By Paphamon Arayasukawat

   

BANGKOK (NNT) - The government plans to prepare more than 300 billion baht’s worth of new measures to help reduce people’s expenses and stimulate domestic consumption battered by a fresh wave of Covid-19 infections.

 

Fiscal Policy Office Director-General Kulaya Tantitemit said the Finance Ministry has been keeping a very close eye on the spread of Covid-19 and other related factors that may affect the country’s economy overall and is ready to roll out measures to remedy the impact.

 

She said for measures in the subsequent steps, the ministry is considering their propriety and compliance with the economic situation in each period in order to maximize benefits to the people.

 

Ms Kulaya added that at the same time, the government has reserved more than 300 billion baht for spending plans for economic and social rehabilitation.

 

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Just lock it the <deleted> down and be done with it.

 

The government were wrong, very wrong and they not only look like idiots but they've proven beyond any doubt that they are in fact idiots.

 

I think we knew that anyway ????

29 minutes ago, webfact said:

The government plans to prepare more than 300 billion baht’s worth of new measures

 

They have watched the world and been lucky for a year, fast forward to today and they are planning to prepare?

 

Surely they should have already planned and prepared, shouldn't they?

 

Maybe you could put it down to translation but with this lot's record I am positive it has got nothing to do with translation and everything to do with incompetence of biblical proportions... 

5,000 baht for everyone over 3 months...

1 hour ago, webfact said:

She said for measures in the subsequent steps, the ministry is considering their propriety and compliance with the economic situation in each period in order to maximize benefits to the people.

 Sounds like waffle to me.

 

What exactly are you going to do, love, & when?

 

 

300 billion in reserve. What are they waiting for? Hoping Covid disappears and they pocket the cash themselves?

 

This money should have been dispersed by now.

3 minutes ago, bwpage3 said:

300 billion in reserve. What are they waiting for? Hoping Covid disappears and they pocket the cash themselves?

 

This money should have been dispersed by now.

Probably has already, but not as we know it

2 hours ago, webfact said:

 - The government plans to prepare more than 300 billion baht’s worth of new measures

Bit of a crazy statement ....The Government plans, ????????????????

Whats the point of having a government, when 1 man controls/ dictates everything?

7 minutes ago, colinneil said:

Bit of a crazy statement ....The Government plans, ????????????????

Whats the point of having a government, when 1 man controls/ dictates everything?

Maybe he's following China and Russia!

Plan.

1. Reduce testing.

2. Fudge the figures.

3. Tell the people they are happy and nothing to worry about.

4. Continue to lie and pretend its all great.

5.....

 

I could continue but hopefully you see the plan.

4 hours ago, webfact said:

The government plans to prepare more than 300 billion baht’s worth of new measures to help reduce people’s expenses and stimulate domestic consumption battered by a fresh wave of Covid-19 infections.

Just go buy some bl**dy vaccines... stop these ridiculous horse-<deleted> stimulus packages.

1 hour ago, Laughing Gravy said:

Plan.

1. Reduce testing.

2. Fudge the figures.

3. Tell the people they are happy and nothing to worry about.

4. Continue to lie and pretend its all great.

5.....

 

I could continue but hopefully you see the plan.

5. Siphon off 30% of the 300 Billion Baht too top up the trough .....

37 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Just go buy some bl**dy vaccines... stop these ridiculous horse-<deleted> stimulus packages.

+ to what he said

...????

4 hours ago, ukrules said:

Just lock it the <deleted> down and be done with it.

 

The government were wrong, very wrong and they not only look like idiots but they've proven beyond any doubt that they are in fact idiots.

 

I think we knew that anyway ????

Hardly idiots as regards to covid

They handled the Wuhan strain better than most countries did, but have been caught of guard by the B1.1.7 UK strain.

 

Hopefully the numbers don't get anywhere near what they are over in the UK where despite more cases and daily deaths they are patting themselves on the back for doing such a great job.

 

Which is idiotic.

“Only” about 2000 new cases today. Maybe the government did a good job.

Same old story !  The government are going to make a plan when it is too late. That is something they are good at ! Thai people need action not an incapable government making plans. They don't even have any experts to make a plan. I just read that Prayut is going to be solely in charge of a master plan. Recipe for disaster !

7 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

“Only” about 2000 new cases today. Maybe the government did a good job.

Tell that to the families of the ones who died !

3 hours ago, bwpage3 said:

300 billion in reserve. What are they waiting for? Hoping Covid disappears and they pocket the cash themselves?

 

This money should have been dispersed by now.

The government doesn't own the foreign currency reserves and they can't access it either unless they borrow from the owner, BOT. And it's USD 278 billion, as of end of March.

