Bangkok entertainment venues face closure if COVID-19 situation worsens

[PEE TEE]

Here in Thailand i think they assume the virus  is going to go away. That's not going to happen. lock down Bangkok now. from the small number of infections will sonn grow to larger numbers . 

in Samui they are doing mass  Injections fo younger working Thais at central plaza and other places using the Chinese Vaccine . 

my girlfriend asked about me 72 year old and was sort of pushed away with any answers or the common word of don't know. 

Thais over 60 was a no go for the jab  

[Harry Fingerling]

So many Covid deniers, although the news is troubling given large swathes of Bangkokians will descend all the provinces spreading it further.

[PEE TEE]

12 minutes ago, Card said:

He was referring to the time in the future when we can effectively manage and minimize the disease and its symptoms with effective vaccines and drugs. That is not the case yet in Thailand or the rest of the world.

 

Stop implying that covid is at the stage where we can, rather than could or will, manage it like the flu. Your slant amounts to Trumpist misinformation and his silly and dangerous fake news.

strange that no figures were given for deaths of the common flu last year as if no one died from it  

[hotchilli]

17 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

Hopefully this means that anywhere outside these specific areas can operate as normal. Otherwise it's going to be a pretty boring Songkran for many in Bangkok.

 

I'm gonna head up to our farm in Korat for Songkran with a couple of cases in the boot of my car. It looks like by the time I come back, Bangkok could be in lockdown. Given the pathetic vaccine rollout here, I really hope they can contain this cluster otherwise it could be a pretty rubbish few months ahead.

 

 

Don't worry, they locked down Samut Sakon and the local area because it was majority Myanmarese.
They would never lockdown Bangkok... only specific locations.

[NorthernRyland]

Another outbreak which will magically vanish. The Thais must be immune to Sars-Cov-2 otherwise we'd know about it. Has even a single country in all of Europe had a single outbreak that didn't turn into a full blown epidemic?

[PEE TEE]

52 minutes ago, Showtime said:

Got my first pfizer vaccine today!

where

 

[PEE TEE]

8 minutes ago, PEE TEE said:

where

 

from the back of a refrigerated  lorry ?

[Nanaplaza666]

2 hours ago, Jeffr2 said:

It's not the flu.  Don't post misinformation.  Thailand has done a pretty good job with the virus.  Especially compared to the West, where efforts have been dodgy to say the least.

 

Yes, it sucks.  But I'm happy not to have to worry about getting the virus when I go out shopping.  Unlike my friends in the West.

It's not THE flu (the flu has magicaly dissapeared from the face of the earth),  but it's stronger brother , and if they would test here like they do in the west with your friends the nr's would probably be 10 times higher every day . 

[Tonypandy]

2 hours ago, Dialemco said:

After waiting so long to reopen 

 

It is a shame Thailand is now hell bent on reopening without taking necessary precautionary measures.  If possible the vaccination programme should be expedited before reopening for International Tourism and Night venues  

 

So what are they waiting for, vaccines are available so why no solid programme in place. 

[joe jadore]

2 hours ago, Dialemco said:

After waiting so long to reopen 

 

It is a shame Thailand is now hell bent on reopening without taking necessary precautionary measures.  If possible the vaccination programme should be expedited before reopening for International Tourism and Night venues  

 

Exactly RIGHT! Giddy up all Government people who manage the vaccines going into arms. You don't need advisory committees, meetings, advice from every Tom, Dick and Harry, just buy the vaccines and jab ALL of us!!

Thais first, old folks first, then everyone. You can set up in parks, hospitals, anywhere. You have to protect "your people" and their business's. You want farrangs and tourisim to RETURN, well bring the population back to ZERO infection. Do strict testing at airports and borders. Johnson & Johnson vacs are the best in my humble opinion, but buy/get all brands you can and get injections happening!

Sabai sabai ka 

[wendyfromoz]

3 hours ago, blacksuitdandruff said:

Word on the street is that c19 only  infects people after 9 p.m. 

and drinkers

 

[Guderian]

Finally, Thailand's Covid response was looking like the Ever Given doing a U-turn in the Suez Canal, lol. At last we get some action to show that Prayut hasn't fallen asleep at the helm. Now just make the whole of greater Bangkok into a Red Zone and cancel Songkran travel, then drop all the daft plans to allow deadly foreign variants to enter the country with reduced or no quarantine.

[Dart12]

could be TIT way of increasing domestic travel for the holiday lol?

I fear Pattaya next though ????
 

 

[sandyf]

2 hours ago, Phuketboy said:

The UK health. minister a few days ago announced that the UK will no longer have lockdowns and it will treat covid as it should be, a flu.  

 

Just because someone else got it wrong does not mean you are not spreading misinformation.

 

"So from a virological point of view, coronavirus is definitely not a type of flu."

https://www.labnews.co.uk/article/2030503/coronavirus-is-it-just-a-type-of-flu

[brewsterbudgen]

2 hours ago, cyril sneer said:

What have they done so well that the West hasn’t? 

Closed their borders in March 2020 and made quarantine compulsory.

[Roel]

2 hours ago, cyril sneer said:

What have they done so well that the West hasn’t? 

They implemented a tropical climate with people mainly living (semi) outdoors.

