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Some say the more vaccine you are exposed to the more serious can be the illness... so if you go into one of these places asymptomatic or with mild symptoms how will you come out?
In some countries people are OK about getting tested because they trust the government (mostly) and can self-isolate at home unless they get really sick, in which case they go to a proper hospital and will be helped as much as possible
In other countries where the people don't trust the government because it rules by force, people avoid getting tested because if they are positive even with no or mild symptoms there is mandatory isolation, but there aren't enough free hospital beds, so they go into a big room with hundreds of sick people and reduced healthcare like a leper colony
And the number of cases is massively under-reported and can't easily be controlled
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Probably better to take it.
2 doses are supposedly quite effective at stopping people getting hospitalised or dying. But it's bad at stopping people catching serious, mild and symptomless cases compared to western vaccines.
It means that even if a large fraction of the population takes Sinovac, COVID is still going to circulate. It's almost impossible to get to herd immunity with weak vaccines.
The worst case would be to be the unvaccinated person when everyone else is vaccinated with Chinese (but not dying) and COVID is circulating at high levels. It would be a risky position to be in. That's what could happen is we waiting for a western vaccine as they open up.
Look at Chile, Mongolia, Hungary, Serbia, Maldives, Seychelles, UAE, Turkey. All relied a lot on Chinese vaccines and have got very high vaccination rates.... but still had large waves of cases (and deaths) when they tried to open up.
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The borders are closed already.
I honestly don't know whether the PM is more scared of Myanmars, Malaysians, Laoses, Cambodians or Farangs. The problem with having an army general for PM is that his brain is trained to think that all foreigners are dangerous.
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When we went on holiday to Brittany we saw all the Brits there sitting around drinking wine like in the picture.
They are a menace, the Brits. In fact all the French are the same. They should all be deported if they can't stop blowing themselves up with their own petard.
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4 hours ago, tomazbodner said:
This is beyond racist statement. And then to "limit prevention" is probably the opposite of what he meant. So it makes me wonder if he really said that or if this is just a very bad translation, or something made up by the journalist who first reported it?
On another thought - with 7 years overstay the man hasn't been out of the country longer than that. How is he COVID risk?
I suppose he's talking about the African and middle eastern drug dealing gangs that operate out of Soi 1. He likely thinks calling them "middle eastern and people of color" is less racist so the easily offended shriek less. He should just say what he means. "We are targeting the African and middle eastern drug dealing gangs in Soi 1". If that is what they have decided to do. But why he would announce that before the gangs have been shut down, I'm not sure.
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If you look into his eyes... you can see that he was a buffalo in his last life.
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Anutin! How has he still got a job?
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These charts are from worldometer.info on 4th April. 3 countries using the Chinese Coronavac. The indicators all point in the wrong direction. Not sure if the vaccine is not very effective or something else is happening like the countries are opening up too fast.
But we do know that the Chines have not released any data on the effectiveness of Coronavac in phase 3 trials. And we know that Coronavac uses old technology from 100 years ago...using inactivated viruses. Rather than modern genetic modification approaches used by western companies.
It is worth watching what happens in Coronavac countries to see if it works properly.
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Nobody wants to live under a dictatorship. Not really. Where the authorities can arrest and terrorize you for sharing your opinion. Where they censor information they don't want you to see. Where they lie so they can stay in power and take money from the people. Not really.
You would think that countries in which dictators rule by force are unstable and that eventually the people will overthrow them like in Eastern Europe and the USSR and some of the middle east. But maybe the people also need outside help like with Nazi Germany, Italy and Imperial Japan.
I don't know if the Mynanarese people will be strong enough to get rid of their dictators. Or whether other dictators will step in to prevent that.
I wonder how the Chinese and Russian dictatorships - the two main sources of present-day dictatorships - will eventually fall. Whether it will be a long or short time.
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7 hours ago, Phuketshrew said:The Health Minister? Seriously? He must be close to the front of the queue at the trough ....
Anuthin is heir to a major construction company fortune. His family's company, Sino-Thai Engineering and Construction PCL, built several government mega-projects such as Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport. An engineer, Anuthin served as president of Sino-Thai.
Is there any surprise that the Thai government approved the project and that Anutin is in charge?
Conflict of interest?
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460 volunteers would be accepted for the human trials, 210 of whom would be used in the first phase.
460 isn't enough to test efficacy. There is a low level of COVID in Thailand. Out of 460 people none of them might catch COVID for ten years. If the 460 is just to test safety then its OK. But they will need a far bigger study to test efficacy. But even then the levels of COVID are so low in Thailand they should do the efficacy phase of testing in a country where there is a lot of COVID like Brazil. Thats the best way to see if it works quickly. But....
