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11 minutes ago, rabas said:

Because eventually the other ~80% will develop symptoms.

 

Study: Only 20% of COVID-19 Cases Are Asymptomatic

may be those 80 percent and drinking some soup to get rid of the symptoms . Thai social media was full of this info . garlic, ginger , somtam ?? ????

2 minutes ago, rabas said:

Thai people do not read English language advertisements from Bangkok's most expensive hospitals targeting Westerners.

 

Please provide one Thai person who paid for a covid-19 test, with receipt.

but thais can read 3999 . 

Any thai i spoke with during past 10 months( all are bar girls) , know corona test take so much money. very expensive.

that is how they kept the numbers low. 

no one coems to gets tested.. the numbrs are low and some day u say,, we r coroina free and get an applause from WHO(CHO??). 

8 minutes ago, Miami007 said:

  The same will happen in Thailand when a large portion of the people are tested

never gonna happen. face saving is an integral part of  many asian cultures. they would keep denying the truth just so they can save their faces. 

17 minutes ago, Jeffr2 said:

With the low number of cases here, is it really important every citizen gets tested?  If the virus was raging here, the hospitals would be full of CV patients.  They aren't, right?

keep arguing. lets meet on this forum in a week and see the stats, they were able to hide the truth but not anymore. 

the world is looking.  

Note- u r not ready to understand what me and other members are explaining. no one says test everyone. all i am saying that their current numbers cant be trusted. I have already posted many times about what i think their strategy is. may be im wrong. but that doesnt make u right either

55 minutes ago, hioctane said:

 

This is if you are non Thai and/or you want testing but present no symptoms. 

 

I think it is unclear to Thais that they can get free testing if they have symptoms.

made it unclear and advertised heavy prices so people dont come forward. 

this makes them stay at home, take some home made stuff, traditional medicine, etc . 

most people are becoming ok, from the virus just by isolating at home.

58 minutes ago, vibration said:

Many thanks for clarification and good advice.

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4 minutes ago, Derek B said:

FYI - Bangkok Hospital CM was offering covid-19 screening packages for 3,999 baht between 18th June to 30th September and probably still are as the attached flyer was still available to pick up on the 15th December.

Covid-19 Screening Package 8-24hrs 3,990 baht (18 June - 30 September 2020).pdf 811.08 kB · 0 downloads

i may come from a developing country but my govt has been doing treating covid for free since the beginning. 

The flyer u shared shows the price to be 3999. imagine a bar girl, She has to work many days to earn and save money for this screening. 

so they would simply not visit. if they have symptoms , they would take whatever they read on facebook and recover eventually. Most people in my country too are recovering by home quarantine.

5 minutes ago, Jeffr2 said:

Ok.  That makes sense.  I don't talk with bar girls.  Just business owners.

yes boss, agree to u. they both have different mindsets and different conditions

This sounds like a real leader. Thanks Hun Sen for being the Cambodia's PM since 1985.

I am sure khmers love you and hope some day you will be regarded as father of modern and prosperous nation of cambodia.

5 hours ago, webfact said:

PM urges Thai people not to panic in wake of new wave of COVID-19 infections

 

 

 

 

the prime minister urged people not to lower their guard and to wear face masks at all times while outdoors, to maintain social distancing

 

 

 

 

 

preach what u practice. none of your other ministers including u are maintaining social distancing. many in the background including you are not wearing a mask. have u somehow received the vaccine from the big daddies in china. ?

53 minutes ago, Dialemco said:

Only way out of this pandemic will be the vaccine so let's hope it is approved soon and then purchase suffient to vaccinate Thai population at whatever cost as covid has never disappeared in Thailand 

may be they are currently sharing details of offshore accounts to send the kickbacks... ????????

4 hours ago, ezzra said:

Thailand don't have the money for vaccine, haven't you heard? they plan to go to the moon now... that said, the fact that they have allowed hundreds if not thousands of Burmese workers comes in and out the country unchecked while everyone else is quarantined, heads should roll for that...

burmese workers add to the economy by working as slaves for a meagre salary. foreigners on the other hand stay in 450 baht hotels in pattaya and sleep with thai woman. ????????

14 hours ago, Dmaxdan said:

Come on Thailand!  You got Covid-19 under control before, you can do it again! 

The funny thing is that even the poor thais never thought it was under control. weird how some foreigner who has no idea how things work in countries like thailand, are so gullible that they actually believe everything the govt says. ????????????????

They can do it again by deporting all those poor migrants in a bus,  publish a report that all locals have recovered. threaten the family that if they say anything in public or social media, they will be punished. 

yes they can ????????

