Thailand pressing ahead with plan to open Phuket up to foreign tourists on July 1st despite Covid surge

[Sheryl]

Just now, Abik said:

It is really a scandal to use a Chinese, Indian or European vaccine instead of a Pfizer or Moderna that is in high effectiveness and with not any side effects.

Stinginess and stupidity will cost the Thais dearly.

 

Pfizer and Moderna are excellent vaccines but in very scarce supply and also with very complicated storage and transport requirements which are not feasible to meet in many countries/settings. Other than large hospitals I doubt the feasibility in Thailand. I particularly doubt the ability to manage the logisitcs in a mass immunization site setting.  the vaccine becomes ineffective if not handled under correct conditions.

 

Neighboring Cambodia, which unlike Thailand from the onset started trying to source vaccines abroad, has so far received only AZ and Sinovac.

 

All vaccines have at least some side effects, though usually mild.

 

The key issue is whether, side effects considered, it is safer to get the vaccine vs. not get it.  this is what public health authorities use as the yardstick to decide whether to recommend vaccination or not.

 

None of the COVID vaccines in current use have serious side effects at a frequency of more  than say 1 in 10,000 (which is the most one can hope to have identified in clinical trials) and from reports to date it does not appear any have them at  more than  1 in about 200,000.

 

 

[Harveyboy]

On 4/26/2021 at 10:34 AM, WineOh said:

or in other words, not a single tourist from any country has expressed any interest whatsoever in goin to Phuket for a holiday.

 

the golden goose is dead and buried, am I the only one that can see it? ????

nope clear as day

[spidermike007]

7 hours ago, sandyf said:

'One man's waste is another man's fortune' as they say.

Around here business and the population has grown significantly since the pandemic started. And I do not mean tin shacks - housing developments, shopping malls, convenience stores, factories, car outlets, you name it.

Around here? Could you elaborate on the location of your booming area? 

[sandyf]

15 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Around here? Could you elaborate on the location of your booming area? 

Na Pa.

[Stargeezr]

Thailand can open up Phuket all they want, it does not mean that any one will come to the place.

   Until people can travel without 2 weeks quarantine on each end of their trip, there will be very few 

traveling anywhere.  2021 will be another year of domestic tourism for most countries, who may not even allow

that to happen, with the variant strains of COVID being so contagious and still a killer virus, with younger

people dying from that form of COVID.     I am sure that Thailand is getting desperate for foreign tourists with all the

effort that they are going through to open up Phuket.     Good luck to all the brave people who actually plan to travel,

if you bring in a variant strain to Phuket or anywhere in Thailand, well, just remember Typhoid Mary, she was quite the spreader 

for her time in history.

  Geezer

[spidermike007]

An exercise in futility. Building up domestic tourism was the answer, in the short to medium term.

 

Had Prayuth and Anutin not sabotaged that part of the industry with their hubris, arrogance, ignorance and deceit of the Thai people, the second wave likely would never have amounted to much. And it is likely this so called third wave would have been prevented. 

 

We know who to blame for this current fiasco.