Expert rings alarm bells over Covid-19 spreading in neighbouring countries

By The Nation

 

Dr Yong Poovorawan, an expert virologist at Chulalongkorn University

 

The Covid-19 pandemic is spreading closer to Thailand, Dr Yong Poovorawan, an expert virologist at Chulalongkorn University, said on Saturday (August 29).

 

 

In a Facebook post, he said that the Covid-19 pandemic had emerged in India and later spread to Bangladesh and Myanmar, while the number of patients in Myanmar had increased sharply.

 

"So far, Covid-19 has come to Thailand from people travelling by airplane, but soon it will spread from people travelling through the borders," he said.

 

"For example, Chikungunya previously emerged in foreign countries before spreading to Thailand."

 

He said from now on, the country must issue stricter Covid-19 preventive measures to contain the spread of disease as much as possible.

"To enable people to live as normal and reduce deaths, everyone must work together; people must not forget to wear face mask, wash their hands regularly and maintain physical distance with others," he added.

 

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Better fling the country's doors open to tourism.  

 

I mean really this government couldn't agree what a pineapple is.  

54 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

"So far, Covid-19 has come to Thailand from people travelling by airplane, but soon it will spread from people travelling through the borders," he said.

just make absolutely sure that draconian measures are applied to the tiny number of foreign tourists arriving by plane but almost nothing on the hordes of immigrant workers arriving by land ????

2 hours ago, rooster59 said:

"To enable people to live as normal and reduce deaths, everyone must work together; people must not forget to wear face mask, wash their hands regularly and maintain physical distance with others," he added.

Was reading that Indian slums were faring rather well.  

 

Washing hands and wearing a mask is all good advice, but what all these esteemed medicos leave out is building your immune system is key.  Garlic and essential oils help along with a plant based diet.  Healthy bodies are no fun to doctors, big government and big pharma.   

Edited August 30, 20205 yr by yellowboat

Are large numbers of construction workers etc. legally (and illegally) currently entering from Burma? I stated that to my Thai gf yesterday and she claimed not to have heard of it; and I realize I haven't seen any recent reports.

Don't worry Ai Anutin has it all under control...

2 minutes ago, Enzian said:

Are large numbers of construction workers etc. legally (and illegally) currently entering from Burma? I stated that to my Thai gf yesterday and she claimed not to have heard of it; and I realize I haven't seen any recent reports.

Has your Thai gf heard anything about Cambodian workers coming in from Cambodia ?

8 minutes ago, CorpusChristie said:

Has your Thai gf heard anything about Cambodian workers coming in from Cambodia ?

I'm not saying her views are important, I'm just saying I watch the news too much and the specifics of this issue seem to have dropped out recently to my knowledge, and does anyone have anything?

I only know in my area close to Cambodia, local fruit growers that I spoke to in July thought that they would be able to rehire their Cambodian labour from August 1. However once they saw the monetary and other requirements including only the border crossing at Arranya Prathet (inconvenient to here) they have it seems decided not to proceed as I haven't seen any apart from a few that have been here all along.

a real attention w.....

The weekly Clown has had his pic shown again. All good for another 7 days

Words fail me, Right hand please meet with Left hand .............LOL

I guess we have Burma, Laos and Cambodia as immediate neighbours....all countries with the right political slant and perfect records of human rights violations. What could possibly go wrong ion we open our borders to these wonderful countries?

4 hours ago, yellowboat said:

Was reading that Indian slums were faring rather well.  

 

Washing hands and wearing a mask is all good advice, but what all these esteemed medicos leave out is building your immune system is key.  Garlic and essential oils help along with a plant based diet.  Healthy bodies are no fun to doctors, big government and big pharma.   

Apparently, COVID can be spread by 'fecal plume' (indeed look it up). Indian slum dwellers are supposed to poo in the street (due to an absence of toilets) and would make a great tourist target if we paid for their flights over here.

The boot swings to the other foot now............. Sweden - no lockdown - doing very well now - minimal new cases.   UK - late lockdown - doing very well now - not many new cases.   France - severe lockdown - suffering badly with 700% more cases than UK.

 

Again proving the point, countries that remained open and still remain open, like the UK and Sweden, are doing fine now.

 

Countries that locked down are scared to death now.........and will suffer massive economic issues ahead.

 

Wait until Covid gets into birds........and spreads by bird droppings...........cannot stop it then..........  

 

Lockdown was stupid, it was a big error locking up 99.9% of healthy people to try to save 0.1% of old and sick people.  Dumb dumb dumb.

When was the last time a COVID infection was detected at a land immigration crossing? Or rather reported?

 

does this mean there is no infection within adjoining country's labour forces for people crossing Thailand's borders?

 

What preventative/detection methods are being used on the labourers?

 

IMO, without addressing the above issues, setting up pilot schemes to get tourist numbers back doesn't mean a thing towards the well-being of the Thai population; the tourist entry procedures will become focal in the media, while the crossing of labourers from neighbouring countries (constituting a much larger threat as they spread throughout the country practically unhindered) will just happen anyway.

