covid surges in Thailand
Re: covid surges in Thailand
TBF its probably all lies.phuketrichard wrote: ↑Sat May 27, 2023 5:44 pm Deny all you want but in Thailand they are past denying things
stats can be manipulated but these numbers are worrying
The Siriraj Piyamaharajkarun Hospital in Bangkok announced on its Facebook page yesterday (Friday) that all its hospital beds in its intensive care unit (ICU) and in-patient department (IPD) are fully occupied by COVID-19 patients.
https://www.thaipbsworld.com/siriraj-ho ... -patients/The hospital also said that there are still several COVID-19 patients in its emergency ward, who are waiting to be transferred to other hospitals, as it apologised to the public for the inconvenience.
The hospital’s announcement coincides with a warning yesterday from Dr. Nitipat Jiarakul, chief of the Division of the Respiratory Diseases and Tuberculosis at the Faculty of Medicine at Siriraj Hospital, that COVID-19 is staging a comeback, with as many as 20,000-40,000 people being infected each day, about 20 times more than the rate of infection in April.
According to Dr. Nitipat, admissions to hospitals have increased to about 400 a day, from about 20 in April and, of these, 5% are suffering lung infections and half of them have died.
The death toll also surged 20 fold, to about 66 a week now instead of just 4 in April.
Half of those deaths were directly linked to a COVID-19 infection and the other half to a resurgence of comorbidities, such as kidney disease, emphysema and heart diseases.
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So it’s settled that the world is overpopulated? That’s just opinion. The worlds population is already in an irreversible decline and we should be alarmed. Many people have spoken about this including Elon Musk who has said that in fact we do not have enough people and population decline is the single largest crisis mankind is facing now.
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I can testify to this increase of cases (1) I contracted covid on May/2 (2) yesterday my Thai boss told me we had 7 new cases in the company which we have not seen any case for past months.
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You're eating fruit and veggies containing unknown and probably illegal herbicides & pesticides in unknown quantities on a daily basis.
You probably eat meat containing unknown quantities of unknown antibiotics.
You're eating, drinking and breathing unknown quantities of micro plastics.
But it's nice to know you've got no unknown chemicals in your body, right?
If you're really worried about unknown chemicals in your body life will be very difficult, especially in Cambodia.
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The Thais will soon use these inflated horseshit covid stats to justify a post election lockdown powergrab on the uppity peasants imo
Very Thai
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I don't know much about the Thai situation but it seems to me that when they're struggling to get tourism and the economy healthy again, if they were going to lie about the new covid wave they'd have more incentive to be downplaying the numbers.
Just as an aside, they're not the only ones. China, among others, is also facing another wave. It's not inconceivable Thailand would be seeing its cases increase too.
Just as an aside, they're not the only ones. China, among others, is also facing another wave. It's not inconceivable Thailand would be seeing its cases increase too.
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Hardly struggling with almost 10 million in the first 5 months this year>Random Dude wrote: ↑Sun May 28, 2023 9:48 am I don't know much about the Thai situation but it seems to me that when they're struggling to get tourism and the economy healthy again, if they were going to lie about the new covid wave they'd have more incentive to be downplaying the numbers.
Just as an aside, they're not the only ones. China, among others, is also facing another wave. It's not inconceivable Thailand would be seeing its cases increase too.
Phuket in Jan-march was as busy it seems ( minus the chinese) as pre covid
will easily hit 22 million by years end
I dont think their lying.
not fear mongering and i dont worry as i do the same now as 2 year ago, avoid crowds and stay away from tourists ( those nasty buggers are the ones that are bringing it in LOL)
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Fair enough, I don't know the situation so I believe you when you say they're not struggling with tourism numbers but still, I'm sure there are a lot of people there trying to climb out of a financial hole so a robust economy helps everyone. And I agree, I doubt they're lying, it seems unlikely the government would put their economy at risk by pretending there's a covid wave when there isn't.phuketrichard wrote: ↑Sun May 28, 2023 10:12 amHardly struggling with almost 10 million in the first 5 months this year>Random Dude wrote: ↑Sun May 28, 2023 9:48 am I don't know much about the Thai situation but it seems to me that when they're struggling to get tourism and the economy healthy again, if they were going to lie about the new covid wave they'd have more incentive to be downplaying the numbers.
Just as an aside, they're not the only ones. China, among others, is also facing another wave. It's not inconceivable Thailand would be seeing its cases increase too.
Phuket in Jan-march was as busy it seems ( minus the chinese) as pre covid
will easily hit 22 million by years end
I dont think their lying.
not fear mongering and i dont worry as i do the same now as 2 year ago, avoid crowds and stay away from tourists ( those nasty buggers are the ones that are bringing it in LOL)
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I don't think they're exaggerating about the numbers, it just isn't clear to me what (if anything) they want people to do.
At this point, Covid has become endemic and there's broad immunity, so just letting it spread without any special measures and precautions looks like the most sensible approach to me.
At this point, Covid has become endemic and there's broad immunity, so just letting it spread without any special measures and precautions looks like the most sensible approach to me.
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