RickBradford

Perhaps Prayut will engage in that decisive out-of-the-box thinking Thais are so well known for and ask: "Why do we actually need a national airline?"

It's not as if passengers are starved of options these days to fly from anywhere to anywhere else. Save billions and put a bunch of rent-seeking old geezers in uniforms out to grass.

On the other hand, maybe not.

9 minutes ago, Guderian said:

Meanwhile India, which has been under a stricter lockdown than Thailand for a longer period, reported almost 4,000 new cases on Monday and 195 deaths. So what is Thailand doing right that India is doing wrong?

Not overbreeding, perhaps. India has a population 15 times the size of Thailand's and a population density 3 times greater.

Namibia has seen 16 infections and no deaths. Perhaps we need to ask what they are doing right that Thailand is doing wrong.

They have the physical strength of adults but the minds of 5-year-old children; you cannot criticize a particular behavior without them immediately thinking you don't love them any more. It's all about them personally.

They have no ability for self-reflection or self-awareness; impulse rules their reactions. Like children, they have only 3 modes; overbearing love, withdrawn sulkiness, and outright bats**t violence.

And I've been married to one for over 10 years .....

14 minutes ago, DirtyHarry55 said:

Oh happy days I wonder why they changes their minds public pressure through social media?

More likely pressure from the wealthy bosses of Chang. Leo, Singha etc.

They don't give a f*k about "social" media ....

Just now, Susco said:

WOW, 6 hours only for 32 pages of pure desperation, paints a perfect picture of the average TV member

The fact that you've thought it necessary to make that meaningless comment paints an excellent picture of you.

A cynic on another forum suggested that the grace period is primarily for the big suppliers like Leo, Chang, Singha and the others to shift their old beer stocks, which have gradually been going off, sitting for 3 weeks in their warehouses.

2 minutes ago, nobodysfriend said:

The Government's policy of imposing social distancing will only work for a short time because people will be getting more desperate when being forced to isolate for a longer period of time .

Many factories had to close , leaving their employees without job or income .

If no vaccine can be mass produced in a short time , ( illusionary ) , people will need to get back to work , or social unrest will follow .

One prominent UK medical authority, Professor John Lee, has suggested that while coronavirus may kill many people, wrecking the economy may also cost lives. He argues:

How do we measure the health consequences of taking people’s lives, jobs, leisure and purpose away from them to protect them from an anticipated threat? Which causes least harm?

 

The moral debate is not lives vs money. It is lives vs lives. It will take months, perhaps years, if ever, before we can assess the wider implications of what we are doing. The damage to children’s education, the excess suicides, the increase in mental health problems, the taking away of resources from other health problems that we were dealing with effectively. Those who need medical help now but won’t seek it, or might not be offered it.

 

And what about the effects on food production and global commerce, that will have unquantifiable consequences for people of all ages, perhaps especially in developing economies?

49 minutes ago, Boomer6969 said:

Vaguely remember the "Mad Cow Disease", did it come from China too?

Do you vaguely remember the SARS epidemic of 2002/2003? That came from China, too.

China feels free to blame the West for the "damage" caused by climate change, and demands massive reparations, yet refuses to be blamed for the Covid-19 epidemic, where the damage is evident and substantial.

Even more sickening, the WHO, (aided by the mainstream media) discourages any links between this outbreak and China on the grounds that it "stigmatizes" a country.

It seems inevitable that the economic/social costs are going to be far higher than the medical/social ones.

The Thai government is displaying all those qualities we have come to expect; inability to make critical assessments; taking advice from people they know best rather than from people who know best; following the mantram of "We must do something. This is something. Therefore we must do it."

How long do they think they can lock this country down, even if Covid were nearly as deadly as is being claimed?

Thai people have been scared by official announcements so far, but I'll bet by the middle of April, pressure to open up again will prevail.

1 hour ago, TheDark said:

Brexit means brexit and 17.4 million people voted so. Therefore Brexit must be executed, because of the will of the people and democracy. 

Those 17.4 million people who supported Brexit have been saying this over and over since late June 2016, so you're rather late to the party ....

55 minutes ago, Mikeasq60 said:

Thailand is being douped same as the US and Europe this CV is a hoax. China is 100% back to work!

Yup, those 3,000 dead Italians are just a hoax.

Idiot. Or troll.