Thai govt to decide on extending emergency decree, easing COVID-19 restrictions

[ehs818]

I just got a text about this. It's officially extended until 31 May.

[Bluedan]

58 minutes ago, idiot farang said:

The slow people in the room are the ones buying 100% into the hysteria being propagated by their handlers with nary a modicum of independent thought.

This is the most expensive experiment in human history- ignoring EVERYTHING know about viruses. This isn't the bubonic plague with up to 95% mortality- geesh man, get a grip.

No herd immunity means this thing is going to linger and linger and linger. Protect the vulnerable is the correct approach. But, ya know, stop eating rn--- because that 1 in 2,696 chance of choking to death on your food is too big of a risk to take. Oh, nevermind, you're waiting for the govt. to TELL YOU to stop eating before you'll do it. Good thinking.... they know best.

You nailed it man, its depressing reading that we are in the minority here. Even with questionable motives for labelling some deaths as caused by covid19 the death rate per infected citizen is not much different to seasonal flu figures. There is no evidence proving the rates to be affected by social distancing. Some experts are saying social isolation and lack of vitamin D are lowering our immune systems. The virus can be transmitted by fomites and last up to 3 days...so stay at home but dont touch that coke bottle in the fridge or the plastic bag it came in because it might have been touched by an infected person 3 days ago.

 

Its a matter of proportion. One person has allegedly died in Phuket from this virus, yet the whole island is shutdown and the people are suffering. For our liberties to be taken away there better be a damn good reason Something like 98% of people dying from this disease have underlying conditions. The cause of actual death is often debatable. To "protect" us the government has called this a pandemic and locked us up under house arrest and forced people out of business and out of work, and increased the prospect of suicide hunger domestic violence. These are things that will echo for years to come. 

 

[johnarth]

2 hours ago, fxe1200 said:

Prajuth is still mulling.

yes he wants the Chinese over-running the country as soon as possible, but he now knows that Thais do not want that yet

[poohy]

1 hour ago, Matzzon said:

Glad to hear you have such amazing family relations. How about we go back to topic. What do you have to say about the emergence decree?

Seeing as you want my opinion 

• I live south of PKK everything working all shops open (well 90%) including hairdressers so no issues there
• Curfew does not effect me 
• Want to fly out in sept have ticket booked so no problems if i cant get back i sit it out with beloved sister ???? now if you believe that
• All i want is to buy beer that would p***s me off if they extend
• Don't care about restaurants or bars can meet mates at home or on beach for a beer as long as we get ..no problems until now with under the counter stuff ..fingers crossed nothing changes
• Oh i am planning on buying a new RC yacht that's going to be an additional expensive toy

couldn't give a monkeys about anything else really!

 

Anything else you want to know??

Edited April 27, 2020 by poohy

[brucec64]

17 minutes ago, dave moir said:

Staying healthy!!!!!!!

Have you not seen the queues of people standing waiting for handouts because they have no money or food to put on the table!!!!

The lockdown doesn't really have anything to do with Covid 19 it's about control of the people

https://nypost.com/2020/04/07/pastor-who-criticized-coronavirus-mass-hysteria-dies-from-illness/

 

 

[Neeranam]

2 hours ago, Matzzon said:

The emergency decree has to be in place until people stop complaining and understand it is helping them and the rest of the country to stay healthy. Not talking about the economic side here. Just that maybe people can learn and not break the rules next time. If that is achieved, then it might take much shorter next time.

Rubbish, the sessional flu killed more here, and there is a vaccine for that. It's a scamdemic, which many are fooled by. 

[ICELANDMAN]

43 minutes ago, Ketyo said:

Ultra low transmission. And they have a curfew, hotel ban and alcohol ban. Thai logic. Are they trying to crash the economy on purpose?

Yes. After the control population it will be total with guaranteed income of 1000 baht for month, and not need election any more because everyone accept money guarantee for life. Waiting and see.

[Bluedan]

12 minutes ago, brucec64 said:

Congratulations on your 9th post and welcome to TVF.

 

The virus started to spread exponentially and this caused the lockdown to occur. Thailand was fortunate enough to start the lockdown early in the exponential cycle, and as a result was spared what happened in other countries. The straight line in yellow on the logarithmic scale indicates exponential growth. Without intervention, (around week of march 22nd), this would have grown 10x within 2 weeks, and 2 weeks after that could have been in Italy or Spain regions. This is why lockdowns are necessary, and why lockdowns work (at least in the short term).

 

 

 

 

the graph does not support your case. Lockdown would take a couple of weeks to have an effect since the incubation period is up to 14 days so the effects of a lockdown policy would not be felt until 6 April. The graph shows immediate flattening that could be because of a natural progression of the disease.... like you guessed it seasonal flu.

[Denim]

14 hours ago, dave moir said:

The lockdown doesn't really have anything to do with Covid 19 it's about control of the people

 

Be inclined to agree. The military government were losing their grip after the Future Forward travesty.

This is all a godsend to Prayuth and co giving them a perfect chance to flex their muscle and reassert their control whilst having a convenient and apparently altruistic reason for doing so.

[3NUMBAS]

woe betide the man that gets it wrong .he will be strung up to a lamp post for all eternity ..

[zaZa9]

3 hours ago, Matzzon said:

The emergency decree has to be in place until people stop complaining and understand it is helping them and the rest of the country to stay healthy. Not talking about the economic side here. Just that maybe people can learn and not break the rules next time. If that is achieved, then it might take much shorter next time.

Nothing to do with complaining.

 

If they continue to have our beaches empty in the heat , plus no use of common pools , plus no beer... and for another month ... then even I will be breaking the law soon.

If somebody congregates on a beach , or over some beers ( or Som Taum for that matter ) ARREST THEM.

