BobbyL

Absolutely zero sympathy. They knew precisely what has been occurring around the world recently. 

So did they come up with any plans / ideas in that meeting nearly three weeks ago? 

Well, most of those are not being followed at all. 

On 3/20/2020 at 10:19 PM, DavisH said:

That sounds like a bit of a cluster ****. We have about 2 months before students are back from holidays, so have some breathing space to sort things out. I'm looking at a few programs to see which will work and will get the students to do some practice woth me before the school starts. Nothing else to do the next 2 months, so may as well do prep. 

As it is still term time we have to keep going. We have to do 180 days teaching / year so if we stopped now we would have to do make - up days in July. It was a pretty frustrating few days last week but hopefully next week is easier. Still two more weeks until our scheduled Easter / Songkran holiday. 

Shocking press release from this charlatan. Par for the course from the NNT.

He doesn't state in anyway how they plan to help / take care of the ordinary citizens who will be hugely affected by this and he also gives massively incorrect advice out such as, visit a doctor if they exhibit flu-like symptoms.

Apart from closing certain places they have done nothing to stop this and the numbers are going up day by day. 

It seems Thailand has definitely shifted the masses' thinking into this being solely a white / western disease nowadays.

I guess they were probably told by Chinese overlords to not make them look too bad to the general Thai public, à la Anutin's recent outbursts. 

2 hours ago, ParkerN said:

Let's get real, closing schools? where will the kids go? Playing with their mates on streets and vacant blocks. Or riding their parents'motorcycles (sans crash hats).

 

 

Thai schools are already shut for holidays. This news release is referring to international schools. I don't think parents dropping 500,000THB - 1,000,000THB per year on school fees are letting that happen. 

The international school where I work in Bangkok will be doing remote / online learning from Wednesday. Students are expected to be following exactly the same timetable as they would throughout the school day and will have live lessons taught online. The only exceptions are PE and swimming. If the students aren't online at 8am and then submitting work throughout each day then that is treated as an absence and must be provided with a clear reason.

Tomorrow we will be going through everything with the students and then Wednesday it starts most likely until the end of the term in early April. The only issue I can foresee is how easy this is to implement for early years students. Thankfully I don't teach that age range. 

This government has been spoon - fed so many possible easy wins over recent years such as this. If they had been seen to be doing something proactive against the crop burning (it isn't wildfires) they would win support.

However, these guys are such an incredible bunch of charlatans that even when they are given ample opportunities to help raise their profile they can't even do it. 

Convinced this guy isn't all there. He must be bipolar. 

And what happens to the people without smart phones / mobiles phones? Are they then sent home?

If I was arriving as soon as I had got my bags I would switch off roaming or change the SIM card.

38 minutes ago, Oziex1 said:

The real power needs to be retired and that is going to be very difficult. 

Absolutely. 

Another bizarre story. If the man from Hong Kong left the country already then how do we know he is the one who infected them? 

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

Every single thing that is army generated, including the ridiculous new constitution must go. Including Prayuth, and the entire army. They are a boil on the face of the nation.

Absolutely. The only big worry is how their establishment protects one key figure.