BMA plans to open 53 “community isolation centres”

[Thaiger]

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration has announced their intentions to open 53 “community isolation centres”…early next month. The centres will be for people who Covid and are waiting to be admitted to a hospital, says governor Aswin Kwanmuang, today. It is reported that City Hall is hoping to open 23 centres “right away”. There will be 3,390 beds for people who are unable to isolate themselves at home. Aswin says there are plans to open 1 isolation centre for each district, for a total of 53 centres and just over 6,000 beds so Covid suffers who are unable to get a […]

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[gummy]

1 hour ago, Thaiger said:

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration has announced their intentions to open 53 “community isolation centres”…early next month. The centres will be for people who Covid and are waiting to be admitted to a hospital, says governor Aswin Kwanmuang, today. It is reported that City Hall is hoping to open 23 centres “right away”. There will be 3,390 beds for people who are unable to isolate themselves at home. Aswin says there are plans to open 1 isolation centre for each district, for a total of 53 centres and just over 6,000 beds so Covid suffers who are unable to get a […]

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Must be a boom for business for the producers of razorwire and riot shields in this country

[Stonker]

That only 6,000 more beds will be available even after all 53 centres are up and running, in addition to the beds already available in the field hospitals, re-purposed unused schools, the airport, etc, which are insufficent for the 145,000 known active cases shows the absolute absurdity of the proposal in the Great Barrington Declaration for long term  "focused protection" for the "vulnerable" while the rest of the population carry on as "normal".

 

[Stonker]

What's most disappointing about how long it's taken for this to happen isn't the lack of action but how clearly it shows the disparity between the "have's" running things and the "have-not's" doing the hard work.

 

It's understandable that some posting here may not realise that "self-quarantine at home" is impossible for millions of Thais (and migrant workers) as their "home" is either a multi-generation house in Issan, a shared room in the city, a slum, or a tin shed on a construction site.

 

Those running things, though, have no such excuse for their ignorance and it's a very sad reflection on them that it's taken dead bodies in the street, literally, to get them to take action.