‘No winners’ in Thailand’s fresh lockdown offensive against COVID

[webfact]

 

(Photo by @helloimnik)

 

OPINION

 

By Thai PBS World’s General Desk

 

Thais across the country are suffering the impact of a semi-lockdown after restrictions were expanded from 13 to 29 provinces and extended until at least August 31.

 

Concern is now growing that the lockdown restrictions – which cover a ban on dine-in services and closure of many categories of business – could drag on much longer as the fourth wave of COVID-19 rages on unabated.

 

The Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) said it will evaluate the situation every two weeks.

The Public Health Ministry estimates that without lockdown measures, the COVID-19 death toll will skyrocket from 178 on August 2 to nearly 600 per day over the next three or four months.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/no-winners-in-thailands-fresh-lockdown-offensive-against-covid/

 

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[RichardColeman]

2 minutes ago, webfact said:

The Public Health Ministry estimates that without lockdown measures, the COVID-19 death toll will skyrocket from 178 on August 2 to nearly 600 per day over the next three or four months.

We can but hope that the Health Ministry have been lent a member of the TAT to do the figures and they are as widely overestimated as usual.

[sammieuk1]

And it was only 3 months ago the CCSA said the peak had passed another badge can be stitched on to uniforms the one for the most useless corrupted covid response in the history of C19 ????

[pegman]

11 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

We can but hope that the Health Ministry have been lent a member of the TAT to do the figures and they are as widely overestimated as usual.

More likely an underestimate if you compare with countries that were slow to respond to the COVID such as the U.K. and U.S.A.

[zzaa09]

Might be beneficial to strongly instill the return of stern adherence of precautionary and practiced health protocols as it was not too long ago. 

I'm guessing there has been a lax of discipline among the society - therefore the broad surges.

You know how it works - if the pathogen doesn't have host to infect, it might somewhat fade away. 

 

It's obvious that the reasons for the spikes [everywhere for the last 18 months] derives from a percentage of the population that are indifferent about simple practiced protocols - currently applies to those countries that are struggling with vaccine distribution and organisation. 

 

[Geoffggi]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

The Public Health Ministry estimates that without lockdown measures, the COVID-19 death toll will skyrocket from 178 on August 2 to nearly 600 per day over the next three or four months.

I thought there was a ban on spreading news likely to panic people ...............!!!!

[Boomer6969]

3 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

We can but hope that the Health Ministry have been lent a member of the TAT to do the figures and they are as widely overestimated as usual.

Are they? You see it is a FACT that by mid August we'll have daily casualties within the 300 to 400 range.

 

If the number of daily cases progresses to 30000 we'll have 600 casualties some two weeks after we reach that number. This isn't fact yet, but only a very likely scenario for the second half of August.

[RubbaJohnny]

The winners will be those who do survive, thanks to others following vital life saving advice that most kids or dgs can be trained to do in a Pavlovian way. STAY SIT.

 

We all love the relative freedoms experienced here compared to the  nanny states but that same laxity means it is harder to request responsible behaviour in the present emergency.

 

If not being able to drink beer in public all night or attend a restaurant, attend to urgent massages, cocklighting or karoke is the price to pay so be it. The sooner the measures can work , supported of course by mass vax the sooner life can approach  the erstwhile Joy and ecstasy of living in Amazing Thailand.

[paulikens]

plenty of winners.  the joysponges and fun police on here are winners

[metisdead]

A post with a trolling image has been removed.  The Worst Joke Ever 2021 would be the appropriate place for posting images such as that.

[ArcticFox]

10 hours ago, webfact said:

The Public Health Ministry estimates that without lockdown measures, the COVID-19 death toll will skyrocket from 178 on August 2 to nearly 600 per day over the next three or four months.

The Ministry of Self-Fulfilling Prophesy.

[Isaan sailor]

Simple logic:  if lockdowns are bad for Thailand, and certain vaccines from the west are good for the Delta variant—why not order them (for real, not just talk about them)?

 It probably costs less to lock down dark red provinces—than to vaccinate them with the good stuff.

Edited August 4, 2021 by Isaan sailor

[zzaa09]

9 hours ago, RubbaJohnny said:

The winners will be those who do survive, thanks to others following vital life saving advice that most kids or dgs can be trained to do in a Pavlovian way. STAY SIT.

 

We all love the relative freedoms experienced here compared to the  nanny states but that same laxity means it is harder to request responsible behaviour in the present emergency.

 

If not being able to drink beer in public all night or attend a restaurant, attend to urgent massages, cocklighting or karoke is the price to pay so be it. The sooner the measures can work , supported of course by mass vax the sooner life can approach  the erstwhile Joy and ecstasy of living in Amazing Thailand.

All good. 

Yet, most of the world [including the highly civilised English-speaking circle] is still struggling to get a real handle on this uncharted mess. And has little to do with specific and comparative cultural aspects and practices, but more along the lines of how we are as a species......especially of the contemporary variety.