Thailand reports 4,803 new COVID-19 cases, 34 new deaths

[Pattaya Spotter]

2 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Not the point. These people have covid. The authorities should have been on top of this from the very beginning last year. They need to test each and every prisoner not just for a positive or negative result but also for antibodies. How there appears to be no spread from the prisons to the outside community is an interesting question.

Yes, every world leader and government in the world was supposed to handle a worldwide pandemic, the first in over a century, perfectly. Next.

[Pattaya Spotter]

1 hour ago, tingtong said:

 

Contain?

That is the point, so high numbers bcos so highly contained.

By the photo illustration they arrive to carry on the model into the field hospitals too.

Forget about 1.5m distance, just squeeze the tight, so those who have a mild covid of one kind, may get infected with a different?

Your username certainly fits this post because I can't make heads or tails of it.

Edited May 29, 2021 by Pattaya Spotter

[Danderman123]

9 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

That was from the long weekend associated with Chakri  day. 

Remember that Covid-19 has an incubation period. The 141 cases on April 10 came from earlier infections. 

Edited May 29, 2021 by Danderman123

[DLock]

57 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

Since this is the Internet, you are operating in an environment where if you find one datapoint in your favor (some province that had zero cases before Songkran and 1 case afterwards) you will feel vindicated.

 

Irony.

 

I still like you Anagram name better. 

[anchadian]

COVID-19 sweeps through Thailand's overcrowded prisons

 

BANGKOK: A coronavirus surge sweeping through Thailand's prisons has thrown the spotlight on the kingdom's overcrowded penal system, where some inmates have less space to sleep than the inside of a coffin.

 

More than 22,000 people have tested positive inside jails, where inmates living cheek by jowl have been encouraged to keep wearing their masks even while they sleep.

 

Authorities have floated plans to give early releases to prisoners with underlying medical conditions and have announced funding for more testing and medical care in recent days.

 

More:

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/covid-19-thailand-prison-jail-overcrowded-outbreak-14909396

[Danderman123]

1 hour ago, ThailandRyan said:

Try again, your not looking at each province before Songkran and after Songkran.  As I indicated prior to the big travel holiday many provinces had no cases and or had never had a case, but during and after well all 77 did.  Ball is in your court to disprove this.

Ball is in your court now. 

[jacko45k]

1 minute ago, Danderman123 said:

Remember that Covid-19 has an incubation period. The 141 cases on April 10 came from earlier infections. 

Possibly as short as 3 days...up to 14. 

And people are infectious during that time, as of yet. asymptomatic..

I recall at the time being concerned as there were increasing numbers from April 9th and we get many visitors from Bangkok, each and every weekend.

[wensiensheng]

1 hour ago, Danderman123 said:

I hate to sound like a Denier, but relatively speaking, those figures are tiny compared to most countries.

The conversation was about comparing pre and post songkran. Nothing to do with other countries. 
 

you’re lane veering again danderman.

[Danderman123]

1 minute ago, wensiensheng said:

The conversation was about comparing pre and post songkran. Nothing to do with other countries. 
 

you’re lane veering again danderman.

Okay, compared to the 70 million inhabitants, Thailand has a low per capita infection rate. 

[Danderman123]

4 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Possibly as short as 3 days...up to 14. 

And people are infectious during that time, as of yet. asymptomatic..

I recall at the time being concerned as there were increasing numbers from April 9th and we get many visitors from Bangkok, each and every weekend.

My point is that the big infections in Chonburi preceded Songkran. 

 

Do you disagree? 

[jacko45k]

Just now, Danderman123 said:

My point is that the big infections in Chonburi preceded Songkran. 

 

Do you disagree? 

Well yes..... highest number in April was the 17th, followed by the 30th.

[Danderman123]

Just now, jacko45k said:

Well yes..... highest number in April was the 17th, followed by the 30th.

Now your common sense has left the field. 

 

If there were 141 cases on April 10, and another spike on April 17, tell me why Songkran was to blame. 

[jacko45k]

4 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

Now your common sense has left the field. 

 

If there were 141 cases on April 10, and another spike on April 17, tell me why Songkran was to blame. 

Quote

My point is that the big infections in Chonburi preceded Songkran. 

And I disputed THAT point.... 

Also I did not blame Songkran wholly, but in part. I blame Bangkok tourists. 

Edited May 29, 2021 by jacko45k

[Danderman123]

3 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

And I disputed THAT point.... 

Also I did not blame Songkran wholly, but in part. I blame Bangkok tourists. 

Yes. 

 

Before Songkran, people from Bangkok came to Chonburi and infected others. 

[trainman34014]

2 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

Total lack of respect for the patients, just take a few of the box beds out, it can't be that desperate for beds here can it?

