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Below, I highlight two reports from the Bangkok Post and an updated selected extract from the worldometer website:
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14,000 Thais still stranded abroad
published : 9 Apr 2020 at 16:32
writer: Online Reporters
The government is telling thousands of Thais stranded abroad to be patient, because the government must control the spread of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) to protect the majority of the people before they can return home . . .
For the full report see: https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand...tranded-abroad
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Thursday: 54 new coronavirus cases, 2 more deaths
• 9 Apr 2020 at 13:54 1 comments
• WRITER: GARY BOYLE
• ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: ONLINE REPORTERS
The government on Thursday reported 54 new local cases of Covid-19, raising the total to 2,423 spread over 67 provinces, and two new deaths - a Thai man, 82, and a Frenchman, 74 - that increased the toll to 32.
Dr Taweesin Visanuyothin, spokesman for the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration, said the Frenchman had no chronic disease. He fell sick on March 27 with a fever, cough, exhaustion and abdominal pain.
The dead Thai man fell sick on March 25 with a fever of 38.5°C and was treated at a hospital in Samut Prakan province. On March 30 he was exhausted, needed a ventilator and became unconscious. He died on Wednesday. . .
For the full report see: https://www.bangkokpost.com/learning...eaths#cxrecs_s
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Link to worldometer site: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
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Jellybean
From the Bangkok post article ......The government is telling thousands of Thais stranded abroad to be patient, because the government must control the spread of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) to protect the majority of the people before they can return home .[/url]
Ha so be PATIENT eh ! Never Mind that you're our citizens and yes we'll get you home but we may need to put you in isolation for 14 days, no, more "you just stay wherever you are, let them look after you (or not), spread whatever you might be carrying over THERE not here and hey when we get a chance we'll maybe think of getting you home "somehow" when this thing dies down a bit. How novel.
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And once again, to lighten the mood, I repost images first posted on facebook:
One light-hearted:
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And to end, two positive images:
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Doing the maths it's going to take about 1082 days to get evetyone back.
Once again there was no mention of the highly esteemed clients of bar boys being given priority passes or golden queue jumping tickets. And not a word from Amnesty about this. Dereliction of duty.
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As just seen on Richard Barrows Blog - "Bangkok prohibits the sale of alcohol from 10-20 April 2020" ( apparently the translation is "requests" a ban on the sale of......be interesting to see how the "request" is received ! The list Including Chonburi for a 6am - 6pm closure ? is below. I'm not sure what they're expecting such closures to achieve. I guess being Songkran they just want to keep people from congregating in bars, but as seems that carry outs may still be allowed it's all a bit confusing.
But if I needed a final " thank god I didn't fly there after all ( aside from the obvious)" then this would have been it.
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Bangkok 10-20 April
Sakon Nakhon 31 Mar-16 Apr
Chiang Mai 10-20 Apr
Rayong 3-15 Apr
Buriram 2-30 Apr
Mukdahan 6-30 Apr
Suphan Buri 4-30 Apr
Nakhon Pathom 2-30 Apr
Lamphun 1-30 Apr
Chonburi from 6pm-6am
Surin 2-30 Apr
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Below, I highlight two reports from the Bangkok Post, an updated selected extract from the worldometer website and one report from Al-Jazeera:
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Two more deaths, 45 new cases, total 2,518
Nine people in state quarantine test positive for Covid-19
published : 11 Apr 2020 at 13:39
writer: Online Reporters
Nine people in state quarantine, including Thais returned from abroad, are among the 45 new Covid-19 cases reported on Saturday, bringing the total to 2,518 and fatalities to 35 . . .
For the full report see: https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand...es-total-2-518
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PM condemns curfew breakers
Says violators 'lack social conscience'
published : 11 Apr 2020 at 06:30
newspaper section: News
writer: Post Reporters
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Friday slammed more than 6,500 curfew violators for lacking a social conscience but insisted he will not impose any tougher restrictions as current measures in dealing with Covid-19 over the past 100 days are proving effective . . .
For the full report see: https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand...urfew-breakers
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Link to worldometer site: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
The World Health Organisation reported on January 13 a case in Thailand, the first outside of China, in a woman who had arrived from Wuhan, yet the recent figures show 35 deaths in Thailand, but a significantly higher number of deaths in the United Kingdom of 8,958 (an increase of 1,861 since I last reported the figures two days ago) despite broadly similar population numbers. Anyone any idea why there should be such a disparity?
