Popular Post onekoolguy Posted June 3, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 3, 2021 3 minutes ago, Rocking Robert said: If you are a US citizenship just fly back to the US and get your shots it’s that easy it’s not free the taxpayers pay for it You forget the minor detail of getting back into Thailand! 3 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko45k Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 Just now, onekoolguy said: In the USA now you can walk into many Walmarts and other providers to get Vaccine on demand. Yes, probably as easy as a handgun.... Any ID or record check involved? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kensawadee Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 I hope there is a trustworthy 'oversight' committee to see that Thai Govt. Officials (or PM) don't sell a good portion of it to Myanmar and Cambodia to vaccinate the big bosses....... and fill their own bank accounts some more... And, as usual, the poor Thai folks go without...... I pity the Thai 'POOR'..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hioctane Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 1 hour ago, Jeffr2 said: There are no direct flights because it's too far. There use to be 2, one to LAX and the other to NYC. Neither were profitable, so they were stopped. Pfizer went it alone with regards to the jabs, Moderna, J&J and AZ got government funding. So yes, the US government does to a certain degree control these 2 jabs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Warp_Speed Yes, it was not profitable because not enough Americans go to Thailand for business. Businessman make a bulk of the profits for most routes. Just having tourists is not enough. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocking Robert Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 5 minutes ago, onekoolguy said: You forget the minor detail of getting back into Thailand! That’s life deal with it 1 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onekoolguy Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 1 hour ago, Caneda said: How are they better? Read the charts regarding how effective they are? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1duckyboy Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 10 hours ago, placeholder said: I hope the US has a bit more sense than the blundering Chinese and don't stipulate that its citizens go to the head of the line. That smacks of a colonialist attitude. So it's colonialist to not see it's citizens put in harms way be a xenophobic government withholding vaccines paid for by many of those very same U.S. citizens? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sticky Rice Balls Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 So this means this Yank gets a Elite Visa??!!!! Move over China! ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post onekoolguy Posted June 3, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 3, 2021 12 minutes ago, jacko45k said: Yes, probably as easy as a handgun.... Any ID or record check involved? For vaccine you are not required to provide verified ID and Foreign citizens can also get free vaccine. As for the handgun, That requires a background check. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko45k Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 3 minutes ago, Sticky Rice Balls said: So this means this Yank gets a Elite Visa??!!!! Move over China! ???? Just pay your money for it, open to most. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffr2 Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 13 minutes ago, hioctane said: Yes, it was not profitable because not enough Americans go to Thailand for business. Businessman make a bulk of the profits for most routes. Just having tourists is not enough. It wasn't profitable because Thai Air charged too much. One reason they did so was because of the flight time. Seats had to be taken out and cargo reduced so they could add extra fuel. Thai Air was never good at marketing, so the flight was rarely full. Way cheaper to transit elsewhere, with only a few extra hours needed and a huge cost savings. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sticky Rice Balls Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 9 minutes ago, jacko45k said: Just pay your money for it, open to most. No money-no honey............................for my tea ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kensawadee Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 4 minutes ago, tigerfeet said: 14 hours ago, connda said: The US government can supply vaccines as foreign aid to foreign countries and yet they can not (will not) supply vaccines to their own US citizens overseas! And yet China can supply their citizens overseas with vaccines. What else do you need to know about our exceptional nation and how we expats (don't) benefit from our country's largess? So - the US will supply Thailand with vaccines, and then US citizens abroad will be placed at the end of the line to receive their vaccines after Thais get their shots which were given to them by the US Government??? Does that sound about right? The Thai government has a racist distribution policy that will be directly supported by the US government as US citizens are put at the end of the vaccination lines. This reads better then a Kurt Vonnegut novel - you can't make this stuff up!Welcome to Wacky-World ???? Expand Then it stands to reason, That you should definitely choose China............ Communist China I am AMERICAN and proud of it..... Americans who left their country are getting what they deserve and the same as they are giving back to their country.... In many cases, NOTHING..... WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND............. GIVE NOTHING AND RECEIVE NOTHING........... 1 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaan sailor Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 Gotta love the irony here. By the time vaccine help arrives from America, Thailand’s Baht will have risen to such lofty levels, that American expats would have all left. Amazing Thailand, and the Teflon Baht. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dallen52 Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 14 hours ago, ExpatOilWorker said: Would be fun if the US demands foreign nationals get priority. China is already providing 100,000 shots for Chinese in Thailand. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLock Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 Good on the US for helping Thailand - a nation that has screwed up every aspect of this vaccination... ...but Thailand is not a third world country, and Thailand just announced today that their vaccine budget is unlimited, so they have no financial constraints. So the US will probably give 500,000 - 1million as a generous token, not that Thailand deserves them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smedly Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 15 hours ago, snoop1130 said: Mrs Sherman said the US intended to supply COVID-19 vaccines to countries to help them get through the pandemic American citizens first in line lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David T Pike Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 Most likely it will be Astra Zeneca... But USA also has surplus of Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson vaccines. The majority of the planned shipments will be of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which does not yet have authorization for use in the United States. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justgrazing Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 5 hours ago, webfact said: , and the crisis in Myanmar That must have been uncomfortable .. trust the Secretary of State pushed him on his view there .