Phuket Opinion: Enough rope

[webfact]

Phuket Governor Narong Woonciew (right) has the latest statistics explained to him at the Aunjai Clinic in Phuket Town on Friday (Sept 24). Photo: Radio Thailand Phuket

 

PHUKET: If anyone was still looking for evidence that the COVID infection figures provided by some officials in Phuket were not adding up, this past week – not once, but twice – they have had that evidence served to them on a plate.

 

Plenty of suspicions about the veracity of the figures published each day in the daily COVID situation report for Phuket have been abound for a long time, yet this past week those suspicions were confirmed by none other than the official reports themselves.

 

The daily COVID situation report for last Sunday marked four deaths attributed to COVID-19. However, as marked by the notice announcing the details of those four deaths, three of the four cases were assigned a “Case Number” that was issued only in the preceding 24 hours – the same 24-hour period that the death was recognised.

 

Full story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-opinion-enough-rope-81516.php

 

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[nausea]

Had to laugh at one of the comments on the source article: 

Singapore has a saying "Don't Thai to me.."

[RichardColeman]

Have to be crazy to believe it's just Phuket covids numbers  being fixed. I imagine that Thailand is still on the UK red list as quite simply the UK - and many other countries - do not believe in Thailand's faked numbers. Just another piece of evidence that the whole numbers are just another scam and its not going to attract tourists !

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Phuket Governor Narong Woonciew (right) has the latest statistics explained to him at the Aunjai Clinic in Phuket Town on Friday (Sept 24).

What's explained to him, and what's released by him are two very different things.

[Peabody]

I don't trust these numbers from next door Myanmar either. Just a smooth downward curve, in spite of the large spikes in cases.

 

[Srikcir]

Does this number "math" come as a surprise in a country where a traffic fatality is only considered when a person is dead at the scene of the accident; but not counted when the person dies in an ambulance in route to a hospital or at the hospital?