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7 hours ago, sapson said:

Totally agree.!!!......l but they are working to their own agenda of minimal sporadic testing if that and publishing a daily downward trend of cases, bearing no relation to the 70 million population.

 

They appear not to care about the harsh reality and churn out nonsense figures like TAT!

 

WHO and heads of state should be calling soon to consult Prayut on his magical Covid 19 management policy.

they will be calling the head of Vietnam first. only 256 cases there and no deaths

7 hours ago, Guderian said:

They really need to stop playing around in the margins looking for a new case here and two news cases there and start mass-testing of immigrant workers stuck in crowded dormitories. Around 80% of all cases in Singapore have been linked to dormitories housing low-paid workers. Construction sites around Pattaya, Phuket and Bangkok would be a good place to start.

 

And while they're at it, aggressive testing of compounds and villages where low-paid Thais live in overcrowded conditions is also needed. If the virus is currently circulating undetected among the general population, waiting for its chance to start some clusters leading to uncontrolled exponential growth, then these are the places it's most likely to be, where the low-paid of any nationality are forced to endure cramped and crowded conditions (not just foreigners, geddit it Khun Prayut and Khun Anutin?).

 

Please get you thumbs out of your butts, testing people, measuring the temperature of 100,000 motorists in air-conditioned cars and finding that none of them has an elevated temperature tells you nothing useful at all. Go ye forth into the poor places and test many souls there, if you dare!

if you look at the amount of people tested in thailand (142,589) then its pretty good. more per million people than Japan, Phillipines, Cambodia, Indonesia, on par with Vietnam and slightly worse than Taiwan. i dont think the test amountbis unreasonable considering that there isnt enough places to test or testing kits in Thailand to increase testing bu a huge amount

4 hours ago, mommysboy said:

Bangkok is a clear hub of infection and needs to be locked down - ie, no travel in or out.

bit late for that. 180000 people left Bangkok 2 weeks ago.

4 minutes ago, Jajazazajaja said:

 

What utter nonsense, yet another Falang who can’t see further than his own nose

 

one of the reasons for banning alcohol sales at this time is to attempt to reduce alcohol related problems such as domestic violence.

 

Thai guys being cooked up at home whilst drinking heavily isn’t good news for many Thai wives 

well said

18 hours ago, totally thaied up said:

Reading another internet news page, it seems the entertainment idea is going to be shut down for some time. They have five key reforms and opening up entertainment seems to be a long way down on the list.

define entertainment? golf courses in and around bkk are scheduled to open 1st may and are actively promiting this. prayut has connections with Royal Golf in lat krabang and they are accepting bookings.

23 hours ago, eeworldwide said:

I have to agree. The stats are not adding up at all.
Whilst I want to believe the best about the number of cases in Thailand and the dead etc etc, it simply does not add up. And if the stats ARE true, then we really dont need curfew and all the shutdowns, right?

the issue isnt the deaths rates from the disease in thailand or anywhere its that the medical system will get overloaded and come to stand still which will then lead to mass deaths - look at Italy where the rate is much higher tham anywhere else. so to prevent this countries need to slow down the spread and reduce the amount if cases that need medical care. 

4 hours ago, w94005m said:

It is the case fatality rate (Deaths/Recovered patients) that is the lead number. of almost 4%, which is more in line with WHO estimates of the overall fatality death rate, However, worldwide as you say that figure is just over 20%. BIG difference.

 

Maybe they're catching people earlier here, where the recovery rate is much better. Or maybe better drugs are the reason. One can only hope.

 

20%??? 1.8m cases 114k deaths globally. thats around 6%

very simple process. i submitted my email on wednesday afternoon via email and got a letter today.  they will be proiritising all those applicants that are coming up to 15 days left on their visa as they need it first. my expiration is april 23rd but still got a letter in 2 working days. these are mad times but people just need to calm down and show some patience. this is far from an everyday occurence and ultimately given new covid cases amd deaths everyday i would say a 2 day turnaround is excellent