Act now! STOP Songkran travel! NO interprovincial travel!

[unblocktheplanet]

Less than two weeks till Songkran.

 

From March 2020 to December 13, Thailand had 4,237 Covid+ cases & 50 deaths. We eradicated Covid in Thailand! Only to import it through greed & corruption.

 

By end-March, Thailand will have 25,000 Covid+ cases since December 14. Covid spread to 66 provinces, many of which had never had a case.

 

The cluster of second wave infections was Samut Sakhon. Its provincial governor spent 82 days in Siriraj Hospital, 42 of them on a ventilator.

 

More recently, a third wave has occurred in the western Bangkok district of Bang Khae.

 

This time, Bangkok is the epicentre. And the junta wants everyone to head back to the provinces. We’ve had 2,000 cases in the capital. Govt insists on copying the same failed game-plan as all Western countries.

 

PLEASE, don’t travel for Songkran! Tell your friends, colleagues & families, too.

 

If govt is too brain-dead to shut down interprovincial travel, we citizens have to be the smart ones.

 

Essential travel only, including locally: Masks, handwashing, no gatherings, no indoor dining. Work from home, where possible. Stay safe, and keep the rest of us safe. Please...

 

Far smarter people than I have written about this. These are the best I've found. Regardless of vaccines, we’re in for a very rough ride. We could minimise it by acting NOW. Educate, stay informed.

 

O Canada!

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/03/25/We-Could-Have-Been-Largely-Free-Pandemic-By-Now/

which led me to:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/03/how-the-west-lost-covid-19.html

which led here:

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/01/28/Virus-Changed-Get-To-Zero-Face-Catastrophe/

 

[KannikaP]

They've just opened up nationwide travel in Wales. Let's see what happens there.

[Kwasaki]

No problem in Sukhothai as long as you infected people in Bkk and other infected provinces stay away from us. 

Edited March 28, 2021 by Kwasaki

[G Rex]

25000+ Cases.  Can somebody remind me how many casualties there have been in Thailand from this ‘wicked deadly” disease?

 

[connda]

I feel sorry for you, honestly.  So much fear, but your fear is so misplaced.

A typical headline on TV for Covid reads:  77 new cases and 1 new death.
A typical headline on TV for road accidents reads:  77 people killed on Thai roads.

In 2020 over 20,000 people lost their lives on Thai roads and over 1 million were injured.
So for every person killed approximately 50 people are injured.
Just using a round number (very conservative) of 20,000 road deaths, that means that 55 people die per day on Thai roads.  That also means that 2570 people are injured on Thai roads per day.

People like yourself are literally terrified of Covid to the point where you want all travel banned.

Personally it might be a good idea to ban travel for Songkran, but to do so to address a very real danger that kills and mains a substantial number of people every day.  Not Covid, but road accidents.

My guess is that those of you who are so fearful of Covid will get into a vehicle and drive on Thai roads without a second thought.  Correct? 
Those of you who are literally paralyzed with fear of Covid should take a moment and reflect on that comparison. 
Your chances of dying on Thai roads is magnitudes greater than your chances of dying of Covid. 
Your chances of being injured and hospitalized are magnitude greater than your chances of contracting Covid and being hospitalized. 
Your level of fear is not rational given the comparison. 

Although fiction, one quote from Frank Herbert's Dune is really appropriate here:
"Fear is the mind-killer." 

Please, with compassion in my heart for you, try to overcome your fear.  There is no reason for it. You'll be happier.  Then enjoy the Songkran break even if you personally choose to remain at home.  And pray for all those people who will die on Thai roads during the week of Songkran, and the one or two who may unfortunately die of a SARS-Cov-2 infection over the same period of time.  Peace.
 

Edited March 28, 2021 by connda

[SeanPhuket]

The ironny in the posters name and the post.

[smutcakes]

We heard the same at New Year, fear mongers told people to wait to see the explosion in 2-3 weeks, then nothing happened, the same at a long weekend.... Now its Songkran, the doom mongers are ramping up the rhetoric and we will hear the dreaded 'wait for 2-3 weeks again' Then when nothing happens they will disappear until the long holiday at the beginning of May.

 

Whilst i dont downplay the disease and possibility for spreading at some point life must go on to a certain extent. People living here are in general very good at wearing masks and as much as could be expected adhere to social distancing. Like anywhere there will always be those who don't but in reality there is little anyone can do about that. People need to be responsible for themselves and their families. Take necessary precautions, wear masks, avoid big <deleted> ups in enclosed spaces etc.

 

However life must go on, and people want to see friends and family after many of them work long hard hours for a year and quite frankly i agree with them.