Reactions ranged Thursday from doubt to blame following the prime minister’s vow to reopen the nation by mid-October after vaccinating at least 50 million people.
Many in the chatterclass were taking with a grain of salt last night’s national address in which Prayuth Chan-o-cha, whose administration is taking fire for its faltering vaccination drive, said the virus would become an endemic threat the public would have to learn to live with. Many noted his record of bold-yet-ultimately-false promises.
“Seriously, do you believe that Prayuth will open the country within 120 days? Even back in 2014, he said that he wouldn’t do a coup,” Twitter user Seriouslythings wrote.
Others noted that the biggest barrier to Prayuth’s reopening goal was actually the prime minister himself – and math.
“If the injection rate is 300k per day (at least), the next 120 days…
