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Because that's how you keep the "little people" and commoners in line.

Interesting. "Experts" can publish unfounded supposition. Everyone else is censored if they do the same.

Personally we will look back in six months to see that these figures are pie-in-the-sky. Of course, six months from now TAT will be making excuses followed by massively inflated bs that will never become true in 2022 either. To quote Greta Thunberg: "Blah blah blah."

Top doc says keep RT-PCR test amid Omicron fears Well of course - it's a HUGE money maker. Heck, charge those dirty Farang 3000 to 10000 THB for the PCR so they be allowed the privilege to enter the Center Of The Universe - Prathet Thai! Those 120 THB antigen test just don't make the same profits.

Are you insinuating that the vaccinated are not safe? They have been told they are 100% safe if they just get two shots....and a booster.........maybe two boosters. What do the vaccinated have to worry about if they are fully vaccinated? They are vaccinated, they can not contract or transmit Covid. Why should they wear a mask?

Get in there face and tell them to get their masks on and if they fail to follow your orders than physically force them to wear a mask!!! That will do it. Or Mind your own business.

After reading that entire article, nowhere did I see the PM say that it would stop you from contracting Covid.

Of course they don't. And the majority of men never masturbate - ever.

Shut the borders and lock everyone down. That will take care of it.

How it work. I don't see a way to specific our land tracts?

What do you say to those families who had loved ones die before widespread vaccinations were available? And then the vaccinations arrive! Then - What do you say to the families of those who have double-jabbed, fully vaccinated family members - some of whom may have had boosters as well - who end up dying of Covid? Again, from the President of the most powerful nation on Earth: "You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations" "If you’re vaccinated, you’re not going to be hospitalized, you’re not going to be in the ICU unit, and you’re not going to die." Ok. I'll accept that as the God's honest truth. Now explain why vaccinated are getting sick of Covid and are also dying? Then how does a doctor explain to families of the sick, dying, or those who have passed away in places like Gibraltar where 100% of the population is vaccinated why that is happening? Why is any fully vaccinated person sick or dying or dead? The POTUS, head's of state, and their health agencies stay that is an impossibility. Yet? I know that is a difficult question for some to comprehend, and it's terribly inconvenient to see it happen, and yet as vaccination rates approach 90 to 100% and fully vaccinated still keep getting sick, ending up in ICU, with some dying - there is no explaining it away.

Unfortunately this sums up reality in one simple picture.

The commonly accepted narrative is that "You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations," and "If you’re vaccinated, you’re not going to be hospitalized, you’re not going to be in the ICU unit, and you’re not going to die." Those are quotes from Joe Biden in a July 2021 Town Hall and his words have been echoed by world leaders, 'expert' pundits, and main-stream news media world-wide. So - why do the vaccinated need masks? Why do they need to quarantined? Why do they need continual Covid testing? The vaccinated don't get Covid, right? They are at no risk, correct? Either they are or they are not. Which is it? Everyone was told that if they get the shots that they would get their freedoms back. Just being Captain Obvious, but it doesn't look that way. Trust authority! Trust Experts! Even as we are continually told lies framed as rock-solid, golden truths? The people who have been doing everything they have been told since March 2020 are eventually going to tire of this.

They can't give them away now? "Too bad you pay for Moderna, but now come get free Pfizer shot quick-quick?" Well, then it's not free. It cost you the opportunity cost of the Moderna vaccine you paid for. So the real question becomes - why is Anutin pushing Pfizer? Cui bono - who benefits?

PM Happy with Tourism Recovery Wow. The Dude has some seriously low expectations. Or maybe not. The New Normal seems to be about destroying tourism and well as low and middle-class businesses as well as providing the excuses to implement an alcohol prohibition. So actually it may be going right on plan.

Long of photo-ops and windage. Short on substance.

I'll pass the happy news to my US friends who are waiting (indefinitely if need be) for Thailand to resume a semblance of sanity and across-the-board customer service revamp back to Old Normal before they consider ever returning. Thailand has a rep for ripping off tourist and now it's becoming downright deceitful in place that tourist used to trust.

They'll need to ditch the Covid paranoid before things return to normal. These people are more interested in power than renewed tourism, so it will never recover. Personally I like new normal tourism - empty streets all to myself. I'm happy with this new status quo. This people reap what they sow.

