androokery

Everyone pays tax. What are you talking about? I guess you specifically mean income tax. Is that even something all Thais pay?

Maybe it doesn't matter that the factory is in Thailand. The Thai government can't or daren't dictate to Astra Zeneca (or the local partner) where Astra Zeneca should deliver their products. AZ may have promised the first 100 million doses to other countries.

No. Not 6000. That's a number picked out of the air. It's all a question of counting visitors vs "real tourists". The number of the latter can be 4996. Or 25004. We don't know. But TAT was way off the actual number even if they included all types of incoming people. Maybe by 300 percent.

It makes a lot of sense from a logistics perspective. How are the immigration officials supposed to keep track of the individual rules of thousands of different insurance policies? Do we really want to wait in line while they read the small print of all the conditions for each and every traveller?

It works great as a family resort - unless you go into Central Pattaya after nightfall and as long as you stay clear of Soi 6 at almost all hours.

There are at least five different Pattayas that I know of. Wongamat with its attempt at a Mediterranean upscale resort destination (cheap Monaco), Phratumnak aiming for a Tenerife kind of feel, Jomtien as an old resort town which has settled in its ways (Benidorm?), Dark side which is like many other "normal" Thai towns and then Central Pattaya. Which is like very few other places on earth. And the driving engine behind the economy in all five of these areas.

If the population is 1 million: 50% double-jabbed is 500,000 people Another 20,000 have only had one shot and 480,000 have had zero shots. Maybe?

Double Moderna out of country

This Hungarian overstaying widow is brought up again. I know nothing about her apart from what I've stated in the first sentence here. The response to her problems on this forum and in the OP has been extremely prejudiced. Is there any special reason why everyone on here rush to her defence? She could be the most despicable morally corrupt POS person you ever could meet. Or the opposite. We don't know. I'm leaning towards "she needs a solid excuse for that long of an overstay". What were she and her husband up to all those years?

I think this whole scheme or plan by the Thai government is the epitome of the financial model that Thailand is famous for - and for which we sometimes deride them. The idea that if there are fewer customers, whatever they are selling will become more expensive. The same applies here. If there are fewer foreigners spending money, each foreigner has to spend more.