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pib Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 Wouldn't surprise me that the U.S. just gives Thailand X-million dozes of AstraZeneca as the U.S. has a huge stock pile of AstraZeneca (60 million dozes) they never used....and most likely will never use within the U.S. since Pfizer, Moderna, and J&J are the primary vaccines used in the U.S. Since Thailand has pretty much "bet the farm" on AstraZeneca a U.S. donation of AstraZeneca would could feel the void as Thailand continues to try to get its own AstraZeneca production capability up and producing. Quote April 27, 2021, 12:31 AM +07 / Updated April 27, 2021, 3:04 AM +07 By Shannon Pettypiece WASHINGTON — The United States plans to ship its stockpile of millions of AstraZeneca vaccine doses overseas, a move aimed at helping other countries struggling with a lack of doses to vaccinate their populations. White House Covid-19 adviser Andy Slavitt said in a tweet Monday that 60 million doses of the vaccine would be sent to other countries “as soon as they become available.” The decision comes as the pandemic has spiked in India, where thousands are dying daily as the nation’s stressed hospitals struggle to treat the virus. President Joe Biden spoke to India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday and administration officials said Monday they are sending a range of supplies to India, including oxygen equipment, raw materials used in vaccine production, rapid testing kits, and the treatment Remdesivir. Public health officials, lawmakers and world leaders have been urging the U.S. to release some of its stockpile of the AstraZeneca vaccine to other countries that have cleared it for use while American reviews of safety and efficacy data continue. Slavitt didn't mention names of countries to which the vaccine doses would be sent. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said no doses will be shared until the Food and Drug Administration has concluded its review, which should take several more weeks. She said the U.S. currently has 10 million doses and expects an additional 50 million to be delivered by the company during May and June. "Given that AstraZeneca is not authorized for use in the United States, we do not need to use AstraZeneca in our fight against Covid over the next few months," she said. "Before any AstraZeneca doses are shipped from the United States, the FDA will confirm any such doses meet its expectation for product quality.” The AstraZeneca vaccine has suffered from delays after "very rare" incidents of blood clots and questions over the data the company submitted to the FDA. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bangkok Barry Posted June 3, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 3, 2021 15 hours ago, Mavideol said: 555 ....maybe one of the many reasons to keep the BATH over valuated, it makes it easy to buy foreign vaccines 555 It's BAHT. How can you have made over 7000 posts and not know what the currency of Thailand is called? Unbelievable. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkok Barry Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 1 hour ago, Jeffr2 said: It wasn't profitable because Thai Air charged too much. One reason they did so was because of the flight time. Seats had to be taken out and cargo reduced so they could add extra fuel. Thai Air was never good at marketing, so the flight was rarely full. Way cheaper to transit elsewhere, with only a few extra hours needed and a huge cost savings. And THAI are now barred from flying to the USA at all due to concerns by the FAA about maintenance procedures. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaan sailor Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 (edited) Being such shrewd businessmen, the government will accept the American vaccines—and trade them away for the Sputnik V and SinoVac shots... Edited June 3, 2021 by Isaan sailor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jimbo2014 Posted June 3, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 3, 2021 It seems the US market for vaccines is almost saturated - given that certain people with red hats dont want to take the vax. Nice to let the rest of us have a pop now. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mike k Posted June 3, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 3, 2021 11 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said: A pretty small portion of the total Sinovac vaccines China has given to Thailand went to their own expats here... I think, China has already or soon will have given Thailand about 6 million doses, and the setaside portion for their own citizens was supposedly for up to 100,000 Chinese nationals. Like it or not, if it weren't for the Chinese and their Sinovac, all of Thailand would have been pretty much S-O-O-L for CV vaccines for the past several months since they began vaccinating, with only a very small allocation of imported AZ as their other source. Such was the wisdom of those in charge here. If it wasn't for China we wouldn't be in this mess 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgw Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 good news, let's hope Pfizer becomes available Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Presnock Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 The UK has a manufacturing of the AZ vaccine in the US. But until the US completes its trials it won't release the millions of doses that it has. All the other vaccines that the US is offering to other countries are those that have finished trials in the US. Hopefully, the data will be finished soon and these doses can be delivered to other countries. Maybe because Thailand has already approved the AZ vaccine for use in Thailand, it could speed up donations of those doses waiting in the US. As for how they will be distributed here that we will have to wait and see. If it goes the same route that local plans are where expats have to wait and then get the Sinovac I will pass and complain to the US loudly via media. I would not mind paying for a hospital to jab me with US approved vaccines for my family even if that vaccine is donated to Thailand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricardofel Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 15 hours ago, connda said: The US government can supply vaccines as foreign aid to foreign countries and yet they can not (will not) supply vaccines to their own US citizens overseas! And yet China can supply their citizens overseas with vaccines. What else do you need to know about our exceptional nation and how we expats (don't) benefit from our country's largess? So - the US will supply Thailand with vaccines, and then US citizens abroad will be placed at the end of the line to receive their vaccines after Thais get their shots which were given to them by the US Government??? Does that sound about right? The Thai government has a racist distribution policy that will be directly supported by the US government as US citizens are put at the end of the vaccination lines. This reads better then a Kurt Vonnegut novel - you can't make this stuff up!Welcome to Wacky-World ???? You chose to live in the wacky world! I left 8 years ago with NO regrets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mike k Posted June 3, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 3, 2021 1 hour ago, kensawadee said: Then it stands to reason, That you should definitely choose China............ Communist China I am AMERICAN and proud of it..... Americans who left their country are getting what they deserve and the same as they are giving back to their country.... In many cases, NOTHING..... WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND............. GIVE NOTHING AND RECEIVE NOTHING........... I am an American and I live in Thailand but I still pay income tax to the US so yes if the US can give vaccines to the south Korean army, Thailand, and other countries then they should be able to provide vaccines to Expats no matter what country they live in 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RocketDog Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 16 hours ago, DrJack54 said: Here comes the cavalry It will be interesting to see if the ubiquitous America Bashers on TVF will refuse the help from this war-monger country. I'm sure they will because they will stand on their principles. I expect they will immediately and publicly make their refusal on TVF. Anything less would be hypocritical. No? 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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