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4 hours ago, madmen said:

Another lazy poster diving in to bash without even reading the article. 

What is covax? Does Thailand qualify? 

Keep reading.... 

 

What are you talking about? Thailand does not want to join Covax. It has said so many times, so yes, Thailand will be left behind

5 hours ago, Kiujunn said:

Long article in Financial Times yesterday.

Short summary: AZ is an incredible mess.

 

The phase 3 clinical studies:

Some people by accident got half first dose

Some people got the second dose much later than originally planned (UK now uses this approach)

Old people were not included, so no data (that's why several EU countries don't use it over 55/60/65)

Because of this mess,  not yet approved in US and Switzerland.  Both want better data.

 

Production:

Glitches at different production sites. They promised 3 billion doses,  that was too much.

Impurities found by regulators.

 

Politics:

They basically vaccinate Britons, not Europeans like Spaniards or Portuguese. Schadenfreude on the British side,  less so on the continent.

Very poor communication. 

 

Details are a lot more complicated,  above is a generalization. 

Some people ask: can we trust this company about quality control? About the safety (AZ says,  it's  DNA vaccine is not integrated into the human genome)?

 

BTW as of today, much reduced efficacy against South Africa variant

The only relevant fact is that it works well. The rest is just waffle

I don't get the daily field hospital updates and case updates, while cases seem to be going down, field hospital beds are going up, a lot!

Just bad planning or have govt decided to wait and see what happens?

That would be a nice birthday present for me and the missus. Full steam ahead UK!

Will it really happen?

Yes/No

No mention of the cluster in Maha Sarakham. 21 cases at least there, with another 1695 tests pending

22 hours ago, madmen said:

A draconian communist government with the worse human rights abuse in all of SEA. But yeah they amazing anti xenophobic ????

Both of those statements can be true at the same time. 

They do understand the problem then, but seem unable or unwilling to fix it

I think Thailands Xenophobia stops it from joining FTA's so easily. Vietnam is very forward looking compared to backward looking Thailand

1 hour ago, ThailandRyan said:

With the majority arriving in the first 2 months and slowing down in March before the borders slammed shut.  Is this any surprise to those of us who live here and see the effects that Covid had had.  There is no other way to put it except to say "Tourism is in a Coma"

"Tour-ism in a coma, I know, I know, it's very serious..."

These daily numbers mean nothing. Pulled out of the air, no consistency and no proper attempt to organise

Haven't read the whole thread, but wouldn't a compactor help? Just for the plastics etc

Will be watching to see who gets it

This is happening just as I predicted. Thailand will still be at the beginning of vaccination for it’s own citizens and still essentially closed off, whilst its tourist base nears full vaccination.

What happens then? Still quarantine? Who knows really?

Wasn’t a certain sycophant poster, just telling everyone off for their kneejerk paranoia and Thai bashing comments? 
 

This is why people are sceptical!

The dire state of Thai journalism in this "article"

From the photo it looks like they are doing temperature screening which is a total waste of time. Most asymptomatic carriers won't have a temperature, even those with symptoms might not have a fever except at the very beginning of the infection

same here.

can't upload screenshots either, another error

7 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

The ‘Covid sceptics’ are not dominantly present in the Mainstream Media, they are however very dominantly present across social media. 

Lockdown sceptics, all over MSM, Hitchens, Young, Bradbury all a pain in the a*se

On 1/6/2021 at 2:13 AM, Tagged said:

We will see how it goes. Bought some more gras in Chiang mai when we where there for new year for 12,- baht m2. So if we had waited we would had it for 1/3 of the price same gras. 

 

We did use sand, soil, buffalo <deleted>, wet it good before put the gras on. Now we water morning and evening. 

 

I wanted to use seed, but my gf thought it was better to do like this, and sometime I have to let her have her decissions, and learn by them, and a little bit mor inexpensive one as well if you do not count the time. 

Nice place! Good luck