This is what happens when you have cowards in power. They weren’t brave enough to make the decision before Songkran.

 

They had that partial lockdown that didn’t do anything for the last two months except <deleted> restaurants.

 

Now we have this incompetent mess.

 

https://twitter.com/fishmyman/status/1409003404983115778

 

1 hour ago, wensiensheng said:

In England that have just started setting up “pop up” centers in football stadiums, shopping malls etc.

 

the thing is that the public needs to have a certain mind set that testing is good. It tells you about your health. Do it weekly, stay informed about your body. Take isolation measures if positive. Then people WANT to be tested.

 

in Thailand you have the opposite. Testing costs money, testing positive means you are punished.

 

leadership is required to get the nation pulling together because everybody is in the same boat. Consistent messaging re: Covid prevention behavior, testing, isolating if positive, vaccination. Over and over. 
 

nonsense about tourists coming, opening in 120 days etc, just promotes the wrong message that everything is ok and that the nation is not in a fight against a virus that can wreak havoc if not checked.

 

 

 

yup. people do what they are incentivized to do if they feel its in their own interest.

 

my family recently all came down with a cough. faced with 4 x 3500 baht test cost + likely family split up, toddlers god knows where, mom and dad likely somewhere else.. we decided to man it out & self-isolate at home. and we have money, i fear those without will run miles rather than be tested.

 

but who knows? maybe they want it like that.. it does afterall keep the numbers down (in the short term anyway..)

 

 

Asean countries logged 40,222 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday, the highest on a single day in months, collated data showed.

#COVID19 #ASEAN #ThailandNews #TheNationThailand

https://www.nationthailand.com/international/40002507

1 hour ago, Ron jeremy said:

Panic mode was a month ago 

no more beds, no more testing, lockdown the workers!

are they welding the doors like in China?

Maybe, who knows what's going on in a general's mind?

 

1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said:

This must be reiterated: A @oc_ccsa sub committee called for a week-long lockdown in and around Bangkok, PM Prayut insisted to consider “economic effects” too - and then goes ahead targeting only restaurants and construction camps, while most others remain more or less open.

 

https://twitter.com/SaksithCNA/status/1408982841577201664

 

#ล็อกดาวน์กรุงเทพ (“Lockdown Bangkok”) is now trending for obvious reasons… …only it isn’t really a lockdown, it only targets restaurants and labor camps… …and an actual lockdown back in April at the start of this wave didn’t happen either… …so there we have it. #COVID19

 

https://twitter.com/SaksithCNA/status/1409005033631326211

 

22 minutes ago, anchadian said:

Asean countries logged 40,222 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday, the highest on a single day in months, collated data showed.

#COVID19 #ASEAN #ThailandNews #TheNationThailand

https://www.nationthailand.com/international/40002507

I look at this and I am reminded of the geniuses on here saying Thailand's doing so well because of the weather. Even some so-called Thai experts were saying this. 

1 hour ago, wensiensheng said:

In England that have just started setting up “pop up” centers in football stadiums, shopping malls etc.

 

the thing is that the public needs to have a certain mind set that testing is good. It tells you about your health. Do it weekly, stay informed about your body. Take isolation measures if positive. Then people WANT to be tested.

 

in Thailand you have the opposite. Testing costs money, testing positive means you are punished.

 

leadership is required to get the nation pulling together because everybody is in the same boat. Consistent messaging re: Covid prevention behavior, testing, isolating if positive, vaccination. Over and over. 
 

nonsense about tourists coming, opening in 120 days etc, just promotes the wrong message that everything is ok and that the nation is not in a fight against a virus that can wreak havoc if not checked.

 

 

Anyone can also pick up at a pharmacy 2 x 7 packs of rapid lateral flow test kits free of charge to enable a test every 3/4 days for those not having any symptoms but could still be passing it on. 
 

5 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

Anyone can also pick up at a pharmacy 2 x 7 packs of rapid lateral flow test kits free of charge to enable a test every 3/4 days for those not having any symptoms but could still be passing it on. 
 

Pity Thailand didn’t move some of the TAT budget from tv ads to test kit provision. It would help tourism a lot more in the long run.

I guess the Thais don't like 4K+ cases, so they just made sure it was under that.

A total of 3,995 new cases were reported Sunday, 45 of which were found in prisons and 3,915 found elsewhere in Thailand over past 24 hours. 1,725 (+63) patients are in critical condition, with 489 (+19) of them are on ventilator.

 

https://twitter.com/KhaosodEnglish/status/1409021791901601796

 

eplying to

@ThaiEnquirer

Of the 3,995 new cases that were found in the past 24 hours:

 

- 2,563 via tests at medical facilities

- 1,352 via pro-active tests at known clusters

- 45 via pro-active tests in prisons

- 35 imported cases

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiEnquirer/status/1409022250825654279

 

Of the 3,915 local cases (excluding the cases in prisons & imported cases), the highest numbers by province were 1,370 in Bangkok followed by 289 in Samut Sakhon, 231 in Samut Prakan, 195 in Nonthaburi, 189 in Pattani and 155 in Chonburi.

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiEnquirer/status/1409023314798931972

 

Here we go, the cap on hospital tests taking its effect,blue bar:

https://media.thaigov.go.th/uploads/public_img/source/270664.pdf

This is quite a comedown.  The lowest doses administered in a single day.

