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15 hours ago, Captain Monday said:

It's called seasonal weather happens every year.

• 42c in Dubai  today. Family went to Maldives already
• Better than 15 nights locked  in a room, "dry" Why not?
• It doesn't rain 2 weeks straight. and surfs up Kahuna. No hordes, cleanest marine environment in decades.

So maybe not everything is a negative? Have a great weekend.

 

The perpetually wrong doom mongers cheerleading for failure of the sandbox will try use any excuse they can.  I doubt most of them even know it's rainy season in Phuket right now.

19 hours ago, MayBeNow said:

I hope that everyone that got his covid vaccine shot will from now onwards start to finally behave responsibly and take his yearly flu shot.

For as long as you lived you took the many hundreds of thousands of yearly flu deaths for granted, while you knew you could vaccinate. But you just didnt care enough now did you? You are partly responsible for the millions upon millions of flu deaths in your life time. 

So take your responsibility from now onwards, take your yearly flu shot, mask up if someone coughs and together we will eradicate the flu.

 

Over and out.

 

P.s. best is to double mask 24/7 the rest of your life, lets eradicate flu together, that mass killer for millennia.

You are accidentally correct even though you thought you were only being sarcastic.  The spanish flu was quite a killer which is why current flu shots incorporate immunization against it.  It is why flu shots will eventually incorporate immunization against covid.

3 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

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Then there is this to consider...  you may actually be providing some proof !...

 

 

 

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(21)00324-2/fulltext

 

 

All the more reason for the anti-vaxxers to not get vaccinated since they already have cognitive deficits. 

Did the US gov't not say that the donations come "with no strings attached".  Then stop trying to attach strings!  

22 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Just like the posters comment that most Americans have Bitcoin, farcical is what it is.  Read the link below and tell us more about the 100's of thousands of visitors and Billions in baht That will be coming by the 4th quarter that TAT has stated, and which is running in another OP. 

 

With Covid as a multiplier now dropping the Thai Baht lower, sure many will have more money to travel with on the exchange rate, but then maybe not here if they can not move around due to closures of transport.

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/26/asian-currencies-thailand-covid-lack-of-tourism-hit-thai-baht.html

 

So what now @shdmnsince Thailand has had only 34k visitors according to the article up until May of 2021. The 10k Sandbox visitors surely can not be helping to the extent that all businesses are open and so on. So under 100k visitors for the year is my best guess at this current rate, and with the Islands Covid cases climbing and now new restrictions put in place please explain your vision for this to be a successful venture.  How long will it take at this rate for the Government to recoup it's initial investment in vaccinating the people of Phuket and then the assistance given to get the infrastructure up and running after being shut for so long.  Not a doomsayer or Doom monger as you say but just being a pragmatic realist. 

So now you're pointing at the declining baht for your failure narrative?  ????

You doom mongers really are getting desperate.  I guess it's totally lost on your doom math that a lower baht will increase tourism more.

20 minutes ago, impulse said:

I made my choice, based on my age and risks.  I got the jabs as soon as it was practical. 

 

I may have made a very different choice had I been of child bearing age.  So I support their right to make that choice, even if it puts me at slightly higher risk.

 

Yes, you have a choice.  Like this guy.

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I got 99 problems but a vax ain’t one.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/antivaxxer-dies-covid-los-angeles-b947491.html

4 minutes ago, Fairynuff said:

All the usual negativity we expect in this forum from people who use their feelings and opinions as facts. None of really know if they can or will live up to the promise of 5-6 million a month. Nor is AZ the only vaccine available . I wouldn’t include Sinovac in any calculation however given it’s proven lack of efficacy. The government would do well to cancel any future. orders for it.

The negativity just keeps getting worse around here.  Not sure what is wrong with these people.

2 minutes ago, 4MyEgo said:

Where do they get these figures, do they follow each one of them around and calculate what they purchase/spent.

 

Where do you get yours? If you had any.

8 minutes ago, petermik said:

I,m saying BS to this.....

Well that settles it.  You doomers are never wrong.  ????

On 7/24/2021 at 12:57 AM, chilly07 said:

So the kitty litter continues to suck in vaccines! Just evacuate the medics pull up the drawbridge and bring an end to this Island of Doctor Moreau!

