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  1. 1 minute ago, Jingthing said:

    It has been posted regionally but the last I heard it was not a national ban but based on province. Are you saying that the policy is now national? 

    It seems like it's a Metropolitan BKK thing with other proivinces doing their own thing. Ahhhhhh! I didn't know. There's going to be trouble for sure. More thought bubble policy but it doesn't seem to be national for now. Imagine province where you live you can't get it but neighbouring province you can. Pure madness.

  2. 14 hours ago, realfunster said:

    Not sure what to make of this. US trying to maintain it’s position in the region and gently warning against too much Sino influence and focus ?

     

    The US are big & strong enough to come out of this on the other side in half decent shape. China may in due course face wider global pushback for its handling & reporting of the initial outbreak, and how global supply chains have broken down. The EU, who knows..?


    Will be wise for Thailand to juggle all these relationships very carefully for its own benefit for its post-Covid recovery. Ultimately, the biggest & richest fish in the pond for the foreseeable future are still the US/EU (Combined GDP USD41 trillion (22+19 respectively) around 3x China at USD14 trillion - IMF 2019 estimates.) .....but there are more padded envelopes and less bothersome regulations down the Chinese route....

    A very good point. I'm not a Trump fan but I think he's more likely to hold China to account. 

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  3. 14 hours ago, NoBrainer said:

    And how about the widely used combo of Hydroxychloroquine, Azythromycen & Zinc?

    Is this being used to treat patients in Thailand?  If it is then hospital admissions, especially ICU, would be reduced

    by a large margin.

    I think you'll find that this is appearing to help in mild cases only hence the impact on icu's would be stopping mild cases turn severe. Also people with heart and liver disease cannot take this cocktail because of the hydroxychloroquine. Also doseage is still unknown as trials are underway.

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  4. 24 minutes ago, LeamchabangLarry said:

    Parking lots about 25% full and Samitivej was a ghost town inside.

     

    We would be hearing about it on social media if the ICUs were bursting at the seams

    Private hospital isn't it? Social media? Maybe. It is of course being monitored. Let's wait and see if images start coming out. Fairly sure anyone who posts such images would be in for not such a good time. Also it's not just those who need to present to hospital that has this virus. 

  5. 2 minutes ago, LeamchabangLarry said:

    I don't know. 

    I can only report on what I see.

    I have driven by Bumrungrad, Samitivej, Phaya Thai 2, BNH, Thainakarin, and a couple others.

    The government is not censoring my eyeballs

     

    Ok then. That's great. How did the icu's look when you were driving by? Busier than usual?

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  6. 34 minutes ago, LeamchabangLarry said:

    <deleted> if I know man.  Perhaps to prepare for the worst?  

     

    dude I'm not an apologist one way or another.  I'm merely pointing out the narrative of "yeah but where are the tests?, it's pointless without tests at scale" was valid for February and early March. 

    We are now almost mid-April and the hospital ICUs are not overflowing, nor are bodybags flying out of these hospitals

     

     

    How do you know? Remember this has been declared a state of emergency. The junta govt has censorship control of the media.

     

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