All schools in Phuket ordered closed for two weeks

[Jonathan Fairfield]

 

PHUKET: All schools in Phuket have been ordered to close from July 12-23 by order of the Phuket Governor.

 

Governor Narong Woonciew issued the order yesterday (July 9) after slew of schools had announced that they were to close over concerns of COVID infections spreading among students, staff and teachers at their respective schools.

 

In announcing that Baan Talad Neua School, located on Chao Fa Rd in Phuket Town and operated by the Phuket Provincial Administration Organisation (PPAO, or OrBorJor), will close for two weeks, PPAO Deputy President Anuphap Wetwanitsanong explained that a student in the Kindergarten 2/1 class has been confirmed infected with COVID-19.

 

Full story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/all-schools-in-phuket-ordered-closed-for-two-weeks-80630.php

 

-- © Copyright Phuket News 2021-07-11

[sucit]

Yes. After two weeks this should be all cleared up. 

[engamann]

So again let the children suffer and close the schools again , in the most countries them try to keep the schools open but in Thailand it seam to be some of the first to always shut down.

[KarenBravo]

1 minute ago, engamann said:

So again let the children suffer and close the schools again , in the most countries them try to keep the schools open but in Thailand it seam to be some of the first to always shut down.

They, and others will suffer a lot more if they catch and pass on Covid.

In times like these, over-caution is better than complacency.

[Muhendis]

Does this mean the sandbox plan has failed?

[madmitch]

The authorities claim that the appropriate number of people have been vaccinated in order to allow sandbox "tourists" to arrive.

 

Yet a couple of cases and they close the schools.

 

Not exactly giving the right impression to those potential sandbox arrivals, is it?

 

 

[Bob12345]

^ thinking the exact same....

 

What was the idea of the sandbox again?

Wasn't it to give vaccination to the people of Phuket so in case tourists with covid come over it will not lead to an outbreak and everything can just continue as normal? But now there are 10 cases and they close things down.

 

So what are tourists coming to Phuket for exactly?

An exotic lockdown on a locked-down island?

And how are people on Phuket supposed to profit from the tourists if everything closes down? You can't even work in a hotel disinfecting things as your kids have no school and you will need to stay home to avoid them burning it down.

 

 

A-B-S-U-R-D

 

 

 

Edit: luckily the holiday started for my kids last Friday - we were expecting to keep them home already so it doesn't effect us this time. But I feel bad for people hoping the sandbox would restore their means of making a living... not even 2 weeks in and we are back to where it all started.

Edited July 11, 2021 by Bob12345

[J Town]

3 hours ago, Muhendis said:

Does this mean the sandbox plan has failed?

I think that's part of the plan to close schools. I've heard the number "90" and if that many cases of Covid appear in Phuket, then the sandbox gets closed. Closed schools prevent the numbers from growing.

[The Theory]

I see only sand in that box. 

[engamann]

On 7/11/2021 at 9:20 AM, KarenBravo said:

They, and others will suffer a lot more if they catch and pass on Covid.

In times like these, over-caution is better than complacency.

Tell that to the family that just had there 15 year old boy hang himself because of the stress whit online study , many family don't have wifi , computer , smart phone so how can these kids learn anything when the schools been shut for most of the last years ? If you look Thai news its so many similar story out there so just think of all the hidden suicides out there.

 

 

[ChipButty]

10 minutes ago, engamann said:

Tell that to the family that just had there 15 year old boy hang himself because of the stress whit online study , many family don't have wifi , computer , smart phone so how can these kids learn anything when the schools been shut for most of the last years ? If you look Thai news its so many similar story out there so just think of all the hidden suicides out there.

 

 

I hear what you are saying, but many farang dont speak Thai let alone read or write so no point in watching the Thai news channels, you can be a good sport and keep us upto date with the local Thai news

[KarenBravo]

56 minutes ago, engamann said:

Tell that to the family that just had there 15 year old boy hang himself because of the stress whit online study , many family don't have wifi , computer , smart phone so how can these kids learn anything when the schools been shut for most of the last years ? If you look Thai news its so many similar story out there so just think of all the hidden suicides out there.

 

 

The majority of people don't kill themselves.

Still better to close the schools and protect the majority of children (and their families).

[GrandPapillon]

On 7/10/2021 at 10:20 PM, KarenBravo said:

They, and others will suffer a lot more if they catch and pass on Covid.

In times like these, over-caution is better than complacency.

non-sense, it doesn't work, you guys are 6 months too late over this, we had the same debates here in Europe 6 months ago, and it turns out that authorities have lifted lockdowns because the social, economic, and psychology effects were out of the control, and far worse than the number of people dying from COVID.