[Elkski]

 

I hope they can get things in BKK under wraps.  Worst Timing  imaginable with long holiday and it's super promotion just days away.  My woman lives and works in thonglor.  My luck the  US embassy will shut down the weekend before our K1 interview later this month. 

[Jeffr2]

2 hours ago, cyril sneer said:

What have they done so well that the West hasn’t? 

Kept the death rate low.  The West blew it there.

[DualSportBiker]

Well done, you read what is happening in the UK and understood it at a superficial level! Congrats. Have you thought about why the Minister made that announcement? Even a little bit? Are there any differences between the UK's Covid-19 status and Thailand's? Can you name one?

 

The UK has set a world-leading pace for its vaccine rollout. Symptomatic cases are down 60%. Hospital admissions are down 80%. Deaths are down from 1800 a day in January to 26 on Monday. With around 50% of the population jabbed once, and 8% jabbed twice, the run-rate of vaccination is very high and a statistically significant majority will be vaccinated within a defined and reliable timeframe. Only because of the volume of inoculated people in the UK as of yesterday can the threat be downgraded.

 

The flu is a persistent threat that has been gene-sequenced and for which vaccines are readily available. Only because of those vaccines and their pervasive usage and availability is the flu not a bigger killer in the UK. Covid in Thailand is a different situation. Very very few people have been vaccinated. The risks of an outbreak are high. There is a high degree of fatigue in the population - we are all fed up with the disruption. A slip-up at this late stage would make all the sacrifices made before of moot value.

 

So until Thailand's population is sufficiently vaccinated the same risks exist today as they did a year ago. Only then will it take its place alongside flu. You need to live with the fact that your annoyance is of no interest to the people who are making decisions based on more data and more expertise than you bring to the table...

 

2 hours ago, Phuketboy said:

The UK health. minister a few days ago announced that the UK will no longer have lockdowns and it will treat covid as it should be, a flu.  He even went as far as saying that allowing some deaths is the price on allowing others to life a whole life.  Tired of this spread of fear and hearing about new cases when locking down the world over something with a 99.7% recovery just to push a vaccine is just pure crazy.  This will not go away, this is going to be around for a while even with a vaccine.  People just need to learn to live with it pure and simple. 

 

[Jeffr2]

32 minutes ago, Nanaplaza666 said:

It's not THE flu (the flu has magicaly dissapeared from the face of the earth),  but it's stronger brother , and if they would test here like they do in the west with your friends the nr's would probably be 10 times higher every day . 

10x higher per day would still be more than 10x lower than the numbers in the West.

 

If the true rate was 10x higher, the hospitals would be overflowing.  That's not happened.

[JonnyF]

52 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Don't worry, they locked down Samut Sakon and the local area because it was majority Myanmarese.
They would never lockdown Bangkok... only specific locations.

 

Well, they pretty much locked it down around this time last year. All bars, pubs and restaurants ordered shut, alcohol purchases banned everywhere, parks closed, many shops closed, inter provincial travel banned etc.

[Keesters]

15 hours ago, Excel said:

They should put BKK in shutdown now totally, not wait for it to exponentially increase. Take heed from other countries but of course TIT.

Of course they should. And for those living in Bangkok who don't think so heed this: stay the <deleted> away from Pattaya. We dont want your filthy disease at any cost to our economy. 

[Keesters]

13 hours ago, Susco said:

 

Yes sure, kill the virus whatever business that is still surviving.

 

How many deaths in Thailand and in other countries?

What the point of having a business if your customers are dead or sick from covid. Talk about killing the golden goose. 

[choudens]

2 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Word on the street says that's where the clusters are traced back to... crowded venues which need to be dealt with.

Markets/restaurants/work-places or bars... whichever.

Yes but only after 9 pm not during the day please inderstand

[Scott]

Numerous posts removed for posting false and misleading information, information from unapproved sites and conspiracy posts.

[soi3eddie]

3 hours ago, cyril sneer said:

What have they done so well that the West hasn’t? 

 

Virtually no testing in Thailand. Except for well publicised mass testing at sites where Burmese immigrants live and work.

 

[soi3eddie]

23 minutes ago, Keesters said:

Of course they should. And for those living in Bangkok who don't think so heed this: stay the <deleted> away from Pattaya. We dont want your filthy disease at any cost to our economy. 

 

The mass exodus from Bangkok is heading to Pattaya for the holidays...

 

[Jeffr2]

4 minutes ago, soi3eddie said:

 

Virtually no testing in Thailand. Except for well publicised mass testing at sites where Burmese immigrants live and work.

 

You're wrong.  Don't post misinformation.

[mikeymike100]

2 hours ago, Showtime said:

Got my first pfizer vaccine today!

Two mice are in the pub and one says “Hey, have you had the new covid vaccine yet?” And the other replies “What?! You must be  joking, they haven’t finished the human trials yet!!

[mortenaa]

1 hour ago, sandyf said:

Just because someone else got it wrong does not mean you are not spreading misinformation.

 

"So from a virological point of view, coronavirus is definitely not a type of flu."

https://www.labnews.co.uk/article/2030503/coronavirus-is-it-just-a-type-of-flu

 

No, Corona virus is not a flu virus, its a "common cold" virus, like the previous SARS