Anutin: Latest covid-19 surge won't be like 2021 - because enough Thais are vaccinated

[webfact]

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Thai Rath interviewed Anutin Charnvirakul - Thailand's controversial billionaire health minister and DPM about the latest surges in Covid-19 cases brought about by the Omicron variant.

 

Anutin - who is neither a scientist or a doctor, just filthy rich - said that Omicron was not as bad as Delta.

 

In 2021 there were 28,000 cases in a day - he didn't want to go back to that so he urged people to follow the rules and protocols.

 

Besides, he said that the situation will not be as bad as last year because 70% of Thais had received vaccinations in the country and 8-9 million had had a booster shot. 

 

He accepted there had been a surge in cases in the New Year but pointed out that this had not been matched by a surge in deaths.

 

He said that his continued suspension of the Test and Go for foreigners entering Thailand to the end of the month was designed to keep more virus out.

 

He said Thailand needed to get it's own house in order first before accepting more foreigners. 

 

He intimated that restaurants operating as half food joint half pubs would be looked into after many cases came from such establishments.

 

The Thai media likes to call Anutin Sia Noo or Mighty Mouse. Critics have said that at times he is more like Motor Mouth. 

 

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[Mavideol]

11 minutes ago, webfact said:

Anutin - who is neither a scientist or a doctor, just filthy rich - said that Omicron was not as bad as Delta.

if not a doctor nor a scientist what does he know, why does he keeps opening his mouth

[Hummin]

If he paid attention to Europe, and especially in  Sweeden with 17 000 new covid cases yesterday, he would not even think what he said. 

[Thaiwrath]

18 minutes ago, webfact said:

Anutin - who is neither a scientist or a doctor, just filthy rich -

Anutin - who is neither a scientist or a doctor, just a filthy rich buffoon,

would be a more appropriate description !

[hamleknoi]

He's wrong. Enough dirty farang made it back in to take refuge in Thailand, to start a big new wave. He should assign each a personal washer to scrub them down as they rarely shower themselves. It's the only way to stop the spread.

[harada]

Professor Anuthing seems to be oblivious to what’s going on in the rest of the world, preoccupied with his bank balance no doubt. ????????????

[Cake Monster]

14 minutes ago, webfact said:

Besides, he said that the situation will not be as bad as last year because 70% of Thais had received vaccinations in the country and 8-9 million had had a booster shot. 

Anutin

Go read up on another Post Today from one of your Buddies at MOPH

Only 64 % ( 45 M ) of Thais have been double Vaxxed, using 90 Million doses of the 103 Million said to be administered.

That leaves 13 Million doses spread among the remaining 36 % of the Population

So, if according to you 8-9 Million have had Boosters, then there are a whopping 5-4 Million doses left to Vax those that need it.

Anutin,

If you are going to lie though your Eye Teeth, at least have the decency to make your Lies possibly credible, and stop your continues insult of peoples Intelligence.

 

[ThailandRyan]

OMG, is this man for real or is he that dense....

[BangkokReady]

36 minutes ago, webfact said:

He said that his continued suspension of the Test and Go for foreigners entering Thailand to the end of the month was designed to keep more virus out.

Genius. ????

[Jerno]

Many countries have higher vaccination rates and are still bombarded by Omicron. Why would Thailand be immune to similar.  Just more BS from Thai govt officials.

[connda]

59 minutes ago, webfact said:

In 2021 there were 28,000 cases in a day - he didn't want to go back to that so he urged people to follow the rules and protocols.

It didn't start at 28,000 cases a day the week after Songkran. 
It started the week after Songkran and built up from there.

So this is the first week after the New Years super spreader event. Give it a couple of months and report back again!

[connda]

18 minutes ago, Jerno said:

Many countries have higher vaccination rates and are still bombarded by Omicron. Why would Thailand be immune to similar.  Just more BS from Thai govt officials.

Buddha smiles down on billionaire Health Ministers and blesses them -
<bell ring> "You've Got - Karma!" <harp strum>

Edited January 6, 2022 by connda

[RichardColeman]

Quite sure he'll order testing be reduced further to make himself not look even more stupid in the coming weeks

[ThailandRyan]

3 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

Quite sure he'll order testing be reduced further to make himself not look even more stupid in the coming weeks

You mean like the UK just did for pre-flight testing

[internationalism]

Dr Nut well should know that the 100% increase from yesterday to some 6k means within days tens of thousands infected.

