Aha?? So why has Dengue fever gone from 5000 cases in 2019 to 55 000 in 2020  do the math 

More like hide the facts as usual 

See NNT, think Xinhua. This is propaganda for domestic consumption.

On 10/16/2020 at 6:23 PM, woogoo said:

Exactly. What did Thailand do? They had a lockdown for a few months then slowly allowed some businesses to open up. Excalty the same as all of the countries currently reporting high case numbers. The only thing different is the mass testing going on in these other countries.

 

As to the people claiming "where are the bodies" here in Thailand. It wouldn't be too hard to write off three or four extra deaths each month at the hospitals around the country. 

Absolutely!

 

There are numerous hints that the virus had not disappeared from the country months ago, as claimed by the powers-that-be, but on the other side also that Thailand is not very vulnerable to the virus, leading to the low number of deaths and severe cases here. 

 

There are many climatic, social, cultural and maybe even genetic reasons (see the study published in Nature two weeks ago) why Thailand will continue to stay quite safe, but the paranoid reactions of the government have little to do with that.

 

This all has been discussed in numerous other threads already. No need to repeat that all here again. And no need to continue all the paranoia in Thailand.

A lot of countries have new case graphs that strongly suggest that they are now moving toward a state of herd immunity with Covid. Not only that, but they appear to be doing so with far fewer actual infections that the experts predicted would be necessary to reach that state.

 

Although still early days to put hard numbers on it, a bit of number crunching suggests that more people are building resistance to the bug through low level exposure to it than though gaining a sufficient viral load as to cause an infection.

 

There seems to be a good chance that this bug will join the dozens of other bugs we live with and barely notice, periodically doing the rounds amongst young children, but so asymptomatically as to go unseen.

 

- But only once herd immunity has been reached. The subcontinent and much of Latin America seem to be well on the way to reaching this state, whilst in the UK, the recent flare up has been largely away from London, suggesting that the capital is also on track from its exposure earlier in the year.

 

But Thailand, along with most of east Asia whilst being successful in keeping infections to very low levels, is still nowhere when it comes to living with it, which presents a big dilemma for the resumption of tourism..

On 10/17/2020 at 4:27 PM, lkv said:

No, but part of the 3 million migrant workers are freely circulating with bribes through land borders.

That must be about 1 part in a million.

 

United Kingdom (7 Mar - 5 Jun)

The number of deaths in the United Kingdom has been 43% higher than average, with about 64,500 more people dying than usual.

 

Thailand (1 Mar - 31 May)

The number of deaths in Thailand has been 2% higher than average, with about 2,400 more people dying than usual.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-53073046

On 10/17/2020 at 4:18 PM, sandyf said:

So the 40 million that came last year are now sneaking through the borders, says it all.

Are you daft? There are countries surrounding Thailand that aren’t hiding their numbers where people cross the border everyday illegally. Or are you one of those people who believe only “dirty foreigners” can spread the virus?