Where's the leadership? We need ZERO Covid!

[unblocktheplanet]

Thailand locked down hard & early, closing its borders to Covid-19 with good success. In December 2020, they trashed all our hard work & invited Covid through the backdoor of greed & corruption. The elites made sure we welcomed the virus maskless & by encouraging Songkran travel.

 

It's not too late to ERADICATE Covid. But we need leadership. And we don't have any. Whoever promoted this man to leadership deserves to be shot at sunrise.

 

"Yaneer Bar-Yam and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, two brilliant experts on risk and complexity, have noted that governments really only have one true job: to uphold the collective safety of their citizens against systemic risk.

 

"'Failing that mandate of prudence by gambling with the lives of citizens is a professional wrongdoing that extends beyond academic mistake; it is a violation of the ethics of governing,' noted the experts last year in The Guardian.

 

"Leadership 101: It’s pretty basic stuff. When faced with an emergency, it is better to act quickly and decisively. Delay magnifies the pain when battling exponential growth. Wishful thinking is not a strategy. Balance is not an option against an existential threat.

 

"This chosen “catastrophe” starts at the top with Prime Minister Prayuth. Remarkably, he still does not consider the pandemic an emergency requiring national standards, national goals, national direction or a co-ordinated response. Right. That would require leadership and hard decisions.

 

“'A disaster, freely and KNOWINGLY chosen by an elected government, is not someone else’s emergency,' tartly noted public health and legal expert Amir Attaran.

 

"A weak and flailing premier still doesn’t get the message. If you want to defeat this coronavirus, says infectious disease expert Andrew Morris, the recipe isn’t complicated: close and pay all essential businesses. Provide paid sick leave for the infected. Provide places for the infected with symptoms to quarantine. Use regional travel restrictions. And then lead with honest and daily communication.

 

"The case for imposing a sharp, serious lockdown followed by relentless testing will drive down virus infections. But the economic evidence from nations that pursued elimination is shocking and unequivocal.

 

"The evidence from Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand shows that success in this pandemic is not so such about locking down as it is about locking out the virus. Without tight border controls, elimination will not work.

 

"Most of Europe failed to learn that lesson.

 

"On every count, the Zero COVID and elimination nations won. The nations that chose elimination suffered much smaller declines in mobility. Their GDP shrunk less than the mitigators. And by huge margins. Nor did their citizens experience endless openings and closings either.

 

"The success of Zero COVID is easy to explain. Confidence drives any economy; a pandemic destroys that. When you eliminate the circulation of the virus, life returns to normal because governments have restored confidence and certainty for all. The good health of ordinary people opens economies.

 

"Elimination fights a viral fire with focus and determination. When battling a wildfire, you don’t stop spraying water on it when it dies down a bit. You don’t stop fighting it at the second storey of a building in the name of 'balance' unless you want to fail. You don’t walk away from a fire half extinguished.

 

"Elimination is not about lazily getting by, it is about getting the job done and protecting the vulnerable with financial support. It seeks to maximize the benefits of restrictions to end the threat so that the population doesn’t become ensnarled in a virus-gripped world that only Franz Kafka could have imagined.    

 

"Elimination also recognizes another critical truth. Travel spreads COVID-19. The virus needs us to move and replicate. Stop that movement, and the outbreak dies."

 

Excerpted, with permission by Andrew Nikiforuk from The Tyee, Canada, April 17, 2021

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/04/17/Canada-Crazy-Pandemic-Response/

[Surelynot]

2 minutes ago, unblocktheplanet said:

"The evidence from Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand shows that success in this pandemic is not so such about locking down as it is about locking out the virus.

...then support that with a super effective test, track and trace.......which only works when numbers are very low.....which is achieved by locking out the virus..........UK? Umpteen thousand arrivals day after day from all over the world last year.......150,000 dead.

[colinneil]

3 minutes ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Its not too late to ERADICATE Covid. But we need leadership. And we don't have any. Whoever promoted this man to leadership deserves to be shot at sunrise.