 

Edited January 6, 2022 by internationalism

[Bkk Brian]

He should stick to Tik Tok, the man's a loon with no sense of reality

[EricTh]

The world should move away from looking at infection figures but look at the hospitalized cases instead.

 

If you just had a cough, slight fever and headache due to Covid for a few days, it's considered mild and shouldn't be worried about it.

 

Mild and asymptomatic should not be counted as serious cases. It's serious cases that is worrying.

Edited January 6, 2022 by EricTh

[TooMuchTime]

Typical haters on the Health Minister.

 

A Health Minister knows more than you guys plus I see a lot of jealously on his wealth.

 

Just put your double mask on, get your booster, and stay quiet.

[Bkk Brian]

5 minutes ago, TooMuchTime said:

Typical haters on the Health Minister.

 

A Health Minister knows more than you guys plus I see a lot of jealously on his wealth.

 

Just put your double mask on, get your booster, and stay quiet.

As I said, better off on his Tik Tok account racing his speedboats and singing about not getting enough likes from people

https://www.tiktok.com/@nituna1966?lang=en

[MrJ2U]

He's usually wrong.

 

Probably better to just keep his mouth shut.

[ThailandRyan]

16 minutes ago, MrJ2U said:

He's usually wrong.

 

Probably better to just keep his mouth shut.

Ya think so...yeah I do too

[khunPer]

2 hours ago, RandiRona said:

My only concern is ChinoCrap which most of thais are vaccinated with. Even China with all its population vaccinated with several flavors of Sinocrap is afraid to open its country.

They - Thais vaccinated with Chinese Sinovac and Sinopharm vaccine - are offered a third jab with AZ or Pfizer, some places with many incoming tourists now even a jab number four (so it is, where I live, today there is walk-in jab 4 in the major shopping mall)...????

[khunPer]

19 minutes ago, MrJ2U said:

He's usually wrong.

 

Probably better to just keep his mouth shut.

Lately - actually for some time - he has however been quite right...

[RandiRona]

29 minutes ago, khunPer said:

They - Thais vaccinated with Chinese Sinovac and Sinopharm vaccine - are offered a third jab with AZ or Pfizer, some places with many incoming tourists now even a jab number four (so it is, where I live, today there is walk-in jab 4 in the major shopping mall)...????

China rushes to develop an mRNA vaccine as doubts grow over local jabs. Older inactivated virus technology in domestic shots less effective against infection than foreign rivals.

https://www.ft.com/content/5213b69e-607c-4121-8668-9f9302eb390d

 

Well as it seems they know they cant make world fool with their cheap chinese chemicals.....

[Danderman123]

I know about 20 people who are double vaccinated and in isolation due to Omicron, in Pattaya.

 

Its going to get very bad very quickly.

[GeorgeCross]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Anutin - who is neither a scientist or a doctor, just filthy rich - said that Omicron was not as bad as Delta.

but much more infectious.. and hospitalizations = infection rate x severity

as the US is now finding out:

 

 

[DavisH]

2 hours ago, Hummin said:

If he paid attention to Europe, and especially in  Sweeden with 17 000 new covid cases yesterday, he would not even think what he said. 

Don;t even need to look to Sweden 0 Aust is 80-90% fully vaccinated and had over 65K cases yesterday. Past vaccines are certainly not stopping symptomatic infection. Even it's not clear that boosters are going to help that much in the long run. The death rate will be lower with Omicron, but total deaths may exceed that from the delta wave. 

[ThailandRyan]

41 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

I know about 20 people who are double vaccinated and in isolation due to Omicron, in Pattaya.

 

Its going to get very bad very quickly.

You want to explain your view on bad David.

[bradiston]

3 hours ago, Mavideol said:

if not a doctor nor a scientist what does he know, why does he keeps opening his mouth

Like a fish out of water maybe

[club]

 Got Covid Omicron 30 days after getting 2nd jab of Moderna. My brother and his wife got It and they have had the Booster. This country is looking at 50,000 a day very soon. Omicron goes right around all vaccines. We are all just lucky the symptoms  are light and very few people will die from it. They have me in a hospital right now sucking money out of my insurance company for the next 7 days, been here 3 days already. Feels like a bad cold . Can you imagine this country trying to hospitalize 50k a day. This by far is the most contagious Covid we have seen