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9 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Please don't shut the schools. I just paid for the next term before the holidays and between term holidays, public holidays and covid shutdowns she's never there.

 

 

Same here, just paid next terms fee's and got an email already from school that it will be closing for another two weeks and not opening till early May back to online learning, although that closure will probably be extended after the announcements by CCSA later today. That said there were 4 cases of covid found in the school just before it closed. 3 of the students and one teacher still in hospital and one of the parents also caught it.

 

 

5 minutes ago, Joinaman said:

97 deaths in 16 months

ONLY complete fools will believe this ridicilous number.

what needs to be checked is the number of resporatory ilnesses, and deaths from

respiratory deseases compare to other years, to get an idea of the truth.

 

5 minutes ago, moe666 said:

alcohol has been banned in restaruants since songram, what rock you guys been under

Not banned in the one I

 

6 minutes ago, moe666 said:

alcohol has been banned in restaruants since songram, what rock you guys been under

Not banned in the one I was in last night. Or the one the night before. 

They both wanted you out by 10 pm though. 

7 minutes ago, Joinaman said:

and the result of these guesses of yours will be ?

So your guess is up to 30,000 perfectly healthy people will, if tested, be found to possible have an infection , yet have no other symptoms ?

Yet out of these many thousands, how many will die or be treated in ICU ?

I think 97 deaths in 16 months would be a very good number, no matter what the virus/illness was

Nobody runs scared from catching the flu virus, which kills many many thousands, yet want to ruin the lives of millions for 97 deaths ?

So much fear, for such a "deadly" virus

 

 

 

I don't understand why people don't get this. It's not the people that have died. It's the people that will die.

 

As a terrible example of what happens when you let the virus run, mostly unencumbered, more than 1/2 million dead in the US. That's many times the number of annual flu deaths.

 

We don't want that to happen here.

 

This attitude of "only 97 have died, why are people so afraid" is like wondering why one would wear a parachute, when falling out of a plane has been safe, the first 10,000 feet.

12 hours ago, internationalism said:

so alcohol in restaurants will stay, just limited hours.

what time are they allowed to start serving it?

Guess you should read the article again ...

9 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Please don't shut the schools. I just paid for the next term before the holidays and between term holidays, public holidays and covid shutdowns she's never there.

 

 

Why not home school?

She would probably end up smarter anyway.

12 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

Another loop hole closed, so the satanic alcohol can not propagate the virus ????‍♂️

Hahahaha and the virus can read the clock as well it knows not to infect people untill 9pm untill the restaurants close then it can wonder around . Same as all the curfews in other countries the virus can see time , people are not aloud on the streets after 9pm because that's when the virus strikes , before 9pm the virus is at home taking a nap so it is fit at 9pm till 5am . 

No matter how well it can be perceived that Thailand did last year containing the virus, this is a whole new ball game now, far more challenging, they've already dropped the ball with serious consequences and I fear it will be many months before there is any hope of getting this under control.

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

while pubs, bars, karaoke and massage parlours will be closed.

How about "clubs" with a high membership percentage among politicians, civil servants and their fall guys, i.e. drivers, aides, secretaries, gardeners, pool boys, etc.?

4 hours ago, SCOTT FITZGERSLD said:

I am affraid that now is the time for the Thai government to be humbled by this little virus.

seems like this virus was sent from hell to humble governments all around the world.

First it started in china, than moved quickly to italy, than brought the u..s. and u.k. to their

knees, while skapping whole latine america with its tail.

 

now, is the time of Thailand. The measures announced are obviously insuficient.

daily infections will soon rise to 20-30 000 a day. if they are not allready there.

Well I thought they had a ban on alcohol

Well looks like that's it until the end of the month no bars  clubs selling of alcohol in restaurants ect

The 7/11 is going to do well out of this Pattaya might as well close down 

What are the poor tourists going to do especially the ones who asked to stay or those doing Quarantine who will come out to everything closed again ????

7 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

No matter how well it can be perceived that Thailand did last year containing the virus, this is a whole new ball game now, far more challenging, they've already dropped the ball with serious consequences and I fear it will be many months before there is any hope of getting this under control.

Drop the ball with 97 deaths are you sure you’re not talking about the UK and the USA

11 hours ago, tgw said:

 

I have to agree. this comes a week too late.

Not just other countries but Thailand.

 

just look at December 20th voting day,

then New Years a 10 days later.

 

Then look at how bad things got from early January till late February. They had data from Thailand that CLEARLY said cancel Songkran ASAP. 

 

This was ignored. Ministers partied, tge young partied, and all brought it home for the holidays.

 

Covidiocy!!!

5 minutes ago, shackleton said:

Well looks like that's it until the end of the month no bars  clubs selling of alcohol in restaurants ect

The 7/11 is going to do well out of this Pattaya might as well close down 

What are the poor tourists going to do especially the ones who asked to stay or those doing Quarantine who will come out to everything closed again ????

Why close Pattaya ?

38 minutes ago, rott said:

Not banned in the one I

 

Not banned in the one I was in last night. Or the one the night before. 

They both wanted you out by 10 pm though. 

