skorp13

If they weren't putting asymptomatic people in hospitals they would have enough that were actually sick and needed the medical attention rather than using it as a quarantine silo

Can you say Draconian?? You have not broken a law by contracting Covid so why should the government have authoritarian rule over you? You can quarantine at home if you feel np symptoms or do not require medical attention. From the pics i have seen of the field hospitals i' would feel much safer actually at home than that set up

LOL yeah economies row when things are shut down

Good thing as we all know how dangerous it is for kids and what carriers they are :). parents pick up their kids wearing masks and keep apart, this is all really silly and hurting the children

Mental health levels peaked, then stable as on Monday based on??? How many people have been rendered unemployed since the new closure of entertainment venues and the residual fall out? Doesn't she think that may also be contributing to mental health issues???

Just because they visited an "entertainment venue" doesn't mean that is where it was contracted. how many others from that "entertainment venue" have been tested and found to be positive? Very incomplete article but a good way to smear foreigners and also "entertainment venues"!

Revive tourism? it's been dead since March or did someone forget to tell them? ????

Some kid of precautions taken in the way of social distancing from the pic in the OP ????

The Op sounds like it was written by a bar girl 555

Reminds me of soi pit hole, every time it rains all the money spent to fix it gets washed away. perhaps time to look for another contractor 555

So untested people are free to roam the country and handle their own quarantine if stated necessary because bars are closed?? Sigh!

Covid positive people entered these places. With out being tested and quarantined covid positive positive people will continue to go places, shutting down entertainment venues putting people out of work will not stop the spread, it is simply something to point a finger to in order to make people feel calm that it has been identified and being handled

11 hours ago, GroveHillWanderer said:

Well there are 967 cases today so it's looks like he was pretty much spot on.

Nt a huge rise in the three days it took you to respond and consider almost 200 of these are in prisons. In a country of 70 million  it is not a large number. Diligence required yes, panic...no. Please post the number of serious hospitalizations requiring ventilators or recorded deaths, which hopefully will be none or as close to it as possible

First of all the pubs mentioned as to alleged sources for the outbreak were not exactly what you would call decadent. Secondly patrons came to the pub covid positive so it did not start in the pub. Third not testing people because you could have to admit them? You could send them to quarantine if there symptoms are not bad and monitor them, sending them home un monitored is very reckless and perhaps deadly. lots of potential law suits

It pays to be rich!

18 hours ago, Russell17au said:

Remember the time difference from when you have the test to when you board the plane is 72 hours. How long does it take to get infected? You can have your test 60 hours before boarding your plane but still get infected 12 hours before you board your plane.

Then they quarantine and are tested in quarantine

They have no idea of infection rate or how many cases so how can they possibly give a time line? Sounds like buying time to me. Of the 400+ at least 150 were in a Southern prison so that can't really factor into society and where the new hot spots have been found.

Looking at the number of variants around the world now it can be reasonable to say the virus is more than likely mutating differently in different parts of the world. Perhaps the U.K variant was not brought in past tight security measures but was here all along and has mutated in similar fashion with the U.K. strain

Are they testing for covid at these check points? How are police supposed to curb the spread??

1,000 cases a day based on??? A few more positive tests and chicken little runs into the street. 

With or with out slurring of words...LOL

Something about gold diggers comes to mind

What would this earlier action have been Dr. Birx??? Can you tell us? No you can't because everything was done ASAP amidst huge opposition to get to work on a highly contagious novel virus.