Scouse123

Vaccines are the answer. They stop the worst effects of the virus and in most cases hospitalizations. The UK is proof of that. What they need is vaccines running in tandem with opening up the country but they don't have enough vaccinated people or vaccines yet to do that. Doing it your way and the result is.....Brazil.

You obviously know nothing about international agreements regarding the manufacture and distribution of a vaccine that doesn't belong to Thailand. Their already battered international image would totally collapse and they would go from ' can't be trusted ' to ' pariah status ' within a week.

Ubon Joe's answer though is only good and useful, if the guy has in fact got the funds to replenish his visa funds to where they need to be. There are so many living hand to mouth and on the borderline in that respect.

Yes, and in yesterdays news and peer reviewed in results released in China, states its effectiveness substantially decreases after only SIX MONTHS! Hence, the scramble for the so called Booster. Another interesting thing that has come out of this and that is vaccinations last longer and offer better protection than people who have had the Covid19 virus and recovered. Just further proof to support vaccinations if it was needed.

Well the good doctor needs to know opening up without the population 70-75% vaccinated doesn't do a great deal of good either. You only need to see that lesson in the USA, UK and now defiantly, in Brazil. Restricted movement is one of the tools to slow down the movement and speed of the virus until the vaccines are here. Also, trying to break international agreements is a Non starter and just noise on his part.

Stopping the export of the vaccines under an international agreement with Astra Zenica to cover up the failings of the government is not an option. And they will have been told so in very clear terms.

You should control and take care your own lives and responsibilities when it comes to your visas. Anything else is lazy or feckless, it isn't cute and doesn't prove love or trust, why put unnecessary temptation in the way of people? Many people can be lovely in heart but cannot resist temptation and that is worldwide. After 25 years, I still sort the finances, like I did with my ex wife in the UK. They get their budgets for household expenses. My other half has a problem with lucky numbers and online slots, I remove that temptation so she doesn't have access. It hasn't altered the odd motorbike getting pawned though!???? but hey ho, nobody's perfect!

And exactly how does that help him? Ah, that's right it doesn't. Poor guy, and for all those boasting ' My wife is great this, that and the other '..................................................... No, it never happens to you, until it DOES!

The headline is all hypothetical and the current military would sooner stick pins in their eyes than allow him to return. In difficult times we are all guilty of wanting to go back to the ' good old days ' we only remember the good times and not the bad. I think the problem Thailand faces right now is a despotic leader that thinks everybody likes him and will not and cannot accept that he is not up to the job of politics, and his style is none other than bullying, it simply doesn't work and he has run out of ideas. He didn't have many good ideas to start with. Covid19 came and his initial luck ran out and he simply is out of his depth surrounded by Sycophants that cannot truly advise him, as he doesn't accept any views except his own. Demonstrations play right into his hands because now he will lengthen his already long stay on the grounds of ' stability of the nation ' not taking into account that it is he who is the root of the problem. Next we will have some kind of planted IED in Bangkok or nearby and curfews announced all over again. He is going to take some moving! Lastly and very sadly,, the overriding force that everybody listened to and kept some balance in this nation is no longer here to mediate.

If you guys want to talk about the good old days, I would say more like 1990-2000. Bars could do what they wanted, opening times were free, everybody was laid back and not much taken seriously. The Go go bars were fun, raucous, and cheap for Westerners. Farmers used to wave as out airplanes came in to land at Don Muang. Bangkok was buzzing. Pattaya took about 4 to 4.5 hours to get to because no motorways. No flyovers, No BTS. There were 'No elephants ' signs up in Pattaya within city limits. The hordes of Russians and Chinese and idiotic lager lout Brits had not arrived. There were plenty of people with money coming to Thailand then. Beaches and roads less crowded, nowhere near the amount of crime there is now. Smiling faces were everywhere. And this was all before Thaksin and his silly dreams of making Thailand like Singapore with him as Captain of the ship. All he did, was replace one set of corrupt politicians with his own set of corrupt politicians.

