us with five of us getting college degrees working part time during the school year/full time in the summer while attending a state university. I have nothing but respect for the ladies who work a few weeks in the bar between terms or take a semester off to finance their education. But twelve years in the bar is just a poor career choice; a life full of addictions with no light at the end of the tunnel. The young pretties can always find someone who will finance them but the smart ones don't hang around very long. The ladies who stay too long will eventually go back home too but with a closet full of old clothes and a heart full of broken promises. Some will view this drastic downturn as an opportunity to learn other skills that will support them in their later years. The writer of the original article didn't bother to follow others who make the choice to get out of the trade and do something positive with their lives.

Yes, I filled out the form when BHP went live on thailandintervac at 9am and afterward got the screen to copy when I appear on Tuesday the 7th of September at their prescribed hour. AZx2. I've never been there before but they handled registration well. If I can finagle some Pfizer through expatvac before then I will cancel the appointment, but not until after I get the jab.

Being an over 60 resident living just a few km from the Central Festival 6th floor location, I will await my message from MOPH for my Pfizer jab. But I will still register tomorrow for the BPH program as advertised via Thailandintervac. It seems silly to have all these programs running but i guess we can only play the odds and hopefully one of them will pan out??

Many of the big companies are getting their staff vaccinated. Central Retail Group has an organized plan & Teelack got her first jab of AZ on Tuesday along with some of her co-workers in Chon Buri. In the Big City they have been vaccinated for weeks now. They had announced big plans for one million jabs per day, then 10 million per month. Then empty promises about 20 mil, 30 mil doses of Pfizer ON ORDER. Nobody trusts them any longer because of all the failures to date. Their credibility is in a shambles because of their own actions. The Thai economy is on a long slide downward and we haven't seen the bottom yet. It will be years before the tourism business is approaching the past if it ever truly recovers. Many wealthy Thai-Chinese families are losing a fortune because of this and they won't forget or forgive.

YES!! Give us the good vaccines instead of more of the usual empty promises and domestic travel and business can take up some of the slack. But the days of old when Thailand would host 30 million plus travelers is gone for a long time at the present rate.

Well said and your ideas are similar to mine. Their mishandling of the W-Flu has destroyed 15-20% of their economy and it won't be coming back for a long time, if ever. The days of 30+ million tourists annually are long gone.

The temp requirement has been amended. FDA has determined that after being thawed the Pfizer can be safely stored in a reefer for 30 days. This way back in May 2021: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-brief-fda-authorizes-longer-time-refrigerator-storage-thawed-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine MedPark was one of the few hospitals in LOS which had the facilities to store at very cold temps, but the thawing and shipping to rural areas can be done in a regular reefer truck .

Your experience is different than mine. Teelack got a notice last week when she inquired in Pattaya and they initially said Sinnopharm was available at City Hospital at 2k per jab. When she tried to register they notified her an hour later that it was all allocated and no appointments available. She is standing in a reasonably orderly line in Chonburi as I type along with some of her co-workers to get a free AZ jab organized by her employer.

I believe you are on the mark sir. I recall back in 2010 when they said there was going to be a shortage of eggs and I saw old ladies with shopping carts full of eggs at Carrefour (now Big C). They panic, they buy everything they can lay their hands on. When the wholesale price is up to a position which is deemed acceptable by producers they will smile all the way to the bank & the scare will blow over.

So what happened to the promises made to the expat community about the 1.5 million donated doses of Pfizer?? We need a little less talk and a LOT MORE ACTION from the persons in high places.