Below, I have copied an extract showing the comparable population figures produced by World Population Review:
https://worldpopulationreview.com
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And I thought the following timeline produced by Al-Jazeera very informative and worth sharing:
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Timeline: How the new coronavirus spread
The virus has killed more than 102,000 people and infected at least 1.69 million worldwide.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a pandemic over a new coronavirus which causes an illness known as COVID-19 that has spread to nearly every country.
The disease has killed more than 102,000 people and infected more than 1.69 million, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University . . .
For the full report see: https://www-aljazeera-com.cdn.amppro...061554884.html
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And today I repost the following video, which is doing the rounds on facebook, it was filmed by an angry nurse showing a group of cyclists sitting in a park drinking and flouting the UK social distance rules:
https://youtu.be/mnWnvzmKsuI
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Originally Posted by
Jellybean
The World Health Organisation reported on January 13 a case in Thailand, the first outside of China, in a woman who had arrived from Wuhan, yet the recent figures show 35 deaths in Thailand, but a significantly higher number of deaths in the United Kingdom of 8,958 (an increase of 1,861 since I last reported the figures two days ago) despite broadly similar population numbers. Anyone any idea why there should be such a disparity?
Below, I have copied an extract showing the comparable population figures produced by World Population Review:
https://worldpopulationreview.com
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And I thought the following timeline produced by Al-Jazeera very informative and worth sharing:
For the full report see:
https://www-aljazeera-com.cdn.amppro...061554884.html
Climate. Hot in Thailand. Also hot in Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia where NO deaths have been reported.
Regarding Germany and the UK. Let me give you an example.
My friend was taken sick last year and his wife took him to A@E in the London area. They looked at him and sent him home with some tablets.
His wife is German and they returned to Germany the following week where he felt poorly again. This time she took him to a German hospital where, within half an hour, he was diagnosed as having had a Stroke AND a heart attack. He stayed in and made a good recovery. He would probably have died in the UK.
So back to Corona and why the difference between UK figures and German figures. German Efficiency ...just look at their testing figures.
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For many years we've had governments that didn't really care for the NHS....first of all, it was the deranged Blair and his privatisation plans for schools and the NHS and then it was the Conservatives, whose senior figures would never been seen dead in a NHS facility. Apart from for photo opportunities, of course. Any UK citizen will tell you how underfunding has adversely affected our health....try getting a doctor's appointment.
The NHS was one of the great achievements of our parents after the war and the envy of the world.. And it only became a reality due to small number of determined individuals fighting an entrenched and complacent establishment. Not to mention the arrival of West Indian nurses.
Then Blair's Blue Labour arrived and, along with its attempt to re -enact the Crusades of the Middle Ages, stabbed the NHS in its back. It has kept going due to the commitment of its staff, particularly its "immigrant" workers, at all levels. Who, by the way, are dying of the virus at a faster rate than their white colleagues. I wonder why.
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The NHS was one of the great achievements of our parents after the war and the envy of the world.
Do you have any evidence to support the claim that the NHS is or was the envy of the world ? AFAIK, this is just Labour party propaganda, without any evidence to back it up.
I for one wouldn't presume the rest of the world envy the NHS, without checking for evidence of that envy.
Personally, once this Covid outbreak is over, I think we should firstly pay a nice flat rate bonus to NHS front line staff.
Then, conduct a benchmarking exercise into other healthcare systems, to determine what structure is getting the best results.
Obviously the German system, with private hospitals, some choice of healthcare insurance provider, gives the consumer more choice and better results at present. So that's one we should look at.
Singapore also provides healthcare cover for all, at a reasonable price:GDP ratio, so that's another good one to look at.
We should probably check the USA system for what NOT to do, since they have by far the highest ratio of healthcare spending to GDP, with a lower life expectancy than many developed countries.
I certainly don't buy the Labour party propaganda and assume a centrally controlled state healthcare system, with no consumer choice is optimum. Such as structure has failed all over the world and there is no reason to assume UK healthcare is an exception. We get less innovation, less competition & less flexibility.
My local GP persistently turns up 15~20 minutes late for the first appointments of the day, despite having a 500 hp car. If we had proper choice, the customers would take their business elsewhere and management would be forced to act and fix this. As it's a state monopoly, they don't give a ****.