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Better to say Tourist numbers drop by 99.9%
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Other sources say he was a Hong Kong national and he could move "quicker than the human eye"
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What exactly is the point of testing someone 1 day after they have had contact with someone who is infected? Absolutely none, you have to wait at least 5 days before testing and quarantine in the meantime
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7 hours ago, sometimewoodworker said:
Piped water is a very recent introduction into Thailand. There was no significant history of using copper, a very expensive material, so since the system is so recent Thailand went with the most cost effective material.
That some PVC may leach substances into the supply is possible but any materials leached are far far less dangerous than the lead leached into the water supply in western countries.Sorry for hijacking the thread but is PVC reliable? And comparable lifetime to copper?
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Is there a reason plumbing in Thailand is not done with Copper?
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Slowly but surely, Europe and the UK will return to a more normal way of life over the course of 2021. It has been the strangest year, but also quite an important one, things will never be quite the same
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Say it ain't so, more Thais spreading the virus than migrants. Must be a typo
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What if the guidelines are just not enough? What then?
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As I have said before, what Thailand did in the first wave in March is not going to be anywhere near enough to stop this version of the virus currently exploding around the country. From the looks of it, this outbreak started early December and because of lack of testing went undetected for quite a while, and it has nothing to do with those ladies in Chiang Rai
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8 hours ago, Natai Beach said:
Six people get a deadly disease and this pandemic that has killed 1.7 million people and destroyed millions of livelihoods worldwide looks like it is getting out of control in the country I live in.
Yeah, hilarious mate.I hope they are false positives.
It seems some people on this forum want Thailand to fail as regards to covid and many other things.
Nasty.Really. That is your take? Overly sensitive methinks
For months the government has been telling everyone "there is no covid in Thailand", and anyone with half a brain has been saying - "it's because you're not testing dummy!"
And now with testing it is under their very noses
It's funny, very funny
You need a sense of humour vaccination.
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I'm not going to lie, that is quite funny.
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Surely an amulet would protect all those near the hospital?
Their total lack of empathy is startling. Fishing boats?
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4 hours ago, Pattaya Spotter said:I will skip over your trollish (and reportable) ad hominem remarks because the issues here are more important. How exactly is this new virus varient (all biological organisms are mutating at the genomic level all the time) "more infectious" than before? Do you know the actual mechanism that's operating or what change has occurred to make this so...or are you just repeating the writing and opinions of uninformed reporters and headline writers? Also..."more worring" is that a medical or scientific term that describes a virus?
No virologist has said thd new variant "reproduce[s] quicker," whatever that means, and passes quicker through a population because infected people expel more virus. Infected people with "old" or new virus strains expel ser amounts depending on their stage of infection and what activity they are doing. This media and political driven hysteria over this new viral variant is not backed by science. Mr. Johnson is attempting to CYA himself by using this new strain as an excuse to shutdown Christmas and New Years gatherings...something he was reluctant to do before and now knows he should have...because the pandemic is a thing...whether it's old or new virus.
And as I said before, the preventive steps are also the same...masks, handwashing, physical distancing, and crowd avoidance (and the vaccine when available, which also isn't affected by this new "more infectious" virus strain.
If you are such an expert why do you bother asking anybody anything? Please go away
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2 hours ago, Pattaya Spotter said:
Can you define these terms...do you know what they mean in this context? To my knowledge, the new virus varients aren't more "infectious" than other varients...they both float about in the air on droplets/aerosols expelled by already infected persons. You either inhale an infecting quantity of virus and become "infected" or you don't. Are you saying with the new strain a smaller quantity of virus or a shorter exposure time will cause infection? Wearing masks and proper personal hygiene and avoiding mass public or private gatherings is still the best way to prevent infection with any of the virus varients.
I know you're a bit of a smart *rse, but perhaps if you know as much as you pretend, you would know that the new variants are more infectious, more worrying and pass quicker through the community because they reproduce quicker and therefore pass on a higher viral load when expelled.
* and it's variAnt
here's a link from people more knowledgable than either of us https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4944
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As the UK is finding out, actions which worked previously on less infectious variants of the Covid virus do not work on variants with higher infectivity. Thailand cannot just do what it did before, that will not work. If Thailands new outbreak is the DG641 variant or similar it will move much more quickly than before.
Failure to stop mass gatherings countrywide will be a disaster for Thailand.
ASQ hotels might just be the safest place to be for foreigners entering Thailand in a very short while.
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It still amazes me that journo's at national news agencies are quite so thick.
For the nth time GDP growth of 3.6% in Q3 2021 means a change from -6.6 to -3 %
It is *not* +3.6% which would mean a GDP growth of 10.2%
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1 hour ago, Seeall said:
Trick question? hmm it started?
6 hours ago, hotchilli said:500 baht... it's passed.
Mot's not taken that seriously then?
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Exceptionalism and selfishness are root cause of this new Thailand outbreak if reports are to be believed. Individuals thinking rules do nat apply to them, or what harm can it do if just they break the rules? It's the same in all western countries and particular pain in the backside in the UK.
So yes, a reckless few can ruin things for everyone
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1 hour ago, darksidedog said:
I am seriously tired of this miserable affair. Continued simple trade between the UK and the EU really should not have been that difficult.
Stunning that at the eleventh hour they still cannot resolve issues they have been working at for God knows how long.
While short term no deal would hurt the UK, and EU, I wonder how long Macron will have a job when French fishermen have zero access to the fish they rely on catching?
You have to hope some sanity finally pushes these two sides into a deal of some sort.
Fishing is the last apparent sticking point, from what I have read, the UK want a reduction in EU access to UK waters of 80%, whereas the French, Spanish and Danish do not want to lose anything, ie they want 0% loss.
Rumours are circling that a compromise of around 35% reduction may be agreed by both sides but the French from what I understand are less than happy about this.
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4 minutes ago, rabas said:
Thailand is using "race and trace" rather than broad testing because of the situation here. They are providing very detailed information on almost every case, where they went, and who they contacted. In one case they included the person's bathroom habits because they had covid diarrhoea. I really don't want to know more.
Yes I get that, and that does seem like a good thing, but a better assessment of the outbreak could be made if the percentage of positives is known. At the Seafood market in Samut Songkram it was almost 50% of tests that came back positive
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The Thai govt cannot control how people drive, but the very least they can do is to make sure vehicles on the road are safe.
What is the Thai equivalent of an MOT?
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Thailand need to start reporting how many actual tests they are doing per day, otherwise these figures are pretty meaningless
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4 hours ago, George Aylesham said:But testing before admission is what Britain should have been doing for the past six months. Why did the Brits waste the best trump card they had - that of being an island?
Have been saying the same since April. Too many people lost their lives because of pandering to business and lack of screening at ports was just mind boggling
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Charlie Brooker's new Netflix special Death to 2020 branded "disappointing" and "lazy" by critics
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All of old c*ck faces work is a rehash. Never saw the appeal