The vaccine, produced by Thais for Thais,
... So he should have said produced by Thais for Thais and tested by foreigners....
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So if there are 10,000 people go through the airport every hour and 1% has COVID, say 100. How many would the dogs catch? All 100 among the crowd, or just a few? The authorities should tell us whether the dogs would make any meaningful difference. And if not, forget it and go back to fast swab tests and temperature checks.
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Thai government institutions sadly missed the wave of new public management in the 1980s and 90s. Then they missed the post-new public management ideas of the last 20 years. They form a pre-modernization era bureaucratic state. Where having the right papers in place (even if it takes 30 60 90 days) is more important than the end result of saving lives. To make things worse, the PM actually believes that enforcing rules is his main reason for going to work. He doesn't have much of a concept of system-wide reform and improvement.
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There is a reason Myanmar was once rich but now is poor. Military dictatorships. What does an army General know about running a country? Only control, enforcement and using the institutions of state to syphon off the wealth of the people for himself and his cronies. Nothing about people's rights to choose who governs then or to speak their opinion freely without being arrested. What does the head of the airforce know about running a finance ministry. Jack sh*t. Stability does not make a country rich. Russia, Laos, Vietnam, China and Cambodia are all relatively poor for a reason. Corrupt dictatorships.
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Airbnb has not realised that Thailand is an old style military dictatorship that has bans and crackdowns on stuff that is normal in free countries. And that it harasses foreigners as well as its own people. Move on. Try another country. Thailand is screwed. And is likely to be so for a long time.
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7 hours ago, webfact said:
Prayut called for calm and legal protests, saying that diverging opinions were normal in a democracy like Thailand.
Erm... Thailand is a military dictatorship. It's impossible for the army to lose the election. The PM is chosen by the army.
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How are the African drug dealers going to get in? The ones who stand on the corner of Suk soi 13 and inquire about how business is when you walk past. I don't think many of them will maintain a bank balance of 500k for 6 months.
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Wow. That Hungarian dude could have really screwed up Cambodia and Thailand if they can't get on top of the outbreak. Maybe Thailand will be spared because he was only here for half an hour.
But in Cambodia they tested over 1000 people already. And closed schools, museums, cinemas, massage parlours and KTVs. He must have gone around a lot of places and had a packed agenda. Even the PM is in self quarantine.
I was wondering if he is one of them from a far right wing populist party that lies to its people that Coronavirus is nothing more than a little flu. And then goes to some of the poorest countries in the world like Cambodia without decent health facilities to defend itself, and organizes super-spreader events that could decimate the health and economy of the country.
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There is no hope for him. His is not a modern mind.
Academics teaches independent thought and critical thinking. So that people can learn for themselves, adapt and be resilient.
Patriotism, history and loyalty is brainwashing that leaves people diminished and incapable. It holds people and their country back and leaves them open to manipulation and subservient to authoritarian leaders who abuse their power and strip them of their rights.
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On 11/3/2020 at 5:19 PM, mark131v said:
Wirat also rejected protesters’ demand for PM Prayut Chan-o-cha to quit, saying he must stay on to resolve the country’s problems.
But I thought he was the cause of the problems.
By usurping power by force. And then changing the constitution so that he could be installed as PM/Dictator.
And then attempting to remove freedoms and attack human rights and ban and crackdown on anything that moved, in a simple brainless, military, control freak, angry type of way that most Thais and Farangs bitterly despise.
He will never be liked or accepted by the people. There will always be protests until he steps down. Or until the Thai military crush the protesters like at Tiannamen square.
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Because there is nothing obvious for the dictator to ban. Could be an excuse for a curfew.
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With 10M investment in a new property or a fixed interest account or a Thai government bond you can already get an investment non-B visa. It allows you to stay indefinitely. Just renew the visa every year and do the 90 day report.
So what does this new concept give people that is different? Does it apply to any condo old or new... or what?
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Thailand to track tourists with digital wristbands
Only a military brain could think of such a thing. And a very small military brain. No wonder the Thai people despise the government so much. At least we are lucky. We have alternative places to live.- 1
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Yes, if there is turmoil in Thailand the baht will plummet. But, if there is stability it will do better over the next 5 years than the GBP.
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Chinese Embassy Bangkok: Sinovac it is NOT a low quality vaccine
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The CCP still hasn't published peer reviewed efficacy and safety data. They didn't bother to follow the rules and the normal behaviors that normal companies in normal countries do. They just told their population they had to take it. And anyone that wants to go to China. And then they wonder why people questions the efficacy and safety.