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On 8/4/2021 at 3:17 AM, spidermike007 said:
And what about the rest of the environment? The government should offer incentives, for the farmers to switch crops. This is 2021. Rice and sugar worked in previous centuries.
Not to mention making it mandatory to fit straw choppers to rice combines. If you fly the length of the country in the burning season you're over a continuous brown cloud the whole way, and Thailand's air quality index never drops below hazardous anywhere north of Bangkok for several months on end. Chop the rice straw fine enough, and plough it back in. It's not rocket science - it's what every advanced country in the world mandates.
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It's a criminally inept way to try and run a country.
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The biggest concern is that there doesn't seem to be any kind of contingency planning being done. Everything is reactive.
Also, why aren't lessons being learned? After the shambles that resulted at Bang Sue from announcing walk in vaccines, how come less than a week later mass walk-in testing is suddenly announced with no appointment or time slot necessary? Did nobody put 2 and 2 together and say, hang on a minute...
It's not rocket science we're talking here, just basic administrative competence and organization.
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2 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:
As in, the wave is ending and we can stop wearing face masks?
18 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:NEW HIGH - #COVID19 Update on Wednesday: 20,200 new cases (187 from prisons) and 188 deaths. 17,975 released from care. Full details at 12:30pm.
1 Aug: 18,027 - 133 dead
2 Aug: 17,970 - 178 dead
3 Aug: 18,901 - 147 dead
4 Aug: 20,200 - 188 dead
https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1422715465814536195
A 25% increase in deaths over 4 days. Extrapolate that rate out over a couple of months and the situation becomes catastrophic.
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Just now, Bkk Brian said:
The CCSA has announced it will extend the service at three COVID-19 testing spots in Greater Bangkok to help the public to access more testing, free of charge. The testing will be processed with the antigen test kits.
https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1422686275929321475
No bookings and time slots? Another unregulated scrum........
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There doesn't seem to be much forward planning. It's all last minute reactive stuff.....
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10 minutes ago, Neeranam said:
Maybe, However, they still have thousands of more new cases than Thailand.
Unless the world is going to live in perpetual lockdown it has to ge like that. Vaccinate everybody you can and trust the vaccines do do their job. Ideally, they would prevent initial infection, but failing that if they prevent hospitalization or death then it will have to do.
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After a while you have to start questioning the point of paying these people a salary.
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18 minutes ago, 4MyEgo said:
Just in and not wanting to create further panic, but apparently in Massachusetts apparently 74% of people were admitted to hospital, all having been FULLY vaccinated and now contracting Covid.
Perhaps you should watch the link again....
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Basically, he's saying shut up and stop complaining. But even if that's what he's thinking, when so many people's lives and livelihoods are being disrupted or worse only a particularly inept or insensitive person would come out and say it.
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1 hour ago, ThailandRyan said:
Yet the good PM believes in 3 to 4 weeks this will have possibly run its course and Anutin believes that starting next month they will vaccinate 1 million a day. To which I ask, With what vaccines, and how will the numbers drop in the Good PM's view.
TAT style announcements but on a different topic. The horse is gone over the horizon and so now about all about positive spin and public morale. And in that, reality has no place.
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I blame the TV and media. In the old day we just walked up and hit the ball. Nowadays everyone thinks they need to emulate De Chambles in the final round in a major or it'll cost them in shots. But the variables that the pros need to take into consideration before choosing club, shot, etc simply don't apply to your average double figure hacker. We're going to score the same whatever we do. And slow play is nothing more nor less than a bad habit.
A round of golf should be 3 hours at the outside.
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I do enjoy TAT announcements. ????????????
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4 minutes ago, ChrisKC said:
I am happy that I have been prescribed what is appropriate for me.
... happy that what was appropriately prescribed for me was a double dose of Pfizer Biotech....????????????
( although God knows where the booster is going to come from)
Jokes aside, IMHO anything is better than nothing and if I hadn't been lucky enough to be outside Thailand for a while, I'd be jumping at whatever was offered to me...
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27 minutes ago, dinsdale said:Disagree. The shambolic nature is because once again the idiots forecasted what they are going to do i.e. stop walkins and make it appointment only. Same thing with the workers camps in BKK which led to, accelerated or both the spread of Sars-Cov-2 to the provinces. The people on the ground there organizing things did a very good job. Unfortunately the idiots at the top have absolutely no foresight. That's where the shambles is.
I didn't mean the efforts of local officials trying to deal with a massive unforeseen influx of walk ins. I'm talking about strategic organization on a macro, national level. There basically isn't any proper national plan worth the name. If there were, such unforeseen balls ups wouldn't occur.
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26 minutes ago, tlandtday said:Ironic thing is if Thaksin did return so many who criticized him would now be happy to see him.
Thaksin isn't the answer, anymore than Trump is. It's not the political sentiment they espouse, it's that they piggy back on people's concerns to further their own ambitions.
That said, Thaksin achieved a lot in his time. It's a real shame he couldn't curb his ego and greed.
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2 minutes ago, anchadian said:From the total confirmed cases that were found in the past 24 hours:
- 13,447 were found via walk-in tests at medical facilities
- 3,076via proactive tests at known clusters
- 10 imported cases #โควิด19 #โควิด19วันนี้ #Thailand #Covid19
https://twitter.com/ThaiEnquirer/status/1420261613731409925
The high percentage of walk in cases is a red flag. Given the downside to being diagnosed with Covid, it's hard to imagine that many people walk in for testing unless they require serious medical care.
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3 minutes ago, Neeranam said:
As more people are vaccinated daily, of course the trend will reverse,
No of course about it. Over a matter of weeks the infection rate can easily - and probably will - outrun the vaccination rate. Particularly if the vaccine centres look like Bang Sue.
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Looking at the pics of people queuing for vaccines like a football crowd it's quite obvious that the whole operation is an utter shambles.
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1 hour ago, dan42 said:
Myammar around 8% fatality rate...That's horrendous... God know what's going on there...
No testing worth the name and the only cases counted are those requiring urgent hospitalization is my guess. Plus the country has a pitiful doctor to patient ratio that's on a par with rural India.
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The China Morning Post has an article today on Thai personal debt.
Poll: Thais see lack of foreigners as major factor in obliteration of tourism industry - only a third ready to travel in Q4
in Thailand News Headlines
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Not scared of the virus. Scared of the rules and how they can change in an instant.