Quite; and millions of them sleep on the floor at home with just very thin or no mattress, so 'beds' don't really matter that much !

[starky]

2 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

Wow talk about close proximity patient mixing in the Field hospitals!

Well if your in there with all the other people who already have it it's a bit late for social distancing isn't it. You've already got covid who cares how close you are.

[dinsdale]

30 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

Okay, compared to the 70 million inhabitants, Thailand has a low per capita infection rate. 

What you are doing again is taking this from the beginning and an overall figure. What we are now talking about is this so-called 3rd wave. Again if you look at weekly trends it is there for all to see that Thailand is not doing that well on a global scale with India being the worst performing country and Thailand as of today being the 24th worst performing country globally. On weekly trends I expect Thailand will move up the list possibly moving into the top 20 worst performing countries in the world within a month. >200,000 infections and >1000 deaths coming soon and mainly happening within a 2 month period.

Edited May 29, 2021 by dinsdale

[jacko45k]

1 minute ago, trainman34014 said:

Quite; and millions of them sleep on the floor at home with just very thin or no mattress, so 'beds' don't really matter that much !

Not easy for the medical staff to come and take vitals.

[Bkk Brian]

1 minute ago, starky said:

Well if your in there with all the other people who already have it it's a bit late for social distancing isn't it. You've already got covid who cares how close you are.

They probably do?

[tlandtday]

I said on this site over a year ago that the wuhan tourists were bringing the covid virus to thailand for months after other countries had closed the borders. But of course no one was testing.  Better to do a few random tests to foreigners along the way.  Now they are testing and surprise surprise.   One must seriously question the competence and integrity of WHO for heaping praise on the handling of the pandemic.

[starky]

4 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

They probably do?

Why you've already got it...lol the problem is locking every single person up that gives a positive test. Probably the most ridiculous covid response in the whole world.

[jacko45k]

Just now, starky said:

Why you've already got it...lol the problem is locking every single person up that gives a positive test. Probably the most ridiculous covid response in the whole world.

Oh I don't agree. It has merit in an environment of not many infections and keeping it that way.

[champers]

2 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

You could well be right.  But I think social media would be ablaze if people were dying in their thousands every day.  I really don't think it could be concealed.

If there were only an average of; let's say; 2 more deaths per day in every province (77 provinces) maybe a dozen or so in the 4 or 5 biggest cities would social media really be ablaze? Probably not but all of a sudden you have an extra 200 or so deaths per day, 1400 per week. Not thousands every day per your argument, but still a hefty increase on what is being reported.

Edited May 29, 2021 by champers

[Rampant Rabbit]

Way to go!!

[Danderman123]

4 minutes ago, tlandtday said:

I said on this site over a year ago that the wuhan tourists were bringing the covid virus to thailand for months after other countries had closed the borders. But of course no one was testing.  Better to do a few random tests to foreigners along the way.  Now they are testing and surprise surprise.   One must seriously question the competence and integrity of WHO for heaping praise on the handling of the pandemic.

China stopped all tour groups in late January. By February 1, most Chinese had left Thailand, and virtually zero were arriving.

[Danderman123]

5 minutes ago, starky said:

Why you've already got it...lol the problem is locking every single person up that gives a positive test. Probably the most ridiculous covid response in the whole world.

And yet, that could what has stopped Thailand from having 100,000+ deaths, like in the UK.

[Danderman123]

12 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

What you are doing again is taking this from the beginning and an overall figure. What we are now talking about is this so-called 3rd wave. Again if you look at weekly trends it is there for all to see that Thailand is not doing that well on a global scale with India being the worst performing country and Thailand as of today being the 24th worst performing country globally. On weekly trends I expect Thailand will move up the list possibly moving into the top 20 worst performing countries in the world within a month. 

Okay, if I can’t compare Thailand to other countries, and I can’t compare current infections to the overall population, then I got nothing. You win.

 

One death means the government is doing a terrible job, compared to nothing.

[Excel]

4 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

China stopped all tour groups in late January. By February 1, most Chinese had left Thailand, and virtually zero were arriving.

On the 13th January 2020 Thailand reported it's first case of Covid.  By then it was already here so your points regarding the Chinese are totally worthless.

Edited May 29, 2021 by Excel

[jacko45k]

1 minute ago, Danderman123 said:

One death means the government is doing a terrible job, compared to nothing.

You cannot compare to nothing!

[champers]

14 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

China stopped all tour groups in late January. By February 1, most Chinese had left Thailand, and virtually zero were arriving.

From the reported outbreak date in China till the last Chinese tourist leaving in Feb '20 about 100,000 Chinese flew into Thailand from Wuhan alone. 

Edited May 29, 2021 by champers