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How Thailand rode out COVID waves only to be hit by ‘virus tsunami’ 


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21 minutes ago, utalkin2me said:

How did the delta variant even get in? The borders are closed. I would love to see that actually addressed.

 

The most likely answer… the people who make the rules can travel, so they do, and brought back the delta variant. 

India - Myanmar - maybe Laos - Thailand. It isn't that far. Before it's even been detected it's spreading to other countries. And no country can control their borders 100%. 

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7 minutes ago, law ling said:

Yes, I think you've hit the nail on the head: porous land borders ... and why?

- big shots on casino tours

- Thais sneaking in to avoud quarantine

- day-traders, transport trucks being waved through

- blind eye turned to Burmese etc entering, because they are "needed" to run some industries

 

... could go on ... but it's all too late now ...

The porous borders have always been there, they did not just get that way when Delta arrived. 

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Paraphrasing Andy Williams song...

Where do I begin
To tell the story of how stupid can leaders be
The sweet ignorance story that is older than the sea
The simple truth about how thing should have been
Where do I start?...

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9 minutes ago, Surelynot said:

If only there was some kind of body or organization that had an overview of this and had the powers to take preemptive action........like a government maybe?

You mean someone who really gave a feces

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1 hour ago, law ling said:

Yes, I think you've hit the nail on the head: porous land borders ... and why?

- big shots on casino tours

- Thais sneaking in to avoud quarantine

- day-traders, transport trucks being waved through

- blind eye turned to Burmese etc entering, because they are "needed" to run some industries

 

... could go on ... but it's all too late now ...

Yes of course. Everyone suffers, but if an important shipment of Tom yam needs to make its way across the border, as you say the Burmese truckers will be allowed to take it. 
 

It’s all such a farce.

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1 hour ago, bestie said:

India - Myanmar - maybe Laos - Thailand. It isn't that far. Before it's even been detected it's spreading to other countries. And no country can control their borders 100%. 

That’s part of the point of course. If you can’t control it you may as well open the goddam border. 

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5 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Complacency.

Hubris.

Incompetent leaders. 

No vaccine ordering and stockpiling as a pre-emptive measure.

Too slow to implement local vaccine production.

Over-estimation and almost total reliance on local vaccine production. 

Failure to order any vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna or J&J.

Allowing Songkran to go ahead.

Porous borders.

Government ministers frequenting sex-clubs in Bangkok then running away and lying about it.

A lack of willpower to lockdown after Songkran when it was clear numbers were on the rise.

Stupidly allocating millions of vaccines to tourist islands instead of virus epicentres in order to implement a face-saving sandbox scheme which was doomed to abject failure.

 

Any more?

The poor Government had nothing to do with the mess we are in, It's always somebody else. Just like all those great Chinese vaccines. I wonder where they came from? And it would be nice if they worked better.

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5 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Tsunami, not quite, but is still building.

And it will hit ... this stuff spreads exponentially, and in a couple of weeks time those not included in today's figures will become evident ... it tends to lag by about two weeks ...

It's a horrific prospect.

I hope very very much that I'm wrong and somehow an India situation can be avoided.

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If the government continues to sell the output of the vaccine to neighbor countries there will never be enough to vaccine local people. I have tried to get vaccinated and I am told that until all the Thais are finished we don't have anything for farangs.  Sinovac has proven to be almost worthless but they keep buying from China. What is wrong with the good stuff from Europe and the USA?

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