Thailand’s Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul is confident that COVID-19 infections during the New Year celebrations will be kept under control, as the Public Health Ministry is fully equipped with manpower and medical supplies to cope with the situation.

 

He did, however, express concern over those who are over 60, have kidney or heart diseases or cancer, saying that it is imperative that they get vaccinated or are fully vaccinated, to reduce the risk of severe symptoms.

 

He said that everyone should receive at least four doses of vaccine, which will enhance their ability to avoid serious illness if they become infected, adding that he has been informed that more people have recently been turning up for inoculation.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/health-minister-confident-covid-infections-over-new-year-are-controllable/

 

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Is that the same confidence he had when he told everyone they could go home for Songkran that time? ????

29 minutes ago, SooKee said:

Is that the same confidence he had when he told everyone they could go home for Songkran that time? ????

Was he wrong?  "Cancelling" Songkran would have been ineffective at best and would have just delayed the inevitable.  Whatever way you look at it, Thailand handled Covid better than many other countries, especially those in the west.

What he really means is that he may use covid infections over the new year to place controls on the people. 

Covid response is no longer about infection prevention as the goal.

 

It's not the infections that are now under control, it's the overall health impacts are now under control. 

 

Vaccines, prior infection levels and anti virals have rendered the effects of Covid much milder than a year ago.

 

Anutin is right on the vulnerable - but for the vast majority of people, love your life, celebrate new year and do not be concerned about Covid. 

Time to move on and live with it. I agree with him, people need to vaccinate so that when they catch the disease it is less severe. I've had it twice that I know of, the first time before any vaccines and I ended up with double pneumonia, which wiped me out for a couple of months really. Very hard to recover from the secondary illnesses that accompanied the pneumonia. The second time was after a couple of vaccines and was far less severe, just a mild flu.

Health minister Nostradamus confident COVID infections over New Year are controllable.

9 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Was he wrong?  "Cancelling" Songkran would have been ineffective at best and would have just delayed the inevitable.  Whatever way you look at it, Thailand handled Covid better than many other countries, especially those in the west.

People from other Countries seem to have forgotten what an absolute mess they made of handling Covid... UK alone put many elderly people in their graves prematurely with nothing better than complete incompetence. I think Thailand did pretty well too. 

We'll soon see after the people in their 100s of thousands return to work from Isaan.

I am confident A nut in could not find his rear end with both hands.

And just where are these anti Virals? In hiso stashes?  How many are available? Price?

2 hours ago, Aussieroaming said:

Time to move on and live with it. I agree with him, people need to vaccinate so that when they catch the disease it is less severe. I've had it twice that I know of, the first time before any vaccines and I ended up with double pneumonia, which wiped me out for a couple of months really. Very hard to recover from the secondary illnesses that accompanied the pneumonia. The second time was after a couple of vaccines and was far less severe, just a mild flu.

Have you considered that your first infection was due to the Alpha or Delta strains, which were more virulent in nature, while the second time you were assaulted by the Omicron variant, which is milder in symptoms? 

 

As for the vaccines reducing the severity of the symptoms, I'm yet to see a single peer-reviewed study that supports that claim.  

Edited December 21, 20223 yr by aBigSmile

1 hour ago, jacko45k said:

People from other Countries seem to have forgotten what an absolute mess they made of handling Covid... UK alone put many elderly people in their graves prematurely with nothing better than complete incompetence. I think Thailand did pretty well too. 

Yes, Thailand has done so brilliantly well that it''s "only" shrunk in population size by 100,000 people since January 2021.

 

Query the government's database for number of births and deaths and see for yourself: 

https://stat.bora.dopa.go.th/stat/statnew/statMONTH/statmonth/#/mainpage

 

6 minutes ago, aBigSmile said:

Have you considered that your first infection was due to the Alpha or Delta strains, which were more virulent in nature, while the second time you were assaulted by the Omicron variant, which s milder in symptoms? 

 

As for the vaccines reducing the severity of the symptoms, I'm yet to see a single peer-reviewed study that supports that claim.  

And the fact you have not sought out such reviews or bothered to read them means you are trying to share your ignorance?

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/vaccine-benefits.html

Edited December 21, 20223 yr by jacko45k

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3 minutes ago, aBigSmile said:

Yes, Thailand has done so brilliantly well that it''s "only" shrunk in population size by 100,000 people since January 2021.

