edwinchester

Beat me to it. Absolutely BS figures except maybe the 3000 prosecutions in 2 years.

Surely if only vaccinated and twice tested tourists are allowed into Thailand then the locals have next to zero risk from them. The risk in Thailand is Thais infecting Thais until they all are vaccinated.

Drunk or drugged?

Maybe Prayut was talking about his house when he said they'll be no flooding this year.

Yeah only a third of the predicted number, which was pathetically low to begin with, is an abject failure in anyone's book.

For some strange reason ATK +ve tests are not included in the official figure. If they were it would show there has been an upward trend for the last 2 weeks and was on course to hit 20 thousand cases a day very soon. Thankfully the vaccination program seems to starting to have an effect and bringing down the death and ICU count

Nah, more likely the b 4stard offspring of it and a fire hydrant.

When you can't get the mechanic you go after the oily rag I guess.

Spot on, one of the illegal small gambling dens near our village is run by a policemans wife.

I doubt it a seatbelt would have made any difference judging by the severity of that frontal impact.

Yeah, no way would the evidence stand up in court.

We had a msg from our daughter's private school yesterday saying that next week's online classes will be the last as they're preparing for reopening in November. This is in Kanchanaburi.

I spoke with one of my daughter's in the UK last night about quarantine in Thailand as she and her family visit every year. No way will they be visiting until there is no quarantine. She also mentioned that they'd all had a holiday in Majorca recently and the tour company had subsidized all the covid tests for the family of five....total cost for all of the tests worked out the equivalent of 3000 bht, compare with the approximate 16000 bht for tests they'd have to pay for a Thai holiday.

From 400 a day to over 5000 is some leap. For the sake of those reliant on tourism income I hope he's right but unless quarantine, tests and all the excess paperwork is done away with then I have my doubts.

Teachers at my daughter's school were finally vaccinated last week. The rollout for teaching staff has been as chaotic for them as it has been for the general population.

Still prefer 'Amazeballs Thailand'.

After the middle finger salutes and 'hia' greetings he got at his recent flood inspection I'm surprised he's got the nerve to show up again.

A plate of wifeys somtam and pickled fish easily qualifies.

Simply. Consider three people that die at 60, 70 and 80. The average life expectancy is 70. Now if one had died at 77 instead of 80, still higher than the average expectancy, that brings the average down to 69.

People dying younger drags the overall average down.

As my dear old mum says, 'you can't teach pork'.

Somebody said he looks like a right Canute. I think that's what they said anyway.

No floods in Bangkok, that's all he seems to cares about.

Please don't get me wrong, I am grateful that I am now fully vaccinated with Astrazeneca but cancelling appointments with no notice just to make up numbers on another day seems pointless to me and inconvenienced many people. I should also add that a Thai doctor stood up for my right to get the vaccine after a couple of people were a little loud voicing that farangs shouldn't be getting a shot, pointing out that I live here and everybody is eligible. After seeing the number of people being vaccinated in my own local hospital I can believe the numbers, it's a well drilled operation, it's just that from personal experience it's hard to believe that this huge effort on one day will be repeated on a regular basis.

Kanchanaburi