142,000 children infected with Covid since January - 369 are orphans

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Suphatcha Sutthiphol of the Department of Children and Youth said that CCSA data showed that 142,870 Thai children had contracted Covid-19 in the period from January 1st to 4th September 2021. 

 

Of these 31,111 were in Bangkok and the rest in the provinces.

 

Of the total 369 were infected orphans with the most of these being in Pattani, Yala and naratiwas in the south and Ayutthaya and Kalasin also in the top five.

 

Also in the news were comments from others involved in children's education that online learning has been a year wasted in the lives of Thai children. 

 

Calls are being made to get schools opened as quickly as possible so children can resume classes and resume social contact with other children.

 

It is felt that it is not just their learning that has suffered in various lockdowns over the last two years but their social development also. 

 

Those involved with children want to see all teachers vaccinated, moves to vaccinate children of secondary school age initiated and ATK testing kits used so that safe environments can be created to open schools in Thailand. 

 

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[drenddy]

When my sister in law got Covid, her children as well got it.They were separated..How crazy is that?

 

 

 

 

[ThailandRyan]

4 minutes ago, webfact said:

Of the total 369 were infected orphans with the most of these being in Pattani, Yala and naratiwas in the south and Ayutthaya and Kalasin also in the top five.

 

Also in the news were comments from others involved in children's education that online learning has been a year wasted in the lives of Thai children. 

Loosing both parents to covid, or the grandparents whose care they were in is just tragic.  As far as education, yes it seems that it will be a complete do-over year, although that will never happen....pass them to the next level.

[Blumpie]

5 minutes ago, drenddy said:

When my sister in law got Covid, her children as well got it.They were separated..How crazy is that?

 

 

 

 

That shows how easily this is transmitted.

The good news here is our grande experiment of getting unvaccinated kids back to school has begun in earnest.  There will be lots of hindsight that the world can look upon.  

[Kadilo]

Good to see a few news stories making the headlines re Children’s education including the boycotting of ‘online studying’ putting more pressure on for a reopen. 
 

A year lost indeed. 

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Suphatcha Sutthiphol of the Department of Children and Youth said that CCSA data showed that 142,870 Thai children had contracted Covid-19 in the period from January 1st to 4th September 2021

A very sad figure indeed, 

[rocksniffer]

There is an important number missing. How many healthy children died ? A study in the USA of 48,000 people age 18 and under who contracted Covid 19. 335 died. All of those had severe medical problems. Diabetes, leukemia etc. So is it worth risking the possible side effects of a jab when the chance of death for a healthy child is zero ?

[brewsterbudgen]

"Also in the news were comments from others involved in children's education that online learning has been a year wasted in the lives of Thai children. 

 

Calls are being made to get schools opened as quickly as possible so children can resume classes and resume social contact with other children.

 

It is felt that it is not just their learning that has suffered in various lockdowns over the last two years but their social development also."

 

Finally good to see this being acknowledged!  Now get the schools open!

[Blumpie]

2 hours ago, rocksniffer said:

There is an important number missing. How many healthy children died ? A study in the USA of 48,000 people age 18 and under who contracted Covid 19. 335 died. All of those had severe medical problems. Diabetes, leukemia etc. So is it worth risking the possible side effects of a jab when the chance of death for a healthy child is zero ?

In our first world country here, children have died.  Children have long covid.  And there is worry that this is like polio, where cognitively you will decline quite substantially especially with degenerative brain diseases.  

 

Focusing in on deaths is completely silly - the pandemic is about overflowing hospitals inasmuch as anything.  I find that anti-vaccine nitwits focus entirely on death rates, blabbering on and on and on, spouting the same tired arguments over and over again.  

[ThailandRyan]

1 minute ago, Blumpie said:

In our first world country here, children have died.  Children have long covid.  And there is worry that this is like polio, where cognitively you will decline quite substantially especially with degenerative brain diseases.  

 

Focusing in on deaths is completely silly - the pandemic is about overflowing hospitals inasmuch as anything.  I find that anti-vaccine nitwits focus entirely on death rates, blabbering on and on and on, spouting the same tired arguments over and over again.  

Some, like the poster you responded to are looking at Covid from a minimalist view and believe the reactions to date have been far and overreaching with the responses the world has given.  They are the folks who think Covid is so survivable that the world just needs to move on and it is just a big nothing burger.

 

Unfortunately I look at those folks as only wanting to see the black and white of numbers and not the gray areas that follow and are more important such as what you have hit upon in your first 3 sentences of your post.

[gk10012001]

Of course children can carry and transmit the virus, even while the vast majority of children so far seem to in general not suffering from COVID.  And many vaccines are not approved for children.  Should not be a big surprise that the virus is still spreading

[Kadilo]

7 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Some, like the poster you responded to are looking at Covid from a minimalist view and believe the reactions to date have been far and overreaching with the responses the world has given.  They are the folks who think Covid is so survivable that the world just needs to move on and it is just a big nothing burger.

 

Unfortunately I look at those folks as only wanting to see the black and white of numbers and not the gray areas that follow and are more important such as what you have hit upon in your first 3 sentences of your post.

I guess it depends on which side of the fence you sit on whether the weight of the argument is from a minimalist view or one that thinks that the data now shows that it’s time to consider the effects that the suppression is now having on children’s education, mental health, lack of social structure etc in addition to that of the general public with no income, no work, cannot pay bills etc and all the negative mental health that goes hand in hand. 

 

These are also the grey areas that you mention, but looking at through a different set of lens. 

 

One may argue it’s easy for the likes of us to want these restrictions to stay for as long as possible, as we are not the real victims in all this. It easier for us to set deadlines which the government must meet because we all have a steady income and a nice room over our heads so to speak. 
 

Obviously every child, every pregnant woman, and every adult that does is a tragedy for everyone but there’s has to come a time when we have to live with it.
 

I think we all agree with that. Where we differ is when, and at which point the balance weighs in our favour, which will depend on whatever view you take.