His picture was everywhere because he ordered it to be everywhere which annoyed somebody else whose picture was already there for a long time before Thaksin, if you get my drift! He wouldn't be wasting money on submarines, he was too busy stealing it. He wasn't a particularly good Prime minister, he created an illusion, and many of his policies unraveled and would have unraveled even if he had remained in power. His war on drugs was a PR exercise and many innocent people lost their lives, his rice pledging could not go on, it was built on pillars of sand, and cost the country billions, the health scheme could have worked with further funds diverted to it. He was greedy, he was and remains a personable narcissist. I was here throughout his reign and the coup right up to the tanks steaming through Bangkok with yellow ribbons on their sleeves, I was there taking photos. And that was his biggest error, he alienated he who could not be alienated

Nope, Close! Prime ministers office with the Covid Czar! They can both sit around doing nothing except wearing their uniforms and polishing their buttons.

See the cops were quick off the mark to claim the reward! If it was an event in the Olympics, the Thai cops would win by a mile!

Well banking representatives are not going to say anything else, are they? Just like TAT are going to tell you how well the sandbox is doing or the health minister to tell you everyone will be vaccinated by October, etc These people are strangers to the truth.

Yes, One account with Krung Thai and one with SCB and I million in each and so on. two accounts, you and your wife,( example Bangkok bank and Krung Thai bank ) in each different bank in each of your names = 4 million baht., three different banking institutions = 6 million, and so on. BUT, Don't put it in a different branch of the same bank!!

This also smacks of a post as if intended to make the elite card holder feel special when they are really offering next to nothing and offering no incentive to come here with that paltry initiative! Back to the drawing board and sack the entire promotional team responsible for putting out this garbage. Ever heard of giving nothing and trying your best to make it look like something substantial? Not an original thought in their insincere heads

Well it was definitely a gloating post if ever I read one! Your pal headed off to Thailand to enjoy his retirement and sure if he is guilty of anything, her got giddy and wound everybody up back home about the time he was having whilst they were working. That is normal what we call in the UK ' friendly banter ' and that is all he is guilty of. Covid has hit us all like a steam train, none of us expected it, I had a brother just starting his seventies who passed away in February 2021 with Covid and he had an underlying condition which was COPD, which didn't help matters. You though, are enjoying his misery and even float the idea, whilst still gloating, that he may be suicidal? You don't seem very concerned about him. As the saying goes; " Who needs enemies with friends like you? "

He sounds exactly like most Western guys who head to Pattaya for their retirement.

Yawn! Yeah, I initially wrote one word in bold caps unlike yourself with the exaggerated nonsense. You went off on one, I thought you had forgotten your medication. You need to get out in the fresh air more. Bye!

You see? You are deliberately changing what I said to suit your narrative adding in capitals your impolite shouting in script!......... Take a chill pill......! These were my words! Not fake or scaremongering at all. The worst cases end up on oxygen and ventilators, that's a FACT. Having any type of vaccine recommended by WHO reduces the chances of this happening massively....another FACT. Now, on the second line it does say clearly what I wrote and what I meant when I answered the other poster if you want to read it again slowly to yourself, aloud if it helps you. ' The worst cases end up on oxygen ' It is also true that any WHO registered vaccine protects against the worst symptoms of the virus.

Not fake or scaremongering at all. The worst cases end up on oxygen and ventilators, that's a FACT. Having any type of vaccine recommended by WHO reduces the chances of this happening massively....another FACT.

Me too!

You'll be sucking it up ' oxygen that is ' if Covid19 takes you down before you can get your beloved Pfizer! Nothing wrong with AZ. Also, I was referring to the ones who had been screaming about being neglected but now wanted a choice of vaccine. However, if the cap fits!...

I doubt they will go through such a painstaking task checking on emails as to who has registered on different sites. They know people will try many sites to get the vaccine, it is human nature.

Yes, some of them for sure.