Thailand Has World’s 8th Highest Number of Serious or Critical COVID-19 Cases

[ThailandRyan]

19 minutes ago, Xonax said:

How do you actually know, that it is the Bangkokians that spread the virus and not the migrant workers from other provinces, who frequently travel between Bangkok and their home provinces? Please stop your hatred against Bangkokians, as most cases in Bangkok are among migrant workers from other provinces, sent here to support their families back home in Ubon Nowhere.

Migrant workers homes would be in other countries and not here in a province in Thailand.  They mainly live where they work. UNless you are talking about Thai workers, there is a difference of course.

[WhiteBuffaloATM]

stats from uncivilized countries are worthless

2738 hospitalizations ( serious symptoms ) from pop. 70 million.... 

good to have those figures but otherwise so what .....hardly apocalyptic ......

[WhiteBuffaloATM]

TRyan : my last “civilized” post directed at member asking for “definition” of “civilized country”.

Not directly about the covid situation here although it is clearly connected (disregard 3rd world stats.).

this is not the UK is it in terms of trusted institutions, crisis experience, vax contracts, graft , efficiency, etc. ? people can decide from analyzing the facts about national governance, into which category any given country falls......

[Excel]

1 hour ago, Xonax said:

How do you actually know, that it is the Bangkokians that spread the virus and not the migrant workers from other provinces, who frequently travel between Bangkok and their home provinces? Please stop your hatred against Bangkokians, as most cases in Bangkok are among migrant workers from other provinces, sent here to support their families back home in Ubon Nowhere.

Migrant workwrs from Laos, Mynammar more likely illegal that Bangkokians employ on a pittance, keep them in pigstys and then complain they have got covid,  yes we have all heard that from those Bangkokians all before

[Rimmer]

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[robblok]

7 hours ago, Excel said:

Mind you with the spread to other provinces thanks to the Bangkokians then I suspect we shall eventually see similar scenarios in many other provinces unfortunately

Not sure if you can call the spreaders Bangkokians. They are probably more local then you ever will be with roots in the villages they visit. These are just the lower social status people who can't make money anymore and are therefor forced back to the cheaper village life. Usually they are in the housebook in the provinces. So technically they are not even Bangkokians but returnees that keep those out of the way villages in nowhere going with their financial contributions. 

[peter48]

 Sinovac jabs not approved in USA, Western Europe and UK. Unsure what the efficacy rates are for Sinovac.

[Harveyboy]

6 hours ago, ChipButty said:

There is probably a few reason why

the word  Envelope..comes to mind !!!!

[connda]

14 hours ago, webfact said:

The Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) has reported that Thailand has the 8th highest number of serious or critical COVID-19 cases in the world, as defined by worldometers.info

But but but!  The WHO lauded Thailand on its excellent handling of the pandemic not that long ago.

Perhaps people there's a lesson here.  Thailand took credit for doing such a good job when in actuality it did nothing and the country had not incurred cases nor were the government testing for cases.  A year ago you couldn't get a test for Covid in a government hospital if you were hacking your lungs out.
Guess they had to catch up after Thong Lor and then starting testing all the dirty migrants - then suddenly - Boom!  The rest is history.

[metisdead]

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[herfiehandbag]

12 hours ago, mikebell said:

Anutin has put all his eggs in one Chinese basket (for some reason!)  The rising infection rates show his failure as Health Minister.

Anutin's family fortune is based on their big construction  business is it not?

 

Their are some big, very big, infrastructure construction projects coming up, with very significant Chinese input.

 

I am sure there is no connection.

[rbkk]

Perhaps the intention all along has been to secured Thailand's standing as the "Covid-19 Hub" of choice. Just a few more rungs up the ladder and they'll be there.

[daveAustin]

20 hours ago, sezze said:

Like i said , Thailand stats aren't good , no doubt about it . The amount of people on ventilators is indeed not low . Having said that , they are now at how many deaths per day +/-90 . Thinking about the 1st waves we had in Europe we are talking loads more , and for a country like Thailand ( 70 mill population) , i am not looking up until we see at least 500 death per day ...

+/-90 'on top of' you mean. You are comparing with totally transparent western nations with advanced, well connected healthcare systems in place, vast amounts of data to draw from and absolutely no agenda. Why do folks on here overlook this and rely on the incomplete  data Thai authorities put out? Quite bewildering.

[law ling]

On 7/12/2021 at 6:59 AM, tonray said:

Sinovac proving to be virtually useless. Lost another month to poor decision making. Thai health workers need to be revacinated with working vaccines now.

Indeed. Yet they just ordered 10.9 million Sinovacs for B6.1 billion ... a lot of money for junk that could have gone elsewhere ... like for submarines ... or even for quality vaccines.

[tonray]

5 minutes ago, law ling said:

Indeed. Yet they just ordered 10.9 million Sinovacs for B6.1 billion ... a lot of money for junk that could have gone elsewhere ... like for submarines ... or even for quality vaccines.

I might even consider it if they threw in a booze cruise on the Chinese submarine up the Chao Praya to Pak Kret and back

[sezze]

9 hours ago, daveAustin said:

+/-90 'on top of' you mean. You are comparing with totally transparent western nations with advanced, well connected healthcare systems in place, vast amounts of data to draw from and absolutely no agenda. Why do folks on here overlook this and rely on the incomplete  data Thai authorities put out? Quite bewildering.

That is absolutely true , but so far only minimal info is spread about long waiting lines ( i've seen a video before ) , deaths appearing everywhere ( in hospital or not in hospital , dead is dead , that's what matters and is relevant info ) , and rumors of how many people they know who have got it . Like in the 1st waves in Europe , and in Thailand there was nothing , and since no other news around , i believed it , since you can't hide when it really hits . You do not need to confirm it , but people will know it .