Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
With respect Tricky it doesn’t ‘put things into perspective’ at all...it just provides a different, slightly irrelevant perspective which says more about Thai driving habits than it does about anything to do with Coronavirus.

These ‘few thousand’ deaths you mention are in the region of 42,000 now I believe, so rather more than ‘a few’ and while there are so many deaths despite lockdown how many more do you think there would have been had the country not gone into partial ‘shut down’?

I don’t think things have been handled well. I do think we have suffered from a lack of leadership and that the British and U.S. governments - as the figures would appear to support - have been particularly ineffectual, but the lockdown was necessary.
Right thats gone right over your head hasn't it?

Firstly, Thailand was the topic. Thailand is ( I know, I've seen it) one of the worlds craziest road user places in the world. It costs thousands of lives and yet no one has battered an eyelid over there. The punishment is a joke, as is the lack of payouts for victims. Yet NO ONE CARES. COVID comes along and plunges a people already struggling to eat, into poverty. Yet COVID deaths are a fraction of the deaths caused in traffic. Perhaps you can explain the logic to me here regarding urgency? Thailands COVID death rate is 1.7%, four times lower than the global average.

It seems to me in your eyes, that COVID is the new Black death and every other problem takes second place.
The deaths from the economic collapse around this, are going to dwarf your COVID fear.
I've watched your arguments about schools, but said little. I understand your loyalty to teachers etc. But perhaps the 60 000 cancer patients may think they are being a tad selfish, not helping out with doing their bit to get the economy going and normality ASAP.
You say lockdown was necessary. I disagree. It needed control that's all. Sweden didn't lock down at all and they suffered no worse than us.
Fear is palying mind games with you.