A theory on why the virus does not spread so widely in East and Southeast Asia: these are areas where the current population has a genetic contribution from archaic hominids called “Denisovans”. Another area with a significant contribution from Denisovans is Tibet, where it is thought that adaption to high altitude was passed down to the current population.

 

Assuming that enhanced lung capacity was a feature of the Denisovans, then maybe populations with Denisovan DNA, like China and Thailand, may be able to withstand the infection better - they still get infected, but it’s not so lethal.

 

Conversely, Westerners without a genetic contribution from Denisovans are more liable to suffer reduced lung capacity.

 

If You map areas with higher Denisovan DNA contribution, those areas have lower Covid-19 mortality.

 

Just a thought.

6 minutes ago, Excel said:

Tell that to the families of the ones who died !

The good news is that there are relatively few of them.

Higher numbers are a result of more testing... that is why early on in this, the numbers were low. Take away the testing... and any TRUE emergency is gone. 

4 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

The good news is that there are relatively few of them.

The point was you said the curve is flattening. No deaths would be good news, even one is not and as I stated the curve for the mortality rate is upwards. Glib remarks in an attempt to deflect that fact is in bad taste. 

People don't need these crumbs to keep them quiet, they need VACCINES!

2 hours ago, Phuketshrew said:

5. Siphon off 30% of the 300 Billion Baht too top up the trough .....

only 30%.???

9 minutes ago, clivebaxter said:

People don't need these crumbs to keep them quiet, they need VACCINES!

You are right,a year ago there were no vaccines,now it is different.

Vaccines,24/7 imo the only way out.

To all the nay sayers and the people who do not want to be vaccinated for what ever stupid reason they come up with,do you have a better plan?

3 hours ago, Laughing Gravy said:

Plan.

1. Reduce testing.

2. Fudge the figures.

3. Tell the people they are happy and nothing to worry about.

4. Continue to lie and pretend its all great.

5.....

 

I could continue but hopefully you see the plan.

5. Write a new song. Probably about how Thailand has defeated Covid and how everyone is happy.

45 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

A theory on why the virus does not spread so widely in East and Southeast Asia: these are areas where the current population has a genetic contribution from archaic hominids called “Denisovans”.

 

Other theory : "COVID-19 and Flu Pandemics Follow a Pattern: A Possible Cross-immunity in the Pandemic Origin and Graver Disease in Farther Regions"

 

Study published here : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7568123/

 

"In conclusion, the COVID-19 pandemic and the three main flu pandemics in the last centuries follow a similar pattern: the farther from the pandemic origin, the graver the disease."

 

There is clearly something going on.

 

Without talking about cases (way too difficult to compare)... just by looking at the death numbers... It doesn't make any sense for a so-called "pandemic".

 

UK : 1 860 deads per million (source https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/)

Peru : 1810

France : 1 500

Indonesia : 163

Japan : 79 (despite... a very old population, normally at high risks, and huge urban centers, and a weather like Wuhan in the winter)

Thailand : 2

Vietnam : 0,4 (!)

 

What is extraordinary is that despite those datas accumulated over a year.... asian governments continue to do "as if" the situation were the same as in Europe or South America !

 

It's absurd. I mean even today, with 15 deads in Thailand (as usual old people with comorbidities)... And the whole country goes in full panic ?

 

The virus targets/attacks the same profil of people all over the world (old, diabetes, hyper tension etc.)... But behaves in a totally different manner in Asia, compared to the rest of the world (Africa being a special case).

 

Asian people are -in a way, biologically- more protected than european populations.

 

And no... it's no the ban on alcohol, the masks, the "soft curfews", closing the parks, the sport rooms, changing the operation times of restaurants or shopping malls... and all the burlesque decisions taken by asian gvts that can explain this fact.

 

 

300 Billion in vaccine orders would have been nice.   It's like that relative that fumbles around with his/her wallet for 5 minutes at dinner when the check comes.

6 hours ago, ukrules said:

Just lock it the <deleted> down and be done with it.

 

The government were wrong, very wrong and they not only look like idiots but they've proven beyond any doubt that they are in fact idiots.

 

I think we knew that anyway ????

 

Correct me if I am wrong.  (I know someone will)

BUT

did we not go to lockdown when it first hit and them come back in phases.

 

Did we not have one of the lowest infection rates and death rates?

 

If it worked before why not do it again for 3 weeks.  If they do it now then kids might be able to start school on time.

Parents can spend time with their kids.

 

It isn't as if this mickey mouse is helping businesses' not sure about in BKK but malls are almost empty here.