No lockdown, no curfew, quoting Sweden as a success story,

Dangerous post

1 hour ago, RR2020 said:

The boot swings to the other foot now............. Sweden - no lockdown - doing very well now - minimal new cases.   UK - late lockdown - doing very well now - not many new cases.   France - severe lockdown - suffering badly with 700% more cases than UK.

 

Again proving the point, countries that remained open and still remain open, like the UK and Sweden, are doing fine now.

 

Countries that locked down are scared to death now.........and will suffer massive economic issues ahead.

 

Wait until Covid gets into birds........and spreads by bird droppings...........cannot stop it then..........  

 

Lockdown was stupid, it was a big error locking up 99.9% of healthy people to try to save 0.1% of old and sick people.  Dumb dumb dumb.

It seemed to work very well in other countries ????

1 hour ago, RR2020 said:

The boot swings to the other foot now............. Sweden - no lockdown - doing very well now - minimal new cases.   UK - late lockdown - doing very well now - not many new cases.   France - severe lockdown - suffering badly with 700% more cases than UK.

 

Again proving the point, countries that remained open and still remain open, like the UK and Sweden, are doing fine now.

 

Countries that locked down are scared to death now.........and will suffer massive economic issues ahead.

 

Wait until Covid gets into birds........and spreads by bird droppings...........cannot stop it then..........  

 

Lockdown was stupid, it was a big error locking up 99.9% of healthy people to try to save 0.1% of old and sick people.  Dumb dumb dumb.

Cough, cough - Sweden - doing very well????

With 576 Covid-19 deaths per million population, it's is rather difficult to see how anyone can say that they doing so terribly well! Few countries have a worse record of deaths as a %age of population than Sweden - apart form those run by total idiots like Trump & Johnson. Even the author of Sweden's "no lockdown" policy is now saying that the policy may have been a massive mistake!

8 minutes ago, paulbj2 said:

Cough, cough - Sweden - doing very well????

With 576 Covid-19 deaths per million population, it's is rather difficult to see how anyone can say that they doing so terribly well! Few countries have a worse record of deaths as a %age of population than Sweden - apart form those run by total idiots like Trump & Johnson. Even the author of Sweden's "no lockdown" policy is now saying that the policy may have been a massive mistake!

How many of those people really died of Covid?

I can tell you in Italy they are counting as Covid-related deaths people who had virus 2 months ago, tested negative and died due to other ilnesses or old age.

This Covid madness really needs to stop.

Maybe Birds will bring it over when they migrate in November?
P.s Is this the expert who claimed smoking and vaping can spread the Virus?

Yea expert my a

Edited August 30, 20205 yr by DirtyHarry55

9 hours ago, rooster59 said:

"So far, Covid-19 has come to Thailand from people travelling by airplane, but soon it will spread from people travelling through the borders," he said.

Is T.A.T Phuket listening?

 

9 hours ago, Blumpie said:

Better fling the country's doors open to tourism.  

 

I mean really this government couldn't agree what a pineapple is.  

and how does that differ from every government in the world?  Thailand is doing far better than most, thank goodness for those of us who live here.  

For years there have been illegal border crossings from Myanmar and Laos into Thailand. Many of the illegals have got lowly paid jobs in Thailand. The crossings take place at night across rivers and forests. I know this from a guy I once knew, he and his wife hired a nanny from Myanmar for years on end for some ridiculous pay. At the time, if caught by immigration, these illegals would pay a fine of 500 baht or something similar and would then be returned to their old country. From what they told me, this practice was widespread.

5 minutes ago, Anton9 said:

How many of those people really died of Covid?

I can tell you in Italy they are counting as Covid-related deaths people who had virus 2 months ago, tested negative and died due to other ilnesses or old age.

This Covid madness really needs to stop.

> Fully agree.  I posted a joke below, but it is not far from what is actually happening at many places.  The figures are manipulated up or down to be in line with the interests of the powers that be.  Total madness!

 

The "expert" Dr Yong is back in the news!!!

 

Everyone of these pronouncements would be, "Experts continue to fan the flames of fear."

I believe what we need are less experts.  

2 hours ago, Deli said:

The weekly Clown has had his pic shown again. All good for another 7 days

This joker is a government shill.  They trot him out to spout his nonsense and stick him back in his hole next time the need an “expert”.  Is he an epidemiologist ... no.  So he is not an expert on the subject after all.

34 minutes ago, natway09 said:

No lockdown, no curfew, quoting Sweden as a success story,

Dangerous post

Dangerous post?  No.  Fearful commentator who's afraid that "Covid is gonna get us all!!!" <hand-wringing>

Sweden will be a success story, but main-stream media and those who control the media will continue to malign Sweden as it recovers and prospers.  And those who believe whatever the mass-media tells them will obediently take up the gauntlet and slap the heck out of anyone with an opposing view.

2 hours ago, Deli said:

The weekly Clown has had his pic shown again. All good for another 7 days

 

Absolutely, after 3 days not in the media, silverfox feels like going cold turkey.

This expert should be fired for spreading misinformation. 16 new cases in Myanmar don't mean spreading fast.