![](https://assets.aseannow.com/forum/uploads/set_resources_40/84c1e40ea0e759e3f1505eb1788ddf3c_pattern.png)
Petey11
-
Posts
789 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Posts posted by Petey11
-
-
- Popular Post
All good but personally if I was visiting a country I would want to know the prevalence of covid in that country, especially as Thailand has a policy of enforced hospitalisation for any tourist who tests positive on day five after mixing with the local population.
-
13
-
1
-
24 minutes ago, Kenny202 said:
Unless the Thais have some natural immunity? Funny story.... my son and friend both recently had covid back in Australia. Wasn't determined if Omicron or Delta etc but both of them very mild symptoms.... I would say less than a bad flu. Both vaccinated and boosted.
Soooooo...there are many ways of looking at this.
How did they get covid when they had 2 vax and boosters?
or is Covid not as bad as they say...only in specific cases (old, already sick etc)
or would it have been a lot worse if they weren't vaxxed.
What ever side of the debate you were on you would have a case lol!
But back to Thailand....2 days after my friends wife from Thailand arrived in Australia, my friend was tested positive for covid. Living in a small Condo in Sydney together, you would think she was a certainty to get it. They both quarantined together in the same apartment, slept together, ate together. After 2 weeks she was still testing negative every day. He reckons it's all the horrible bacterial stuff she eats. Covid wont go near her 5555
My daughter's been a very close contact 3 times now, tested everytime for a week, all negative. Told I can't fathom why she hasn't picked it up. Must be natural immunity as she is still a junior and no vaccination.
-
1
-
-
26 minutes ago, worgeordie said:
I thought it would be because end of Chinese new year, and
because people are baulking at the high prices, supply and
demand , plenty of pork about , less people buying ,result
price goes down.
regards worgeordie
Basic economics but remember this is Thailand, normally raise the price to counter shortfall of sales rather than the other way around.
-
4 hours ago, Don Chance said:
Why do they keep on letting so many infected tourists? This test and go is daft. They will catch covid on the place, arrive test negative then go around infecting everyone.
Thailand should just wait until omnicron comes down a bit or require 3 days of quarantine.
Or is there a possibility that people are negative on arrival and then catch covid in the days before their test on day 5/6?
-
1
-
-
- Popular Post
- Popular Post
Who'd want to travel on fake PCR certificate knowing that if you get to Thailand and test positive your interred at your expense for 10+ days. I'd rather get a real PCR positive in my departure country and postpone the trip.
-
4
-
1
-
- Popular Post
- Popular Post
I live UK and no way my child will have one, risk to children is almost negligible, more chance of them succumbing to something else.
Read on a post yesterday, one province governor said schools will reopen when 70% of children have had vaccine, this is mandatory vaccination by default in my eyes when governors make statements like that.
-
5
-
1
-
"Business operaters' request 90000 slave labour" is what it should say. What about all the Thais with no jobs in the fall out from covid/tourism demise.
-
2
-
-
- Popular Post
- Popular Post
Why not say which tests they are getting positive, arrival or day 5/6. Maybe there's too many day 5 positive tests which could have easily been picked up in Thailand.
-
8
-
Off with his ***** , won't do it again.
-
1
-
-
Mandatory vaccination of children by default, not good.
-
- Popular Post
- Popular Post
They stated 23k applied first day Thai Pass yesterday, now 30k plus. TAT getting confused again? And who would travel from China to return to 21 day quarantine.
-
5
-
1
-
1
-
If all countries tested like Thailand I'm sure a lot more would climb the table.
-
1
-
1
-
-
20 hours ago, EricTh said:
Which country provides free PCR-test for non-citizens?
Pretty sure UK does if you have symptoms, but then the UK doesn't force PCR tests on fully vaccinated visitors and even a positive ATK does not require a follow up PCR now.
-
1
-
-
Thought they said they were going to stop using the "sino" vaccines?
-
1
-
-
59 minutes ago, DavisH said:
How do you explain the low number of deaths then? If there were really 10's of thousands of cases a day, why is the death rate only 10-15 a day?? So you don't believe the death count either?
Do all deaths have to be certified by a doctor? I believe not so if someone falls ill and dies out in the sticks who certifies it, let alone connect it with covid.
Why are the excess deaths way above the official covid deaths. This was discussed yesterday on this thread.
