Governors put on alert for tougher measures to contain Covid-19

[ChrisY1 11,940]

Definitely something serious going on....have the reported stats been accurate?

[wimpy 204]

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.

[smedly 35,153]

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 

[Jimbo53 440]

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?

[jimmjam 864]

25 minutes ago, ChrisY1 said:

Definitely something serious going on....have the reported stats been accurate?

Accurate??

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[orang37 1,707]

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;

[fforest1 5,612]

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....

[pookondee 1,578]

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.

 

[Burma Bill 4,118]

Will the soldiers "shoot to kill" anyone not wearing a face-mask??????

[fforest1 5,612]

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  

[Mattd 2,290]

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.

[Pilotman 19,361]

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

[Allset 23]

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

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All this and we are still expected to gather at the Petri dish that is the immigration office