2 hours ago, itsari said:

Lack of testing , lack of vaccinations and lack of medical facilities  points to a out of control situation .

.......and the baht reacting accordingly.

Weakened out 1.3% this last 5 days

33 minutes ago, itsari said:

Indonesia has three times the population of Thailand . 

Indonesia 270.6 million (2019)

Thailand 69.63 million (2019) 

16 minutes ago, robblok said:

 

So yea it really depends on your kind of perspective. If your perspective is to get  to remove lockdown and get the bars open so you can play with girls again 

I dont drink and I have a regular partner so get off your soapbox and quit with the personal cliche assumptions around people you know <deleted> all about 

 

I do care about children’s education though and the long effect it’s having on them. 

Edited August 7, 20214 yr by Kadilo

1 hour ago, mistral53 said:

Based on statistics, not emotions, Thailand is doing great: with 87 death/1 mil population, Thailand is ranked way below average at spot #148. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

 

But reading comments here, the hysteria got to be killing more than the virus:

- Covid death a little over 6,000

- suicides this year around 16,000

- traffic fatalities around 36,000

 

etc

Based on covid fatalities for the last week Thailand has had double the deaths than the UK. If you think 1076 deaths in one week is doing great then you have a serious problem. Apart from this the old comparison rubbish just doesn't work. Why don't you add deaths from cancer. How about heart attacks or my favourite, coconut strikes. The rationality of this arguement is spurious at best.

Edited August 7, 20214 yr by dinsdale

Interesting on yesterday announcement of a facility for children with covid in Bangkok:

Bangkok Administration Opens Care Center for Children with COVID-19

 

In the UK 

An estimated 34,000 children in the UK are suffering from long Covid, new research shows.

This includes 11,000 two- to 11-year-olds and 23,000 12- to 16-year-olds, according to a survey conducted by the Office for National Statistic

 

 

16 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

I dont drink and I have a regular partner so get off your soapbox and quit with the personal cliche assumptions around people you know <deleted> all about 

 

I do care about children’s education though and the long effect it’s having on them. 

You are an exception the main group pushing for a removal of lockdown is the group i described. 

 

You are right to be worried about kids education, thankfully you can do something about that yourself instead of complaining. Be more proactive.

 

https://wolseyhalloxford.org.uk/about-us/international-homeschooling/thailand/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwu7OIBhCsARIsALxCUaPZxe5xSG3BvnVM8EDK3qrtP5lVS02_VU4HNATvMK3TlFoAPoP0NC8aAjQbEALw_wcB

 

Im sure more can be found.

Edited August 7, 20214 yr by robblok

19 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

I dont drink and I have a regular partner so get off your soapbox and quit with the personal cliche assumptions around people you know <deleted> all about 

 

I do care about children’s education though and the long effect it’s having on them. 

Sadly the Govt seem to care little about the kids education. None of the teachers in our local nearby schools have been vaccinated yet. This is in Kanchanaburi.

2 minutes ago, edwinchester said:

Sadly the Govt seem to care little about the kids education. None of the teachers in our local nearby schools have been vaccinated yet. This is in Kanchanaburi.

I think if you are worried about your kids you will have to take action yourself. Home schooling being one of those things. Far from perfect but this is of course not a normal situation.

 

Back in my country the education of kids went on online and was successful in cases where parents really took interest in it. Without parents help it did not work that well. From personal experience of my niece her mother helped her a lot and there was a lot of work to do. Now back to school no problems at all and nothing has to be caught up. That is not the case for every kid as i said depends a lot on how much the parents care.

5 minutes ago, robblok said:

. That is not the case for every kid as i said depends a lot on how much the parents care

That's very much from a farang perspective. Many Thai home situation is very different from simplistic picture your putting out there. 

Bit naive in my thinking.

2 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

That's very much from a farang perspective. Many Thai home situation is very different from simplistic picture your putting out there. 

Bit naive in my thinking.

Yes but the guy I was responding to was a foreigner, not a Thai so I assumed it was about his kids.

 

But yea poor people in Thailand will have little chance to really help their kids. Farang couples on the other hand should be able to do something.

 

But sure this whole situation is not good for kids from poor families. I know of friends of mine who tutor Thai and foreign kids now that schools are closed. So some kids (from the families with a bit more money) do keep getting educated.

1 hour ago, Danderman123 said:

the dynamics of a pandemic

Well, ain´t that a weird expression.

24 minutes ago, robblok said:

You are an exception the main group pushing for a removal of lockdown is the group i described. 

 

 

Evidence? Or just another bull assumption 

2 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

Evidence? Or just another bull assumption 

No bull assumption if you look into the names of people who are anti lockdown and then those who are all about party beer topics and girls you will see a lot of names matching. As its against the forum its rules to go after users i will refrain from making a list and proving it. Just do it for yourself if your really interested. 

Edited August 7, 20214 yr by robblok

3 minutes ago, robblok said:

Yes but the guy I was responding to was a foreigner, not a Thai so I assumed it was about his kids.

 

But yea poor people in Thailand will have little chance to really help their kids. Farang couples on the other hand should be able to do something.

 

But sure this whole situation is not good for kids from poor families. I know of friends of mine who tutor Thai and foreign kids now that schools are closed. So some kids (from the families with a bit more money) do keep getting educated.

You assume too much. Seems to be a habit of yours . Unlike yourself I care about the education of all children particularly from poor families who do not have the luxury of internet, PCS etc. 
 

