I just got back to the UK from Thailand. It's actually a great comparison, the populations are very similar. The main difference is that obviously Thailand is a lot bigger.
However, that shouldn't matter as we are comparing "developed" with "developing" so even though the country is larger, poverty means that certain places are a lot denser.
Anyway, based on that, Thailand should be doing worse than the UK since it's a "developing" nation and they haven't had the same sort of vaccine rollout as the UK, with the boosters and so on.
When on the actual ground, Thailand is as close to "normal" as it can be, compared with the UK that has now triggered Plan B and looking and coming up with a Plan C.
Let's look at the numbers:
Thailand: Cases 2.16M Deaths 21,112
UK: Cases 10.7M Deaths: 146K
There is no "Plan B/C" getting triggered in Thailand its actually quite the opposite, being that as time goes on, more and more of the restrictions are eased/removed.
Another good example would be Dubai.
There was a huge exodus during the original lockdowns/covid hysteria that saw people from the Uk flock to Dubai due to their lesser restrictions, to the point the MP's were talking about it on the news at the time and even placed travel restrictions to stop people "rubbing it in their faces" as it were.
I was there during that time. It was crazy going home to tell people back in the UK how different things were when they thought the rest of the world was locked down like they were, only for it only to be basically Western nations. It was also funny that when during the "travel ban" in the UK, I travelled internationally twice, and people genuinely thought travel ban meant that all travel was disallowed. Again, paying too much attention to the media.
Speaking of media, a few weeks ago in Dubai 146,000 thousand people took part in the "Dubai run" meanwhile in the UK you now need to be masked to be around a few hundred people in supermarkets, pubs, restaurants etc meanwhile the jab was your way out of that and your ticket to freedom, fast forward to today, by this time next year, you could have potentially been jabbed 6 times in total.
If the vaccines worked, why do places like the UK have more restrictions and less freedoms although the vaccination and booster rates are higher than other countries with both less jabs/boosters, restrictions and ultimately cases.