Originally Posted by
Kacee
This type of hyperbole just fans the flames of irrationality, which the media worldwide has been only too keen to do, since it drives more clicks and thus more advertising sales.
"Raging" would be India or most of South America. 956 cases a day is obviously a concern for the authorities, who want to prevent uncontrolled spread, but it's a tiny number in a city of Bangkok's size. From anecdotal reports, there is very active contact tracing of confirmed cases in Thailand, which is something the locations with uncontrolled spread (including the US) were never able to do.
While the thousands of inhabitants of these tightly-packed areas might disagree, you should feel free to take up your outrage with the editors of the Bangkok Post.
AFAIK, no one is responding irrationally, save perhaps yourself, rather people are pitching in to control the situation in Khlong Toei, with public efforts to deliver food, administer tests and vaccines.