'Why has Thailand not got the praise it deserves for containing Covd-19?'

[Hockeybik]

18 hours ago, DavisH said:

Because at least one symptomatic patient would be turning up to hospital and testing positive. Mass testing of the population is worthless when no symtomatic patients are presenting to clinics or hospitals. Show me ONE country that does mass testing that has no covid cases. There are none. 

What does is accomplished by testing healthy people? When was the last time you were feeling fine and thought, "hummm... wonder if I have the flu? I think I'll go get tested." 

[DirtyHarry55]

Probably because of a lack of transparency and sharing data?

For example this website blocked from outside Thailand why but easy to access from within Thailand i.e with a Thai ip address only?

https://hdcservice.moph.go.th/

Do they want to hide the numbers?

[Bell1234]

On 11/17/2020 at 12:42 PM, Dmaxdan said:

The government and the Thai people have been excellent with regards to Covid. Anyone who believes otherwise is just jealous because of their own country's incompetence. 

Next you will be telling us they need Submarines too.

[mommysboy]

I think it has received praise.  The Government though is lowly regarded.

[Is this real]

When was the last time actual number of test and positive results revealed? 

[Grace at Echo Lake]

You're joking, right??!   Sure, 3,880 COVID test results and 60 deaths - but with almost NO testing in a country of 70million.  Plus, the Thai government has decimated the economy.   Many more people than 60 have died of starvation due to the draconian measures taken in this country.

[ronaldo0]

I bet if they got an outside group to test every patient in every hospital in the country the figures would rocket ! But don’t want that to happen do we ????

[paulikens]

On 11/17/2020 at 9:35 AM, NanLaew said:

Are you here in Thailand or overseas?

what relevance is that?

[paulikens]

9 hours ago, Hockeybik said:

What does is accomplished by testing healthy people? When was the last time you were feeling fine and thought, "hummm... wonder if I have the flu? I think I'll go get tested." 

@Hockeybik plenty of that in the uk????

[oldhippy]

9 hours ago, Hockeybik said:

What does is accomplished by testing healthy people? When was the last time you were feeling fine and thought, "hummm... wonder if I have the flu? I think I'll go get tested." 

Maybe you should drill a hole in your thick skull, to let the message go through: We are not talking about the FLU.

[Walker88]

Actually Thailand has received lots of praise for its handling of the pandemic. I have seen numerous mentions of it in various media, both print and television. Thailand was also given special recognition in an online conference held by Stanford University Graduate School of Business (my alma mater).

 

What I have seen and read has noted that Thailand's success can be attributed to, inter alia:

 

-almost ubiquitous mask wearing, required on public transport, in shopping venues and offices

-monitoring of temperature of individuals entering any venue

-contact tracing via online apps or recording of mobile phones, should the need arise to contact

-social distancing in many venues, particularly early on in the pandemic

-curfew and nightly lockdown back in April, plus closure of venues where social distancing was not possible (restaurants, bars, even malls)

-quarantine of all entering the Kingdom

 

It has become common for experts interviewed on TV in the US to roll out "South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand & New Zealand" as examples of nations who have been most effective in addressing the pandemic.

[Neeranam]

The story of a boy crying 'wolf' comes to mind. 

[Neeranam]

3 hours ago, oldhippy said:

QUOTE: ......it's hasn't been a significant problem in any hot countries.....

 

I suppose India annd Brazil are cold countries?

Big difference as Brazilians have no personal distance, kissing and  hugging anyone. India has no personal space due to poverty. 

[peter zwart]

Maybe they will understand at some point in time that you have to earn credibility. 

[Thomas J]

Several points

 

1. Does anyone really believe the "official" figures.  If you look at China a nation of almost 5 times that of the USA it has only a fraction of the Covid infections and that is despite having some of the most densely populated cities on the planet.

2. Does anyone really think that if a local Thai was experiencing some symptoms of Covid they would go to a hospital to get tested.  They would not spend the money, and certainly would not want to be quarantined for an indefinite period of time.  Unless they were absolutely critical, I doubt many Thais would seek treatment.

3. Thailand and numerous other hot humid countries with younger populations also have low reported Covid rates.  So is it something that those countries "did" or is it more likely that whatever low incidence of Covid exists is due to the countries climate and younger median age.  If strict quarantines, lock downs, and masks were effective countries like Belgium, the UK, France, Italy, Spain and Portugal would have very low Covid rates.  They don't  And, Thailand did not do anything different than those countries. 

[mommysboy]

2 hours ago, Walker88 said:

Actually Thailand has received lots of praise for its handling of the pandemic. I have seen numerous mentions of it in various media, both print and television. Thailand was also given special recognition in an online conference held by Stanford University Graduate School of Business (my alma mater).

 

What I have seen and read has noted that Thailand's success can be attributed to, inter alia:

 

-almost ubiquitous mask wearing, required on public transport, in shopping venues and offices

-monitoring of temperature of individuals entering any venue

-contact tracing via online apps or recording of mobile phones, should the need arise to contact

-social distancing in many venues, particularly early on in the pandemic

-curfew and nightly lockdown back in April, plus closure of venues where social distancing was not possible (restaurants, bars, even malls)

-quarantine of all entering the Kingdom

 

It has become common for experts interviewed on TV in the US to roll out "South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand & New Zealand" as examples of nations who have been most effective in addressing the pandemic.

Thais were social distancing from the get go without being asked.

 

The two really significant factors were  quarantining the kingdom and early lockdown. Masks are a minor factor really.

[Stargeezr]

Yes I agree that Thailand has already received lots of words of praise from lots of

other less fortunate countries. The government official, only wanted his praise to be

in a big envelope, and that is the reason for his complaint of sorts.  Most of us doubt that

the case numbers are as low as it is being shown, but Thailand is not alone in doing that.

  The USA has had more people who have likely died from the covid virus as well,  but with

all that is going on in that country, the extra numbers would just be that much more and not 

add much to the ratio of their big population. When you have 350 thousand being only

1 percent of your population it sounds trivial, unless of course if any of the 1 percent were

your friends or relatives.  We will all be a bit relieved when there is a vaccine that has been

distributed and is helping, but if you are older or have other illnesses, you do not EVER

want to get this covid 19 virus, or you could die, this year, next year or anytime in the future.

Geezer

[SCOTT FITZGERSLD]

why not? me and my friends start each and every dinner with some words of praise for how

incredible was thailand victory over covid - 19.

acctually, we even consider to donate and finance a new victory monument in bangkok,

the victory over corona monument.

we allready started with some drawings and it is looking good.

[nkg]

17 hours ago, oldhippy said:

How stupid can an opinion possibly get?

 

QUOTE: ......it's hasn't been a significant problem in any hot countries.....

 

I suppose India annd Brazil are cold countries?

 

India and Brazil are huge countries covering various latitudes. The South of Brazil and the North of India are some distance away from the equator, and have much cooler weather than SE Asia.

 

Jammu in India will be 9 degrees C tonight, for example. The weather in Rio averages at least 5 degrees less than Thailand.

 

[Rimmer]

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