@Colin *******

no you are the one saying that. Thailands fatalities are incredibly low however that has been managed. I suspect Thailand is being more cautious with its coding of fatalities snd not accounting all comorbidities etc etc as does the USA.

The “drama” I refer to is about cases. Ie media posting pictures of prawns insinuating the entire prawn industry is infected because one stall worker in a seafood market tests positive. Do we do that for every other case— point at their place of work and say “the vegetables are infected or that meat is infected.

Wet markets of all kinds are open across Thailand I would put money on the fact that if their stall holders were all tested many more cases would be found.

Further the focus on cases in the absence of hard fact fatalities is baseless.

Only 1.5m largely volunteering Thais have been tested - meaning 68.5m have not been.

So how can we ever say Thailand has X number of cases. There have been and will

Be thousands more because only 2,1% of the population have been tested and even those tested could catch it again the minute they walk out of the clinic.

More you test more you will find - absolutely !

What matters are the hard fact fatalities 60.

@Colin *******

we are talking about Thailand — more in the world than the USA

@Andrew ****

I think the “policy” is driven by a need to take substantial amounts of baht out of the country over recent months — certainly not doing exports - foreign investment or whatever is left of tourism any good — basically means 10% added to the ASQ rates and the rest of the trip

@Andrew ****

in fairness I think we would be the same if a group of Thais complained about our home country — I’ve learnt to enjoy the good bits and dun try to understand Thailand too much — we never will .

We stay here because the good parts must outweigh the bad and or where we came from

@Paul ******

so do- did many other countries and list China in that as well

@Andrew ****

neither do they care about your opinion — this is a forum to express our opinions not lobby the government- we are not thais it’s not our country and they will never listen to us.

@Andrew ****

60 fatalities and voluntary testing that is less than 10% of the entire country and you don’t expect to find more cases?

Fear mongering — do the maths and you will find fatality per capita is 0.0000909090909090909 % 0909 %

110 killed in road accidents just one long weekend —

I am well aware what thais have and do not have I have lived there for over 30 years. And u will find that the majority of thais either can’t afford or will not go for voluntary testing because of fear.

There are and always have been many thousand more cases than reported because the testing levels are so low.

The county is dying financially—- and thais dont get any assistance for that either

More media hype and twisted data = lock down Fanatics and drama queens.

Do the Maths - how many fatalities/66m population in 11 months — more chance of getting killed by a bus

@Joe **********

correct it can be lump sum or income over 12 months

@Steve ******

he can also show regular income of 50k per month