Popular Post ChrisY1 11,940 Posted April 6, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 6, 2020 Definitely something serious going on....have the reported stats been accurate? 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites
wimpy 204 Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 2 hours ago, Vigilante said: The food banks are intended for the poor and income-less (because of the quarantine) Not for everyone There will be no full 24-hr curfew We will be able to shop for a couple of hours at least How do you know this? A good friend is a logistics officer in the Thai Marines. She told us yesterday that we should prepare for a total 24 hour lockdown. Stock up on food, drinking water, etc. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post smedly 35,153 Posted April 6, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 6, 2020 It's all about lock downs and imposing authority in very ill thought out manner How about ensuring the distribution of masks How about not trying to fool people into thinking that check is the same as test Thailands "testing" efforts are totally inadequate, it quite frankly is a joke, number tested relates directly to infection rate and morbidity data - 25k in over 3 months is a joke, the current figures they are pumping out are a nonsense 5 Link to post Share on other sites
Jimbo53 440 Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 2 hours ago, Vigilante said: The food banks are intended for the poor and income-less (because of the quarantine) Not for everyone There will be no full 24-hr curfew We will be able to shop for a couple of hours at least Good to see you have inside information! Which 2 hours or more will you be able to shop? 1 Link to post Share on other sites
jimmjam 864 Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 25 minutes ago, ChrisY1 said: Definitely something serious going on....have the reported stats been accurate? Accurate?? Link to post Share on other sites
metisdead 8,941 Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 A post with a link to Bangkok Post has been removed: 26) The Bangkok Post and Phuketwan do not allow quotes from their news articles or other material to appear on Thaivisa.com. Neither do they allow links to their publications. Posts from members containing quotes from or links to Bangkok Post or Phuketwan publications will be deleted from the forum. A post with a link to an unapproved YouTube source has been removed. A post using excessive ALL CAPS has been removed as there is no need to shout when posting. Please turn off our Cap Lock when posting. Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post orang37 1,707 Posted April 6, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 6, 2020 1 hour ago, SCOTT FITZGERSLD said: you don't have to believe any numbers, you just have to go to any thai hospital and see if it looks like a corona outbreak hospital. there is no way to hide or deny when the outbreak happans. the hospitals are just full of people coughing and acctually dying everywhere. people cough blood and fall dead in the streets, shops, offices. this is happaning right now in new york. this is what happaned in wuhan china (only when it allready happaned, the chinese governemt started to act). and this is NOT happaning in thailand. maybe the weather? maybe the good spirits? maybe another lighter mutation of the virus? let's just hope and pray it will stay this way, and go away in may. What have you seen with your OWN eyes in Thailand: when, where ? ~o:37; 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites
fforest1 5,612 Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 41 minutes ago, wimpy said: How do you know this? A good friend is a logistics officer in the Thai Marines. She told us yesterday that we should prepare for a total 24 hour lockdown. Stock up on food, drinking water, etc. I agree.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites
pookondee 1,578 Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 29 minutes ago, smedly said: It's all about lock downs and imposing authority in very ill thought out manner How about ensuring the distribution of masks How about not trying to fool people into thinking that check is the same as test Thailands "testing" efforts are totally inadequate, it quite frankly is a joke, number tested relates directly to infection rate and morbidity data - 25k in over 3 months is a joke, the current figures they are pumping out are a nonsense The figures reported may be accurate as far as 100 (or so) new cases on the books per day But how many did they infect before symptoms showed and they wound up in hospital? That would be family, friends, people at markets, people lining up at the 7/11, in the government offices...on and on. Not to mention sharing somtum with the mob next door. The numbers reported are just that-numbers reported, and remember these are only the ones forced to go to hospital. It would be incredibly incredibly lucky if these 100 per day have managed to not infect another new round of carriers. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Burma Bill 4,118 Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 Will the soldiers "shoot to kill" anyone not wearing a face-mask?????? 2 Link to post Share on other sites
fforest1 5,612 Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 1 hour ago, SCOTT FITZGERSLD said: i don't understand why all those measures are neccasary, when Thailand coronavirus cases are not growing exponentialy and there are not many death cases. it's only 100-150 cases a day, steady for allready few weeks. the total number of confirmed cases, after three months since the first case was discovered, are only 2000+ cases. seems like a huge victory over the virus, if the infection rate was high we would only see photos of packed hospitals and bodies lying in the street (happans in new york daily). so maybe better relax, the way thai knows so well, and just keep it cool and distant, sweden style. and indeed in may it will all go away. And miss the opportunity to finally put all those expensive tanks to use?.....This is a golden opportunity to showcase the big boy toys....lol 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post Mattd 2,290 Posted April 6, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 6, 2020 1 hour ago, scubascuba3 said: I don't believe the 25k figure of tests, made up number i think to try to give the impression they are testing sufficiently Actually, I disagree, I have no idea how the figures are collected or compiled, however I do know that a lot of people are getting tested. I had cause to get 50 people tested very recently, this was not that easy to organise as all of the hospitals / laboratories are flat out testing, two weeks ago we had to get 6 guys tested as a precaution, our staff spent over 4 hours trying to find a hospital that could accommodate this, some of the bigger hospitals in BKK had several hundreds of people at each hospital waiting on site to be tested per day and were estimating an 8 hour wait at least, the swab tests take less than 3 minutes per person, later on that week we had 4 people go to one of the drive thru testing centres, again in BKK and there were hundreds there also. Based on this, I would think that 25,000 is on the low side. The biggest issue is cost, we paid in the region of 6,000 Baht per person, your average Thai simply cannot afford this. 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post Pilotman 19,361 Posted April 6, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 6, 2020 (edited) 4 hours ago, bkk6060 said: It kind of sounds like a 24 hr. Lockdown including grocery since they are suggesting food bank locations. I can see that part of it being a big problem. I agree. Instead of going to a local supermarket, or spreading the load between different food outlets, people will have to congregate at one or more food banks. Yes, that sounds logical, to an idiot. Edited April 6, 2020 by Pilotman 8 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Allset 23 Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 (edited) I don’t understand this article says there’s already a curfew so I’m guessing that’s just Bangkok or Pattaya because up here there’s no curfew nor have I heard of one anywhere else except reading this. Edited April 6, 2020 by Allset 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post 5633572526 986 Posted April 6, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 6, 2020 All this and we are still expected to gather at the Petri dish that is the immigration office 9 2 Link to post Share on other sites
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