Bill Heinecke: "Crazy to give vaccines to tourists"

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Meanwhile, the latest weekly update from the Thai MoPH on new COVID deaths and new COVID cases (which in the government's current scheme, means new COVID hospitalizations, since they no longer publicly track just COVID infections):

 

Officially, 196 new COVID deaths since the start of the calendar year, and 3,065 COVID hospitalizations.

 

The government no longer publicly reports either the ages of the cases/deaths or their vaccination status.

 

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/thailandprd/posts/pfbid0hbSk36ku9WGi4zJpHL4PXsd9Cp9UWaA99q9Zx5hmAuHUeEGXatn5qFZYG5CzRT5Gl

 

Edited January 31, 2023 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[rattlesnake]

52 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Meanwhile, the latest weekly update from the Thai MoPH on new COVID deaths and new COVID cases (which in the government's current scheme, means new COVID hospitalizations, since they no longer publicly track just COVID infections):

 

Officially, 196 new COVID deaths since the start of the calendar year, and 3,065 COVID hospitalizations.

 

The government no longer publicly reports either the ages of the cases/deaths or their vaccination status.

 

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/thailandprd/posts/pfbid0hbSk36ku9WGi4zJpHL4PXsd9Cp9UWaA99q9Zx5hmAuHUeEGXatn5qFZYG5CzRT5Gl

 

"The government no longer publicly reports either the ages of the cases/deaths or their vaccination status."

 

Translation: they are all "fully vaccinated".

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

12 minutes ago, rattlesnake said:

"The government no longer publicly reports either the ages of the cases/deaths or their vaccination status."

 

Translation: they are all "fully vaccinated".

You're entitled to your opinion, but frankly, neither you nor I have any idea on the point, because the government no longer releases the current data... 

 

Though, IIRC, one of the government's final detailed vaccination reports only showed the national two-dose vaccination rate at less than 80%, meaning more than 20% of the population never even got to the two-dose point, which would suggest your claim above is likely wrong.

 

And these days.... the term "fully vaccinated" itself is pretty meaningless... because it's typically used to mean the person got just TWO original vaccine doses, which may have been given in many cases more than a year ago....

 

And for Thais, a lot of those two original vaccinations may have been the early-on Thai issued Chinese Sinovac or Sinopharm non-mRNA varieties, which have been shown to be less protective than their mRNA counterparts.

 

Edited January 31, 2023 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

This is one of the last public, national COVID vaccination rate chart issued by the Thai MoPH for Sept 29 2022 before they ceased routinely reporting that data. As I said, less than 80% being two-dose "fully vaccinated" -- meaning there's still a lot of non-"fully vaccinated" Thais wandering around.

 

And less than half of the population got to the point of being 3-dose boosted, at least as of the date of this report.

 

 

 

Edited January 31, 2023 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[billd766]

On 1/30/2023 at 2:34 PM, AgMech Cowboy said:

I agree with Mr. Heinecke. The vaccines are not free to Thailand. The 'pandemic' is over. If you want additional shots and vaccines, it's time to pay.

If you are a tourist, the answer is yes.

 

If you are Thai or an expat registered at the hospital, the vaccination is free.

 

I had a Pfizer booster jab on 18th January 2023 and it was free to me.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

3 minutes ago, billd766 said:

If you are Thai or an expat registered at the hospital, the vaccination is free.

 

I had a Pfizer booster jab on 18th January 2023 and it was free to me.

Yes....

 

"foreign residents such as businesspeople, workers, and diplomats, as well as their family members, can still receive free vaccination."

 

https://www.facebook.com/thailandprd/posts/pfbid0oDDbWRVWdcdytcjNMhStWoQj3xnS3iuhjjQRUF3TKqCMDgRXsReGkaPgmsNAgihHl

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[rudi49jr]

On 1/30/2023 at 8:34 AM, AgMech Cowboy said:

I agree with Mr. Heinecke. The vaccines are not free to Thailand. The 'pandemic' is over. If you want additional shots and vaccines, it's time to pay.

Why you put pandemic in quotation marks is not quite clear to me. Almost 7 million deaths worldwide so far, and counting. People are still getting sick and dying from covid. More than 1,1 million deaths in the USA alone, almost 700,000 in Brazil. Apropos of nothing, both countries being led at the time by right-wing presidents who completely (and intentionally) dropped the ball on handling the pandemic, and didn’t take it seriously. 

[rudi49jr]

3 hours ago, rudi49jr said:

Why you put pandemic in quotation marks is not quite clear to me. Almost 7 million deaths worldwide so far, and counting. People are still getting sick and dying from covid. More than 1,1 million deaths in the USA alone, almost 700,000 in Brazil. Apropos of nothing, both countries being led at the time by right-wing presidents who completely (and intentionally) dropped the ball on handling the pandemic, and didn’t take it seriously. 

Not to mention all the long-term consequences for many people who have had covid. So many people, also many young and perfectly healthy, got covid and are still suffering the consequences, many of them may never be able to have any sort of normal life again, much less work. Could be millions and millions of people.