OPINION

Murder most foul

Re: ''Cop linked to murder 'had assets of B600m'", (BP, Sep 7).

To not hold the seven officers present accountable regarding Joe Ferrari allegedly murdering a suspect during a torture session is corruption. None of them made any effort to halt the killing.

I wonder if they at least made a report after the event protesting the conduct of Joe. For officers to state the seven officers will face no further action is a travesty if corruption is to be reduced in the RTP. They would all normally take collective credit if something heroic occurred and a life was saved or a major crime thwarted. By nobody in the group having the courage to do the right thing and stop the crime, they are all complicit in the act and should be charged as accomplices at the least. Rewarding the ostrich approach of sticking your head in the sand only promotes corrupt practices. I believe they can do better and should. I was brought up to respect the police and trust them.

Re: "Third-shot sanity", (PostBag, Sep 7).

Third jabs to be given to people who have already had two and before millions still haven't had their first vaccine, goes against current scientific opinion and WHO advice.

In fact the WHO has called for a moratorium on Covid-19 booster shots because of the lack of compelling science to approve them. The director of the WHO's health emergency programme, Mike Ryan, has likened plans for administering boosters to handing out "extra life jackets to people who already have life jackets, while leaving other people to drown without a single life jacket."

This plan is madness. Not getting the initial jab to as many people as possible as quickly as possible will cost lives.

Furthermore, it would be interesting to know who these people are whose lives the government considers so important that they should receive a third vaccination while millions still wait for their first.

Re: "Don't panic about Mu variant, Ministry of Public Health says", (BP, Sep 7).

I try hard not to join with the vocal contingent of expats who deride every statistic produced by Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) and Ministry of Public Health.

Admittedly it's hard not to have a bit of a laugh with the former, but I had hoped for better from the health authorities.

I've just emerged with my Thai wife from four weeks of home, hospital (public), hotel and home quarantine. We asked in the hospital which strain of the Covid virus we had, and were told, Thai to Thai, that it was too expensive to analyse every patient's test. So you can see why it's difficult to take seriously the assurances of one Dr Supakit Sirilak (front page Bangkok Post, Sept 7) that no Mu infections had been found in Thailand, and that the very precise figure of 84.8% of cases outside Bangkok (we are in Isan) are Delta.

Dr Supakit urges us not to panic, but every time yet another of the government's endless string of representatives comes out with these obviously bogus figures, my sense of unease and distrust grows.