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After failing to procure enough vaccines for the people in the first half of 2021, the government is now using its public relations arms to try and raise awareness about Covid-19 in a series of tone-deaf campaigns.
Using humour and playing on their own incompetence, the tongue-in-cheek ads have more people laughing at the government than with the government.
The first campaign was a series of fake Buddhist prayers asking people to stay at home.
This was followed by the Public Relations Department talking about the four vaccines you need to stay safe from Covid, the vaccine of wearing masks and social distancing, the vaccine of hope, the vaccine of not panicking and the vaccine of understanding.
No, we’re not kidding. Look.
Apparently, we do not need to complain about the government’s vaccine procurement plan anymore because we already have all these vaccines.
We don’t need immunization, we just need hope.
If the government has not been paying attention, the majority of Thais are already doing that. It’s one of the reasons the number of cases are low. What they should concentrate on instead is the conduct of some ministers who would choose to go to entertainment venues than practice responsibility.
Maybe the Public Relations Department should just admit the truth about where we are as a country.
Where are we?
So far, less than 800,000 people have been vaccinated in Thailand because we only have around two million doses for the entire 70 million population. The government bet that there wouldn’t be another widespread Covid wave, they gambled with our lives and lost.
Take your stupid four fake vaccines and throw them are way.
We are reaching the end of April and it was only last week that the government admitted that they do not have enough vaccines and only last week that they said private hospitals can search for supplements.
Listen, on this subject, all of us should hope that the government succeeds.
We want Prayut Chan-ocha to succeed and inoculate all Thais as fast as possible.
But they haven’t succeeded. They’ve failed and taken us along with them. At the very least we can hope for messaging from the government that doesn’t insult our intelligence.