You are spot on there mate, the man at the helm is an absolute waste of space, only concerned about his own over stuffed bank accounts.

[Excel]

"Whoever promoted this man to leadership deserves to be shot at sunrise"

 

Why wait till sunrise to shoot him ?????

[ukrules]

They had zero covid but decided this wasn't for them, it was a very obvious clear and conscious choice not to cancel Songkran and allow the disease to spread made by someone in charge. There is no way to deny this, everyone knew, even that idiot virologist they parade out to the media every few days.

 

Instead we now have 'managed covid', this often doesn't turn out the way they think it will.

 

In fact I would go as far to say that it never turns out the way they think it will, they've made a very big mistake here.

 

It will come back to haunt them and quickly.

 

You only do what they've just done if a massive proportion of the population is already vaccinated or immune. I'm getting vibes of the Japanese reaction to AIDS when it first appeared - it's kind of hard to look that one up but essentially they announced that it doesn't affect Japanese people - of course they were very, very wrong.

 

I'm beginning to think they might have stopped listening to their Chinese masters.

 

Why?

 

I have a theory.

There has been a suspiciously low infection rate of COVID in Thailand and people have been pointing fingers at South East Asia as the potential origin of this virus instead of China, Chinese fingers are doing the pointing.

I note that there were official denials about Thailand being the source of the virus published in the major newspapers a while back (a month or two) before many people (me included) were even aware that the fingers were pointing in this direction.

 

 

Edited April 20, 2021 by ukrules

[BLACKJACK2]

Impossible to have zero Covid with land borders as big as Thailand.

[Ryan754326]

Thailand didn’t lock down early, and even after they did lock down, it wasn’t hard until much later. When I crossed the border from Laos on March 14/2020, all bars, restaurants and massage parlors were wide open. I spent St. Patrick’s day drinking in a very crowded bar, and even after bars, night clubs, and massage parlors were closed, restaurants remained open to sit-in customers until early April. 
Europe was overrun with COVID, and in a state of emergency at this point in time. 
 

Thailand, like the rest of SEA, simply got lucky with the first wave.

Vietnam locked down much harder and much earlier. Cambodia did very little, apart from (mostly) closing their borders. All three countries ended up with basically the same result: Very few covid cases and even fewer deaths. 
Once the stronger variants started to circulate, it was only a matter of time before it would start popping up to a more noticeable degree. 

Edited April 21, 2021 by Ryan754326

[rodknock]

what leadership??

they are the ones that have been vaccinated and do not care about any one else???

[Kiujunn]

On 4/20/2021 at 4:39 PM, ukrules said:

They had zero covid but decided this wasn't for them, it was a very obvious clear and conscious choice not to cancel Songkran and allow the disease to spread made by someone in charge

 

On 4/20/2021 at 4:39 PM, ukrules said:

Why?

They were running out of money. 

Thailand can't just print money without limits like the US or the EU.

 

And they figured if the elites are vaccinated you can let the pandemic run its course through the general population. 

The West did this and they looked and found it a viable option. 

There were some glitches,  but basically I think it will work out very well (for the elites,  that is).

Edited April 21, 2021 by Kiujunn

[ukrules]

16 minutes ago, Kiujunn said:

Thailand can't just print money without limits like the US or the EU.

Sure it can

[Kiujunn]

"It was an entirely foreseeable escalation....While state governors and city mayors have tried to institute some restrictions, [the leader] has consistently advocated the free circulation of people — and, consequently, the virus."

 

Sounds familiar? You can read the whole article at:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/19/opinion/brazil-covid-bolsonaro.html

Scary.

 

[unblocktheplanet]

On 4/20/2021 at 7:52 PM, BLACKJACK2 said:

Impossible to have zero Covid with land borders as big as Thailand.

BS. I'm Canadian!

[BLACKJACK2]

25 minutes ago, unblocktheplanet said:

BS. I'm Canadian!

<deleted> is that supposed to mean ????????????????????