Thailand should stop publicizing Covid numbers by April

[webfact]

 

By Cod Satrusayang

 

Thailand must learn to live with the Covid-19 virus and stop publicizing daily pandemic numbers by the end of April to boost public confidence and allow the country to get back to normal, a senior public health expert told Thai Enquirer on Monday.

 

Thailand recorded 6,929 cases on Monday but just 13 fatalities. On Sunday, the number of deaths, 9, was the lowest recorded in over a year. However, one of those fatalities was from the new Omicron variant of the disease.

 

“I think there is an understanding among health officials that the new Omicron variant is less deadly and could mean the end of the pandemic for us,” said Kanyarat Wanna-anant, a public health expert with Chiang Mai Rajaphat University.

 

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[JonnyF]

Seems like they stopped quite a while ago. 

 

Well, the true numbers anyway...

[Oblomov]

Good!   Stop right now

[Pravda]

2 minutes ago, Oblomov said:

Good!   Stop right now

They did

[NanaSomchai]

yada yada 'thermometer not the cause of the fever, yada yada breaking it is useless yada yada.

[jacko45k]

The new infection figures have not been worth trusting ever, far too little testing for them to reflect reality. The idea of hiding the other numbers from the people is dishonest and a typical response to be expected here. If you can't get away with lie, say nothing. 

I like to see the numbers going down.... and when they are zero, of course they are not needed. On the other hand, I don't want an escalating problem being hidden from me!

[kotsak]

Best news ever, hopefully it will materialize.

[fvw53]

if you put your head in the sand you expose your back

[mtls2005]

Kanyarat says if the government were to set a target to stop publicizing numbers by April, then it would signal to the country that there is an end date to the public health crisis and that it was not a “forever war.”

 

Nothing to see here.

 

"It's April, the war has been won."

 

 

Will the Emergency Decree, which conveys unchecked power - as if they need another document to justify their rule - also be terminated?

 

 

 

[wensiensheng]

So they will let international travelers come and go? Or is it only domestic cases that are benign and international travel has to be monitored? And of course alcohol consumption. Will it be freely available or will Covid restrictions remain because of, well, because of what exactly

[BlackJack]

your story interests me as that latest covid statistic was an 80+ year old woman with dementia. This raises a few legal questions in that she was vaxed according the the hospital. How can a patient in hospital with dementia be competent enough to agree to informed consent in order to get the experimental jabs?

Also an 80 year old hospitalized with dementia is dying as most deaths occur with at least 4.1 comorbidities and so what else did she have?

 

Last for many years now the figures/data has been wrong. If you look at the data it shows that less that 1% of deaths are from covid. As this is CDC based data then by all meant stop advertising misleading data

 

[Katipo]

People are choosing home ATK tests instead of PCR tests if they can. Who can blame them. People generally don't want to get uprooted from their family to spend 10-14 days in a quarantine centre or hospitel, especially when Omicron appears to have milder symptoms. Home quarantine appears to be increasingly the preferred choice.

[vandeventer]

4 hours ago, Oblomov said:

Good!   Stop right now

So now we can concentrate on the bad driving and show road charts where the bad accidents take place. 

[Swampy999]

Something else to sweep under the carpet, I hope the room has very high ceilings.

[Thaijack2014]

I wouldn't care less. 

[apetryxx]

I for one have been sick of reading these figures for a long time, good riddance. So please, an 86 year old with dementia and Lord only knows what else does from Omicron. Give me a break!

[paulikens]

every country in the world should stop printing the numbers. never done that with other viruses. its irrelevant, what if they done that with flu from day dot, would be ridiculous.     

[wensiensheng]

The trouble with making this kind of announcement now is that people won’t bother to comply with current restrictions if they aren’t even going to bother counting cases in a couple of months.

[bdenner]

Yes stop showing the numbers AND OPEN business, just start putting this whole Covid thing to bed.

 

BUT then, IMHO, the likes of Anutin are making to much money out of it!

 

EDIT: Anyone who believes there were <7000 cases in Thailand last count needs a reality check

Edited January 17, 2022 by bdenner

[simola]

They keep saying Thailand must learn to live with covid. Is police going to KSR 3 times a day and a testing requirement to enter the road learning to live with it? 

[chilly07]

Stupid is as stupid does!

Thailand is heading for an Omicron 5th wave-who knows how high the figures will be in April?

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand must learn to live with the Covid-19 virus and stop publicizing daily pandemic numbers by the end of April to boost public confidence and allow the country to get back to normal, a senior public health expert told Thai Enquirer on Monday.

Agreed, fake news could back-fire on them.

[Oblomov]

43 minutes ago, vandeventer said:

So now we can concentrate on the bad driving and show road charts where the bad accidents take place. 

Or even get young Thais taugh better for the roads as they are now. It's truly sad to read of so many young Thais killed and maimed. 

[Snig27]

4 hours ago, JonnyF said:

Seems like they stopped quite a while ago. 

 

Well, the true numbers anyway...

Can you share the evidence you have please? You must have a decent amount to be so sure. 

[Paul Henry]

Thailand will contiue to follow the rest of the world with the retric and new policies. Generally takes them two weeks to interpret before making big announcements. 

[Petey11]

Stop publishing the figures. Are you going stop incarcerating people with the virus then or going to carry on locking up tourists.

[Mises]

Oh my God!  9 dead in one day so in 21,000 years everyone in Thailand will be dead from COVID

[Harveyboy]

1 hour ago, mtls2005 said:

Kanyarat says if the government were to set a target to stop publicizing numbers by April, then it would signal to the country that there is an end date to the public health crisis and that it was not a “forever war.”

 

Nothing to see here.

 

"It's April, the war has been won."

 

 

Will the Emergency Decree, which conveys unchecked power - as if they need another document to justify their rule - also be terminated?

 

 

 

as if..

[4MyEgo]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

“I think there is an understanding among health officials that the new Omicron variant is less deadly and could mean the end of the pandemic for us,” said Kanyarat Wanna-anant, a public health expert with Chiang Mai Rajaphat University.

Your a brave person stating what we already know, perhaps you should be careful what you say as your masters might not be happy with you not following their fear mongering rhetoric.

[madmitch]

One of Thailand's main problems during the pandemic is not having a single mouthpiece announcing anything, thereby creating confusion and confliction. 

 

And what we have here is another example of a single person being quoted in the press probably in no official capacity whatsoever.

 

Saying this, Thailand's figures are skewed. In that people with mild symptoms are simply staying home and not reporting it, and that's those that bother to take a lateral flow test