Thailand should stop publicizing Covid numbers by April

[CartagenaWarlock]

16 hours ago, Katipo said:

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.

If they don't go to the hospital, how can they claim their insurance? Three people I know went to the hospital as soon as they tested positive in ATK tests after the new years party though their symptoms were mild. So far, I know four people who have claimed their insurance money and none of them were serious or went to ICU or their blood oxygen level dropped below 90. Only one person's lung was infected and that cleared up after a week of Favipiravir. I may be wrong but I have a hunch that 80% people in Thailand going to Hospital for insurance claim. 

 

 

Edited January 17, 2022 by CartagenaWarlock

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Two points:

 

1. The academic quoted as the source of this article is just some public health professor up in Chiang Mai, and there's no indication from the article that she has any particular position or connection with the Thai government or MoPH.

 

2. And as for her comment...

 

“You have to factor this in with our vaccine numbers which are increasing everyday..."

 

Yes, the vaccine numbers are increasing every day, somewhat, because some people who've already had two vaccine doses are following public health guidance and getting third shot boosters, which lately are the majority of vax shots being given in Thailand.

 

But in reality, even now, Thailand remains with about one-third of its population (30+%) NOT fully vaccinated with just two shots, and well short of its original goal of having 70% of the population fully vaccinated by the now passed end of 2021.

 

So, there remains out there a very large population of Thais who have not been fully vaccinated even now, much less gone for their recommended third booster shot to help resist Omicron, and even more who may have received two early vaccine doses that by now have waning effectiveness.

 

Thus, let's not talk about Thailand's lagging vaccine performance thus far as the basis for relaxing or reducing COVID related measures.

 

 

 

Edited January 18, 2022 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[Purdey]

As a stable genius once told us,  “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases."

 

So, don't provide numbers will mean the same, that we don't have cases AT ALL. Let people take hospital beds but don't report the numbers. Brilliant solution to the issue.

[LikeItHot]

They only test me for syphilis when I renew my visa but they never tell me those stats. And I want those.  I'm done caring about COVID and motorbike deaths.