Originally Posted by
EuropeanPete
Of course everyone is allowed to judge a country's success as they want. I won't take it away from you or your Thai girlfriend. I will say to the comparison with Switzerland, despite only having 12% of the population they have had over 50x as many deaths. With the differences so unbelievably stark, I struggle to see how people really attacking Thailand's Covid record relative to European or North American countries can be taken seriously.
sorry but you can not compare that!
countries like Switzerland, Italy and certain other European countries have a much much higher percentage of older folks in the population as Thailand
And as a matter of fact, in particular in Central Europe, over 90% of the Deaths has occured among this part of the population
Also the practice, which death counts as a "death due to or with Covid" is totally different. In Europe there were legions of deaths added without even looking properly into the death cause....