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It's been a little over 6 months since the mRNA covid vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna) started to be administered, enough time so that the efficacy over time can begin to be assessed. There is a debate now in the US between the makers of these vaccines and the NIH and CDC. Pfizer has been at the forefront in warning that the protective effects of its vaccine is likely to wane over time (as is the case with many vaccines), and that a third shot will need to be considered. The government agencies want to see continued efforts on getting the vaccine refusers vaccinated. Increasingly, though, this seems like a lost cause. That being the case, it would really piss me off if, as a prudent person and good citizen, I can't get a third dose sometime in the 9-12 month time frame from my original shots early this spring because the pertinent governmental agencies won't allow it, even if a person pays for the third shot themselves out of pocket. This will be an interesting debate as we close out summer here and enter into fall. Stay tuned. https://www.statnews.com/2021/07/28/efficacy-of-pfizer-biontech-covid-vaccine-slips-to-84-after-six-months-data-show/ https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/28/health/pfizer-third-dose-data-bn/index.html

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https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmars-third-wave-covid-19-deaths-now-exceed-fatalities-in-first-and-second-waves.html The rising death toll is a direct consequence of the collapse of the healthcare system under the military regime. As COVID-19 infections spread in Yangon, patients were turned away by public hospitals and COVID-19 centers and forced to treat themselves at home, said charities and relatives of the patients. Private oxygen plants have also been ordered by the junta not to refill oxygen cylinders for individuals, making it difficult for patients to obtain oxygen support at home. https://www.cfr.org/blog/myanmar-collapses-covid-19-nightmare What I can see playing out here is a even bigger influx of Burmese trying to escape the sitauation in their country making a effort to get into Thailand through it's porous Northern borders. When reading what is happening there the situation is dire indeed.

You wish this is some kind of sick joke, but it isn't. In crisis like this the traits of a third world country become so evident. Sad. Thailand sends COVID-19 patients to hometowns by train https://www.yahoo.com/news/thailand-sends-covid-19-patients-085957450.html BANGKOK (AP) — Authorities in Thailand began transporting some people who tested positive for the coronavirus from Bangkok to their hometowns on Tuesday for isolation and treatment to alleviate the burden on the capital’s overwhelmed medical system. A train carrying more than 100 patients and medical workers in full protective gear left the city for the northeast. It will drop patients off in seven provinces, where they will be met by health officers and taken to hospitals. Medical authorities in Bangkok said Monday that all ICU beds for COVID-19 patients at public hospitals were full and that some of the sick were being treated in emergency rooms. Officials said they have asked army medics to help out at civilian hospitals. “These are patients from Bangkok who haven’t received treatment in hospitals. We want to bring them to doctors in their hometowns. And the traveling process is controlled all through the journey,” said Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, who was on hand to watch the operation. “We will continue this service until no COVID-19 patients who cannot get beds in Bangkok are left,” he said.

Eleven foreigners and one Thai national have been arrested in an underground room during a Pattaya bar raid while allegedly drinking alcohol that Pattaya police stated was violating the current Thai emergency decree to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus. Pattaya Police also stated the group was violating a variety of other rules and laws such as the communicable disease act, limits on gathering (The limit is five people, however, around drinking alcohol the limit is ONE person), and Chonburi provincial orders around Covid-19. A team from the Nongprue City Police led by Colonel Chitdaecha Songhong raided the ‘FAT BOYS BAR & GRILL’ at the entrance of Soi Boon Sampan 5/1 in Nongprue at about 8:00 P.M. last night, July 26th, 2021. Colonel Chitdaecha told The Pattaya News, “We had received complaints from concerned citizens that foreigners and Thais were secretly gathering and drinking alcohol in an underground room of the bar. The complainants alleged that they were afraid this could spread Covid-19 and felt that by reporting the incident they were protecting the community.” “We have arrested 11 foreigners and one Thai who were found drinking alcohol in a basement bar.” Colonel Chitdaecha continued. “The twelve of them were taken to the Nongprue Police Station. They are facing multiple charges of offending the Chonburi disease control order allowing drinking of alcohol at the bar and offending the emergency decree. Under Chonburi’s orders, strict rules, including the closure of all bars and entertainment venues, are currently in place. These rules are not meant to punish people, but to protect the health of the community. If we all follow the rules we can get everything back to normal faster.” Colonel Chitdaecha explained. https://thepattayanews.com/2021/07/27/twelve-people-arrested-at-pattaya-underground-bar-for-allegedly-drinking-alcohol-and-violating-covid-19-measurements/

That Hitler gets every where ;)

Where’s this? Here in northern Europe it’s already being planned. Had 2 Pfizer in the spring as well. Them 6 months are soon up.

