Government plans to introduce ‘Endemic Sandbox’ program as part Covid relaxation schedule

[webfact]

 

By Erich Parpart

 

Thailand is introducing a “endemic sandbox” concept which includes relaxed measures including no more face mask mandates in some areas ahead of plans by the government to declare Covid-19 as endemic by July.

 

“We are starting the endemic sandbox in areas that are ready such as Bangkok as the daily number of new cases in the city is decreasing and its vaccination rate is high,” Anutin Charnvirakul, the deputy prime minister and health minister, said on Thursday.

 

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He said the overall daily number of new Covid cases in Thailand continued to decrease two weeks after the long Songkran holiday period in April and the situation is supporting the government’s move to declare Covid as endemic by July.

 

Full story: https://www.thaienquirer.com/39878/government-plans-to-introduce-endemic-sandbox-program-as-part-covid-relaxation-schedule/

 

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[DezLez]

It looks like another ploy to lay down some more rules before we pretend to remove the rules!

Edited May 5, 2022 by DezLez

[Spilornis]

July....they don't move quickly.

How about next week !

[sammieuk1]

Sandbox really means moneybox under the clinging on to covid guise ????

[mtls2005]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

concept which includes relaxed measures including no more face mask mandates in some areas

More confusing messages.

 

Either mandate masks or don't. At this point I recommend the latter.

 

And what other "measures" are there which need to be relaxed? Temperature check? Sheesh, nobody uses those things for eons.

 

 

 

 

Edited May 6, 2022 by mtls2005

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

“We are starting the endemic sandbox in areas that are ready such as Bangkok as the daily number of new cases in the city is decreasing and its vaccination rate is high,” Anutin Charnvirakul, the deputy prime minister and health minister, said on Thursday.

Give it a rest plsssssssssss

just say it's over, and get on with life.

[Blumpie]

Oh my god do these guys realize how ridiculous they sound year after year?

[zzaa09]

8 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Give it a rest plsssssssssss

just say it's over, and get on with life.

Yeah. They really are <deleted>

[RichardColeman]

The end of Thai Covid, be like

 

On your marks, get set.

three

two

one and three quarters

one and a half

one and quarter

one and an eighth.......................

[internationalism]

sandbox is to play in enclosed space, like phuket, samui, koh chang.

If you try to play in a capital city agglomeration of 15mln people and some 25% of the country population, that's not a sandbox anymore.

Some 2mln seniors in thailand (out of 12mln) are not vaccinated even with 1 dose. In Bangkok there are still hundreds thousands of them.

[Laughing Gravy]

2 hours ago, Blumpie said:

Oh my god do these guys realize how ridiculous they sound year after year?

Sadly they do not. Normally stupid people learn from their mistakes. Normally!

[huangnon]

2 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

Temperature check? Sheesh, nobody uses those things for eons.

 

 

 

 

The security guy at our office still checks the temp of everyone entering, every morning without fail, and enters details on a clipboard.. ????  Gives him a sense of purpose I suppose.

[Jimbo53]

7 hours ago, DezLez said:

It looks like another ploy to lay down some more rules before we pretend to remove the rules!

Never seen such a waste of skin in my life,and it will only get worse if this control freak ever becomes PM,God forbid that happening!

[peter zwart]

4 hours ago, internationalism said:

sandbox is to play in enclosed space, like phuket, samui, koh chang.

If you try to play in a capital city agglomeration of 15mln people and some 25% of the country population, that's not a sandbox anymore.

Some 2mln seniors in thailand (out of 12mln) are not vaccinated even with 1 dose. In Bangkok there are still hundreds thousands of them.

Yep, to bad. Shall we just go on with life again???

[ChC1]

You give these low level bureaucrats a taste of power and control, they will want more and more, longer and longer and eventually become corrupted with the precious ring of control. Covid brought the worst out from the people in government and agencies. Especially in some East and Southeast Asian countries where true democracy does not exist, the ring of power brought the most irrational and controlling bureaucratic behaviour of all. It is really disgusting to witness such addiction on power and control. I really suggest people do not visit Thailand at all if you can avoid. Feed on those bureaucrats' greed for more control and more power will cause long term damage to everyone who loves (or used to love) Thailand. 

[Jingthing]

Sandboxes, schmandboxes.

 

It's more work for the public to keep up with all these facacta schemes than the "work" to come up with them.

 

Here's mine:

Sandbox sandbox, for toddlers to play with sand

[DezLez]

38 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Sandboxes, schmandboxes.

 

It's more work for the public to keep up with all these facacta schemes than the "work" to come up with them.

 

Here's mine:

Sandbox sandbox, for toddlers to play with sand

They most certainly have a "toddler's" mindset assuming they actually have a mind!

[Jimbo53]

On 5/6/2022 at 1:16 AM, Blumpie said:

Oh my god do these guys realize how ridiculous they sound year after year?

Ermmm! Should that not be Day after day?

[BayArea]

Thailand is unlike any other country in the world when it comes to regulations,  restrictions,  measures and mandates.  They seemed to relish every bit of bureaucracy and paperwork as anyone on the planet.  Its almost a discipline!

[alyx]

On 5/6/2022 at 9:50 AM, Laughing Gravy said:

Sadly they do not. Normally stupid people learn from their mistakes. Normally!

By definition if someone is stupid , there will be no lesson learned ....unless one is made a stupid error but stupidity is not inherent to their condition....I let you decide where those people stand lol

[poskat]

unfortunately, the bureaucrats' fear of losing face from making a decision/relaxing restrictions that results in any uptick in cases is so great that it overpowers their mental ability to make rational fact-based decisions. Their thinking is over powered by "but what if...?" of possibility rather than decisions based on probability.

 

that results in their being willing to only move the line a millimeter forward and then waiting to see what happens over an excessively long period before considering another mm move.

[Andycoops]

Thailand the hub of 'boxes' more cumbersome bureaucracy and mumbo jumbo.