Scouse123

I don't think any of them are useless, some work better than others as the evidence is now showing with Sinovac at the bottom of the list.

Agreed, And there should be a law against people in the health sector raising hopes like they did and forming lists and online queues for a vaccine that are unable to procure.

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!!

10 months ago up in Isaarn,fed up of lockdown and bored going to Mom and Pop shops to sit and drink beer, usually alone, until late afternoon, when the shop owner would join me at sundown,I decided I was fed up of the routine, the bloated look, and ever changing rules and closures with Covid etc I just decided to quit for a while. I am not alcohol dependent but I can drink a lot without being drunk, It all seemed pointless,then to get on the scales and be surprised why my weight was rising. also I felt I was drinking for the sake of it. So in effect, it wasn't any grand plan, I just stopped drinking.I went walking around the local lake doing four then five miles a day, although that has ceased with rains, multi roadwork projects going outside the lake and local feral dogs that are a problem for everybody. I am a couple of stones lighter, my money situation will be healthier although I never looked at that, then or now. I get on their nerves of my other half and family at the houses because all I want to do is DIY and maintenance, I am bored trying to fill my days, even visiting Tesco when I don't need anything, hours on the computer or watching history channel TV I am 59 and have come to the conclusion, I might just quit as I haven't missed it, the benefits of stopping seem to outweigh the fun I had drinking, unless it's just Covid blues. Also, being unable to travel without many hoops to jump through, and lack of English conversation up here. But quitting has brought me problems of filling my days up.

I know IPTV providers come and go, they close and open, and by and large can be unreliable other than on short term contracts. They are evolving all the time. Can any members tell me of any good IPTV providers in Thailand for UK entertainment channels, USA entertainment channels and UK sports channels please? Prices also would be appreciated. Also, if possible minimal buffering problems. I would much sooner have less channels that work, than thousands of channels with many that don't work or are of no interest to me.