Now, there's a way to make Phuket's "sandbox" more attractive. Upon arrival, on the way to your approved hotel you stop at a hospital to get your third Pfizer shot!

Absolutely Ciobha! Without a doubt these asking prices are not realistic. For example the asking price for a 44 sqm 1 bedroom unit at City Garden Tower in the video is 28K. It's a nice new building but on the wrong side of 3rd Road. Looking on Facebook right now, there is a 44 sqm 1 bedroom unit in the very well maintained Avenue Residence at a much better Soi 15 location for 12K. That's a fair enough rent but even at that price it will probably have no takers given the total lack of demand. In order to get a new tenant, landlords have to go really low. Some existing tenants who like where they are, don't want to play hardball with their landlord, and don't want to move might not care about the getting a rock bottom price though. I'm in that category and plan to renew my present lease because the price is quite reasonable and there are some unique characteristics to my building. To give you an idea how low prices can get the Facebook listing below is for a quite nice condo with a gym and pool for just 5K. Location leaves a bit to be desired being behind Jomty 2nd Road and best for someone who takes their motorbike everywhere. The area behind 2nd Road is extremely challenging to rent as there are many similar units in more or less the same area.

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With Covid-19 still keeping foreign tourists away from Thailand’s pristine beaches and bustling cities, leaving more than 80% of hotel rooms unoccupied, one would expect the CEO of one of the country’s largest developers of hospitality, retail and office properties to hunker down. Instead, Wallapa Traisorat, CEO of Asset World Corp. (AWC), has mapped out a 100 billion baht ($3.2 billion) five-year growth plan to position her company for a post-pandemic tourism boom. “It’s a short-term impact that we are facing right now,” she says. “We see huge potential growth and strength in Thai tourism.” Wallapa’s optimism is backed by financial muscle and vision. For one, AWC is a family affair. The chairman is her father, Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi, who is No. 3 on this year’s Thailand’s 50 Richest, with a net worth of $12.7 billion. The rest of the board includes her mother, who is the vice chair, and her husband, who is a director. Together, family-controlled entities own the lion’s share of the company. Wallapa is also among a handful of women CEOs leading a major Thai company. For another, AWC is cashed up, having done a $1.6 billion IPO in October 2019, just months before the pandemic struck. Spearheaded by Wallapa, it was the largest-ever listing by a real estate firm on Thailand’s stock exchange. The company now sports a market valuation of around 146 billion baht, with shares trading at roughly 4.5 baht, down from the offering price of 6 baht. Since the IPO, Wallapa has further strengthened AWC’s funding, saying the firm has also secured 50 billion baht in credit lines from two Thai banks, including 30 billion baht from Siam Commercial Bank, to prepare for “growth and investment.” In its first quarter report, AWC had property valued at 72 billion baht, plus cash and receivables of nearly 1 billion baht, but just 44 billion baht in long-term debt. Having sound financials helped AWC weather last year’s 83% plunge in tourist arrivals from an all-time high of about 40 million in 2019. Revenue slumped 54% in 2020 to 6.1 billion baht, pushing the company into the red, and fell a further 56% year-on-year in the first quarter, with a net loss of 594 million baht. Yet those figures haven’t deterred Wallapa from planning four new hotels with 1,600 rooms, adding to AWC’s 17 hotels with nearly 5,000 rooms. In February, she also acquired the 287-room Sigma Jomtien Pattaya Hotel for 550 million baht. However, AWC’s most ambitious projects reflect Wallapa’s background in architecture and land planning. About 30 billion baht will be spent to redevelop Bangkok’s historic Chinatown and riverfront areas as well as to make over Pattaya, a beach town of ill repute south of the Thai capital, as a destination for conferences and exhibitions. “We are looking at building an integrated lifestyle real estate group, and Thailand is our focus,” Wallapa, 47, says in a rare interview by video call from her Bangkok office. “That is the strategy to prepare AWC for future growth.” Hotels generated 60% of the company’s revenue before the pandemic, and include seven properties in the Imperial Hotel Group that Charoen bought in 1994 as well as Marriott Marquis Queen’s Park, The Athenee Hotel and Okura Prestige in Bangkok. Wallapa expects hospitality to remain a key growth driver and last October announced AWC’s plan to build four new properties, which will be operated by Marriott International, including a Ritz-Carlton Reserve and the first Autograph Collection hotel in Thailand. “They are one of the behemoths in the [Thai] industry,” says Nikhom Jensiriratanakorn, a Bangkok-based director of hotel consultancy Horwath HTL. “They are expanding, using their size strategically, and with all their capital.” In a May report, it anticipates Bangkok leading a rebound in the Thai hotel industry with a V-shaped recovery starting in the second half of 2022. Phuket will follow suit in 2023, once travel restrictions are fully lifted and reciprocal travel arrangements are in place with key markets such as China, Japan, Singapore and South Korea. The second of five children, Wallapa would accompany her parents while growing up in Thailand on holidays that inevitably