Foreign ministry pullling out all the stops to get vaccine - Thailand belatedly set to join Covax scheme

[pepi2005]

What would be interesting is WHY they didn't join this scheme earlier - would be stupid not to do it if all it provides is access and benefits, right? ????

 

So there must be conditions or implications to it that were of concern to the government.

I wonder what these conditions / parts of the contract were?

 

Of course we will never find out - and why should we. We witnessed worldwide hysteria incited by media and politicians, governments buying largely untested vaccines and then pushing them onto...eeh...into their citizens, some governments even using very ruthless and coercive means. I wonder why the Thai govt was hesitant to join the club at first. But now all roads seem to be open for 'us' to experience the same developments we're seeing in all the other countries relying on vaccination.

[lks7689]

1 hour ago, khunjeff said:

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

Yeah. Singapore joined as well from the onset and will donate their allocated share from the scheme to needy countries. 

[Nip]

1 hour ago, Gottfrid said:

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

The word for ginger in Thai is #ing. 

[Parsve]

Seems like that someone finally has get the idea that brown envelopes is not the right solution.

[djayz]

1 hour ago, tingtong said:

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

Who also has a boss... 

[mrfill]

15 minutes ago, pepi2005 said:

What would be interesting is WHY they didn't join this scheme earlier - would be stupid not to do it if all it provides is access and benefits, right? ????

 

So there must be conditions or implications to it that were of concern to the government.

I wonder what these conditions / parts of the contract were?

 

Of course we will never find out - and why should we. We witnessed worldwide hysteria incited by media and politicians, governments buying largely untested vaccines and then pushing them onto...eeh...into their citizens, some governments even using very ruthless and coercive means. I wonder why the Thai govt was hesitant to join the club at first. But now all roads seem to be open for 'us' to experience the same developments we're seeing in all the other countries relying on vaccination.

There might be a clue in the OP... "Thailand is also finally preparing to join the Covax scheme and payments have been made to the WHO to facilitate this. "

[Gottfrid]

10 minutes ago, Nip said:

The word for ginger in Thai is #ing. 

Yep, and the place where ginger is nowadays move somewhere around the German and Austrian alps. ???? In combination with a harem, I have heard, but it might be just hearsay.

Edited August 21, 2021 by Gottfrid

[clivebaxter]

1 hour ago, sawadee1947 said:

Too proud? 

Or too stupid 

Or both? 

Not too proud to take hand outs from Japan, USA, UK, Bhutan etc, shameful shambles.

[Almer]

6 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

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I disagree it is all his fault, the czar came out earlier this year and said he was now masterminding the situation.

[jesimps]

Children in adult bodies.

[keithkarmann]

7 hours ago, Geoffggi said:

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

Thais will not accept blame for anything, it is always someone else's fault. I thought that was common knowledge in relation to losing face.

[lapamita]

get vacccine from BHUTAN, one of the poorest countrys in the world

 

150.000  ( maybe holly vaccine)

 

i think this says all..about thai goverment

[dundas]

The Thai government isn't the only government that's looking foolish. The Australian government put all its eggs in the AZ basket, insisted that getting the population vaccinated wasn't 'a race' and now have egg on their face. 

Amazing how politicians will put their own interests (and those of their donors/benefactors) before the needs of the population. 

Edited August 21, 2021 by dundas

[VBF]

6 hours ago, 55Jay said:

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

 

In the words of Spike Milligan: "Follow me...I'll be right behind you"

[MrJ2U]

8 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.

Like everything connected to COVID-19.

 

Horrible governance.

[joecoolfrog]

3 hours ago, SeaMike01 said:

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. 

You would be the first to walk in front of a tank....correct ?

[joecoolfrog]

2 hours ago, pepi2005 said:

What would be interesting is WHY they didn't join this scheme earlier - would be stupid not to do it if all it provides is access and benefits, right? ????

 

So there must be conditions or implications to it that were of concern to the government.

I wonder what these conditions / parts of the contract were?

 

Of course we will never find out - and why should we. We witnessed worldwide hysteria incited by media and politicians, governments buying largely untested vaccines and then pushing them onto...eeh...into their citizens, some governments even using very ruthless and coercive means. I wonder why the Thai govt was hesitant to join the club at first. But now all roads seem to be open for 'us' to experience the same developments we're seeing in all the other countries relying on vaccination.

Or you could just turn to Occam's razor and note the perception of influence and cash !

[Rampant Rabbit]

Pulling  their  fingers  out of their asses.........finally, perhaps, maybe

[Kevin Taylor]

Heres the problem, I have read 3 or 4 weeks ago that they had already joined this Covax scheme with the Who. So what's true here did they not do it before and are doing it now as this article says, or is this rehashing old news ?

It's confusing right. I must have read 10 articles about the 20 million phizer vaccines. Still don't know if they have been ordered, will be ordered or will have a meeting about ordering them. Govt is bad but media coverage hasn't helped what to believe.

[multatuli]

9 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:

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

I remember what they said when they didn't want to join. "We are a middle income country, so it will cost us too much" (middle income "thanks to" a few superrich families, and overpaid generals). "We will manage to find better deals": right  we've seen that. What pompous imbeciles. Problem is nobody can tell them. They wouldn't believe it anyway.

[BangkokReady]

10 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.....

Don't forget "we won't be able to choose what vaccine we get"!

 

Imagine if they ended up getting poor quality vaccine rather than the Sinovac they've been using! /s

[sqwakvfr]

Hmm. Kind of like closing a large air base, pulling the military out and then telling the civilians to come to the airport?  "The Biden Strategy"??  Also, "it's not my fault".   

Edited August 21, 2021 by sqwakvfr

[eastlight]

5 hours ago, RubbaJohnny said:

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.

But now the left want to pull the statues down.

[BangkokReady]

2 hours ago, sqwakvfr said:

"it's not my fault"

"Trump made me do it!"

[Albert Zweistein]

12 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

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In a nut ?

[nowhereman]

I work in a public school for many of years and know so well how these people think. They don't. Hm...what's for lunch?

[geisha]

Thailand is too poor to pay for the vaccins from Bhutan ? Or too mean ?

[edwarda909]

9 hours ago, lks7689 said:

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

To carry the metaphor -  because their brains are scrambled

 

[Soikhaonoiken]

The PM & Anutin thought they were so clever back in January by not joining Covax Scheme, and didn't need Farang Countries, well.. Well.... Well  eat your words,, 

Now are they working so hard asking Countries around for donations of vaccine.... Or are they willing to purchase the vaccine... 

[Andycoops]

Oh, so now their vaccination programme is a shambles they suddenly have the money to join up. 

Not much of a reward for all the sick and dead because of their incompetence.

Hang your Muppet heads in shame.