Thais increasingly wary of Covid vaccines, study finds

[webfact]

 

By Erich Parpart

 

The willingness of Thai citizens to be inoculated against Covid-19 has dropped in 2021 despite data showing that the risks are small, and outweighed by the benefits of protection against the potentially fatal virus.

 

The opposition blamed the lack of public trust on the government’s miscommunication.

 

According to YouGov, an international research data and analytics group, the percentage of Thai people willing to take the vaccine dropped from 83 per cent in January to 63 per cent in May.

 

Full story: https://www.thaienquirer.com/27635/thais-increasingly-wary-of-covid-vaccines-study-finds/

 

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[Thailand]

Again,no surprise.

[starky]

To paraphrase my teenage self. Well, durrrrr

[Geoffggi]

51 minutes ago, webfact said:

The willingness of Thai citizens to be inoculated against Covid-19 has dropped in 2021 despite data showing that the risks are small, and outweighed by the benefits of protection against the potentially fatal virus.

 

The opposition blamed the lack of public trust on the government’s miscommunication.

Who can blame them, there has been so much false information allowed to flow from various government sources nobody believes a word what is said, plus the only vaccine that there is an abundance of is the Chinese variety which also does not instill confidence so absolutely understandable the drop in figures .......

[ICELANDMAN]

If we then begin to make the vaccine mandatory, it is no surprise that the population feels under threat of taking vaccines with so many negative effects and no longer authorized in other countries.

[rwill]

I have many friends and relatives that are afraid of getting vaccinated.  It isn't just the government waffling.  There are lots of fake stories on social media about people dying from vaccines.

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

The opposition blamed the lack of public trust on the government’s miscommunication.

Yeah well... before all this Sinovac was for under 60's only... even  Prayut ducked that one for AZ

now the sh*ts hit the fan it's suddenly okay for everyone.

Amazing Thailand.

[SoilSpoil]

Buriram threatening with jail time if you refuse, might add fuel to the vaccin anxiety.

[4MyEgo]

Not surprised at all.

 

This could be a trend for the next election, oh forgot, if they don't like who's in power then they have coup d'etat

 

[Rookiescot]

No-one wants the Chinese vaccines.

 

[4MyEgo]

47 minutes ago, rwill said:

There are lots of fake stories on social media about people dying from vaccines.

 

Yes they are making it sound as if they died from the vaccines, not dying with the vaccines, there is a clear difference.

 

No vaccines have been tied to the deaths of those who have taken it, it's what it is, but people will hear and see things as they do, self included, just got to sift through it all to get to the bottom of it, the facts, i.e. at the moment, no vaccines have been proven to be associated with the deaths of people taking the vaccines, those who took the vaccine and died shortly thereafter died with the vaccine, not from it.

 

Hope that makes sense ????

 

[meechai]

It is not just the Thai's

 

Check countries like USA that even have Pfizer, Moderna & J&J to choose from....See 40-45% have been vaccinated

There are no lines anymore at the many free vac locations

 

 

[Scott Tracy]

How does one combat this hesitancy? (I presume someone has asked why there is so much hesitancy?)

Mandatory vaccinations for all? Jail time for those who refuse? Jail time for those who spread false information? 

 

How does one combat death rate per covid infection versus perceived injury because of the vaccination? (If that's the reason for the hesitancy, see above.)

[cclub75]

Really ? How come ?

 

We were told that millions and millions of people went online in a frenzy to "book" their injection ! No ?

 

I guess the only solution is the "Buriram solution".

 

Compulsory vaccination. ????

 

But without enough doses... that will be problematic.

 

Life is unfair.

[meechai]

Funny folks point to fear & fake news but listen there is an alternative...

 

Healthy folks realize they have a 99.5% chance of easily surviving this

For all those that are wringing their hands come to the USA asap free vacs all flavors no waiting,,,,Your Welcome ????

[EricTh]

Good, it means that foreigners don't have to wait too long for the vaccine.

 

 

[Trujillo]

Maybe if the Chinese CoronaVac was not pretty much the only option...(if you are in a hurry, go the last slide):

 

WHO -- Evidence Assessment: Sinovac/CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine FOR RECOMMENDATION BY THE STRATEGIC ADVISORY GROUP OF EXPERTS (SAGE) ON IMMUNIZATION

 

This is from April 29th, 2021, for your information. 

[jacko45k]

40 minutes ago, meechai said:

There are no lines anymore at the many free vac locations

 

Oh they are all nuts in the USA. People have started to turn up for vaccines now in UK, nothing like a scary new variant to mobilize the wary.

