Thailand Ranked Fourth at Responding to Covid-19

[webfact]

Thailand Ranked Fourth at Responding to Covid-19

 

 

BANGKOK,  (TNA) - Thailand has been ranked fourth at responding to the Covid-19 outbreak among 98 countries, according to the Lowy institute, an independent think tank based in Australia.

 

Anutin Charnvirakul, Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister said New Zealand has been ranked the best with a high score of 94.4 out of 100, followed by Vietnam with 90.8, Taiwan with 86.4 and Thailand in the fourth place at 84.2.

 

 The ranking used the assessment period of 36 weeks, ending on Jan 9, 2021 with several indicators including the number of infections, the fatalities, the total infections and the fatalities per one million people, Covid-19 tests per 1,000 people.

 

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[darksidedog]

13 minutes ago, webfact said:

The ranking used the assessment period of 36 weeks, ending on Jan 9, 2021

I wonder how they would have scored if the cut off date had been 2 or 3 weeks earlier?

And what it would be if it were counted up until right now?

Much has changed since late December after all.

[internationalism]

This statistic was quoted by thai media a month ago. 
Since then much changed

[FarFlungFalang]

Thailand has incarcerated 40,000  Samut Sakhon factory workers inside their place of work putting the infected in with the uninfected and is waiting for the uninfected to become infected to reach herd immunity so they can open the province and get back to making money.That's how Thailand is dealing with the pandemic.No isolation of the infected from healthy people if they are foreigners.Just bundle them all in together and keep them working until they drop dead.

[FarFlungFalang]

39 minutes ago, darksidedog said:

I wonder how they would have scored if the cut off date had been 2 or 3 weeks earlier?

And what it would be if it were counted up until right now?

Much has changed since late December after all.

You mean after they bundled 40,000 factory workers together without isolating the infected from the uninfected whilst they wait for herd immunity deliberately allowing them to become infected?As reported in another article today.

[RichardColeman]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Thailand has been ranked fourth at responding to the Covid-19 outbreak among 98 countries, according to the Lowy institute, an independent think tank based in Australia.

yeah yeah, and about 170 odd ranking  on testing. 

[Cake Monster]

I am sure UNHRC are monitoring the situation, and there will questions asked of the Thai Authorities from the US and EU over possible Human Rights violations in the Fish Canning Industry in Thailand.

I possibly see a ban on Thai tinned Fish coming soon.

[Moonlover]

If you go and take a look at the leader board, you'll find that 6 out of the top 10 places go to island nations, with no troublesome land borders to deal with. Which IMO makes Thailand's performance that much more laudable.

 

Way to go Thailand, keep it up.

 

The world leaders in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic

[ThailandRyan]

Lock up the infected, barricade the migrants in their factories and homes, and hope like hell they obtain herd immunity.  Has anyone every heard of such an atrocity before.  For this they are lauded as having it under control and having a great response.  Well credit is due to all of the island countries ahead of Thailand, but no credit is due to Thailand when they destroy human rights and freedoms people have.  Treating migrants like cattle is just plain old xenophobic on their part, and mostly because they do not want to spend the money in truly caring for them.

[Andreas2]

I don't know the ranking of India, but to me they are on the right track since September 2020 to get this mess under control.

 

 

 

If you wonder how they do it, that's how they do it: Plummeting COVID Rates – Go Ask The Indians

[Bkk Brian]

1 hour ago, FarFlungFalang said:

Thailand has incarcerated 40,000  Samut Sakhon factory workers inside their place of work putting the infected in with the uninfected and is waiting for the uninfected to become infected to reach herd immunity so they can open the province and get back to making money.That's how Thailand is dealing with the pandemic.No isolation of the infected from healthy people if they are foreigners.Just bundle them all in together and keep them working until they drop dead.

I just read that in the other paper. Quite unbelievable and the doctor openly stating the aims of this is reach herd immunity within the migrant workers. TBH I'm speechless. Deplorable.

[FarFlungFalang]

13 minutes ago, Andreas2 said:

I don't know the ranking of India, but to me they are on the right track since September 2020 to get this mess under control.

 

 

 

If you wonder how they do it, that's how they do it: Plummeting COVID Rates – Go Ask The Indians

India is currently ranked 2nd for the total number of cases but has only 112 deaths per million of population compared to the US which is rank 1st in total number of infections and has 1444 deaths per million of population.Thanks for the link to the article which is a bit of a kick up the rear for the western countries when it comes to dealing with the pandemic.

[FarFlungFalang]

12 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

I just read that in the other paper. Quite unbelievable and the doctor openly stating the aims of this is reach herd immunity within the migrant workers. TBH I'm speechless. Deplorable.

Check out the article posted by Andreas2 about India, it's very interesting.

[Petey11]

Factor of tests pet 1000 population couldn't have contributed much , 172 in the world I think.

[Natai Beach]

1 hour ago, ThailandRyan said:

Lock up the infected, barricade the migrants in their factories and homes,
 

 

This is the way to stop the infection spreading and killing hundreds of thousands of people like in the US etc. 

 

1 hour ago, ThailandRyan said:

 

but no credit is due to Thailand when they destroy human rights and freedoms people have.  