Same here. we were given last orders at 9 pm and were out of the door at 9.45 pm.

1 minute ago, Bkk Brian said:

What flu, its all but disappeared in many countries, deaths nowhere near what they used to be, why? Because of the social distancing and other measures used to contain covid.

 

Do you have any stats on 2019, 2020? If not you are just speculating.

 

I would really like to see these data too.

 

But you are really missing the point. We (Thailand and the world) managed quite well to go about our lives and work and play despite the prevalence of a regularly mutating killer virus in our midst before Covid.

 

Vaccines produced every year for the flu only caught the ones that the pharma companies predicted would occur but still nowhere reached even 50% effectiveness and many people who took flu vaccines (including some of my friends) still caught it every year, while some who never had the vaccine (like myself) never caught flu. People built up immunity naturally and healthy (strong immune system) folks generally fared much better on that score than unhealthy ones.

 

 

12 hours ago, internationalism said:

so alcohol in restaurants will stay, just limited hours.

what time are they allowed to start serving it?

Read carefully before commenting.....

All other restrictions will largely be the same in either zone, such as schools closed and no alcohol in restaurants, while pubs, bars, karaoke and massage parlours will be closed.

This 3 rd wave will do the trick Thailand will be completely broke after it is finished and if it is not they will get a 4th wave

12 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

Another loop hole closed, so the satanic alcohol can not propagate the virus ????‍♂️

 

If restaurants are allowed to open, it's easy to sit outside and drink alcohol bought from 7/11 or Mom & Pop stores. Complete waste of space, this government. 

 

What they should be doing, first and foremost, is to get off their ass and immediately roll out the vaccine to young people in the 15-30 age group ASAP, before any other age groups.  The quickest way to help prevent further outbreaks, which will be inevitable for months, even years, to come.

 

 

17 minutes ago, Rocking Robert said:

Drop the ball with 97 deaths are you sure you’re not talking about the UK and the USA

Did you read my post? I was not referring to the past performance and deaths, I am referring to the present outbreak, yes they've dropped the ball or maybe you think they are still doing well? 

Covis-97 deaths in just over a year.

 

Deaths on the road so far in 2021 - 4836!

 

The roads going in to lockdown?

14 minutes ago, Antonymous said:

 

Do you have any stats on 2019, 2020? If not you are just speculating.

 

I would really like to see these data too.

 

But you are really missing the point. We (Thailand and the world) managed quite well to go about our lives and work and play despite the prevalence of a regularly mutating killer virus in our midst before Covid.

 

Vaccines produced every year for the flu only caught the ones that the pharma companies predicted would occur but still nowhere reached even 50% effectiveness and many people who took flu vaccines (including some of my friends) still caught it every year, while some who never had the vaccine (like myself) never caught flu. People built up immunity naturally and healthy (strong immune system) folks generally fared much better on that score than unhealthy ones.

 

 

Not hard to find Google this "why has the flu disappeared" first page full of results.

 

Due to influenza’s short incubation period and widespread population immunity, the measures used to stop the spread of COVID-19 also caused flu activity to drastically drop.

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/why-the-flu-season-basically-disappeared-this-year#What-drove-down-flu-activity?

 

However yes I agree before covid came along the world got on with their lives despite the risks of flu, covid may well turn into a similar type of yearly seasonal risk, always in the background but not yet, its new and ravaging the world and thats why all these measure are in place.

 

 

Can anyone tell me of a web site that gives informative Covid-19 statistics in either Thai or English? Preferably for Sa Kaeo province, Aranyaphret. All I seem to find is out of date, questionable sites with links that go to bloody useless adverts.

Cheers.

A number of posts with false or misleading information regarding the seasonal flu have been removed:

 

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9 minutes ago, SwampyThai said:

Can anyone tell me of a web site that gives informative Covid-19 statistics in either Thai or English? Preferably for Sa Kaeo province, Aranyaphret. All I seem to find is out of date, questionable sites with links that go to bloody useless adverts.

Cheers.

 

Have a look in yesterdays and the day before thread on here with the daily covid numbers release on page 2 below is link.

 

Thailand reports 1,543 new COVID-19 cases - Thailand News - Thai Visa Forum

 

There is a clear picture graph in yellow and blue in English and Thai with the daily figures to all provinces with new cases.l

I see a whole lot more government borrowing and spending on the horizon. ????

Been over one year since Covid hit.

Along came the Doom and Gloom predictions of hospitals filled to overflowing, people dead in the gutter, starvation, rampant crime ...

Where is it ?

Now in year two and we STILL hear the same stories - Oh, because of a new strain ...

Listen to yourselves - do you even read what you post ?

Or just jump on the bandwagon and spout all the conspiracy theories you have heard on social media, or that your cat whispers to you in the night.

Pitiful

Can anyone explain why it is safe to shop at 20.55 but not at 21.05? Same policy followed worldwide. The planet has gone insane.

31 minutes ago, Happyman567 said:

This 3 rd wave will do the trick Thailand will be completely broke after it is finished and if it is not they will get a 4th wave

But the Teflon Baht is rising again !