Weaker COVID Controls to Be Considered on Friday

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BANGKOK, Aug 25 (TNA) – The Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) will consider the relaxation of COVID-19 control measures this Friday.

 

CCSA assistant spokesperson Dr Apisamai Srirangson said the operation committee of CCSA would discuss weaker disease control measures Aug 26 and propose its decision to CCSA chaired by the prime minister on the following day.

 

The operation committee would consider comprehensive information and CCSA would discuss the issue at 9am on Aug 27, she said.

 

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[ezzra]

What weaker control? you drive around Bkk and you wouldn't know that this country is in the mids of a huge Covid problems, other than few shops that are closed, business and traffic seems to be as usual...

Edited August 25, 2021 by ezzra

[pegman]

This won't end well 

[cyril sneer]

41 minutes ago, ezzra said:

What weaker control? you drive around Bkk and you wouldn't know that this country is in the mids of a huge Covid problems, other than few shops that are closed, business and traffic seems to be as usual...

Wouldn’t like to try it after 9pm when the virus starts mutating 

[Scrotobike]

This train looks unstoppable, fully opened soon is now inevitable - lots of pre announcements of opening up. Seem almost like they have a crystal ball to see the future covid numbers continuing to fall - or some other method.

 

I do not agree/disagree with opening up, just an observation of a pattern I am seeing. In any event until we (my family and I here in Issan) are vaccinated (twice with a non-CCP vaccine) I will continue to observe our own version of a "lock down".

[Harry Black]

1 hour ago, cyril sneer said:

Wouldn’t like to try it after 9pm when the virus starts mutating 

School finishes at 3.30, so should be OK to open up then.

[Daithi85]

2 hours ago, ezzra said:

What weaker control? you drive around Bkk and you wouldn't know that this country is in the mids of a huge Covid problems, other than few shops that are closed, business and traffic seems to be as usual...

A few shops that are closed???  What about bars, nightclubs, resturants, shopping malls, gyms,parks,markets ????maybe u should look again. 

[BangkokReady]

2 hours ago, ezzra said:

What weaker control? you drive around Bkk and you wouldn't know that this country is in the mids of a huge Covid problems, other than few shops that are closed, business and traffic seems to be as usual...

Sadly very true.  More relaxed than the first wave, when things were far better.

[brewsterbudgen]

7 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

Sadly very true.  More relaxed than the first wave, when things were far better.

I doubt there will be much relaxation of the restrictions ????

[Caldera]

Can I Has Park?

 

Or in proper English, please consider reopening Bangkok's public parks. Thank you.

[internationalism]

ok, open boxing, football stadiums to bring italian bug from high flyers.

allow myanmar workers in without proper quarantine to opening sandboxes, because infection rate there is only 3x that in thailand.

create Thonglor 2 cluster from weekend casino trips across border to poipet and local casinos, night clubs.

 

You will have the already existing 4th wave boosted by the 5th one.

 

[Guderian]

Can they please advise us what number of daily new cases and deaths will result in them reimposing the restrictions?

[Will B Good]

Good news, in a sense, for those looking to rent or buy.......another wave of covid is now bound to occur. 

 

UK 62.7% fully vaccinated and 30,000 plus cases per day.

 

Thailand 8% fully vaccinated (many with Sinovac).........not looking good.

[brewsterbudgen]

44 minutes ago, Guderian said:

Can they please advise us what number of daily new cases and deaths will result in them reimposing the restrictions?

They haven't relaxed the restrictions yet!!  Hopefully they won't need to be reimposed once they are relaxed.

[Guderian]

1 hour ago, brewsterbudgen said:

They haven't relaxed the restrictions yet!!  Hopefully they won't need to be reimposed once they are relaxed.

It looks to me like the Big Cheese is intent on sticking to his mid-October reopening plan, no matter what. That's six weeks away, so even in their most optimistic predictions they'll have fully vaccinated less than 20% of the population. Lifting all restrictions + low vaccination coverage = more unnecessary suffering and deaths. I just want to know at what point the Big Cheese will decide that enough is enough and close things down again. Will 500 deaths a day do the trick? Or 1,000, or double that number? It's obvious that the country is heading for yet another covid disaster, fueled by the greed and hubris of its politicians, so it's best for us mere mortals to be prepared.