Clark shoes are sold in Thailand in major malls. High quality, a bit pricey but within the ranges for Clarks sold in the US. They were about the only shoes I wore for years until I retired. This gives you an idea of their offerings. https://www.clarksusa.com/

But new research is constantly surfacing. As their are no long-term studies for the safety of mRNA vaccines, it will be literally years before the metadata shows causation. In the meanwhile there is a full-court press to silence all but the 'officially accepted narrative." Unfortunately, that is not how scientific inquiry works. https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/circ.144.suppl_1.10712

Start here: If they could truthfully tell the public that the Covid vaccines stop transmission of Covid in its tracks, ends contagion, and paves the path to a return to a full Old Normal society where Covid has been eradicated? Most people including myself would be lining up. But that's not the case. Here is what the population is told: "The Prime Minister has expressed satisfaction with Thailand’s vaccination rollout and its vaccine regimens that can help reduce severe symptoms and deaths from COVID-19." The CDC, WHO, and other health agencies no longer claim that vaccination stop transmission or contagion (I personally know people fully vaccinated with mRNA shots who were extremely ill), they are not 'sterilizing vaccines', as such they promote immune escape, the so called "protection" wanes in a short period of time (less than 6 months) and boosters will be required forever - and even if 100% of the population is vaccinated - this never ends and there will never be any going back to Old Normal. Oh - and then the increase risk of coronary damage: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/circ.144.suppl_1.10712 <shhhh> Perfectly healthy, fully vaccinated footballers and athletes keeling over with heart issue don't help picture. That wasn't happening prior to Covid vaccine rollout. Of course it can be argued that correlation isn't causation - but tell that to the average citizen who simply sees what they see. Oh - and the perception that the Thai government habitually lies to its citizens (I've no dog in that fight, but I live with Thais and know their views). And when the government reaches a Covid milestone, they move the goalposts: (70% vaccinated and we'll have herd immunity; 95% vaccinated and we'll have herd immunity; herd immunity is impossible so 100% need to be vaccinated) or (The vaccines will stop transmission and contagion, the vaccines will stop you from getting sick, the vaccines "can help reduce severe symptoms and deaths.") So what changes next? Keep pushing those goal-posts. My guess is that the government will eventually go full coercion: "Get the shot or we will lock you in your homes and then hunt you down house by house and jab it into your arms." Although not publicized on main-stream news, there are currently massive protests globally pushing back against the authoritarian approach that is beginning to rhyme with totalitarian. And in Thailand there will be a sub-set of the population who will probably explode if it comes down to forced vaccinations. Just saying. The question being asked is "Why are people refusing to get the shot?" Well, there's an answer from someone who will only take the shot under duress. I'm sure there are more reasons than that. People have their own reasons. Mine actually has more to do with my innate distrust of any institutions that seek to silence and censor any and all voices in the scientific community who don't accept the single narrative proposed by the CDC, WHO, and other EU agencies all of which are revolving doors between government regulation and pharmaceutical corporations. Foxes in the hen-house. https://fablesofaesop.com/the-hen-and-the-fox-barn.html In the meanwhile I suggest that the PM read the following old fable by a wise fellow named Aesop. Just that would probably give him a good start toward what he wishes to know. https://fablesofaesop.com/the-boy-who-cried-wolf.html

Check your basic stats. Thailand will reach 100,000,000 doses administered by year end The US has reach 451,000,000 doses since Dec 2020. The US has 196,000,000 fully vaccinated citizens Surpass the US? Nope. Those numbers can easily be found with an internet search.

"Tourist bad. Bad tourist come to Thailand, not follow rules. Rules says: No Fun. Bad tourist go home." ???? Excellent. We're in agreement. I think tourists should steer clear of Thailand too. They are all 'bad tourists' who want to have "Fun." Best to go somewhere where you can take off your mask, and sit around with friends over some beer and wine. Heck - maybe even dance!

Here we go again. Bad Farangs!!! What about the Thai tourist in the background. You know, the maskless Thai behind the masked farang woman. Hey! Thailand. Where do I submit all the pictures I have of maskless Thais in public???

And I live right next to three families all raising grandchildren. Since Covid that parents have moved back to the village. It the economy picks up they probably leave again. These kids are brought up in caring families. There are sad stories about kids being raised in every condition imaginable. But the sad stories are the one-offs. And this is still a developing third-world country outside of the Big Mango. What you consider to be idealistic circumstances to raise a child is not necessarily a Thai or third-world standard. They make do with what they have. Most kids turn out fine; some don't. Same-same world-wide.