Bluetongue

The age groupings of infected and or dead patients might be relevant, maybe its going through pockets of unvaccinated oldies over there, or it could well be that vulnerable older people dying here have not been tested. Or the UK system for reporting death etc is much more efficient. (Just anecdotal I know, but I have not been to a funeral for ages, these are usually fairly regular in the village, also in the area you get to know where they are due to the flags and music etc, and there hasn't been many. Maybe if the schools open a lot more kids will bring it to Grandma.) Or it could be a combination of all those factors

Amateur analysis, good to see the total figure finally solidly below 10k, even if it may be only for a day

they have more data than I have seen anyway, things like clusters, outbreaks in fact a multitude of things, you think maybe they are just calling the shots based on what we know on this page?

But hang on, just yesterday I think it was, you said that the downward trend had finished and we were on a long slow upward trend again. Not having a go because in reality yesterday was up, today is down. We have this daily thread discussing case numbers (mainly), I point out in some places they've stopped providing daily briefings, it only adds to the fear factor and encouragement of amateur epidemiologists. I actually agree with one of your previous theories were we were more or less flatlining around 10k. Also not defending the Thai authorities but I do think some of our judgement based solely on limited data and without embedded knowledge (remembering that a lot of what is happening is in Thai which most of us I reckon would be limited in) of the practices and policies being carried out are a bit harsh. What I've seen of our local authorities in the village is that they do a pretty good job with limited resources, Bangkok is probably different. There wouldn't be a country in the world that could hold its head up against all criticism.

Governments all over the world are hoisted on the petard of the fear that they created. Instead of a rational response, now we have to deal with the consequences.

Threads like this make me wonder whether there are many elderly farang out there who don't bother to keep their extensions up to date, because it all becomes too hard, or because they do not intend to leave, or they become forgetful or broke. I don't want to end my days in a nursing home back in Australia, but I haven't got any illusions about trouble free aging and then dotage here. Think I'll just pay a fixer to go and get my passport stamped here. Does anyone know if Immigration has any capacity to follow up on people who extend regularly for years and then fail to do so?

Here in the local village near Chantaburi, its an on/off process. It was going to open last Monday, they had part vaccinated the older kids. Then the head teacher supposedly got Covid so that put the kibosh on it. Now its supposed to be opening again soon. The wife reckons the locals have banded together and refusing to send kids, I wouldn't know about that either. The online learning is a farce, it doesn't happen. The teachers live on site, some of them, and from what I know of them would be quite happy drawing their salaries doing nothing. Until the school reopens there is no semblance of normality. I feel sorry for the kids, most of them have nothing to do, at Grandma's place, parents working, no money. Of course some of them will get Covid and bring it home, its inevitable, but leaving things as they are indefinitely is just making the whole miserable situation worse.

Who knows, one story I read said the 80 were false positive Rapid tests, the next story said 40 were positive, that was in Thaiger

There is a lot of distrust of the Government in the old Communist world, that certainly explains some of it. Wonder if there will be much appetite from those places for reimposing restrictions. Just reading about Romania, 37.5% vaxxed, 90% of 591 deaths yesterday unvaxxed. But apparently anti vaxxer messaging is very effective. Some restrictions just imposed on the unvaxxed. Says it all really, now is not the time for pussyfooting around with morons.

My take from it was as he specifically mentioned "double jabbed with Pfizer" in his rumour report that it was an opportunity to throw up an anti-vaxxer comment

I'm just surprised that you would come here for a second opinion. Unless you are having a go. Good luck.

As I've said before the insurance will be the last to go. As another poster has said withing a couple of weeks they will work out not many are coming, they will drop the one night and the test. I think they may try and hide the insurance by making the airlines charge it, its potentially the biggest brown envelope one mustn't forget.

Koh Chang has no Tesco or Big C and would be deathly quiet now. Chantaburi is fine, a big enough city to have everything, but quiet. Easy enough to get around. Some nice enough parks, the beaches Chao Lao and Laem Sing etc can be a bit hit and miss with tides, jelly fish whereas Laem Mae Pim further towards Rayong is a better beach in my opinion with swimming always possible. If I was to go from inland Chantaburi that's where I would go. Klaeng is the closest city. Rainy season is supposed to finish about now, otherwise Chantaburi and Trat are some of the wettest places on earth.

I see the majority fudged the question by selecting the "most coming will already be connected to Thailand" option. Faark I did that months ago. I voted "bumpy but go etc" the economy appears to be shattered to me. This won't be the solution, only part of it. Restrictions continue and it is a very modest beginning.

Luxembourg and Slovakia must have been oversights on the first list surely

I hope someone answers this?

As opined on a previous version of this page the decline seems to be more or less flatlining at a combined (PCR & ATK) rate of just over 10. Today's 14 seems pretty bad by that measure, or could be a blip caused by a relatively high number of ATKs today, probably the weekends figures finally coming through.

Well it is what it is, they could test ten times more and still not waste so much money

So 3850 in total? Seems expensive I reckon. I had an x-ray for a dog swallowed a bone and couldn't pass it, it was 600, that was a coupla years ago. The Vets make their money on the medicine as per the doctors here, often if you can buy it elsewhere its cheaper for not fancy stuff. Its still cheap compared to home of course, I do try to remedy at home first though

So the now more than 2 week complete alcohol ban in Chantaburi hasn't done much. I think nearly every day the figures have been as high or higher than they were then.

I don't think you'll get very far with a story critical of the UK on this page, many posters here hold the UK up as a shining light especially compared to Thailand on testing rates

You forgot the biggest country, China. It is not even making a pretence of reporting testing numbers on Worldometer, been 160 million for months. I've said all along its fairly pointless comparing countries unless they have a lot of similarities in a range of factors.

The PCR test numbers are at least slightly predictable. The antigen test numbers are all over the place, the collection, reporting and collating of the data might not be done consistently from all over the country. I heard yesterday the village school will open on Monday, they have vaccinated the 3 years above primary school with one shot afaik. Yet to see if there will be a full roll up.

Thanks, I've heard of such things, not such an avid poster that I would ever do that myself. I seem to not get banned, sometimes things are deleted without explanation.

I don't know that political persuasion is a determining factor, not in my case anyway. I wouldn't call myself right wing or left wing, more like the look after my own best interest's wing.