Originally Posted by
EuropeanPete
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.
I agree about that some European country did not managed so well and stil.
But what you are saying look like you are taking the official propaganda of the Thai government without a realistic view.
At first it was no Quarantine at home until very recently, so citizen preferred to just don't test and avoided to stay 2 weeks in the nice field hospital in case of positive result.
Also if Thailand is DA BEST medical hub, you need to explain me why they cannot handle 2000 cases daily. it's same as Switzerland actually but with 30% less death daily than Thailand. How to explain that ? Wrong number of infections reported or lack of knowledge to manage the infected people ?How do you explain that Thailand had almost not ordered any vaccin for so long, even put a ban to private hospital for importing vaccin ? I did not even talk about the lack of emergency plan to handle the covid surge, or about Songkram and let people travel everywhere.
For many months Thailand was isolated with almost no airline flying to Thailand, some EU embassy also stopped deliver visa because this reason, saying that it was too complicated for going back to Thailand.
During this time Thailand was a perfect place with low covid, but with the porous border for sure it was just delaying the problem...and in the same time killing the hospitality industry.
For you Thailand do a very amazing result, for my Thai gf, it's the total opposite.
Different point of view.