Report Thailand Sees a Surge in COVID-19 Cases: Concerns for Public Health

[thesetat]

24 minutes ago, FlorC said:

What is missing in this article as well as that other from a week ago , is WHERE are the new covid cases ?

Is it in Bangkok , or the tourist hot spots or in Nakhon Nowhere ?

As i understand it, it is spreading everywhere. Started heavily in Bkk. spreading out now. School in Prachuap has closed some classes because Covid was found in some students. I expect it to get worse. This began in China again and spread here. When will China start testing their travellers or when will Thailand begin demanding travellers to test before entering the country. This would not be a problem in Thailand if only Thailand worried more about its people than tourists entering. 

[newbee2022]

32 minutes ago, Zakhar said:

As of March 10, 2023, approximately 82.8% of the Thai population had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, while about 45 million people, or roughly 64% of the population, had completed a two-dose vaccination protocol.  I bet most of the new cases are from the vaccinated folks.    I am surprised that the ineffective  Faucci mask is back. Pandemic Treaty is being signed and prepare for new vaccines.  Pharma needs money

You're the laughing stock of at least today 😂😂😂

[dinsdale]

14 minutes ago, newbee2022 said:

You tried to contribute something? In vain 

This reply simply demonstrates that you know you are wrong and that indeed for the most part hospitalisation for Covid infections is not necessary. You basically said that anyone who thinks this way is an idiot which must include the above quoted doctor. Again I pose the question. Who is the idiot?

[newbee2022]

1 minute ago, dinsdale said:

Who is the idiot

Not me. Who's left? 😂

[newbee2022]

37 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Official statistics fudging the numbers again

Yeah, just to annoy you 😂

[newbee2022]

13 minutes ago, ignis said:

does not appear the vaccine work as some have had Covid 2 or 3 times before + after the Vaccine

The vaccine gives protection having a severe outcome (death)

[GoodieAfterDark]

12 hours ago, MaskLover2025 said:

What a miserable country Thailand has become - everywhere you go, you see frightened and miserable-looking people in muzzles. It is pathetic and makes a mockery of their whole Land of Smiles schtick. So glad I don't live there anymore. Majority of Thais are brainwashed cowards.

Probably 99.99 % vaxxed. Every week someone die in a village next to you. 

[Lacessit]

The data I would like to see is what percentage of people are seriously sick and dying after being vaxxed, and how many unvaxxed people are in the same boat.

 

By seriously seek, I mean those needing admission to an ICU.

 

That's preferable to all the opinions and insults being posted on this thread. Sound and fury, signifying nothing.

[crazykopite]

No mention of how many have died at least in Europe they used to announce the number of daily deaths somehow Thailand avoids this WHY  ! Maybe the time has come for the government to announce a complete lockdown before the numbers get out of hand Thailand managed to escape relatively easy from the last Covid but this time could be far far worse !

[jayboy]

14 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Symptoms akin to the common cold don't usually necessitate going to hospital.

 

Covid symptoms are not akin to the common cold - I know having experienced both.

 

I agree not usually necessary to go to hospital with Covid unless in vulnerable group or experiencing very unusual/severe symptoms.

[Srikcir]

48 minutes ago, ignis said:

does not appear the vaccine work

Vaccine will not work if previously unknowingly infected. 

[amexpat]

1 hour ago, ignis said:

..... all have been vaccinated and boosters  ... does not appear the vaccine work as some have had Covid 2 or 3 times before + after the Vaccine

 

Vaccine does not necessarily prevent Covid, it reduces the symptoms. 

[Sydebolle]

It is this time of the year again - absolutely remarkable, how easy it is to fan some big smoke into the Thai crowd again. Have it your way and be my guest; as a hint you might want to introduce a vaccinationer's loyalty card like bonus points at Big C, Lotus's etc. 

[sandrew33]

2 hours ago, ignis said:

Some of my friends [mostly Thai] have Covid  NON of them have visited a Hospital just used a home tester + all have been vaccinated and boosters  ... does not appear the vaccine work as some have had Covid 2 or 3 times before + after the Vaccine

 

As for Masks I always put on then going out, never stopped wearing just automatic after so many years..  I cannot have Vaccines, so try to protect myself  best I can.

 

Last visit to Makro appeared all the Staff + me had masks,  last night visited Makro again there were a good many shoppers with masks on.

 

 

Let me guess cloth masks (entirely pointless but the main used ones in Thailand) or surgical masks (mildly helpful if you have Covid in reducing particle spread if worn properly and changed every couple of hours, entirely pointless otherwise or if wet). 
 

The only ones with any real benefit for those healthy are properly fitted (no beard, no gaps) N95 masks which are uncomfortable when worn properly, even moreso in hot weather). 
 

So which ones they wearing at Makro because 99% of mask usage in Thailand is entirely or largely pointless? 

[sandrew33]

1 hour ago, jayboy said:

 

Covid symptoms are not akin to the common cold - I know having experienced both.

 

I agree not usually necessary to go to hospital with Covid unless in vulnerable group or experiencing very unusual/severe symptoms.

They can be for many. At worst they are like a bad flu these days as you’d expect of a virus that is endemic. 
 