centered around tours of family businesses, which then mainly comprised breweries and distilleries (Charoen’s Thai Beverage is the maker of popular Chang beer). She recalls her father buying properties without any imminent development plans, creating a massive land bank that Wallapa would work with decades later. These include a prime sea view site where Banyan Tree Krabi opened in October. After getting a degree in architecture from Silpakorn University in Bangkok, Wallapa headed to the U.K. where she did her master’s in regional and urban planning at the London School of Economics and then a Master of Philosophy in land economy from University of Cambridge. She began her career as a financial analyst with Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong in 1999, and married her high school sweetheart Soammaphat Traisorat the following year. She joined her father’s diversified TCC Group in 2001 to focus on its property-related businesses, the pick of which were pooled to form AWC in 2018. The Traisorats have five children and Soammaphat, the former CEO of TCC’s erstwhile joint venture with Singapore’s CapitaLand, is a director on AWC’s board. “It’s an interesting transition,” says Bill Barnett, managing director of C9 Hotelworks, a Thailand-based hotel consultancy, noting that Wallapa is highly regarded for assembling a professional team and focusing on working with a select group of partners. “She builds strong relationships. It’s a clear strategy,” he says. Unlike some major hotel owners in Thailand who have built their own hospitality brands at home and expanded overseas—like Italthai Group’s Onyx and Amari hotels and Central Group’s Centara—AWC’s singular focus is on Thailand where its properties are operated by well-known regional and global hotel chains. “This is much more like big international hotel investment companies,” says Nikhom from Horwath HTL. “AWC tries to create an ecosystem where everyone profits.” Following recent deals with Marriott and Hyatt Hotels, Wallapa is planning new developments with the Singapore-based Banyan Tree Hotels & Resorts. While Banyan Tree has its own Thai resorts, it operates AWC properties in Krabi and Koh Samui. “Asset World has gone through a lot of transformation,” says Ho Kwon Ping, founder and executive chairman of Banyan Tree, who has known the family for decades. “They want to be well known, not by guests but the investment community.” Having put AWC’s hotel division in order and refurbished much of its retail holdings, Wallapa is focused on three big-ticket urban redevelopment projects: a 16.5 billion baht mixed-use development for Bangkok’s Chinatown, an 8.1 billion baht bet on reimagining Pattaya, and a 5.8 billion baht expansion of its sprawling open-air mall in Bangkok called Asiatique The Riverfront. Bangkok’s colorful Chinatown, which dates back to the 18th century, has long been a tourist magnet and is patronized by locals for its street food. Yet, it lacks adequate parking, subway lines and tourism infrastructure, making it among the most congested parts of the city. Wallapa plans to change that by developing an InterContinental Hotel along with a “very chic” Chinese boutique hotel, shopping outlets in restored heritage buildings, Bangkok’s biggest underground retail mall, parking and storage facilities and a festival market. While the project—named Woeng Nakhon Kasem after a traditional Chinese market that once stood there—has faced criticism for excessive commercialization, Wallapa says: “We believe we can enrich the community, enhance the culture and history of how Bangkok started. The project is going to be the flagship and become the center of Chinatown.” Transforming Pattaya—a former recreational playground for U.S. servicemen during the Vietnam War with a sleazy reputation as a sex tourism destination—seems like a high-stakes gamble. But Wallappa doesn’t think so, saying she believes that a new international airport proposed to be built by 2023 and planned rail links connecting Pattaya to Bangkok’s two airports, plus a monorail that will run right by the AWC Center, could turn it into a global getaway like Phuket. “Pattaya has a lot of image problems,” says Jeremy O’Sullivan, head of research at real estate consultancy Savills in Thailand. “But they are one of the only companies that could pull something like this off.” Nikhom from Horwath HTL agrees, noting that while AWC has the money and could pull in the right partners to revamp Pattaya, success will largely depend on how quickly public infrastructure develops. Thailand, after all, is known for delays. AWC’s third big project is to further expand its sprawling 12-acre Asiatique development. Wallapa plans to add a high-end Marriott hotel and residences along with Bangkok’s tallest skyscraper. On board is legendary architect Adrian Smith—whose work includes Shanghai’s Jin Mao Tower and Dubai’s Burj Khalifa—who she says has designed an iconic 100-story riverfront tower. While real estate professionals like O’Sullivan wonder whether the pandemic will cause Thailand to repeat the property fire sale seen during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Wallapa remains cautious. Though AWC’s cash pile and deep pockets have attracted many offers for potential deals, prices haven’t dropped to levels she considers attractive. “We’ve had nearly 200 projects offered to us,” says Wallapa, adding that most sellers’ expectations aren’t grounded in reality. “It’s hard to find the right opportunity,” she says. “It’s still an uncertain time.” https://www.forbes.com/sites/rgluckman/2021/07/08/thai-real-estate-giant-bets-big-on-tourism-rebound-with-32-billion-growth-plan/