 

 

Thailand's Vaccine Tracker (June 27, 2021) About 3.90 percent of the population is fully vaccinated, with 6,475,826 (+40,930) people received the first dose, while 2,579,315 (+33,145) received the second dose. #วัคซีนโควิด19 #ฉีดวัคซีน #COVID19 #Thailand #KE

https://twitter.com/KhaosodEnglish/status/1409023755888697360

 

1 hour ago, anchadian said:

This is what happens when you have cowards in power. They weren’t brave enough to make the decision before Songkran.

 

They had that partial lockdown that didn’t do anything for the last two months except <deleted> restaurants.

 

Now we have this incompetent mess.

 

https://twitter.com/fishmyman/status/1409003404983115778

 

They are not Cowards; they are incompetant Gangsters only interested in what they and their Hi So friends and Families want and what they wanted is freedom of movement to do whatever they want (see Ministers going to 'Clubs' etc).  The rest of the Population and people like ourselves are of no interest to any of them and we are all expendable !

11 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Here we go, the cap on hospital tests taking its effect,blue bar:

https://media.thaigov.go.th/uploads/public_img/source/270664.pdf

 

Could well be.  But otherwise the blue curve is a pretty clean exponential through June. Likely from growth of India_delta.

 

13 minutes ago, anchadian said:

This is quite a come down.  The lowest doses administered in a single day.

So where are the millions of locally produced AZ vaccines?

3 minutes ago, Phuketshrew said:

So where are the millions of locally produced AZ vaccines?

We've received little news in the past from Siam Bioscience and I doubt we'll receive any now re supply of AZ.

6 minutes ago, Phuketshrew said:

So where are the millions of locally produced AZ vaccines?

Perhaps they are being secretly distributed to the elderly and vulnerable in the Northeastern provinces.

6 minutes ago, anchadian said:

12 minutes ago, Phuketshrew said:

So where are the millions of locally produced AZ vaccines?

We've received little news in the past from Siam Bioscience and I doubt we'll receive any now re supply of AZ.

Indeed. So not being part of Covax it looks like Thailand has been reduced to begging and scrounging handouts from their CP masters or anyone else that wants to unload unwanted vaccines....

https://www.facebook.com/nbtworld/posts/10158108750887050

3 hours ago, dinsdale said:

BP saying 2 fully vacced (SinoVac)people in Korat test postive to Delta variant. This is known as vaccine breakthrough.

BUT  does  that mean they will  get seriously  ill and die or  that the vaccine WILL  stop it  going to that stage?

6 hours ago, Danderman123 said:

I have learned not to believe such reports until they become the medical consensus. We get lots of conflicting claims about Covid in the media.

The media report (ABC news on youtube) stated that a close contact between someone and an infected person was no longer than 10 seconds. If I recall, this info was given by the premier of NSW. They reported that this incidence was caught on cctv, and this is how the person got infected. This was the delta variant. It's well known that the delta variant is very transmissible. 

3 hours ago, wensiensheng said:

In England that have just started setting up “pop up” centers in football stadiums, shopping malls etc.

Still stuck in Blackpool and yesterday they had a pop up vaccine van in the town, sit down , give details and get injection within 15 minutes. 

 

Seems to me people would rather take the vaccine than take a test due to potential financial knock on effects

 

 

2 hours ago, DrJack54 said:

Is that a pic of people in queue for testing?

I drive past gas stations if there is a queue of 2 cars.

I wouldn't get in that line even if it was for a jab.

That's Dodger Stadiums parking lot.  Testing and vaccine administration in one place.

Just now, ThailandRyan said:

That's Dodger Stadiums parking lot.  Testing and vaccine administration in one place.

What happened to the Walmart for walk in jabs etc

Oz friends tell me it's a walk in the park. Drop into vaccine centre. No appointment. Show your Medicare card or other id if you don't have one.

Few questions about your health. Jab. 

That's it.

12 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

What happened to the Walmart for walk in jabs etc

Oz friends tell me it's a walk in the park. Drop into vaccine centre. No appointment. Show your Medicare card or other id if you don't have one.

Few questions about your health. Jab. 

That's it.

Oh they still have those, but downtown LA is not where you find CVS or Walmarts, those are on the outskirts of the city in towns like Pasadena, Glendale, Artesia, long Beach and so on.  Most of those in line probably work in the skyscrapers.

Today there are 42 deaths in #Thailand:

27 males & 15 females

Median age is 69 (32-93 years)

Most deaths in Bangkok (27), Chachoengsao (2), Nakhon Pathom (2), Pathum Thani (2), plus 9 provinces with 1 each

3 with no underlying diseases

12 infected by family members

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1409038790165811200

 

4 hours ago, Swimfan said:

4 hours ago, dinsdale said:

BP saying 2 fully vacced (SinoVac)people in Korat test postive to Delta variant. This is known as vaccine breakthrough.

Of course it has. We have known all along that Sinovac is the totally useless cheap Charlie solution out of all of the vaccines.

Delta Variant Outbreak in Israel Infects Some Vaccinated Adults
Updated June 25, 2021 11:39 am ET

TEL AVIV—About half of adults infected in an outbreak of the Delta variant of Covid-19 in Israel were fully inoculated with the Pfizer Inc. vaccine, prompting the government to reimpose an indoor mask requirement and other measures to contain the highly transmissible strain.

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/vaccinated-people-account-for-half-of-new-covid-19-delta-cases-in-israeli-outbreak-11624624326

 

 

3 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

Israel were fully inoculated with the Pfizer Inc

Sign me up for sinovac.