Rockhound

THe long term daily average of 40 deaths per day increases to nearly 70 per day at New Year and at Songkraan.

I visited the hospital in Sakeow last week. There were thousands of people all waiting to see a Doctor. Every one of them masked. Probably all still worried about Covidbollocks.

So with China apparently in the midst of a large "Covid wave" at the moment will Thailand insist on tight controls for the virus-ridden Chinese? Or will they be simply waved through? If so what was the point of the stupidity of the last 3 years?

The official figures suggest that cases are now falling (566 per day) - and deaths are probably peaking (15.3 per day). https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/?dashboard=main&fbclid=IwAR1ldoavWNzTFzhnuNQYXSVoCRYua4RqAOcfVZwt0LOy3R_o1lzeFad2E9s

I forgot to mention China. Their cases are rising again. Looking at the logarithmic plot (lower graph) their background cases have been rising throughout the panicdemic they have supposedly had under control.

Japan and South Korea are both peaking now - as is Hong Kong. Singapore has peaked. Everywhere else is basically flat or going down. The second graph shows the same data on a per-capita scale. Johns-Hopkins data.

Nope. I wouldn't call this "soaring". The appropriate English word would be "hovering".

Soaring? Hardly. It's al relative. Thailand is at background level. Have a look at this graph before they delete it.

Don't like my graphs? How about OWID/Johns Hopkins? (They are identical to mine - same data and same smoothing.

Here we go again... Lock the country down again. Reimpose the lockdown...

Drop the masks and Thai pass. Open up fully. Open the bars. And then you might get a chance of attracting tourists during a recession - or depression - caused by two years of lunatic Covid lockdowns which Thailand wholeheartedly supported.

Remind me how your prediction of 100,000 daily cases after Songkraan worked out.

More attempted scaremongering. 24/7/365 for 2.5 years now.

Phuket's 7-day average cases are now 8 per day. An average of 0.4 people are dying each day having tested positive for Covid recently. This is insanity. If people want to wear masks for the rest of their lives let them - but let those of us who would rather breathe fresh air go without.

I despair.

41 totally avoidable deaths on the road every day this year so far. Good job.

Learning to live with Covid, eh?

Wow! Seriously?

I'm sure this was the guy I saw on Pattaya Beach yesterday afternoon.

Drop the lot. Now. Especially the masks.

Covid was not worth panicking over either. But, 2.5 years later, here we are still wearing facemasks and taking our temperatures and with a host of other useless and pointless restrictions. Oh - and a devastated economy.

THis happened to me about 45 years ago - I was 18 at the time. A total of 5000 UK pounds was paid into my account - that's about 200,000 baht these days but I reckon it would be nearer a million baht these days. I immediately informed the bank. Pretty simple really.

So tourists are going to leave their home countries where no masks are required to come to Thailand to wear a mask. I would go somewhere else. Masks don't work. Here's an example. Scotland did not get rid of masks until 18th April whereas the rest of the UK got rid of them on 28th January. This graph compares the Covid cases since November last year. After 28th January Scotland's cases doubled relative to the rest of the UK.

"The anticipated major spike after the Songkran migration has also not materialised, which is a relief for the medical experts and the government." Governments around the world listened to the wrong "experts"...

There is nothing gradual now with the drop in cases: They are plummeting. Exactly has they have in every other country as soon as the virus did what it had to do. THe longer you try to fight it the longer it took to get over it.