 

3 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

New highs again on all categories except prisons! Total of 21,838 new infections, with 923 of those from prison and 20,915 in the community. 212 covid deaths recorded. 

 

(6,026 positive rapid tests not counted in daily totals)

 

No let up in this third wave which keeps gaining traction throughout Thailand.

 

Rolling 7 day average (up to 5th Aug) which includes prison cases and bar chart of community cases from daily official announcements.

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/thailand

 

Brian, please attach vaccination graph, I know you can.

Just now, Kadilo said:

You assume too much. Seems to be a habit of yours . Unlike yourself I care about the education of all children particularly from poor families who do not have the luxury of internet, PCS etc. 
 

 

Yes its been said that i assume a lot often I am right but not always.  Kids from poor families are basically the victims. I won't deny that. But was i wrong to assume you had kids ? Anyway parents can do a lot. But yes poor kids that is an other thing.

 

But this is something that the government should solve, not a reason to remove a lockdown. 

3 minutes ago, Gottfrid said:

Well, ain´t that a weird expression.

"The situation is dynamic, its literally day to day."

 

WHO: Dr Maria Van Kerkhove in press briefing on 27th July in regards to the mutating Delta variant and how we deal with it.

 

 

11 minutes ago, robblok said:

 Just do it for yourself if your really interested. 

Why would anyone be interested unless they some kind of saddo with not a lot going on in their life. 

53 minutes ago, robblok said:

Excess deaths far outnumber the death toll announced by the government. There have been about 13,000 excess deaths since the start of March, about 8.5 per cent higher than normal. Thailand’s 58 reported COVID-19 fatalities are only 0.45 per cent of total excess deaths

Any hard evidence these excess deaths are a direct result of catching and dying from covid?   In a country like this where people have been given no financial support and have no income they could equally be deaths from lockdown related causes such as increased suicides and poverty related deaths such as malnourishment.     

 

People on here tend to think that not having any income or savings is just a minor inconvenience and create straw men to argue against by claiming people just want bars open.   Try this little thought experiment - imagine you have no income to pay your rent, no income to buy any food, no savings and no support network.    How long will you be able to survive for?   Is covid your biggest worry?   

Thailand's Vaccine Tracker (Aug. 7, 2021) About 6.66% of the population is fully vaccinated. 15,687,291 (+507,015) people have received the first dose, while 4,406,723 (+129,652) have been fully inoculated. #วัคซีนโควิด19 #COVID19 #ล็อกดาวน์ #KE

https://twitter.com/KhaosodEnglish/status/1423888696760143877

 

Today there were 212 deaths in #Thailand

 

116 males & 96 females

5 foreigners died

Median age is 67 (31-97 years)

Most deaths in Bangkok (99)

Deaths reported in 36 provinces

67% of those who died were older than 60 years old

4 died at home

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1423891459367833605

5 new clusters in #Thailand:

 

Samut Prakan (2 companies) +29

Chonburi (factory) +19

Nakhon Pathom (company) +14

Nonthaburi (factory) +9

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1423893412093186049

 

Edited August 7, 20214 yr by anchadian

11 minutes ago, anchadian said:

Thailand's Vaccine Tracker (Aug. 7, 2021) About 6.66% of the population is fully vaccinated. 15,687,291 (+507,015) people have received the first dose, while 4,406,723 (+129,652) have been fully inoculated. #วัคซีนโควิด19 #COVID19 #ล็อกดาวน์ #KE

https://twitter.com/KhaosodEnglish/status/1423888696760143877

 

Another excellent day and credit to all the hard work being done by

many nurses and other support staff to facilitate this. 
 

Fantastic effort. 

Each province's daily domestic COVID-19 cases update in Thailand on Saturday

Total: 21,834

https://www.facebook.com/nbtworld/posts/10158187189247050

12 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

Another excellent day and credit to all the hard work being done by

many nurses and other support staff to facilitate this. 
 

Fantastic effort. 

1,468,907 per month fully vaccinated ? you think that is a good result 

 

seriously ?

4 hours ago, itsari said:

Lack of testing , lack of vaccinations and lack of medical facilities  points to a out of control situation .

Lack of leadership

As long as they stubbornly refuse to include those found positive via rapid antigen tests in their daily tally, that number is pretty much meaningless. There's not enough proactive testing being done, and positivity rates are incredibly high.

 

On the bright side, in communities that currently have 20% positivity rate, infections cannot continue to double many more times, so they will peak within weeks. Herd immunity Thai-style, the hard way.

A four-year-old girl infected with Covid-19 was given milk and a blanket by Muang Si Sa Ket Police as encouragement for her to stay alone in a field hospital in Si Sa Ket province

 

On Friday, local rescue staff took the young Covid-19 patient from her father to the field hospital in the province for treatment. Because of the infection, she could not be accompanied by her near and dear ones.

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40004341

Just now, anchadian said:

A four-year-old girl infected with Covid-19 was given milk and a blanket by Muang Si Sa Ket Police as encouragement for her to stay alone in a field hospital in Si Sa Ket province

 

On Friday, local rescue staff took the young Covid-19 patient from her father to the field hospital in the province for treatment. Because of the infection, she could not be accompanied by her near and dear ones.

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40004341

This is what my GF's 7 year old daughter had to do for the 2 weeks she was in the hospital, staying alone, no parents or family.  Sucks completely.

11 minutes ago, smedly said:

1,468,907 per month fully vaccinated ? you think that is a good result 

 

seriously ?

On target for completion July 2025  ( 47 months away).