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Sounds like a "par for the course" wheeze - after all they have dissembled, mislead, obfuscated or lied every time they have opened their mouths about their vaccination programme!

and, it would appear an absolutely raving xenephobe!

"Just you wait, 'enry 'iggins, just you wait You'll be sorry but your tears 'll be to late You'll be broke and I'll have money Will I help you? Don't be funny Just you wait, 'enry 'iggins, just you wait Just you wait, 'enry 'iggins, till you're sick And you scream to fetch a doctor double quick I'll be off a second later and go straight to the theatre Oh ho ho, 'enry 'iggins, just you wait"

I don't personally have a problem with boy scouting, although I would prefer much less emphasis on foot drill. The sight of our school registrar's bandy legs in khaki shorts is quite amusing, and some of the younger lady teachers look good in uniform. I always enjoy it when they queue up to have their berets shaped before the big parade As for the red cross cadet thing for the girls, gender stereotyping maybe, but nothing wrong with teaching first aid skills.

Registered and waiting for a couple of months, then admitted to hospital for ( totally non Covid related matter ). The hospital gave me a first shot of Sinovac, followed a month later by a shot of Pfizer. So a Sinovac/Pfizer mix.

I am a teacher. The education system in Thailand is beset by many weaknesses, chief amongst which is overcentralised control of teachers, the curriculum and working hours by a beaurocracy who themselves have often no experience of teaching. Teachers are severely constrained in what they can teach, and how they can teach it. That is where the fundemental problem lies, coupled with a weakness in initial and in service training. With those problems there is little point in inventing new ones, or even inflating a (possibly false) confusion from outside casual observation to the status of a major problem.

"Urban myth", not true!

Far be it from me, as a humble infanteer to query one of my "Wedgewood Blue" colleagues in arms on the matter of airplanes, but don't you mean A340s?????????

All in good time...

If they are old enough to stand properly at ease they are old enough to be vaccinated. The country can no longer tolerate the increasingly idle standards of foot drill as a result of the time they are spending out of school. Look at the position of the hands of that girl in the front rank! A disgrace to the uniform. Something must be done about it!

It is the pattern for just about every aspect of procurement by government agencies in Thailand: military, medical, educational, aviation, you name it. Government spending is the great opportunity for many to make money, through various "facilitating roles". So the purchases are spread out.

Considering the usual "additional costs" normally incurred in doing such business here 12% seems quite reasonable! I wonder how they will carve up ( sorry, allocate according to clinical need) this vaccine? Pfizer is now so "yesterday" that they are even offering it to schoolchildren, AZ has gone very quiet, the important people must surely be looking for something new!

No doubt it will mean the carefree holidaymaker rising early, going to some government centre, taking a queue ticket and waiting until just before lunchtime to be seen by some uniformed official. Every day.

They have wrecked the economy, and are only interested in such rebuilding as may benefit the small group of wealthy individuals to whom they are beholden. The people you describe, small hotel and guesthouse owners and staff, tour and tourist-activity organisations and guides, taxi- and tuktuk-drivers, etc, are quite simply not considered. They simply are not part of the equation.

It's not about the local business and communities you refer to. It's about an attempt to lure (and for once they use the word correctly) some very wealthy individuals, and allow the influential people whose normal cash sources have dried up, to hit on them. They don't realise ( because inevitably they ( the influential people who are behind this) have so often made their money from cheating, scamming and graft, and fail to grasp that wealthy foreigners are wealthy precisely because they do not fall for schemes like these.

Yes, all the traditional cash cows are gone, and they are hurting badly, desperately hunting for new ones...

At which point in your dream you woke up! As for your point about xenophobia, I think that it is intrinsically linked to uniforms. Those who wear them must realise in their heart of hearts how utterly superfluous and meaningless the badges medals and trinkets are. They also know that most falangs regard them as comic opera uniforms, with no actual significance. This upsets them - they lose face! At my school on Mondays and important events the staff appear in uniforms, white shirts with naval style shoulder boards, medal ribbons and the inevitable parachute wings. It is quite surprising the change that comes over some of them - the most pleasant and cheerful chaps go into full on invade Poland mode! Not all, but certainly the older ones.

True, but they only hold together for three weeks so they will soon get through them!

There can be no clarification - it is just another brain fart full of incomprehensible jargon. They either open up, and risk the consequences, or stayed closed down and accept the consequences. That is the stark choice which the utter Horlicks which they have made of vaccinating their own population has left them with. Either way, it needs one brave decision. That is unlikely to happen.

Slightly perturbing that he has a drinking party every night if his day job involves mincing around the place armed to the teeth making finely honed judgement calls about whether to shoot or not!

If it is his own establishment, and he is a senior policeman then it is very probable that it has remained open for business throughout the closedown, like very many such "connected" establishments.

Last time that I used Liverpool St station it seemed to have reverted to type. Quite a long time ago, back in the days when Air Asia used to fly Stansted to Kuala Lumpur!

Look at who is driving this: Thailand National Defense College; Joint War College, and the War Colleges of the three armed forces. They obviously anticipate being in control for the next 20 years!

Time will tell, time will tell...

They will be in very low numbers. Probably few enough for each individual to be greeted by his/her very own senior police officer, to be warned that they face arrest if caught drinking alcohol or organising or attending a party where alcohol is available. So much more welcoming for the visitor than a mere notice or Facebook post don't you think?