Petey11

They obviously think the pandemics over by dissolving the CCSA, or are the CCSA making too many noises behind the scenes and the PM doesn't like it?

Good yes, but have to see the small print, certain hotels only, sealed routes on tours. Will it benefit the average small restaurant or street food sellers? Well have to wait and see.

From my experience in the UK you had an individual appointment time of a 10 minute window, in which time you had 10-20 people arrive with the same time, thus limiting people queuing for long periods. Both my vaccinations at a local centre took no more than 25 minutes including the 15 minute observation period, no blood pressure check needed, very short form to fill taking about 2 minutes, another short question and answer from the person giving the vaccine, very efficient. If you look at Thailand's reported 900k a day and say centres are open 10 hours a day for example (have no idea if correct but just example) this equates to 1500 jabs a minute, 25 a second. UK managed 10 a second I think at best. When you break it down to hours, minutes and seconds you realise the enormity of what's needed to reach those figures. Without proof one can only speak an opinion as to the accuracy of figures. I for one are suspicious of the claims of 900k a day, 500-600k a day, sure, I can believe that.

Positive, live on income from day to day, no financial back up or social help? No one looking, bin it. Although totally devoid of social responsibility, guarantee it does happen.

Why they don't just say we will bring these measures in for long term tourists, 2+ month stayers. Stop this nonsense, either open up properly or bite the bullet and put the time, effort and funds into vaccinating the population as quick as possible. Vaccination is the key to turn this virus into a manageable disease. As shown in the Sandbox, vaccinated tourists are not the risk, unvaccinated locals are. Does anyone know of any other countries where tourists have to get all these documents, proofs of stay and CoE etc? And I mean proper tourists, not countries like Australia and New Zealand who won't allow tourists at the moment, just repatriation.

You also have to look at the funding and resources put into developing a covid vaccine. Has any other disease had such large sums of money ploughed into to developing a vaccine in such a short time and had as many multiple countries and agencies working on it at the same time. Look at the genome testing going on too, over 50% of the world's carried out in the UK. I'm sure polio never had the concentrated amount of effort and funds applied to it. Most vaccine development is slow due to getting the funding for the research which can take months to get.

Correct but when people are able to get vaccinated if they want. In the UK everyone who wants to get vaccinated has had the opportunity to do so, not the same case in Thailand I believe.

Layman's talk, "Our budget for testing is running out, it's not looking good for Sandbox and Big Boss has told me it has to get better."

The government has to open up, got to be ready for grand tourism opening. The way I see it they are unable or unwilling to support the average Thai who is suffering from business closures and pressure from the top business conglomerate owners that their billions of Baht are starting to dwindle by a few million and need to get the peasants back to earning them money. Thailand is not a poor country, just poor people within it. Why sacrifice the rich and their billions when they can sacrifice the poor.

Don't think it's just variants, although that is a major factor, it's also infection rates and vaccination numbers that go into the decision making as well AFAIK.

All this talk of herd immunity. As the professor involved in the AZ vaccine said, he believes you cannot reach herd immunity, only herd protection. You vaccinate all those vulnerable and as many of the other population as possible to reduce the severity of the infection. IMO this virus is going nowhere, as we have seen in countries with high vaccination rates. Hopefully over time it will evolve into something more benign, but untill then all we can do is protect those most at risk. If this means restrictions until vaccination levels are reached, so be it. It's down governments to organise and roll out vaccinations at a high rate and the manufacturer's to stop infighting, relenquish patents and allow worldwide production to ramp up. As usual governments have turned vaccination into a political statement. The general population are just pawns in this unfolding game and we must do what we can to protect ourselves and others who are at risk from this virus.

I would agree but if you had a high level of vaccination in the population. Social responsibility is all well and good but unfortunately a lot of people do not have it. Once vaccination has been offered to all eligible, sure, open up and anyone unvaccinated who becomes seriously ill be it on their own head. In the meantime those who will let rip with the freedom and catch the virus may then pass it on to someone who will be badly affected. If a gradual relaxation is done, fair enough, but the government must have the conviction to let the population know that if cases start rising they will reinstate measures. Problem in Thailand is they don't know the true extent of the virus infection due to poor testing numbers and the look of the government and protection of the hi-so business activities take priority IMO.