[AnotherFarang8]

2 hours ago, Will B Good said:

Good news, in a sense, for those looking to rent or buy.......another wave of covid is now bound to occur. 

 

UK 62.7% fully vaccinated and 30,000 plus cases per day.

 

Thailand 8% fully vaccinated (many with Sinovac).........not looking good.

Cases per day don’t matter. Never did. What matters is serious cases and deaths per day. Governments around the world have a hard time explaining why they made so much fuss about cases per day before, because it was a knee jerk reaction or worse. Nobody wants to admit that. All they know is they must open economy or face catastrophic results at next elections. Don’t hold your breath expecting logic in all of this, especially connecting cases per day before and today to governments’ actions. Governments that didn’t freak out don’t have to look this illogical and weak, Mexico is a fine example, Sweden, some others.

[neillyweilly]

So if they allow 50% capacity in restaurants for vaccinated individuals - which is what the announcement is likely to be.

 

Who's gonna police it? What is acceptable documentation? What is an acceptable vaccine? Has anyone got a vaccine passport yet?

 

Some people have suggested life in Bangkok feels normal. That's true only if you stay in the suburbs, and would ordinarily be confined to your house, not venturing out much. Life for inner-city Bangkokians looks and feels very different, even compared with last year's quasi-lockdown.  

 

 

 

 

[Caldera]

7 minutes ago, neillyweilly said:

So if they allow 50% capacity in restaurants for vaccinated individuals - which is what the announcement is likely to be.

 

Who's gonna police it? What is acceptable documentation? What is an acceptable vaccine? Has anyone got a vaccine passport yet?

For people vaccinated in Thailand, I'd assume that you'll show your vaccination status on your Mor Phrom app to the waitstaff before they seat you or take your order. The same could be done with the paper certificate, as they could scan the QR code to validate it.

 

How that would work for foreign tourists (or people vaccinated elsewhere in general) is anyone's guess. Same problem in other countries.

[Midwit]

10 hours ago, ezzra said:

What weaker control? you drive around Bkk and you wouldn't know that this country is in the mids of a huge Covid problems, other than few shops that are closed, business and traffic seems to be as usual...

You must live in another city. Here in Bangkok where I live it’s a ghost town with pretty much everything closed. A little bit of street food but most shops have been closed up for months.

[calbts2]

1 hour ago, Caldera said:

For people vaccinated in Thailand, I'd assume that you'll show your vaccination status on your Mor Phrom app to the waitstaff before they seat you or take your order. The same could be done with the paper certificate, as they could scan the QR code to validate it.

 

How that would work for foreign tourists (or people vaccinated elsewhere in general) is anyone's guess. Same problem in other countries.

What foreign tourists? This whole "vaccine passport" just to eat a meal in a restaurant is practically unworkable. If restaurants open this weekend - how many fully vaccinated customers will they see vs not fully vaccinated? They can choose to either not enforce this unfair and discriminatory directive and start to recover to make money - or attempt to enforce it soon finding out that there is a lack of any fully vaccinated potential customers in Thailand - let alone lemmings that will accept this.

And what about children and those who cannot be vaccinated? Are they going to constantly pay for tests just to eat at a restaurant when chances are they are struggling economically ?

Just go back to the way it was a few months ago - not enforce some knee-jerk over precaution.

[Walker88]

2 hours ago, Caldera said:

For people vaccinated in Thailand, I'd assume that you'll show your vaccination status on your Mor Phrom app to the waitstaff before they seat you or take your order. The same could be done with the paper certificate, as they could scan the QR code to validate it.

 

How that would work for foreign tourists (or people vaccinated elsewhere in general) is anyone's guess. Same problem in other countries.

I'm going to guess that the number of restaurants that will stick to 50% capacity if additional customers show up is.......0

 

I'm also going to guess that the number of restaurants that will strictly observe a two-jab only rule for customers is.......0