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The continuation of the slow rate of vaccination in Thailand seems to be accepted as unavoidable/unimportant by the local population as well as Farang living here.

No outrage at the Thai government anymore as if it is old news.

The governments of the western world where infections are declining and vaccines are available makes you think to take a break from Thailand and get vaccinated with decent vaccines in your home country.

It's like overtaking in a blind curve, nobody cares.

 

 

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most likely some 10-14 days quarantine at your home country would be needed. In the UK it costs 2000gbp.

Possible easier to the USA, vax tours for 10 days and some $2500 all inclusive. No quarantine in the USA.

On return to thailand still possibility of 14 days quarantine (if phuket sandbox won't start on 1.07, in my opinion not likely to start that early, because low vax turnout and low efficacy of sinovac) and minimum $1000.

It's a serious money and possibility of many weeks wasted from your life

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24 minutes ago, rodknock said:

why should they worry, they got there shots.

 

Who are "they"?  The OP mentions "the local population as well as Farang living here" and these people are still waiting to get vaccinated.

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Richard Barrow recently tweeted this:

 

More destinations to open to vaccinated tourists without doing quarantine on 1 October: Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Prachuap Khiri Khan (Hua Hin), Phetchaburi, Chonburi (Pattaya), Surat Thani, Krabi, Phang Nga & Buriram. However, 70% of locals in these areas must be vaccinated first.

 

I have lived in Chiang Mai for years and I do not see how 70% can be achieved in less than 4 months?  I have not spokento  any local who has been vaccinated or even has a confirmed vaccination appointment.

 

 

 

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Death rate hasn't come close do the number of Thai fatalities on the roads.  Most don't freak-out when getting into their cars which is much more dangerous.  Covid cases seem to be leveling or at a minimum daily cases have stabilized.   No outrage from me but do wish this would end.

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Posted
4 hours ago, sqwakvfr said:

I have lived in Chiang Mai for years and I do not see how 70% can be achieved in less than 4 months?...

Yes.

Posted
18 hours ago, rodknock said:

why should they worry, they got there shots.

 

Indeed. Unlike the UK, where the government took its place in the same queue as everyone else, ordered by age and high-risk first, just as the Royal Family did too. Different worlds

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4 hours ago, atpeace said:

Death rate hasn't come close do the number of Thai fatalities on the roads. 

 

38 road deaths today.

 

39 COVID deaths today.

 

 

Still not sure what either have to do with each other though?

 

 

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On 6/3/2021 at 5:27 PM, mtls2005 said:

 

38 road deaths today.

 

39 COVID deaths today.

 

 

Still not sure what either have to do with each other though?

 

 

Cherry picking today?  Won't waste my time explaining my point.  Use your noggin 

 

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1 hour ago, atpeace said:

Cherry picking today?  Won't waste my time explaining my point.  Use your noggin 

 

Interestingly, this isn’t really cherry picking. Check out the road death stats since March - they have dropped massively on 2020, and 2020 March to June were very significantly lower than same period of 2019. Strangely, other months are pretty similar to normal but for (roughly) March to June, Covid seems to have done what a hundred road safety campaigns could not.

 

So Covid deaths are sort of - if we squint hard enough - replacing road deaths but the overall death toll (and looking at only these two causes is definitely cherry-picking LOL) is lower. Conclusion: Dangerous epidemics are good for us? 

 

Please don’t take this as a dig - I had just wondered the same thing. Data in combination with noggin’ = stimulating fun for all. 

 

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1 hour ago, Nonthaburi Boy said:

Interestingly, this isn’t really cherry picking. Check out the road death stats since March - they have dropped massively on 2020, and 2020 March to June were very significantly lower than same period of 2019. Strangely, other months are pretty similar to normal but for (roughly) March to June, Covid seems to have done what a hundred road safety campaigns could not.

 

So Covid deaths are sort of - if we squint hard enough - replacing road deaths but the overall death toll (and looking at only these two causes is definitely cherry-picking LOL) is lower. Conclusion: Dangerous epidemics are good for us? 

 

Please don’t take this as a dig - I had just wondered the same thing. Data in combination with noggin’ = stimulating fun for all. 

 

Not a dig.  Good explanation but don't understand the second paragraph.  No big deal but road deaths were around 6k in 2020 compared to around 100 covid deaths.  I assume it will be much closer in 2021 (2k vs 6k, who knows)

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On 6/3/2021 at 9:47 AM, sqwakvfr said:

Richard Barrow recently tweeted this:

 

More destinations to open to vaccinated tourists without doing quarantine on 1 October: Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Prachuap Khiri Khan (Hua Hin), Phetchaburi, Chonburi (Pattaya), Surat Thani, Krabi, Phang Nga & Buriram. However, 70% of locals in these areas must be vaccinated first.

 

I have lived in Chiang Mai for years and I do not see how 70% can be achieved in less than 4 months?  I have not spokento  any local who has been vaccinated or even has a confirmed vaccination appointment.

 

 

 

When they have the drugs, things will change quickly.  No sure things in this world just likelihoods.   6 months from now vaccines will not be scarce and the odds of this not being the case are slim.

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1 minute ago, atpeace said:

Not a dig.  Good explanation but don't understand the second paragraph.  No big deal but road deaths were around 6k in 2020 compared to around 100 covid deaths.  I assume it will be much closer in 2021 (2k vs 6k, who knows)

 

Damn, you caught me!  My conclusion is pretty much hogwash. Wish I was doing this over a cold beer so you were less sharp.

 

Per week over the last couple of weeks maybe… obviously over the year or even any calendar quarter it doesn’t hold any water at all yet… and yes, I am (reasonably but naughtily) assuming an increase, or at least no slowdown, in covid death rate and that the slump in road deaths will continue into June again. Still a fascinating but useless stat, even if it only holds for a few weeks. 

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