 

The Thais are more focused on saving their lives than worrying about freedom and rights nonsense. 
The virus doesn’t care about “rights” of Karens, the PC brigade, farangs refusing to wear free masks handed out by the health minister etc 

Sensible approach. 
 

fourth best in the world for handling the Covid situation. 
stunning result. 
Thankyou people of Thailand. Keeping us safe from this shocking pandemic that is killing millions.

Some people will try to turn it into a negative. 

[FarFlungFalang]

6 minutes ago, Natai Beach said:

 

This is the way to stop the infection spreading and killing hundreds of thousands of people like in the US etc. 

 

 

The Thais are more focused on saving their lives than worrying about freedom and rights nonsense. 
The virus doesn’t care about “rights” of Karens, the PC brigade, farangs refusing to wear free masks handed out by the health minister etc 

Sensible approach. 
 

fourth best in the world for handling the Covid situation. 
stunning result. 
Thankyou people of Thailand. Keeping us safe from this shocking pandemic that is killing millions.

Some people will try to turn it into a negative. 

I think the Thais that run the show don't care much about saving lives as much as they care about making a mint out of this sht fight.That's how market forces work.The pandemic is just a business tool.

[Bkk Brian]

55 minutes ago, Natai Beach said:

The Thais are more focused on saving their lives than worrying about freedom and rights nonsense. 

Its a pity they do not think of the lives of the migrants who are at risk of being infected to see how their experiment in herd immunity goes.

[hotchilli]

19 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand has been ranked fourth at responding to the Covid-19 outbreak among 98 countries

Responding and achieving something are two totally different things.

[FritsSikkink]

18 hours ago, FarFlungFalang said:

You mean after they bundled 40,000 factory workers together without isolating the infected from the uninfected whilst they wait for herd immunity deliberately allowing them to become infected?As reported in another article today.

Not true, they have isolated the infected from the uninfected.

[FritsSikkink]

17 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Lock up the infected, barricade the migrants in their factories and homes, and hope like hell they obtain herd immunity.  Has anyone every heard of such an atrocity before.  For this they are lauded as having it under control and having a great response.  Well credit is due to all of the island countries ahead of Thailand, but no credit is due to Thailand when they destroy human rights and freedoms people have.  Treating migrants like cattle is just plain old xenophobic on their part, and mostly because they do not want to spend the money in truly caring for them.

The infected are being treated, you are spreading nonsense (again)

[Bkk Brian]

6 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

Not true, they have isolated the infected from the uninfected.

Not true, they are mixing them together deliberately and waiting for herd immunity. Direct from the CCSA spokesman Dr Taweesilp 

[Rimmer]

An inflammatory baiting post and a reply have been removed

[unblocktheplanet]

Thailand dropped from #143 in Covid ranking to #116 during this second wave, Wonder what number we're at now?

[Happyman567]

I give the Thais one applause. They were told to wear masks and they did In other countries they kicked up a big stink when told to wear masks and lots did not and the virus goes on and on So well done Thailand  yes i will get my jab because i really am tired of this covid <deleted> There is more to life then listening to covid all your life

[ThailandRyan]

3 minutes ago, Happyman567 said:

I give the Thais one applause. They were told to wear masks and they did In other countries they kicked up a big stink when told to wear masks and lots did not and the virus goes on and on So well done Thailand  yes i will get my jab because i really am tired of this covid <deleted> There is more to life then listening to covid all your life

Most Thais already were wearing masks, well at least in Bangkok, and it was due to the PM 2.5 readings and the air quality.  I have been wearing them myself for a few years already when the Air quality was bad so it was not much of a change to wear it everyday in the stores or on public transport.  Same with using the in house air purifier in all of the rooms in the house.

[FarFlungFalang]

3 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

Not true, they have isolated the infected from the uninfected.

Where does it say that Frits?If I could I would link the story where they say they are isolating both and are waiting for herd immunity but I'm not allowed to link it.

[ThailandRyan]

9 minutes ago, FarFlungFalang said:

Where does it say that Frits?If I could I would link the story where they say they are isolating both and are waiting for herd immunity but I'm not allowed to link it.

No link but a reworked version was found "The Government is waiting for these un-infected workers to develop herd immunity.  Because of being placed in together with other who have been found positive they might get mild levels of infection from their ill colleagues, Dr Taweesilp said.  The Government believes that once there was herd immunity, business and other activities could resume in the province."

[FritsSikkink]

1 hour ago, ThailandRyan said:

Most Thais already were wearing masks, well at least in Bangkok, and it was due to the PM 2.5 readings and the air quality. 

Not most Thais in Bangkok, people wore them while having a cold and only a couple because of PM 2.5

[Nanaplaza666]

Lot less people would die if they where ranked 4th in responding to drunk drivers , red light crossers , no helmet wearers etc . The 4th place in responding to covid only counts when the nr's are correct and i am sure they have never been . 

[Partenavia]

Surely the point now is how you recover from Covid19, and return your economy to something like normal. Whatever the arguements about how the UK has handled the pandemic, at least there is a vacination plan that is going to potentially see everyone vacinated by October, I do not see Thailand being able to reopen until they also have a similar plan.