TallGuyJohninBKK Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 (edited) 6 hours ago, tomyami said: The severe delta variant is gone open and live like other countries, a plan to even do that will make covid disappear normality is good every day i see less and less masks i keep asking were we mad... I guess you've missed the facts that Thailand COVID cases, COVID hospitalizations and serious cases including those requiring intubation are steadily increasing on a daily basis. And more broadly, while COVID currently is declining in various western countries right now, it's substantially rising in a whole group of Asian countries including Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia and others. COVID IN THAILAND: https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/?dashboard=main Edited February 21, 2022 by TallGuyJohninBKK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stigar Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 Yeah..i feel really sorry for the foreigners who get so desperate to go to thailand now..Ur wallets is burning..Ur gf is so sad now..ha-ha.. This posting is sarcasm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickudon Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 How well has Thailand been doing? Well in 2020 very well. 2021 to now, not so much. Because of the pathetic testing rate in Thailand, you cannot rely on the Thai Covid figures. But excess death rate doesn't lie. In 2020, Thailand's excess death rate was mainly slightly negative, with just a few months when it was up to 9% Compared to the UK, the excess rate was usually a lot lower. But 2021..... Although the UK started off badly, from the beginning of March 2021 until the end of January 2022, Thailand's excess death rate was higher than the UK except for 6 weeks in October and November. Thailand only reports monthly figures - excess death rate was - - 11% in March - -3% in April - 7% in May - 12% in June - 19% in July - 36% in August - 19% in September - 6% in October - 18% in November - 21% in December - 6% in January That is an average of about 14% excess mortality over a 11 month period. Not 'insignificant'. Over a 22 month period of the epidemic, Thailand reported 22,000 Covid deaths, but excess deaths were 2.5 times higher at over 57,000. That is not a bad performance, but not brilliant either. https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-tracker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgentSmith Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 6 hours ago, jacko45k said: Most tests are RAT which cannot identify omicron. There are very few of those too. So you claim now 50% of new cases are omicron from your unknown source. Perhaps more, so 9000/day.....long way to go yet, ten more years. You claimed omicron was never identified in Thailand. That is simply untrue. 50% percent of new cases were omicron early January. This is over a month ago. It is very likely this percentage is close to 100 now seeing how fast it spread in other countries. I haven't been following publications these past few weeks because of other things and because I'm slowly just getting really tired and bored about this whole pandemic. Therefor I can't give any realtime numbers but it's safe to say omicron has now penetrated all corners of the world. Then again who knows what other variant has already begun to take over. This beast mutates too fast to keep up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko45k Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 10 hours ago, AgentSmith said: You claimed omicron was never identified in Thailand No I did not... Omicron was first detected in Thailand in a Thai returning from Spain.... I posted as such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PremiumLane Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 (edited) 20 hours ago, Thaiophil said: even if people take them and declare the result, are not reliable Why are they not reliable? The notion that PCR testing does not detect Sars Cov-2 has been throughly debunked. Testing done now is QPCR which is real time testing. Are people not tested with PCR when getting a positive ATK test, then reporting this to the authorities, or going to hospital? Edited February 22, 2022 by PremiumLane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Bones Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 On 2/21/2022 at 12:34 PM, jacko45k said: Most tests are RAT which cannot identify omicron. There are very few of those too. So you claim now 50% of new cases are omicron from your unknown source. Perhaps more, so 9000/day.....long way to go yet, ten more years. Bloke, you are such a worry wart. Relax and go out for a good chicken and rice or a bowl of noodles. Plenty of good street vendors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko45k Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 2 hours ago, Lucky Bones said: Bloke, you are such a worry wart. Relax and go out for a good chicken and rice or a bowl of noodles. Plenty of good street vendors. I do not eat at street vendors. Last meal out I had a few days ago was lamb.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hammer2021 Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 The real issue is: will this information be used to introduce a new lockdown? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAPPYNUFF Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 Look on the bright side, if its reported hospitals are now half full. it also means theyre half empty. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaiophil Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 On 2/22/2022 at 12:19 PM, PremiumLane said: Are people not tested with PCR when getting a positive ATK test, then reporting this to the authorities, or going to hospital? Edited yesterday at 12:19 PM by Premium No. Most ATK tests are done privately and positive results not reported to avoid compulsory quarantine ATK tests only detect Omicron in a short window of time. In the period when I had Omi confirmed by PCR, I had 3 ATK tests all negative Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PremiumLane Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 15 minutes ago, Thaiophil said: No. Most ATK tests are done privately and positive results not reported to avoid compulsory quarantine ATK tests only detect Omicron in a short window of time. In the period when I had Omi confirmed by PCR, I had 3 ATK tests all negative We are not talking about ATK tests and you didn't answer the questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaiophil Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 52 minutes ago, PremiumLane said: We are not talking about ATK tests and you didn't answer the questions Is that the royal “we”? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwithl Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 On 2/21/2022 at 7:10 AM, mrfill said: Its a portmanteau (like brunch) hospital + hotel Portmanteau is a suitcase, I thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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