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Today’s figures are up by 49 over yesterday to 1,940 - still (just) below the weekly and fortnightly averages. However there is good news - the Pope is beginning another round of prayers. You’ll recall the triumphant success of his prayers to end the pandemic more than 13 months ago. Encouraged by his success then, more prayers are ascending heavenward.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2109099
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"However there is good news - the Pope is beginning another round of prayers. You’ll recall the triumphant success of his prayers to end the pandemic more than 13 months ago. Encouraged by his success then, more prayers are ascending heavenward."
That is funny.
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Wrong direction... 2041 today
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when you see all the people in bar/entertainment areas many with NO masks......what can one expect??
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Blueskytoday
when you see all the people in bar/entertainment areas many with NO masks......what can one expect??
It is difficult to eat and drink with a mask on.
Theoretically a mask with a built in drinking straw might allow drinking, but I have never seen anyone using such a device.
As far as I can tell, Thailand attempts to get around this problem with screens & social distancing in restaurants and when covid is severe, bar closures.
So during the outbreak earlier in the year, bars were closed and measures were taken to ensure spacing in restaurants. At the time, that seemed to be sufficient, as declared cases decreased and they were eventually able to relax restrictions.
Thailand now has the B.1.1.7 variant which is more contagious, so perhaps previous measures will be insufficient.
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In the video's I saw,,many just walking around the bar streets, talking, laughing,,,not drinking and eating...anyway,,just my thought...I doubt TH will be
open without quarantine the rest of this year.....
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Encouragingly the daily figures are down to 1,763 today. Yesterday’s number poked through the fortnightly average but we’re below today. The weekly average appears to have peaked and to be falling despite the individual horror stories of Klong Toey and a regional post office. Fingers crossed.
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If Thailand actually pulls this off and manages to put this latest outbreak down, they deserve one hell of a round of applause.
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As I stated, if Thailand somehow miraculously manages to get this outbreak put down, they deserve one hell of a round of applause.
However, all considering, I doubt containment is possible any longer. Thailand now joins basically the rest of the world, and is in for one very, very.... very long ass lockdown until its population reaches herd immunity via vaccination rollout.
Many Western nations have this on the horizon -- Israel is basically there, US and UK are close, Canada and many others are only a few months out, et al. It'll probably be a while before SE Asia catches up though...
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Many Western nations have this on the horizon -- Israel is basically there, US and UK are close, Canada and many others are only a few months out, et al. It'll probably be a while before SE Asia catches up though...
You’re discounting Vietnam then? Not sure about vaccination but their record of containment is superb.
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And then there’s Singapore - a high number of vaccinations but nevertheless a new cluster in just the last few days
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And then there’s Singapore - a high number of vaccinations but nevertheless a new cluster in just the last few days
Yes, in case you haven't picked up on it yet, the current variants floating around are quite brutal.
Gone are the good ole days of just plan vanilla Covid.
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However, all considering, I doubt containment is possible any longer. Thailand now joins basically the rest of the world, and is in for one very, very.... very long ass lockdown until its population reaches herd immunity via vaccination rollout.
Exactly my thoughts! The party is over, here in Cambodia as well. End of January, I was in a bar in Kampot, packed with over 50 customers, none of them wearing a mask. We won't get this again this year in Thailand or Cambodia.
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Thailand now joins basically the rest of the world, and is in for one very, very.... very long ass lockdown until its population reaches herd immunity via vaccination rollout.
Many Western nations have this on the horizon -- Israel is basically there, US and UK are close, Canada and many others are only a few months out, et al. It'll probably be a while before SE Asia catches up though...
is "herd immunity" even a realistic goal anymore in the US or elsewhere?
Reaching ‘Herd Immunity’ Is Unlikely in the U.S., Experts Now Believe - New York Times, May 3, 2021
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Whether it’s a reality or not, the betting is on the need for an annual booster shot just like the one for the ‘flu. Given the current shortages imagine what 2022 is going to be like unless worldwide production is (probably) trebled between now and then.
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I think everyone knows...Thailand will not be open without quarantine and health insurance and this and that and this and that.....
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1,911 today. Presented graphically, you can see that the incidence is flattening out. Hopeful, but no cigar yet
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I think everyone knows...Thailand will not be open without quarantine......