You sound jealous.  Phuket is opened and the tourists are coming despite all the predictions from the perpetually wrong doom mongers.  I was only half kidding when I said the doom mongers were claiming it was going to be the zombie apocalypse and yet here you trying to do just that. 

On 7/23/2021 at 5:34 AM, ukrules said:

Excellent news, they're on track to bring it under control some time next year.

 

There's no need to cancel the 'sandbox scheme' because nobody's going to come.

Over 6000 arrivals as of a week our two ago to Phuket and I will be one of the many thousands to come when Pattaya opens.  So you were wrong before you even posted that.

What is this "sealed route" all about?

I didn't see this posted anywhere on this forum yet, unless I missed it.

https://www.astrazeneca.com/country-sites/thailand/press-release/an-open-letter-to-the-people-of-thailand-en.html

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Dear friends in Thailand,

As AstraZeneca’s representative here, I see the challenges that all of us across the country face in the battle against COVID-19 and want to explain what we are doing to help.

The rising number of confirmed COVID-19 delta cases in Thailand concerns all of us at AstraZeneca. We are in constant contact with the Department for Disease Control on the virus’ evolving impact and on how we can help the national vaccination programme.

I want to assure you that for us, there is no higher priority than manufacturing vaccines that can protect you and your loved ones, as fast as possible.

We will leave no stone unturned.

Our vaccine is a ‘biologic’ product that starts with growing ‘living’ ingredients. Its manufacturing is complicated. The number of doses in each ‘harvested’ batch is never completely certain, especially in the early stages of a new supply chain. Even with that context, our projections show that in months with uninterrupted manufacturing we can supply five to six million doses in Thailand.

By the end of July, we will have delivered 11.3 million doses, as part of our overall commitment to deliver 61 million to Thailand. As of now, we have delivered nine million doses, with 2.3 million to be supplied to the Ministry of Public Health next week.

We are delivering in the fastest possible timeframe, however, given the gravity of the delta variant, we are leaving no stone unturned to accelerate supply further still. Together with our manufacturing partner, Siam Bioscience, we have initiated efforts to optimise the manufacturing process and we believe that in months with good ‘harvests’, we will be able to deliver more.

We are also scouring the 20+ supply chains in our worldwide manufacturing network to find additional vaccines for Southeast Asia, including Thailand. A global supply crunch for COVID-19 vaccines and shortages of the materials and components required to produce the vaccine, make it difficult to provide certainty today, but we are hopeful of importing additional doses in the months ahead.

COVID-19 is the biggest public health crisis of our generation. We at AstraZeneca see it as our duty to help, and thousands of our employees, and those of our partners, have devoted their lives this past year to do so. We do this at no profit during the pandemic because we believe that’s the right thing to do. The immediate needs of the pandemic are too large for us to take on alone, but we will not rest until you are vaccinated.

Our battle against COVID-19 is shared.

Since the start of the pandemic, you have shown the true heart and strength of Thailand. Polling suggests that over one third of the people in Thailand have donated money, food or supplies to support one another. We have witnessed remarkable solidarity within the community and across provincial borders. The battle against COVID-19 has been a marathon, but the one thing that will bring us closer to the finish line is running this race together, not just in Thailand but also internationally.

We in Thailand face an upsurge in cases today. Our brothers and sisters across ASEAN experience new lockdowns and rising fatalities also. New data from Canada shows that one dose of our vaccine is 87% effective against hospitalisation or death caused by the delta variant. The vaccines made in Thailand are of critical importance to our neighbours as much as they are to us here.

We share the same goal. To end the pandemic, we need to manage virus levels everywhere. As the virus ignores borders, the acceleration of COVID-19 in neighbouring countries is a threat to us in Thailand. This fight can only be won if we act together.

Yours sincerely,

James Teague
Managing Director, AstraZeneca Thailand

Did he also call the police names and try brag about being retired (according to him) again?

20 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

 

They need these vaccines now - not in 4-5 months !

As does just about every other country in the world.

But the doom mongers here told me this will never happen.  How can that be?  They are never wrong.

2 hours ago, mikosan said:

I just can't be bothered to read 5 pages of responses to these latest dream world pronunciations.  Are these people living in cloud cuckoo land? Get a grip, please.  There is NO CHANCE WHATSOEVER of this happening. 

Another perpetually wrong doom monger who will be wrong yet again just like you all were with Phuket.  I'll be too busy enjoying myself in Pattaya to care at that point.