39 minutes ago, Fantomen said:Intressant artikel i NYT. Om inte så för flera av de fantastiska bilderna:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/05/world/asia/Thailand-covid-clubs.html2
Intressant artikel, min enda invändning är väl att de försöker få det att framstå som att folk dör "like fallen leaves" och lite andra sådana anslag kring covid-19s dödlighet i Thailand. Men det centrala budskapet om det elititiska Thailand och hur reglerna under lockdowns inte gäller för vissa, är klockrent:
"The first outbreak, in the spring of 2020, was traced by virologists to a Bangkok boxing stadium operated by the country’s powerful military, which makes money on sports gambling. The second cluster, late last year, was tracked by health officials to a sweatshop seafood business, which depends on immigration officers turning a blind eye to workers trafficked from neighboring countries. And the third, which has killed about 1,000 people, originated in the nightclubs whose coziness with law enforcement is an open secret."
Om varför vaccineringen går långsamt:
"Thailand is counting on local production this summer of the AstraZeneca vaccine by a company controlled by the country’s king. The company has never made vaccines before."
Och om hur de rika själva gör för att lösa problemet med att vaccineringen går långsamt:
"The phuyai, as the gilded elite of Thailand are known, can book overseas tours to get vaccines unavailable at home; one $7,000 jaunt for jabs in Russia is fully booked until July. But the poor struggle. Many must wait for cots at free government field hospitals set up in stadiums or other areas. The rich with mild cases can convalesce at expensive hotels."