10 minutes ago, rabas said:

Your view of Thailand is different than what I have seen. In March, I discussed these issues with a few doctors and medical staff. Thai people do not need to pay for testing. When a person goes to a hospital they are screened for symptoms. A doctor will make a decision if the person needs testing. If the doctor orders a test, they call a national tracking center for a tracking number. Then they swab and send the sample to central laboratories. Local hospitals do not do testing. Samples are sent to Bangkok. One does not pay when you have been given an authorization code. It is all centralized.

Well, i really dont know about what happens there but people over there don't get tested due to fear of stigmatrization, social ostracization, expensive testing, expensive treatment. 

spoken with a few poor and marginalized thais and they have no money for all that. they would rather stay at home, eat chilli, rub some tiger balm and hope to become disease free soon

1 hour ago, Jeffr2 said:

Congrats to Thailand for the fantastic job they've done.  I doubt any of us here would want to go home to our countries and deal with the mess there.

Juts had a laugh,, 

u can keep assuming they r doing great. look at worldometer, their test per million is at the bottom 25% countries. 

4 minutes ago, tandor said:

 you may even see a reduction in the illegal human trafficking and drug movement. 

This wud never happen. how r the authorities gonna get their envelopes if they stop cross border trafficking and drugs 

1 minute ago, DavisH said:

Deaths are hard to hide though. Unless one believes outrageous conspiracy theories of a huge government coverup. My wife works in the health industry. I just see no evidence of that. 

there is like 1 percent or so death rate in poor and unhygeinic countries. Seeing how thais live, share food from same plate. taste food before serving it to others. etc etc.. I can say they live in unhygeinic conditions. That somehow increases immunity to diseases. 

https://weather.com/en-IN/india/coronavirus/news/2020-10-27-evidence-lower-covid19-death-countries-poor-hygiene-water-quality

6 hours ago, Dexxter said:

Our longer term plan for early 2022 is to evacuate her from Thailand back to Australia and forget about LOS. It has no attraction any more for either of us.

Good luck with that. 

There is nothing like a validity of 72 hours upon arrival. The requirement is an RT PCR test taken no more than 72 hours  before you enter the country.

Source :

https://www.visitnorway.com/plan-your-trip/coronavirus-and-travelling-to-norway/

https://www.helsenorge.no/en/coronavirus/international-travels/

This test cannot have a validity because people can catch the virus later on too. All an RT PCR does is that it certifies you don't have Covid 19 virus at the time of the test. It cannot  have a validity. 

Regarding the testing facility at BKK airport, antigen tests are generally fast, RT PCR takes time. There need to be a lab with all the machinery. 

You should contact the BKK airport and ask if they have an RT PCR testing service for the virus or not and in how many hours they can give the test report.

In case they don't do it there, find a hospital, ask the time frame, plan your test in such a way that you land Norway within the 72 hour time frame of the sample collection. 

Thanks.

55 minutes ago, Leaver said:

 

I would say Thailand is going to lose a lot of tourists, expats, and manufacturing to Vietnam in the not so distant future.  

Already lost. Vietnam should come up with a decent long stay visa for westerners. In cambodia it costs a little less than 300 usd for a full one year visa. no stupid 90 day report, no adress reports, travel as u please.

but i heard that vietnam was actually making it harder for foreigners to stay long time(pre covid).

42 minutes ago, teacherclaire said:

Thailand is an excellent example, 

excellent example of how to keep the numbers low.

1. Keep testing price high.

2. Stigmatize covid so people wont come forward for testing.

3. Spread the news that covid treatment is expensive. 

Eventually people wont turn up, and you country's number will be low. You can open your country to tourism whenever you want.

IF there is an outbreak , blame it on the foreigner. In recent samut sakhon outbreak , the burmese are being blamed. 

6 hours ago, Marco100 said:

why not reduce quarantine to 7 days ?

How the "approved ASQ's" are gonna make money then? 

11 minutes ago, sweatalot said:

which - if so - did not lead to a noticable increase in severe symptoms and deaths

only the numbers of symptomfree infected people would have risen to the sky

how wud u know if they r infected when they did nt do an rt pcr. in my country most people are home quarantined and becoming virus free in a  10 days time or so,. in case they have any issue like breathing problem, high fever etc they go to a hospital.. 

21 hours ago, david555 said:

 they are low-risk groups because they are working age and healthy," Opas said.

 

 

So no "ploblem "....as they are young and healthy ????

 

that has been the strategy throughout.