 

Query the government's database for number of births and deaths and see for yourself: 

https://stat.bora.dopa.go.th/stat/statnew/statMONTH/statmonth/#/mainpage

 

I cannot read Thai..... nor do I see the relevance to the topic of Covid infections. If you want to see fails. look at how many died of Covid in say the USA! Highest total world wide. 

Is it coincidental that the little billionaire is wearing a jacket covered in dollar signs?!

If you are fully vaccinated, with the most efficient vaccines, then Covid will not impact you, unless you have underlying conditions, move on with your life. I totally fail to understand this Thai obsession with wearing masks all the time.  

2 minutes ago, Partenavia said:

If you are fully vaccinated, with the most efficient vaccines, then Covid will not impact you, unless you have underlying conditions, move on with your life. I totally fail to understand this Thai obsession with wearing masks all the time.  

It's about confirmity not Covid. There's no longer any logical reason for the mass mask wearing. 

 

Infection prevention isn't the aim of the Covid health response. Some exceptions apply for the very vulnerable members of society, that are relatively low in number.

 

People who think it's all about "not getting it" have it wrong. 

Anutin reckons public showers or hose down of all falangs will control it … Same as beheadings during French Revolution 55555

What is it with these Thai politicians and their dollar-themed shirts? A while back we were treated to a photo of Prayut dancing on the beach in a blue dollar shirt, and now Anutin's got a green one. Is this a symbol of the Thai Freemasons, or maybe a hidden suggestion to the Qatar government, lol?

 

 

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

He did, however, express concern over those who are over 60, have kidney or heart diseases or cancer, saying that it is imperative that they get vaccinated or are fully vaccinated, to reduce the risk of severe symptoms.

For once I agree with him.  Mind you he would have been told to say that by a medical professional.

2 minutes ago, Partenavia said:

If you are fully vaccinated, with the most efficient vaccines, then Covid will not impact you, unless you have underlying conditions, move on with your life. I totally fail to understand this Thai obsession with wearing masks all the time.  

It's about confirmity not Covid. There's no longer any logical reason for the mass mask wearing. 

 

Infection prevention isn't the aim of the Covid health response. Some exceptions apply for the very vulnerable members of society, that are relatively low in number.

 

People who think it's all about "not getting it" have it wrong. 

6 hours ago, soi3eddie said:

What he really means is that he may use covid infections over the new year to place controls on the people. 

You got that right!

He should just cover his dirty mouth with 100 pair of those diapers so the s*** may finally stop leaking from it.

 

Shouldn't be as bad as the predicted 1 million Covid deaths in China.

 

"The public health organization that forecast 1 million COVID deaths in China says a ‘tripledemic’ could push the death toll even higher: ‘They never had a Plan B’"

https://fortune.com/well/2022/12/20/china-covid-deaths-1-million-forecast-tripledemic-rsv-flu-zero-covid-restrictions/

 

The most worrying thing is mutations. 

 

We already know the current mutations are less severe but that can change quickly. 

 

At the same time I don't plan on changing my life drastically again. 

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Thailand’s Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul is confident that COVID-19 infections during the New Year celebrations will be kept under control, as the Public Health Ministry is fully equipped with manpower and medical supplies to cope with the situation.

Could have said that two years ago instead of bringing misery to the nation

Covid is nearly gone. Worldwide cases continue to drop. Fatalities worldwide are down to 500-700 a day. The vast majority who are dying now are over 80, with underlying issues. 

 

Get over it. Let's get on with our lives. It is now endemic.

16 minutes ago, MrJ2U said:

The most worrying thing is mutations. 

 

We already know the current mutations are less severe but that can change quickly. 

 

At the same time I don't plan on changing my life drastically again. 

Very unlikely. Most epidemiologists agree that the nature of a pandemic is for the virus to mutate into weaker and weaker variants, just like Omicron. It will get weaker, until it is a non factor. It is nearly a non factor already. 

14 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Was he wrong?  "Cancelling" Songkran would have been ineffective at best and would have just delayed the inevitable.  Whatever way you look at it, Thailand handled Covid better than many other countries, especially those in the west.

These are things we don't speak of in particular circles....