Ketyo

There is more chance of the Army government turning the Thai economy into Myanmar II. Just like the Army government did over there for 60 years. But of course not as bad. 

When Ministries are led by army generals, you can never rely on good sensible decisions being taken. And that's important when you are investing a lot of money. 

So it's not going to happen.

When will the Nigerians realise that they are poor because they are corrupt. They are not corrupt because they are poor. 

It's harder to get out of lockdown than to put it in place. Especially if you are a low education army general.

This situation shows how the Thai government is too incompetent to come up with an exit plan.

But then I suppose that's why its a poor country. And will remain a poor country.

If they opened the borders between Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar at first, that would be sensible because there's not much virus going around in them countries now.

Keep the border closed with Myanmar because of the threat from Muslim conferences which attract a lot of people at close proximity. And the one with China because they are still having outbreaks and the people travel in huge groups - there could be too many people to control.

8. Traditional massage shops (foot massage only).

Hand massage? No. OK.

Is the logic about 1.5M distance?

If so ....

"But he warned that a second wave of the outbreak had hit many other countries". Not really.

I suppose this dude always support his opinions with incorrect facts because he believes Thai's don't watch news. 

The kind of second waves in Singapore, Korea and Japan were really local outbreaks that were contained, not real second waves. And in each case they were managed by test, trace and isolate. They were expected to happen.

And will happen in most countries and in Thailand. And will probably happen 2,3,4,5... times. There will be outbreaks. It's inevitable.

These outbreaks should be managed by test, trace and isolate. Not by national lockdown.

But we don't know whether the Prime Minister is intelligent or authoritarian.

The problem with the army is it thinks it can go around doing anything it likes and is answerable to no-one.

Every country that has been like this. And I won't lie to you. Every country. Every country has failed. 

Of course there will be an increase in infections. When they relax measures more virus will spread. They just have to find a level that they are comfortable about. And do contact tracing and local lockdowns for outbreaks. They can't keep the economy locked fore ever. People won't have any money. I honestly think Prayut thinks he is supposed to get to zero transmissions. But that would require a level of lockdown that would kill the economy and kill people. 

Maybe the committee couldn't persuade Prayut to take his boot off the neck of the Thai people. They could only convince him to allow them to ask the people. He doesn't have to listen to what they say. He can still strangle them.

They spend millions of dollars on security for top government officials. And those two don't even wear masks when they are going around.  They should be more careful. They are in the wrong age group for covid.

Banning alcohol and keeping curfews in place when covid transmission is ultra low causes social disorder.

"He noted examples in many countries where the Covid-19 mortality rate is as high as 10-20 percent"

Moron.

The two main losers from this pandemic in my opinion will be the reckless right wing populists who didn't take care of their people in an attempt to keep their economies going like Bolsonaro, Trump and Boris.  And the control freak right wing little Hitler authoritarians who used COVID as an excuse to grab more power for themselves and restrict the freedoms of their people through threats and crackdowns... like Prayut.

It doesn't look like there is a lot of people talking and eating in that photo.

Perhaps the BMA are just copying their low intelligence PM prayut issuing threats of crackdowns. And more threats. And more crackdowns. 

Do the Thai authorities think they are in China? They should be careful because in a democracy they can get voted out.

The bad news is we have never made a successful vaccine against any coronavirus. And there are a handful that affect humans - a couple cause the common cold, then there is SARS and MERS, and hundreds that affect other animals.

More bad news is that a candidate vaccines for SARS caused the disease to be worse. It was unable to stop the virus and caused the body to attack its own cells after getting reinfected with SARS.

The good news is we have never really tried very hard to develop a coronavirus vaccine. The SARS research was stopped early after the disease was eradicated. The MERS one in development hasn't been finished. No one wants to invest in a cold virus.

And with about 100 teams looking at COVID vaccine there are some chances. Some scientists are confident. The woman who runs the trial in Oxford, UK is already testing on people and says she will know by September whether it works. And she says she is 80% confident it will be effective.  But who knows whether she has caught the British government disease that affects Boris Johnson and a lot of his government including scientific advisors. Lying.

I actually believe Prayut treats the Thai people just as he treats his underlings in the army. With disdain, hatred and anger. All his government does is issue orders and threaten punishment. Doesn't he know that in democracies the government rules with the consent of the people? Why do the Thai people put up this this. Are they really so weak?

At least the dictator in North Korea loves his people. So it is said.

Lots of people have stay in condos with cats in Thailand. And nice places. I know 2 in Bangkok. One on the ground floor and one on the first with some clambering posts from the garden below so that the cat can get up and in through the window.

"Damaged the image of Thailand"

So they are not investigating the case because a person was murdered, they are investigating it because they don't want their image to be damaged.  

This is exactly the type of thinking among the authorities that gives Thailand a bad image.

Everyone who knows Thailand knows its image has been damaged beyond repair since 2014 by the authorities.

Booo!!  Cambodia has lots of its own minimarts. And plenty of them sell more than the usual <deleted> that 7s sell. And many of them have seating areas where people can happily drink coffee or beer and socialize.  Who wants them locusts at 7/11 taking over everywhere.