Unless you are very old or infirm it’s not likely to do much to you beyond 3-6 days of feeling crap. In that sense it’s exactly like proper flu. 
 

Worth noting that we rarely get stories about flu. It should increasingly be the same for Covid. But for reasons that aren’t clear there seems this need to whip out these stories every 6 months or so. 

[Kaopad999]

14 hours ago, MaskLover2025 said:

What a miserable country Thailand has become - everywhere you go, you see frightened and miserable-looking people in muzzles. It is pathetic and makes a mockery of their whole Land of Smiles schtick. So glad I don't live there anymore. Majority of Thais are brainwashed cowards.

I agree - Out of curiosity, did you return to your home country or relocate to a neighboring one? 
 

[GoodieAfterDark]

1 hour ago, jayboy said:

 

Covid symptoms are not akin to the common cold - I know having experienced both.

 

I agree not usually necessary to go to hospital with Covid unless in vulnerable group or experiencing very unusual/severe symptoms.

Did you take the PCR test?

[GoodieAfterDark]

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[thesetat]

18 minutes ago, sandrew33 said:

Let me guess cloth masks (entirely pointless but the main used ones in Thailand) or surgical masks (mildly helpful if you have Covid in reducing particle spread if worn properly and changed every couple of hours, entirely pointless otherwise or if wet). 
 

The only ones with any real benefit for those healthy are properly fitted (no beard, no gaps) N95 masks which are uncomfortable when worn properly, even moreso in hot weather). 
 

So which ones they wearing at Makro because 99% of mask usage in Thailand is entirely or largely pointless? 

you forgot to mention that even with those N95 masks. They do not prevent you getting Covid. Covid can be transmitted by contact as well. Wearing the masks do not protect anything. Except maybe in your own head. If someone chooses not to wear masks. You have the same chances of getting Covid. Even if you wear your mask always. 

[newbee2022]

2 hours ago, FlorC said:

What is missing in this article as well as that other from a week ago , is WHERE are the new covid cases ?

Is it in Bangkok , or the tourist hot spots or in Nakhon Nowhere ?

No, the virus would not go into tourist's hot spots. 😂😂😂

[Tomtomtom69]

14 hours ago, MaskLover2025 said:

What a miserable country Thailand has become - everywhere you go, you see frightened and miserable-looking people in muzzles. It is pathetic and makes a mockery of their whole Land of Smiles schtick. So glad I don't live there anymore. Majority of Thais are brainwashed cowards.

 

Totally agree. Zero critical thinking in place. I laugh now when I walk past a masked zombie. I also ask people why they're wearing them. It's just stupid. 

[newbee2022]

1 minute ago, thesetat said:

you forgot to mention that even with those N95 masks. They do not prevent you getting Covid. Covid can be transmitted by contact as well. Wearing the masks do not protect anything. Except maybe in your own head. If someone chooses not to wear masks. You have the same chances of getting Covid. Even if you wear your mask always. 

You don't need a mask. An Alu-hat will do😂

[Tomtomtom69]

24 minutes ago, sandrew33 said:

Let me guess cloth masks (entirely pointless but the main used ones in Thailand) or surgical masks (mildly helpful if you have Covid in reducing particle spread if worn properly and changed every couple of hours, entirely pointless otherwise or if wet). 
 

The only ones with any real benefit for those healthy are properly fitted (no beard, no gaps) N95 masks which are uncomfortable when worn properly, even moreso in hot weather). 
 

So which ones they wearing at Makro because 99% of mask usage in Thailand is entirely or largely pointless? 

 

To a Thai, no amount of mask wearing is uncomfortable. I observed double masked Thais wear their muzzles in 40 degree Celcius heat at the Chinese-Lao border in mid 2023 when barely anyone else around them was wearing one and Chinese immigration staff, still required to wear a surgical mask at the time, had to lift theirs up every 2 minutes to get some air.

The 10 Thais I saw didn't even flinch. They're successfully indoctrinated. 

[1FinickyOne]

2 hours ago, impulse said:

9 deaths out of over 60 million population.

 

Still liking those odds.
 

 

maybe some things can be quite devastating and destructive w/o your dying... 

[jayboy]

15 minutes ago, GoodieAfterDark said:

Did you take the PCR test?

 

No, just the antigen test.

[impulse]

4 minutes ago, 1FinickyOne said:

maybe some things can be quite devastating and destructive w/o your dying... 

 

You mean like my Pfizer injury?

 

[jayboy]

30 minutes ago, sandrew33 said:

In that sense it’s exactly like proper flu. 

 

It really isn't, at least in many cases.I'm not in a vulnerable group and only felt ill for a couple of days though a cough persisted for a week.But it was very obvious during the crap couple of days that this was something very different from the flu.

[renaissanc]

We've left fah talai Jon growing like a weed in a part of the garden in case Covid returns. It's very effective if you get Covid. We've never been infected,  but neighbours used to come for some when they got Covid. Within 3 days they were well again.

[cmsally]

 

[newbee2022]

58 minutes ago, Tomtomtom69 said:

They're successfully indoctrinated. 

No, only more intelligent 🤓