Not everyone!
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1,911 today. Presented graphically, you can see that the incidence is flattening out. Hopeful, but no cigar yet
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Hopefully we will see a downward trend emerging in the coming week....
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I think everyone knows...Thailand will not be open without quarantine and health insurance and this and that and this and that.....
Thailand will reopen without quarantine. It might be 2021, 2022 or with more problems than expected, even later. My best guess is late 2021 with either zero or 8 night quarantine.
The Junta might well try to keep some useless insurance in place, particularly if they or their friends have financial interests in such businesses. However, eventually the tourists will have a choice of countries to go to. So Thailand either has to be competitive or lose market share.
So far, Thailand has been one of very few countries to allow any kind of entry for tourists.
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I think it will re-open for tourists sometime in 2022.
In any case, it won't concern me because we've been told today that Australia's borders will not open for international travel until probably late in 2022.
Mind you, the situation is evolving all the time and things could easily change but I've basically given up hope of travelling overseas in the foreseeable future.
Damn!
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Late 2022?!? So ~18 months from now?
Fuck me...
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Fuck me...
Dreams... dreams...
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In any case, it won't concern me because we've been told today that Australia's borders will not open for international travel until probably late in 2022.
Mind you, the situation is evolving all the time and things could easily change but I've basically given up hope of travelling overseas in the foreseeable future.
The UK still has some restrictions on overseas travel, but a friend who is a company Director can sign off his own business trips, which have some exemptions. So I think he's off to a central European capital shortly for some R&R.
I still expect to travel abroad again before the end of the year.
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In any case, it won't concern me because we've been told today that Australia's borders will not open for international travel until probably late in 2022.
Australian government announcement? Any link?
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Australian government announcement? Any link?
Google works! Came from the Finance Minister I guess, and sounds as though him saying that may have been premature:
https://www.studyinternational.com/n...ional-borders/
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Excellent news!
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What I asked for was an Australian Government announcement. That link is to a single government minister having a brain fart. Politicians have them all the time. Remember the UK Minister who went on breakfast television saying that there won’t be “vaccination passports”, anyone wanting documentation for travel could get a letter from their doctor? Saint Boris overturned that brain fart inside a week. Here’s a link to the Australian PM talking about travel and vaccination passports only this week. No mention of a distant future.
https://www.9news.com.au/national/va...9-374289948f1c
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Hopefully we will see a downward trend emerging in the coming week....
Bouncing around 2,000 per day, today’s figure is 2,044
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2,419 today. Bad but not the worst (2,839 on 24 April). However I now know someone who’s been hospitalised - cousin of an ex. Asymptomatic but showed up in testing (at 3,000 baht a pop).
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Time will tell... Laos was thankfully looking good yesterday at only 28 cases.
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2,419 today. Bad but not the worst (2,839 on 24 April)..
With over 1100 critically ill and nearly 400 on ventilators I’d say that’s not far from the worst...
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2,101 today, a slight fall from yesterday but still above trend.
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The news gets worse for Australians.
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The Prime Minister is warning Australia's international borders will remain closed for the foreseeable future, as his Treasurer notes this week's federal budget assumes Australia will remain locked off to the rest of the world until at least 2022.
ABC News
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The news gets worse for Australians.
This seems even worse than the penal colony era. At least they allowed people in then.
What does public opinion think of this ?
In the UK, it seems the public mostly support travel restrictions, which will be a long way short of a complete closure. However, if we find the virus mutations don't result in people getting severe covid, I imagine there will be more support for travel.
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What does public opinion think of this ?
Unfortunately, the news reported that 2/3 of the population supports closed by borders.
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The news gets worse for Australians.
ABC News
On the upside, Australia is doing amazing in terms of the virus, so I guess you don't have to live in a society where a bunch of people are dieing around you and you're not allowed to get sick becuase there's no longer any doctors available.
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Unfortunately, the news reported that 2/3 of the population supports closed by borders.
What has happened to the taskforce Morrison announced that’s reviewing the need for quarantine for those who’ve been vaccinated?
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On the upside, Australia is doing amazing in terms of the virus, so I guess you don't have to live in a society where a bunch of people are dieing around you and you're not allowed to get sick becuase there's no longer any doctors available.
You mean locking out almost everyone including their own citizens?