17 minutes ago, Henryford said:

Would be interesting if someone did a study on why death rates vary so much between countries. Thailand and the UK have the same population. Thailand deaths 57, UK 44,000 !! Plus Thailand is next to China with millions of Chinese tourists. Something fishy about all these stats.

There's nothing 'fishy' about these stats.

 

East Asian countries are willing to listen to their governments like wearing masks, curfew, social distancing etc. 

 

 

Edited May 21, 20206 yr by EricTh

16 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

Yes.

They are documented cesspools of infections.

Should be last on the list allowed here.

Ya i have a new friend from UK and she said its still very bad there. Eluding to still out of control. 

And this is coming from perhaps the least qualified member of the administration. He should have been dismissed as health minister, the day Covid broke out. He has been in way over his head, nearly everything he has said has been inane, ignorant, racist and ridiculous, and now this? No new cases for 14 days? Come on. Covid is gone. Let the people get back to work. Or, at the minimum surrender your salary to help the people, and kick in a million baht a day, from your massive fortune, to help the people during the remainder of the shutdown. And perhaps you can convince some of the other greedy members of your administration who are fabulously wealthy, to do the same.

 

It is so easy to recommend and support a continued lockdown, when you are collecting your full salary and benefits, and have a fortune in the bank. Not much of a sacrifice. Not much of a man you are. 

17 hours ago, DrJack54 said:

Thailand closed inbound flights April 4.

Australia think it was March 20.

NZ prior to that. 

Almost every measure Thailand has put into place has come after (copied) what some western countries did. 

They came up with a curfew. Actually mild compared to Oz where you had only 6 specific reasons to be outside your home.

Maximum gathering even in own home was 2 (excluding own house mates or family).

The one thing Thailand came up with was booze ban. Stupid in the extreme.

They dodged a bullet somehow. Please don't put it down to unique/clever management.

I’m always ready to bash Thailand when it’s deserved but here you seem to looking for any excuse. You’re going as far as accusing them of copying another country’s ideas. Thailand has done very well and deserves the credit for doing it. Look at the US and the UK if you need a bashing target. The worlds two biggest basket cases.

17 hours ago, Curt1591 said:

Fear is a terrible thing to waste. Just saw a meme pointing out the "death rate" at 3%. It then went on to say that if there was a bowl of 100 skittles, and 3 were deadly, would you eat any?
 

The problem is that they are using the percentage of people who's death was "attributed" to COVID and used confirmed cases as the base. The reality is that there is over 330,000,000 people in the USA. If we divide the number of deaths "attributed" to COVID by the population, we are looking at less than .03 percent. Inother words, the bowl should have 10,000 skittles!
 

There are many thing we all face, daily, that put us at a higher death risk. 

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Worldwide, it seems this thing has come, peaked and is waning. It will return next year, just like most seasonal diseases. Hopefully, healthcare systems will be prepared, vaccines will be available and it will not become a big scary monster. 

The big scare was that healthcare providers are prepared the annual flu epidemic. 

But then, , COVID rolls into town. They have no vaccine and no established treatment. So, the healthcare industry panics. 
 

They have weathered the storm - treatments have been established and vaccines are on the way.
 

The season is over. Time to get back with our lives. 

this bug may require 22nd century science

11 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

And this is coming from perhaps the least qualified member of the administration. He should have been dismissed as health minister, the day Covid broke out. He has been in way over his head, nearly everything he has said has been inane, ignorant, racist and ridiculous, and now this? No new cases for 14 days? Come on. Covid is gone. Let the people get back to work. Or, at the minimum surrender your salary to help the people, and kick in a million baht a day, from your massive fortune, to help the people during the remainder of the shutdown. And perhaps you can convince some of the other greedy members of your administration who are fabulously wealthy, to do the same.

 

It is so easy to recommend and support a continued lockdown, when you are collecting your full salary and benefits, and have a fortune in the bank. Not much of a sacrifice. Not much of a man you are. 

i handed out money today and i am a lowly farang

17 hours ago, Traubert said:

What treatments?

Chloroquine and bleach

18 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

Yet millions have to wait ANOTHER 2 weeks to see if they can start to earn money again, to put food on the table for their families !

And the BTS and markets are packed with no social distancing, Bizarre !

And someone please explain why on earth the CURFEW is still in place. STOOPID beyond belief.

I rarely go out late but that is NOT the issue, Bangkok is NOT Seame Street for kids!!!

4 minutes ago, malibukid said:

i handed out money today and i am a lowly farang

Yep. Many of us are doing our little bit to help the Thai people. My wife recently traveled to her home town, and we handed out 3000 eggs to the villagers, many of whom are really hurting. Alot of happiness and joy all around. Some told her they drove many kilometers from their farms, to get the eggs, and were very grateful for the help. 

 

 

 

2 hours ago, DrJack54 said:

Close your airport to foreign nationals some 10 days later than say AU and other countries.

