Anton9

In Italy, Spain,France tourists areas are packed of people enyoing summer holidays. South East Asia(Thailand especially) just digged their own grave.

I am in the same situation but I live in a condo so no home gym for me. It's been months already, I've been going to the gym 4/5 times a week for 15 years and it's making me depressed not being able to do it. Having gf/wife working at home being around 24/7 is another huge problem, especially if you stay in a 60 sqm apartment.

What I just said it's anti vaxer? You just sound an extermist with no counter argument. I got my vaccine and I am far from an anti vaxer old man.

Vaccinated people spread virus too. The only reason to get a jab is protect yourself from severe symptoms. Don't pretend people get vaccinated to "protect" others, that"s hypocritical. Most people are just scared.

Impossible to get 50000/day. They are testing now 50000 people/day with 40% positivity rate. If they start testing 200/300 k /day the number of positive would be already much higher than that.

Still with this "virus control" nonsense. Tell me what impact will have on the overall cases fully vaccinated foreigners entering the country. Yeah,negligible,exactly

I don't think that's the reason, even with a low vaccination rate what would be the risk to let in double jabbed people with negative test? I think it's more because of incompetent and authoritarian governments.

For many countries that's the only requirements. Thailand(and most SEA countries) are still living in 2020 with their paranoid and overkill approach.

Still don't understand why a country like Thailand,riddled with covid, has to put in place so many restrictions to foreign arrivals. A vaccinated individual with a negative test would be more than enough.

Spanish flu was much worse than Covid 19, so you can't actually compare because it was a totally different animal. It was killing healthy young people while covid MOSTLY kills elderly people with comorbidities.

How many people are having their life destroyed by the lockdowns and overraction to this crisis in Thailand? Covid related deaths are not the only factor to evaluate a country response. Otherwise you can just lock people in their house forever, maybe you will get zero covid deaths that way. Sweden has a much older population than Thailand and most deaths are elderly people. Also,Thailand just started to experience the worst of the pandemic so the death count will keep rising.

Spot on

"Adjust measures" If it means adding more , good luck to us all What a nightmare

Covid is going to spread regardless of restricions. The challenge is opening up to world while minimiIng the impact. It's obvious at this point lockdowns and all the restricions are just prolonging the inevitable. So a country who is able to mange the situation without curfews and locking their citizens inside their house is doing well. That is my opinion of course.

Exactly. People still asking for more restricions are just paranoid at this point.

Then explain me why in Europe during summertime infection rates are much lower than during winter. Maybe because people spend their time outside rather than being confined inside an apartment?

This is going to hurt them. The country with less restrictions is am example on how to deal with covid.

The question is, how not easing it is going to help the country going foward?

Bangkok is a ghost town, everything is shut, restaurants,shops,parks, gyms. There is a curfew and zero nightlife. Don't know what else lockdown fans want to see to be happy.

Yes but at least can save the economy or what is left of it. And also save mental health of majority of people who are not afraid of living their life.

Of course they are, likely 10 times more. 67% of India population has covid antibodies in the blood.

If by the end of the month there will not be a relaxation of the restrictions(at least opening of shops/restaurants and lifting of domestic travel restrictions)Thailand is doomed. I am just waiting september to decide if it's time to leave this place for a while.

Much better for me and for most people I talk to. Guess your thai friends are enjoying the post coup era.

I arrived in Thailand when Yingluck was the PM and life was so much better.

Why coming to Phuket with all the crazy restrictions,compulsory mask wearing,endless covid tests,death night life and so on when you can go to many other countries with the only request of being vaccinated?