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Sanook quoted the IT expert and spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as saying that the ministry were working hard all over the world to secure vaccine deals.

 

Thanee Saengrat said that his chief Don Pramudwinai - minister and DMP -  had ordered embassies and consulates throughout the globe to make representations to get more vaccine. 

 

This was being done in China, the USA, Japan, India, South Korea, Australia and Russia.

 

He also spoke of vaccine swap deals with several countries including one with Bhutan. Under these deals Thailand gets vaccine now and pays it back later.

 

Thailand is also finally preparing to join the Covax scheme and payments have been made to the WHO to facilitate this.

 

Thailand has been widely criticised for not joining the scheme earlier - something done by several other countries in the Asian region that has aided their vaccine rollouts, notes ASEAN NOW.

 

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Better late than never. (in this case, ridiculously late) 

4 minutes ago, webfact said:

Thailand has been widely criticised for not joining the scheme earlier - something done by several other countries in the Asian region that has aided their vaccine rollouts, notes ASEAN NOW.

We all know who to blame for this mess ...................!!!

7 minutes ago, Geoffggi said:

We all know who to blame for this mess ...................!!!

Yes...but with the lockdown they can't find any Burmese to pin it on

6 hours ago, Geoffggi said:

We all know who to blame for this mess ...................!!!

Absolutely his holiness himself stated back in late January,early Feb "we are not joining the WHO Covax scheme as we believe we can obtain vaccines quicker and cheaper by ourselves" pity the press and opposition parties do not continually remind him of this.....

14 minutes ago, Geoffggi said:

We all know who to blame for this mess ...................!!!

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Make representations in every country = go begging because we didn't order any from the manufacturers in time, because we thought we could make money by doing it ourselves.

Troops about face - says the general.

1. Lead
2. Follow
3. Get out of the way ✅

 

Little babies sucking the milk now when everything around you is dog!   Thai dogs to be 

Oh dear, it seems that the PM and his health minister have finally

 

"to make representations to get more vaccine"

 

... I'd have thought the more certain, and better, approach would be to just order vaccines from the manfacturers (albeit that will put you at the end of the queue).

 

"make representations" sounds like beg, borrow or steal ... it might work, might not ... meanwhile more time runs by.

4 hours ago, petermik said:

Absolutely his holiness himself stated back in late January,early Feb "we are not joining the WHO Covax scheme as we believe we can obtain vaccines quicker and cheaper by ourselves" pity the press and opposition parties do not continually remind him of this.....

Well they tend to put their eggs in one basket without much thoughts to the consequences. 

4 hours ago, Karma80 said:

Make representations in every country = go begging because we didn't order any from the manufacturers in time, because we thought we could make money by doing it ourselves.

lose face for begging in the tiny kingdom Bhutan for a mere 150k doses AZ

5 hours ago, webfact said:

........the ministry were working hard all over the world to secure vaccine deals.

I was in Antartica last week, a small community. No one from the Thai MoFA was there or planned to be. 

Everyone says that they know who to blame for this mess, but the Thai people (other than a few scattered students) have decided not to do anything about it. So... that's it then. 

out of hundreds embassies, consulates, trade offices, non permanent diplomatic missions - with eight countries are in talks.

This ministry does employ thousands, they need a lot of high quality and many vaccines, because they are good people.

Check with them, how many had already 3rd dose

4 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

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He has a boss too.....just saying.

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand has been widely criticised for not joining the scheme earlier - something done by several other countries in the Asian region that has aided their vaccine rollouts, notes ASEAN NOW.

More accurately, joining the scheme was something done by ALL of the other countries in ASEAN.

15 minutes ago, tingtong said:

He has a boss too.....just saying.

Can´t spell such ugly combinations of letters, so you just have to be happy with the puzzle I made. ????

Too proud? 

Or too stupid 

Or both? 

1 hour ago, arick said:

Little babies sucking the milk now when everything around you is dog!   Thai dogs to be 

A finker points to the moon,Haiku, Hi you , High Queue

Forget saving face this is egg all over the face what an embarrassment 

17 minutes ago, sawadee1947 said:

Too proud? 

Or too stupid 

Or both? 

Some even suggest too greedy, imagine a few chewchow  hounds and master hop to get a new monopoly on a regualr expensive necessity, lucky noblesse oblige and rich important people are standing back so the poor and old the halt and lame of any nationality esp their servants get protected before fit rich folks.It is as Jesus and the Lord Buddha taught.

 

Sir Philip Sydney was described as the greatest Englishman, fatally wounded at the battle of Zutphen he donated his water to a poor footsoldier with the immortal words

"HIS NEED IS GREATER THAN MINE".

.Same courage as Bunker Hill, Stalingrad or Gallipoli this is what distinguishes our humanity form vultures. Interesting what statues are erected says a lot of about the grip of history.

5 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:

Better late than never. (in this case, ridiculously late) 

But not better... better was last year.

4 hours ago, 55Jay said:

1. Lead
2. Follow
3. Get out of the way ✅

 

That is what someone should point out to him...

you see that door at the back, it's got "Exit" written on it.

don't let it hit you in the rear on the way out.

This decision alone, based on greed, should warrant them both to be jailed. Pinocchio and his faithful Rin Tin Anutin 

I just found a face on the floor, any idea who lost it?

The morons running the country were (as always) too busy working out how to skim a little from the coffers to actually do the job they are paid to do!

We will never know how much was skimmed and who received what but as sure as hell you can guarantee all the dirty little fingers were in the pie!

1 hour ago, sawadee1947 said:

Too proud? 

Or too stupid 

Or both? 

Add too greedy