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.
This is obviously all relative. As you say, Thailand has been very good at combining active contact tracing with proactive testing and home isolation for low risk cases for every single detected Covid case. The outbreaks in Bangkok (especially in the poorer areas) have meant this has been breaking down for the first time - so relative to how Thailand has been working so far, Covid is indeed raging and out of control. Of course, it's still more in control and being better managed than many European countries and the US even attempted to do at their finest. But that's why you have a 1000x difference in fatalities.