 

36 minutes ago, meechai said:

Healthy folks realize they have a 99.5% chance of easily surviving this

 Covid appears to kill 1.8% of those it infects. That number is also reflected in the USA with 601,000 deaths from under 34 million infections.

Many of those were healthy before.

 

[Tubulat]

I mention this a few times before, under normal circumstances, medicines are only allowed on the market after 5 years of testing.

What about all this vaccines??

Of course, for some reason the people don't like to know, and consider me crazy.

But it shown again, maybe I'm not that crazy after all.

[JonnyF]

What do you expect when the Covid Czar himself backs out of taking it at the last minute?

 

Leadership 101 ???? 

[The Cipher]

Can we take this as them implicitly accepting the normal risk of Covid and so end all restrictions already?

[meechai]

22 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Covid appears to kill 1.8% of those it infects.

 

 

555 take the panties off or go hide till you get a vac up2u

[jacko45k]

Just now, meechai said:

 

555 take the panties off or go hide till you get a vac up2u

Go away and learn about numbers and stop making unwanted advances. 

[Donga]

 

1 hour ago, meechai said:

Healthy folks realize they have a 99.5% chance of easily surviving this

 

33 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

 

 Covid appears to kill 1.8% of those it infects. That number is also reflected in the USA with 601,000 deaths from under 34 million infections.

Many of those were healthy before.

 

I'm all for vaccination for various reasons. Had my Astra x2 in Sydney and now in Bangkok quarantine. 

Covid IFR (infection fatality rate) has been determined by US CDC to be around 0.6% and vast majority of deaths are people over 70, with co-morbidities. So, 99.5% chance of surviving for healthy people is probably an understatement. More like 99.9%

However, beware of long hauling. The studies are finding about 10% people who survive Covid have symptoms lingering for 3-6 months and sometimes worse.. https://health.ucdavis.edu/coronavirus/covid-19-information/covid-19-long-haulers.html
 

Edited May 19, 2021 by Donga

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1 hour ago, meechai said:

It is not just the Thai's

 

Check countries like USA that even have Pfizer, Moderna & J&J to choose from....See 40-45% have been vaccinated

There are no lines anymore at the many free vac locations

 

 

60 percent of adults in USA have had at least one vaccination. 

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-19-vaccine-doses.html

[toolpush]

34 minutes ago, Donga said:

 

 

I'm all for vaccination for various reasons. Had my Astra x2 in Sydney and now in Bangkok quarantine. 

Covid IFR (infection fatality rate) has been determined by US CDC to be around 0.6% and vast majority of deaths are people over 70, with co-morbidities. So, 99.5% chance of surviving for healthy people is probably an understatement. More like 99.9%

However, beware of long hauling. The studies are finding about 10% people who survive Covid have symptoms lingering for 3-6 months and sometimes worse.. https://health.ucdavis.edu/coronavirus/covid-19-information/covid-19-long-haulers.html
 

Funny that: I got banned by the wokesters in charge for saying 99.7%

[ICELANDMAN]

2 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

 

Yes they are making it sound as if they died from the vaccines, not dying with the vaccines, there is a clear difference.

 

No vaccines have been tied to the deaths of those who have taken it, it's what it is, but people will hear and see things as they do, self included, just got to sift through it all to get to the bottom of it, the facts, i.e. at the moment, no vaccines have been proven to be associated with the deaths of people taking the vaccines, those who took the vaccine and died shortly thereafter died with the vaccine, not from it.

 

Hope that makes sense ????

 

 

 More exactly 86% if you don't have any major health problems

[Patong2021]

Thailand is  giving  the world a good lesson on how to mismanage a vaccine program.

This is what happens when  military with no understanding of public health is in control.

Thailand had a highly regarded vaccination strategy for other infectious disease like measles, hepatitis and so on. It was run by public health people who knew their community and  people who were to vaccinated.

[HOAX]

Pretty sure China's history of vaccine scandals and the not-so-encouraging data available from the Sinovac vaccine has something to do with it, as well as the banning of AstraZenica in certain countries. 

 

If Thailand got the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines the numbers would've gone the other way.

 

Thai gov't handling of the vaccine process has been a total disaster, and ever since the 3rd wave hit it has just gone downhill with the entire country, looking like the gov't has just given up at times. Scandalous.

[Ireland32]

4 hours ago, Rookiescot said:

No-one wants the Chinese vaccines.

 

You can’t even get into Europe with Chinese Vaccine