New Quarantine requirements

[goji]

Now we need the UK to remove Thailand from the Red List. Quarantine anywhere is too much for my restless spirit to contemplate.

Quarantine was by far the worst part of my last trip to Thailand.

For the next trip, I shall assume the UK is most likely to have abolished quarantine or removed Thailand from the red list by the time I want to return (maybe early March).
If they haven't done that, I'll just spend 11 days in a non-red list country before coming back to the UK. Boris can stick his over priced scam quarantine up his fat arse.

Obviously neither solution is attractive for shorter holidays.

[Old git]

Now we need the UK to remove Thailand from the Red List. Quarantine anywhere is too much for my restless spirit to contemplate..

The Thai government failing to map enough genomes - or failing to report them to the WHO when they did - seems to be the primary reason Thailand remained red listed. Given that Thailand is quite advanced in medical facilities, that is really inexcusable.

However, even if the govt. has not yet corrected that; I think there's quite a good chance the bar will dropped on red listing at the next review, taking Thailand off in the process.

[latintopxxx]

any idea of the percentage of the Thai populatiuon thats vaccinated

[Old git]

any idea of the percentage of the Thai populatiuon thats vaccinated

Officially or unofficially? - and does it really matter?

..and does it make any odds? If the vaccine makers had a new super effective Delta beating jab they'd be telling everyone - but they're not.

The bottom line - as was known before the vaccine roll-out, is that there has never been an effective vaccine against any corona type virus.

And there still isn't. The jabs are really good at reducing impact, but that's it. Ultimately we're most of us likely to get it .

That's the bad news. The good news is that hardly anyone is getting it a second time.

So, get your jab to reduce the impact if you want to - and then get back to your life. As for those who don't want to get jabbed - it's their life. Vaccination does not materially reduce the chance of spreading the bug - and quite possibly the reverse is true.

Go post-Covid - worrying about the bogeyman under the stairs never helped anyone..

[goji]

any idea of the percentage of the Thai populatiuon thats vaccinated

Population 69.9 million
Vaccine doses 51.5 million, from Pattaya Mail, (which admittedly has some inconsistencies)
So equivalent to about 74% having had one dose or 37 % having had 2 doses.
Obviously the reality is somewhere in between.
Except we should adjust it back a tad for some third doses.

Or 51.5m is roughly equivalent to where the UK was on 5th May.