 

lockdowns are middle age solutions to a modern world problem, and it doesn't work.

Edited July 12, 2021 by GrandPapillon

[GrandPapillon]

15 minutes ago, KarenBravo said:

The majority of people don't kill themselves.

Still better to close the schools and protect the majority of children (and their families).

a bit naive to be honest, the effects are serious and well documented now, at least in the western world

 

lockdown is going to kill more than COVID at the end, some people will never recover from the economic devastation, let alone the psychology of it

 

we are not lab rats we can put in a cage to satisfy a few "alarmists", paranoid "doom and gloom sayers"

 

authoritarian governments love it of course LOL

Edited July 12, 2021 by GrandPapillon

[KarenBravo]

1 hour ago, GrandPapillon said:

non-sense, it doesn't work, you guys are 6 months too late over this, we had the same debates here in Europe 6 months ago, and it turns out that authorities have lifted lockdowns because the social, economic, and psychology effects were out of the control, and far worse than the number of people dying from COVID.

 

lockdowns are middle age solutions to a modern world problem, and it doesn't work.

The facts don't back you up.

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-lockdowns-idUSKBN2842WS

https://www.bbc.com/news/55949640

[GrandPapillon]

10 minutes ago, KarenBravo said:

The facts don't back you up.

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-lockdowns-idUSKBN2842WS

https://www.bbc.com/news/55949640

didn't realize that 2 opinion articles from the press were constituting undeniable facts on long term effects LOL

 

and government statistics disagree with those 2 articles,

 

social security databases have shown these problems are real, and the number of depression have reached levels never seen before,

 

and we are yet to see the real economic damages,

 

all for nothing at the end, since saving a few lives with lockdowns will be outweight by a shortage of the average life expectancy because of the consequences of the lockdowns, and those numbers aren't pretty from the early estimates

 

I think in full insights, in 5 years, we will see how foolish all these measures were, full of non-sense and conflicting outcomes

Edited July 12, 2021 by GrandPapillon

[brewsterbudgen]

As this thread is specifically about closing schools as part of the Covid response, Japan makes an interesting case study.

 

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/23/national/japan-emergency-schools/

 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971220305981

 

[GrandPapillon]

16 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

As this thread is specifically about closing schools as part of the Covid response, Japan makes an interesting case study.

 

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/23/national/japan-emergency-schools/

 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971220305981

 

yep, many European countries kept their schools open during the last waves, and the "alarmists" got it wrong when they were expecting an exponential outburst that never happened, even with the schools open

 

obviously Thailand is doing it wrong, as usual. Over-reaction seems to be the norms, but when you are incompetent in every domains, over-reaction seems to be your only option LOL

Edited July 12, 2021 by GrandPapillon

[engamann]

2 hours ago, KarenBravo said:

The majority of people don't kill themselves.

Still better to close the schools and protect the majority of children (and their families).

Of course them don't same as majority of people get Covid get really sick from it , Covid is so dangerous that you have to take a Covid test to now if you have it or not !!!! I have not seen a story of young students die from Covid but I have seen many stories of young student make suicide. 

Edited July 12, 2021 by engamann

[utalkin2me]

Good time to be a teacher

[utalkin2me]

10 minutes ago, GrandPapillon said:

yep, many European countries kept their schools open during the last waves, and the "alarmists" got it wrong when they were expecting an exponential outburst that never happened, even with the schools open

 

obviously Thailand is doing it wrong, as usual. Over-reaction seems to be the norms, but when you are incompetent in every domains, over-reaction seems to be your only option LOL

Wow. You are posting common sense. That is not allowed around here! What is wrong with you? 

[utalkin2me]

2 hours ago, GrandPapillon said:

non-sense, it doesn't work, you guys are 6 months too late over this, we had the same debates here in Europe 6 months ago, and it turns out that authorities have lifted lockdowns because the social, economic, and psychology effects were out of the control, and far worse than the number of people dying from COVID.

 

lockdowns are middle age solutions to a modern world problem, and it doesn't work.

The really scary part is I believe most of the things countries do actually make the covid infection rate higher. So not only are the side effects from covid lockdown policies far worse than the virus, but we may be making the virus impact worse as well. It would be hard to do this if you tried. Locking people up inside with no exercise may turn out to be one of the worst decisions in pandemic history. 

[GrandPapillon]

and let's not forget that clusters are created in enclosed space, not outside when things are moving. Large gathering outside however,