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1 minute ago, scubascuba3 said:

They like highlighting falang cases but the proportion is very low

It is not low if you take into account of the amount of Thai people and the amount of foreigners here

2 minutes ago, LawrenceN said:

Link, please. Or is it merely conjecture? 

it seem the number of death are not low it countries that do high testing

5 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Yes, that post is a real truthful post and has merit, where the statement he made about earth movers piling dirt in front of villages has no facts in essence one can find anywhere, is the point I was making.

I posted another link on an edit that showed a pile of earth on a road

https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1158805-now-thats-a-checkpoint-thou-shalt-not-enter-trat/

19 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Yes, he must be, because if what he says is true, that "Earthmovers used to pile dirt on the lanes at highway checkpoints. People unable to even leave their villages", then I am 100% sure that it would be all over social media with the title of "We have been trapped in our village please help us" I think people would be all over it if this was true.....so another fake news story.  

How about this one to start with  https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1158944-police-speak-with-german-expats-accused-of-demolishing-coronavirus-barrier-in-chiang-mai/

And this one from yesterday https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1158805-now-thats-a-checkpoint-thou-shalt-not-enter-trat/

8 minutes ago, Letseng said:

Improving = more recoveries than infections.

Today 50 new infections 73 discharged for hospital

5 minutes ago, NightSky said:

Exactly right and also is it a coincidence that most of the announced deaths recently are foreigners. Where did all the Thai deaths disappear to?

 

I saw a graph showing nationality split of people with covid recently and Thais were the obvious majority.

 

Foreigners were the minority few hospitalised, but most deaths announced recently seem to be foreigners.

 

Go figure!

 

 

last 2 days deaths were 3 foreigners 2 Thai

25 minutes ago, JCP108 said:

If ICU beds aren't running at capacity, then a 10% increase in business might still be within their normal capacity. I wouldn't assume that they were running at 100% full prior to this. 

 

I still say that a 10-12% increase would not be "visually obvious and impossible to paper over." I think that kind of fluctuation happens all the time and we don't see it. I get that you and others are convinced you would (and, so I'm going to stop trying to make the opposite point). I just don't think we would. 

But you forget that over half of the infections are in BKK so I would think if the figures are not true BKK hospitals ICUs would be over loaded by now 

3 hours ago, Max69xl said:

Several hospitals offers coronavirus tests,both government and private. But it's not free. The price starts from about 5-6k to maybe the double depending on hospital and location.

Hua Hin government hospital now quoting 3500-5000 for test

2 minutes ago, sallecc said:

 

Thanks for clarification, good news indeed.

 

It would be more clear if they wrote "... visas and extensions", because most of the folks are on extensions here, including tourists too (who got their 1st extensions after their actual "visas" expired)

I am not sure it includes the yearly extentions

This also includes 90 reports

12 minutes ago, thequietman said:

Was offered 25 covid-19 tests by a Chinese seller I dealt with before, for 212 dollars total. That's 8.50 dollars (280 baht) each. Surely the 'government' can afford this for their citizens!

 

The tests are only 90% assurance rate, but, it is a start.

Did you buy them and what type of test were they

Now we know why they are taking the measures they are taking

3 minutes ago, iaminwa said:

Yep, correct. 

 

Comparison of testing:

 

 

 

 

Or you could look at Japan 3906 cases and 365 test per million population

The thing I was thinking if the government were fudging the total case figures why they not fudge the testing number which would be much easier to hide

I would not be surprised to see a 24 hr curfew just over songkran

5 hours ago, Iron Tongue said:

No.  

 

Tigers at a US zoo have the virus so are you sure dogs cannot get it

6 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Depends on how many test are actually being performed daily... for around a 100 cases every day the measures in place seem harsh, unless the government know the figures are higher as people are not being tested.

Should you wait till the numbers get high before you do anything, also not sure I believe the numbers but just hope they are correct

15 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Cheap shot. 

It is IMPOSSIBLE for Thailand or any other country to have any idea of actual numbers of infected people either current or past without massive testing including antibody testing to detect the number of previously infected. 

I cannot understand why all this fuzz about testing, how much time is going to be wasted in testing when all that time and services can be use for normally sick people

Quoting figures from the BBC 163194 people have been tested there and 33718 were positive that mean about 130000 were wasted and could have been used to test health workers

 please remove

1 minute ago, MJKT2014 said:

Did he give an inkling of why?

 

All I see on this thread are number of cases, but not number of tests? Without tests (positive AND negative) who knows what real damage is out there or when it will be safe to go out. 

We only need to see how many people are sick in hospital why do we need to see how many people that only slightly sick

That type of testing is only needed after the worst is over you see how dangerous it is

1 minute ago, riclag said:

Sakon Nakhon

 

I not see any reported cases in Sakon

2 minutes ago, Chazar said:

wheres  Prachuap  KhiriKhan  gone then?

Some sites say only 8 cases in PKK other say 10 cases in PKK I am not sure who to believe or if anybody really knows 

16 minutes ago, riclag said:

I don't see my province  numbers included or even mentioned!

Is it possible that its zero?

What province do you live