The UK left airports wide open, never checked anyone and is just now talking about quarantine. That went well didn’t it.

13 minutes ago, Fairynuff said:

You’re going as far as accusing them of copying another country’s ideas

I only listed few examples of many.

Take something like face masks. 

Vietnam made them compulsory in public march 16. Think Thailand was something like April 4~.

Thailand has been following. Well apart from booze ban. 

 

 

 

Remove the 14-day quarantine.  Bring the Baht down to Earth....so things can return to normal.

12 hours ago, SantiSuk said:

That plus the fact that Thailand is largely a rural and smaller town nation compared with the larger European countries and the US.

 

This Zipf plot would show otherwise. Apart from the large city of Bangkok which produces the outlier to the right, Thailand's population distribution is very similar to Germany's. (Populations 70m and 83m respectively)

 

Edited May 21, 20206 yr by CaptainCarrot

1 hour ago, 5633572526 said:

If Thailand’s reports were truthful we would not need any restrictions the fact that we are still in curfew tells you the real numbers are much higher 

No, it tells you the restrictions worked.

1 hour ago, Saddic said:

Those four countries are the United States, Russia, Brazil and India,

Trump, Putin, Bolsonaro and Modhi. Anyone spot the common thread?

first of all if The Thai government believes the numbers from China they better think again. Yes they want tourism but the Chinese people from china I believe will be carrying this virus back to Thailand. How are you going to open bars and entertainment venues with social distancing is impossible 

14 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

I only listed few examples of many.

Take something like face masks. 

Vietnam made them compulsory in public march 16. Think Thailand was something like April 4~.

Thailand has been following. Well apart from booze ban. 

 

 

 

If you see someone else getting something right would you not do it because they did it first? I wish the UK and US would have copied Thailand. At least most of Europe is now requiring masks.

1 minute ago, barryofthailand said:

How are you going to open bars and entertainment venues with social distancing is impossible 

Quietly.....just keep the doors locked.

18 hours ago, JCP108 said:

Letting tourists from China travel freely into Thailand?

Yes right now better than from Europe and USA where they hardly do testing at departure and arrival.

19 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

Yet millions have to wait ANOTHER 2 weeks to see if they can start to earn money again, to put food on the table for their families !

And the BTS and markets are packed with no social distancing, Bizarre !

while all of Phukets Beaches are closed and Drones controlling movements in the ocean.

19 hours ago, JCP108 said:

When I look at worldwide numbers and compare them to Thailand, seems like they don't compare at all. Thailand functionally got a total pass.

Let's be honest, how many countries do you trust with numbers that are run by Generals ?

18 hours ago, Curt1591 said:

Fear is a terrible thing to waste. Just saw a meme pointing out the "death rate" at 3%. It then went on to say that if there was a bowl of 100 skittles, and 3 were deadly, would you eat any?
 

The problem is that they are using the percentage of people who's death was "attributed" to COVID and used confirmed cases as the base. The reality is that there is over 330,000,000 people in the USA. If we divide the number of deaths "attributed" to COVID by the population, we are looking at less than .03 percent. Inother words, the bowl should have 10,000 skittles!
 

 

even more importantly, the only people who will get sick, or possible die is a very limited sup-population.

 

if you are under age 60 with no associated co-morbidites, you can eat infected skittles with impunity.

 

people here, and around the world have so much fear, and so few facts.

The good minister is going to fat. I was wondering why we had not seen him of late. He will take his instructions and we now know after yesterday, what it will be. 

19 hours ago, DrJack54 said:

Exactly. 

Just a guess but thinking next step will involve opening borders/airports to folk from  designated "safe countries"/states

That list will initially consist of China, Sth Korea, Taiwan, HK, Japan.

USA along with many others, no invitation.

Looks like China is getting a 2nd wave? Not sure why they would be considered a safe country?

Now Minister Anutin what are you waiting to free the economy before everything collapses, after two weeks that there is no C19 and how to have put the whole country in quarantine then the virus is gone, but since you do not understand anything about economics then yes you understands that your power is at the end of the epidemic and you don't want to lose it so you decides for another month and better for another year.

Anutin must have been tired as he did not specifically mention the "dirty farang" again and neither threatened passing by aliens for not wearing a face mask. Holiday needed? 

My Buddah for each phase they are waiting 15 days, there's no end to the madness. No relief for those trying to make a living or get home. 

Let this be a warning to all who are celebrating the end of Covid in there countries.

Watford football club in the UK had players report for training, after testing Mariappa  a defender tested positive, who claims not to have been out of his house other than a walk with his kids for 6 weeks, so presumably a carrier with no symptoms and caught before his home  lockdown, how many millions like this and this is why a temp check at an airport is useless.

When are they gonna open up and return back to the normal  international mail system?

So Bozo made another public announcement. This guy needs to go away and has zero right to be attached to Health and Ministry. What should be said is get ready for the next evolved strain that keeps on hanging on.