-
2
-
-
2 hours ago, Jimbo2014 said:
The official covid deaths in Thailand are 22,176 to date, or about 11,000 per annum. The economist lists excess deaths to 28 Jan at 55,430 (https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-tracker). That's about the road toll over the same period. I think what you intend to say is that Covid is preventable by taking the necessary precautions and therefore we should track it. Are not diabetes (Type 2), Pollution and road deaths preventable. Why do we not have daily updates of those and extreme restrictions (sugar banned, factories and crop burning properly monitored etc.). Heck there are over 60,000 deaths from coronary disease annually in Thailand. Is pork fat consumption being reported each day. This reminds me of when there is a shark attack reported and so everyone avoids going in the ocean. Statistical perspective and risk is warranted.
You state 55k excess deaths, that is over and above the average. Previous years averages would have included those from road accidents, illness etc. How do you explain such a large excess apart from covid is ravaging the world. Just need to put two and two together to see that in most countries the excess deaths have rocketed in the last two years above the expected 5yr average. Remember the word "excess".
-
- Popular Post
- Popular Post
3 hours ago, TooMuchTime said:You need to trust The Science more. Stop spreading misinformation. You can still get covid and pass it to granny within the few days you arrive in Thailand.
2nd test is absolute necessary. You would know this if you trusted The Science.
Thailand doesn't like testing its own population as it costs the state money if a Thai has to go into quarantine. They love testing tourists as if found positive and have to go into quarantine it makes money. Simple, end of.
-
12
-
1
-
3
-
7 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:
The first evaluation period before declaring Covid-19 as endemic will be in February, Health Minister Anutin said on Friday. (1/3)
Currently, children under the age of 12 have not been vaccinated, and only 20% of the population have received three doses so it’s still too early to declare the disease as endemic at the moment. (2/3)
The minister added that Thailand hopes to become a "Covid Free Country" with zero Covid deaths from having high vaccine rates and enough medical supplies. (3/3)
https://twitter.com/ThaiEnquirer/status/1486980684786765827
Wishful thinking, don't think there will ever be a time when there is zero covid and zero deaths. That's like saying there is zero seasonal flu and zero deaths from flu or dengue fever.
-
1
-
-
1 hour ago, philr said:
Why can’t Thailand do something similar that’s so eminently sensible, clear and simple?
You hit the nail on the head right there. It's Thailand, plus no extra money in the Dubai model.
-
2
-
-
10 hours ago, anchadian said:
Be nice to know the number of Sandbox tourists testing positive on their second test who I think, in my opinion , maybe contracting the virus in Phuket.
-
48 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:
CU medical expert warns Omicron yet to peak in Thailand
An epidemiologist and medical lecturer at Chulalongkorn University on Thursday has warned Thais to strictly protect themselves as the spread of the Omicron variant in the country has not peaked yet.
Thira said Omicron started spreading in Asia after other continents and it was on the uptrend and but yet to hit highs like in other continents.
He noted that Thailand’s decision to open the country to foreign tourists could lead to various Covid-19 strains entering the country.
They won't know when it's peaked I think, don't test, don't know. Same as new variants entering the country, if your not looking you won't pick them up until it's too late.
-
- Popular Post
As said by others, it's not the 330Bht, it's the possible 10's thousands if you happen to test positive and you're a foreigner. This is looking more like a tourist trap/scam to boost the hospital/hospital income. Just look at social media on the subject and most people are saying the same thing, "no thanks". The longer this witch hunt on tourists carries on whilst ignoring the resident population, the more damage they are doing to their tourism image.
-
34
-
1
-
- Popular Post
- Popular Post
3 hours ago, Cake Monster said:How do 112 Tourists from abroad contract Covid after all the tests and procedures they have been through to make it to Phuket.
It does seem very high at roughly a Third of all cases reported on the Island
I guess the answer to that little puzzle could be in the number of Thais -343 reported, that have contracted the Virus,
Going by the Thai to tourist ration you'd think that there was 1 tourist for every 3 Thai in Phuket. Just shows the difference between how the Thais are testing their own population and the tourists. Tourists have no choice unfortunately about reporting positive tests, unlike the locals who can just hideaway without reporting or just throw the ATK in the bin and carry on as normal if they need to earn a living to put food on the table and roof over their heads. I truly believe this 5 day test has turned into a cash cow now, trying to squeeze every last bit from tourists.
-
5
-
5 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:
Another bump upwards. This does not look like any other countries covid cases with Omicron as the main variant. Something is amiss here and it's not only because of a lack of testing....
Think even with lack of testing you'd see an increase up to plateau eventually, not this rolling wave on the bar chart, something definitely amiss. Also the rhetoric from the government does not match what is happening with the case numbers.
Thai government planning to adjust Covid-19 daily reports
in Thailand News
Posted
Covid itself would not worry me, it's the enforced hospitalisation if testing positive when visiting Thailand. I'm UK and as everyone knows it was rampant here in January, difference is if I caught it in the UK I can hole up in my own home.