@Ron *****************

the only way to eradicate it is to shut down and never let anyone in or out? Keep economy's on its knees? Let the poor starve? Look at the food hand outs all over Thailand during this, the government done nothing to help, so I think you are short sighted on that. A infectious expert in Italy has confirmed what he is seeing now is this virus is starting to mutate into a less of a strain than it originally was, year old people that back in April were dead after a few days are now instead sitting up in bed after a few days and recovering from it, but I'm glad we agree on the vaccine being a long shot, like you said they should be using the money for other things like policing laws in place to stop the spread and educate people with facts and not scare tactics.

Back to China, there is a big difference from hiding the real numbers and not having the ability to count them which is what they have done and are doing, they have a proven track record of this type of saving face on the world stage, just ask the doctor who tried to warn the world of this, oh wait we cant.

@Ron *****************

the virus can not be eradicated the simple logistics alone dont allow for this, the vaccine is a long shot in my opinion, I think the hope is it mutates to the common flu or cold strain, the experts know this and the measures to suppress the virus is for one purpose and thats to take the pressure of ICU beds and the health care. As for China lying, would you really believe them not at this stage? Number of cases=lies, number of deaths=lies, how contagious this virus was in the first 3 weeks=lies. What makes you think westerners living there would have any information on unreported spikes?

@Ron *****************

agree with what your saying about some EU countries but also some have done fantastic work to suppress the virus so you cant tar them all with the one brush, but don't be so nieve about China, the lies that were told at the start of this is the reason the world is in this mess, the lies that they are telling now about their cases is the reason people think they are doing a great job, and the lies they told about their death rate is the reason its low.

@Ron *****************

wrong on that one, the new case they are seeing in China now is the same strain as what is in Europe, what goes around comes around

@Don *******

agreed, maybe folks think the flights fly in full of Thai's getting home then fly back empty then again that wouldn't surprise me if they did think that