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3 hours ago, MikeyIdea said:

We're fairly stable around 2,000 (a couple of days doesn't mean a clear trend) and the Songkran window is closing but I still think we really have to be on our toes here. The virus quietly brewed in Lombardy for weeks before it took off, it did the same in New York, then it exploded with a vengeance. And that was a less contagious strain. 

 

I don't like these around 2,000 per day figures. Sure, IMO anyway, the Thai contact tracing has been first class, still is, but they easily could lose this one if it doesn't start to go down soon. Contract tracing could get overwhelmed and it's enough if a few of the 10?, 20?, 30? thousand they try to contact every day can't be reached (and is infected) and we could have a few more clusters every day. 

 

Hospitals will get / are already overloaded. They are switching to quarantine at home so most or at least many of the other family members in the house hold will get infected.

 

IMO, the Thai economy will lose much more not controlling this than what a lockdown will cost. Why? Most business will still go on as usual, factories will still produce and export. Only smaller parts of the Thai economy will be shut down. And what about the future tourism? Westerners with their gung-ho attitude to covid-19 will still come during 2022 but Asians will not! And income from Asian tourism is much greater than Western tourism. 

 

The next 15 days will decide I think

why would you think that Asians spent more then Western ?  Have you have counted the number of average stay per visitor ? Europeans dont fly her for the weekend. The average is at least 10-14 days. 

So obvious - wait until the local producer starts and keep many out as long as possible - makes you just wonder 

The numbers are much much higher. If you start to have friends of friends and office staff it is much closer. As we all know the culture tends to be over scared and the local economy can’t be totally killed. 

No way is the right way. You do the op and the cancer spreads, you don’t and it spreads too. Lost my mother at 62 - 7 months after the surgery 

We are in the 21st century and a virus took control of the world. In the most modern and advanced World we can’t reproduce enough vaccines with all the ample aircrafts parked and standing ??? Come on guys.... one reason is that People wanna make money out of this. 

What a surprise LMAO. Took 1 year to figure that out ????????

Not stoppable this time with any lock down ???????????? - far too late in vaccination - sabai sabai is over now 

Great ideas always but until enacted the foreigners will be gone already ????. Lot of people already leaving 

1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said:

Grasping onto how well you think Thailand has done in the past does not resolve the current outbreak that threatens the whole country with a new more infectious strain thats never been dealt with before here.

This whatever st, nd or 3rd wave won’t be easy to stop. Spread too much plus the 3000 people party in Phuket. Can only wish for the best ans that thailand opens up to all available vaccinations earlier 

Speed up the vaccination and use several other ones that are approved. Stop thinking of  making money with the local Chinese produced one. It’s only 50-83% efficient 

Endless baloney of <deleted> ???????????? - a quarterly novel brilliant idea 

Wont increase the tourist numbers. Just business as usual. Ever wondered why the JNJ vaccine was not ordered yet by the private hospitals ? There is 100 million shots a months produced and only 1 shot needed. Once US is done by June thailand could have easily ordered for availability in July / August and get back to normality... BUT as it looks now we won’t be done until December or early 2022. Someone is hiding something we don’t know about ????

Finally feeling the pain ? Nothing will happen until October at least and most Thais are vaccinated and at ZERO risk 

Brilliant report. Average 147 baht per beer ? ????????????

Could not keep the business growing fast enough I guess. MLM makes it to obvious. Same as gambling dents. It spreads fast and everyone know incl. MIB 

Omg now they scared ? 22 death in 3 million shot. Being careful is one thing but trying to avoid 0 % is not part of life 

Must be a lot of people arriving by boat in the past and/or in the future ????. 

Khao San will help ya ????

Brilliant. so because Astra Zeneca Thailand did not issue a certificate and the Korean one does not suffice means the approval is void. Exactly what we need as there was not enough  time before by the super experts to prepare. You sometimes can it should only scratch your head and take a deeeeepppp breath ????

Too many mays in it ????

meaning of mull is 

think about (a fact, proposal, or request) deeply and at length... 

Ps. We have been thinking a lot in Thailand