According to the Bangkok Pos t today, two luxury nightclubs in town, Krystal and Emerald, are the epicenters of new COVID-19 outbreaks: Thailand went for months without a confirmed case of local transmission, but the epidemic has now radiated from luxury nightclubs that cater to powerful and wealthy men to the warrens of slums that hug Bangkok’s highways and railroad tracks. In these cramped quarters, social distancing is impossible. Infections have also spread to prisons, construction camps and factories. Among the newly infected from those nightclubs, an ambassador, government minister, police in the area and, of course, the women who worked there. When I traveled to Thailand in February of 2020, they were #2 to China in number of cases.  Over the next few months they fell to #120.   Yesterday, with 2817 new cases and 36 deaths, they rose to #80 in total cases. However, their deaths/million is 170, while that of the USA is 1840. Hawaii at 355 deaths/million is lowest of all the stat