May 20, 20214 yr The Thai authorities including the army seem incapable of protecting its residents from illegal border crossings. When immigration detect a foreigner on overstay or breaking covid regulations it makes headlines in the news.However from January until May this year more than fifteen thousand immigrants have been arrested crossing into Thailand illegally. Obviously not every person making an illegal entry is caught and arrested and one must assume many hundreds cross the borders into Thailand undetected from high covid risk countries and integrate into the population untested.Often with the help of greedy corrupt officials on both sides of the border Thailand spends billions buying outdated military equipment from Russia and submarines from China to placate power mad generals while the Thailand borders are unprotected and leaking like sieve .
May 20, 20214 yr Look at history. And look at the maps. What you ask is... impossible. No matter how much "gear" Thailand would buy. Thailand is not an island. And even islands have... problems with the Zero Covid ideology (look at Taiwan, Maldives, Seychelles etc.). We can't seal off a country like Thailand. Instead, we should stop to fantasize, and face the reality and retake our common sense. Sars Cov 2 is manageable, like any other infectious diseases. -Protect the people at risk (who are PERFECTLY known, always the same profils) with vaccines -treat the people who got sick -and stop talking about it on TV and "count deads and cases" all the time... In a word : live our life. The pandemic then would just simply... disappear.
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