People just don't listen or just a lack of care for other people.

Banglamung police raided an illegal beach club in the Pattaya beach last night, July 26th, 2021, allegedly finding both foreign nationals and Thais mingling, drinking, partying, and socializing despite strict Covid-19 rules currently in place in Chonburi province to stop the spread of Covid-19. The raid took place at 8:30 P.M. last night, just before a 9:00 P.M. curfew as part of Covid-19 related measures in Chonburi, at the Bamboo Beach Club located off of Moo 5 in Nongprue, Banglamung, in the Pattaya area. The raid was led by Mr. Pornchai Sangsai from the Banglamung District Office and ordered by Mr. Wuttisak Singhadecho and involved multiple officers from Chonburi and Banglamung. The raid followed Banglamung authorities sending an undercover agent to the venue to confirm that they were open and breaking Covid-19 rules. This allegedly followed multiple concerned citizens reporting the venue previously for being open, serving alcohol, and not following other related Covid-19 measures. The concerned citizens were reportedly worried about the spread of Covid-19 which is why they reported the venue. Currently, due to Covid-19 measures, all restaurants are closed for dine-in, sales of alcohol are forbidden, beaches are completely closed, all tourist attractions and entertainment venues are ordered closed, gatherings of over five people are forbidden (and over one person around alcohol), and a variety of other Covid-19 related rules and restrictions in the Pattaya area. Banglamung officials, led by Mr. Sangsai, reported dozens of customers eating, drinking alcohol, socializing, partying, and mingling at the venue against the aforementioned rules, many reportedly without masks and not socially distancing. Several of the customers reportedly tried to escape when police arrived but failed. A total of 66 people, 37 Thais, and 29 foreigners were arrested at the venue, according to Mr. Sangsai. The shop administration will be charged as well under Chonburi orders 62/2564, although they were not named by Banglamung Police specifically. Under the emergency decree, those arrested, including customers, could face stiff fines and even potential jail time. The arrested individuals were brought to the Banglamung Police Station for further processing and will face court as early as tomorrow morning. https://thepattayanews.com/2021/07/27/banglamung-police-raid-illegal-beach-club-in-the-pattaya-area-arrest-over-66-people-allegedly-breaking-covid-19-emergency-decree/

I've noticed

All pretty nice condos, but wayyyyy over priced. Obviously hoping to tap into the farang with more money than brains market.