If we gotta stay away from people , make it tolearble to live alone - please !

 

 

[FarFlungFalang]

2 hours ago, steven100 said:

It's a case of enforcing rules so that the virus transmission and infection rate eventually subside so that we can all live a normal life again. If the rules were not enforced the transmission of the virus would continue and increase.  simple really  ..... 

Like the new avatar photo Steven,it's much more apt.I think you mean so we can get back to the "new normal" life.The Spanish flu lasted about two and a half years and the more we slow this pandemic the more problems will worsen is my fear so maybe not so simple.We could be looking at a much longer lock down.

[zippysteve]

Are they kidding I just walked into the mall and bought an iPad earlier this afternoon, and a lot of shops are open but not all of them yet. They’re still doing some crowd control but not like earlier this month when I was at the mall last time most shops were closed a few weeks ago but now things are slowly opening up. 

[elliss]

3 hours ago, poohy said:

 

More importantly P what about the beer Ban yes or no?

 

   What beer ban ?.  

[PumpkinEater]

There will NEVER be ZERO risk in life!

Lets get on with it already.

One month is enough for this flu virus.

YOU WILL NOT DIE IF YOU CATCH IT, QUIT BELIEVING THAT YOU WILL!

99% chance of living...

[OneeyedJohn]

1 hour ago, NCC1701A said:

so should i change my Thai Friendly profile to say "Free room, A/C, WiFi, food and Netflix for one month. Must be open minded. Submit your bid."   

Maybe 'me, big dick' would work

[5633572526]

With the number of new cases at 9 and in the not so distant past being told by this government that restrictions could be reduced when new cases dip below 10 extending now is nothing more than a power drunk military government enjoying the total control they have and the opposition not being able to gather together and rally against them due to these restrictions.

[metisdead]

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[smedly]

2 hours ago, idiot farang said:

So many people in the world are seemingly thrilled to have their personal freedoms taken away by a handful of power crazed authoritarians making decisions on how we can live our lives.... boggles the mind.

 

Further, a complete lack of understanding of how this 'crisis' is their wet dream test case for controlling the masses and the concept of a slippery slope. The naivete is breathtaking.

no surprise were Thailand is concerned when you have a military government in charge 

 

what they are used to is running things like a military regiment and that is exactly what they are doing - their mindset knows nothing else and they have absolutely no concept of a free society - but to be fare they have also grown up in the neighbourhood of China N. Korea LAOS Cambodia Burma and Vietnam so they know no different, the only way out of it is for the people to realise and see it for what it is and get rid of them

[JCP108]

"the government will be aware of the change"

 

How?

[soalbundy]

3 hours ago, Matzzon said:

The emergency decree has to be in place until people stop complaining and understand it is helping them and the rest of the country to stay healthy. Not talking about the economic side here. Just that maybe people can learn and not break the rules next time. If that is achieved, then it might take much shorter next time.

Die from covid-19 or starve to death, not an easy decision to make, I'd risk Covid-19.

[FarFlungFalang]

1 hour ago, sevenhills said:

Took the words right out of my mouth, At least some people are awake to this Scamdemic.????

One word you missed is Scamdemania,oops sounds a bit like a country.

[CharlieH]

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[Neeranam]

25 minutes ago, elliss said:

 

   What beer ban ?.  

I've always been able to buy alcohol. As an alcoholic, it's rather important unless I want to see pink buffaloes flying through the air. 

[bangrak]

2 hours ago, steven100 said:

yes, he's done a good job ( IMO ) with controlling the COVID-19 outbrake, and hopefully his decisions continue to help minimize infection transmission without prolonged damage to the economy albeit a balancing act.

IIt seems to me you "outbrake" yourself quite often already "steven100", maybe try "steven50" as name for a while, or maybe straight to the point choose: "con-id-19" for when readers go ...viral about your outspoken sympathies for military dictators, in an ..."outbreak" of anger?

 

[Neeranam]

7 minutes ago, soalbundy said:

Die from covid-19 or starve to death, not an easy decision to make, I'd risk Covid-19.

At my age, it's about 0.0001 %, whereas driving my kids to school, it's about 0.001%

[spidermike007]

Let us hope this is not true. This would be a horrendously bad decision. This far the govt. has done a good job. Covid was isolated and it died. Now, it is time to bring the nation back from the brink. Another month would be hugely damaging to the vast majority of the population here and highly punitive, for no good reason. It is overkill. It would be devastating to millions. 

 

The new daily cases are at near zero. More pedestrians meet their maker each day. 

 

End the lockdown. End the insanity. End it now! 

Edited April 27, 2020 by spidermike007

[cornishcarlos]

1 hour ago, outsider said:

, if figures continue to be low, or even drop further

 

If the figures drop much further in Thailand, this virus will be creating people !!

[graemeaylward]

1 hour ago, sevenhills said:

Took the words right out of my mouth, At least some people are awake to this Scamdemic.????

Perhaps you would like to call this a Scamdemic to the relatives of some of the 20,000 who have lost there lives to Covid-19 in the UK, or other parts of Europe or even the USA, including many doctors and nurses!  We are fortunate here in Thailand to have escaped the full wrath of this terrible virus.  My son and daughter in law, and daughter, are working long hours to save lives and prevent the spread of this pestilence through isolation, good hygeine and social distancing!  How dare you call it a "Scamdemic"! You sound as ill informed as that nutcase Trump!

 

[bangrak]

2 hours ago, Kaopad999 said:

Fingers crossed they extend it for at least another 2 months. So far it's worked really well. 
As that old saying goes "If if it's not broke, then why try to fix it"

"Kaopad999", no idea why the word "broke" would be more familiar to you, but in the old saying it is about not "broken" not to be fixed, when you allow me.