https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3141870/coronavirus-batters-thailands-economy-even-bangkok-pawnshops?module=perpetual_scroll&pgtype=article&campaign=3141870

The South China Morning Post has a pretty bleak piece today on Thailand.

Thailand is a classic example of the middle income trap at work.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_income_trap

The World Health Organisation estimates that there's something like 5 million plus people in Thailand living on less than $5 a day and some cretin (how stupid do you have to be not to have something better to do with your money) spends 10 million baht on a number plate.

This is the stuff that revolutions are made of. 

Surprised the number is positive.

Lots of posters are condemning this fellow, but I'd be curious to know what evidence there is against him. He left Nana or wherever with her, and she supposedly had his DNA under her fingernails. But surely there should be more, because it's a massive jump from that to cutting someone up and dumping them in a suitcase.

In my younger days, there were periods when at any time of the day or night you could probably have lined up half a dozen bar girls with my DNA about their person somewhere or other. Can't say it ever once crossed my mind to murder any of them through..

Leaving aside other factors, with this Covid testing the daily is the smallest increment on a chart. So of course it's not going to go straight up anymore than a 5 minute crypto chart goes straight up. But the trend is definitely up bigtime. If you owned Covid stock you certainly wouldn't be selling here...

13 hours ago, webfact said:

he 12 tourists who have asked to fly home were among the 14 people who arrived on Emirates flight EK378,

14? Says it all - what a farce.

In today's Guardian there's a frightening report from Indonesia. And it's a sobering warning of what awaits Thailand if things are allowed to drift. The velocity that this thing has accelerated at in a short time is mind blowing. Edited to say that I tried to link to the graph in the article but couldn't.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/jul/08/covid-surge-pushes-indonesias-health-system-to-the-brink

46 minutes ago, Dogmatix said:

How reliable are the numbers from Burma?

Not at all. Until recently they were in the 10s - an obviously absurd figure given the country's geopolitical location and the Covid situation amongst its neighbours. Which makes the recent upsurge all the more concerning. If they are now reporting thousands, it suggests that the true numbers of new cases must be absolutely hellish.

21 minutes ago, anchadian said:

Thai boxing legend and Olympic champion Somluck Khamsing says that his third successive #COVID19 test has turned out to be negative, making his first positive result from the weekend a false positive.

So does this count for 3 tests or 1 in the general stats on testing? 

3 hours ago, internationalism said:

somehow in thailand there is not much long term covid, and not so many deaths in comparison to scale of infection

1. More like not so much follow up medical care rather. 2. Just wait...

My prediction is 10,000 cases a day by the end of this month. 

1 hour ago, jerrymahoney said:

It will depend on  if any others on the flight become positive and an analysis of how the infected person got on the flight if these provisions have or have not been followed:

 

Public Announcement

CAAT News 22/2021 : Airline passengers to Phuket without COVID-19 document to be rejected for boarding

  31 May 2021

 

 Phuket governor with the approval of the Communicable Diseases Committee of Phuket has issued a new announcement since May 28th, 2021. The new announcement emphasizes the screening measures for domestic passengers entering Phuket from June 1st. The new measures will complement the existing processes and ensure more streamlined entry into Phuket. The airline passenger must proceed as follows:

         

 1. Must be vaccinated with 2 or full doses of COVID-19 vaccine or a dose of AstraZeneca vaccine, recovered from COVID-19 infection not more than 90 days, tested negative for COVID-19 by RT-PCR or Antigen Rapid Test not more than 7 days since the test date.  Those who fail to present the evidence will be rejected for boarding by the airlines. However, children up to 5 years of age are exempted.

https://www.caat.or.th/en/archives/58167

 

 

They're dreaming. There are always a few lunatics but no normal person is going to subject themselves to this kind of stuff for a 2week beach holiday halfway around the world. Especially when at a moment's notice the goalposts can be moved. 

More empty words. Unfortunately,  as the saying goes, you can't bullshirt a virus. It's not listening. 

The government doesn't give tuppence. Look at the road planning. Just up from us theyve run a new 4 lane highway along what used to be a sleepy  two lane inter-village B road. People now literally step out of their houses straight onto a dual-carriageway carrying intercity traffic doing 120+kph. Going to the local shop or taking the kids to school has suddenly become a life threatening exercise for hundreds, if not thousands. Of course, the lazy, ill-planned juxtaposition of intercity traffic with village life will inevitably lead to hundreds of deaths over time. A child of 5 could predict it. But does anyone in government care? Do they ----!

7:30pm.Just came back from a drive around what is the tourist area of our local town. If I'd driven the same route 25 years ago at 5am in the morning it would have been hopping in comparison. Nothing but shuttered shopfronts and the occasional empty restaurant. It was like something from a Dystopian movie. 

Take the headline number and add a zero - at least.

It's a constant stream of fantasy. Provides news stories though...

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