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@mikeymike100 Have either of you actually been out lately? utter nonsense! at least 50-60% minimum aren't wearing masks and its more like 70-80%

@tomster i suggest you buy some glasses. and anyway driving around shouldn't you be concentrating on the road, not looking to see who has masks on and who doesn't

Next announcement..........only provinces that start with a D will be able to relax the requirement to wear masks and that is only on Tuesdays with a full moon.

@Bert got kinky and pro-maskers are even harder to bear

@Tony125 thanks for the info

@martand i bet you're a bundle of laughs in a bar

stockholm syndrome

but the end of mask wearing is nowhere in sight

@spidermike007 always agree with most of your posts but i don't get the uniform wearing point, wearing a uniform is by far not exclusive to Thailand, as far as i know most countries round the world students have to wear uniforms.

another factor they don't want to admit is some schools are making it mandatory for the students to be double jabbed or they can't come back to school. disgraceful!! it should be a choice of the parents and the child, not blackmailed into it.

@Scott People are naturally very protective of children, especially their own. That fear often results in some strange beliefs and behaviors. while i know parents are very protective of their children which is quite understandable, i think when its thais involved and covid i think they just push their own fears onto their children, which isn't being a responsible parent. your children should always come first and whats best for them. not pushing your own irrational fears onto to them. children should be able to enjoy their lives living free as possible within reason you are only young once. and if they was so worried about their children they wouldn't let them ride on motorbikes stood up in the footstands with no helmet, that to me is very irresponsible of the parents and outright dangerous. complete madness.

@dinsdale i was commenting on the post that said young kids could catch covid and take it back to their families and thats why schools have been closed, so my point was that kids could have got the flu pre-covid and passed it on to their elderly relatives, its nothing to do with a different beast, flu kills the elderly and frail and in actual fact even the medical experts and scientists have admitted that kids are more likely to get the flu than covid. flu has 1000s of variants. and if you're gonna now tell me that that vaccines have been around for the flu for ages that's irrelevant as most of the elderly here wont have it, so they are and will still be at risk from the flu.

believe it when i see it. no doubt a lot of schools will have the usual knee jerk reaction

@TravelerEastWest depends what you're eating!

@dinsdale and they could have done that with flu, so thailand and the rest of the world didnt mind passing that to the elderly. it's like there was never any viruses before covid. strange.

bound to still have to wear mask outside tho. endemic thai style

@jacko45k me the cry baby! you wearing a mask cuz you're scared of a getting a cold. man up

@Destiny1990 they'll never have a level for that. here to stay for a long while yet.

@jacko45k you have to wear them outside so what your saying is stay in my room! such a petty thing to whine about... what my civil liberties!! pro-maskers make me laugh, as i said in previous post, you wasn't wearing them pre-covid so i can drive a bus through your argument. as there has always been plenty of viruses about which can kill the frail and elderly, but now you put on the holier than thou act saying you're doing it for the community.

all these pro-maskers. i always ask the same question "was you wearing them before covid?" and obviously the answer is no. so the pro-maskers didnt mind giving people flu and other viruses especially to elderly people who could then go on and die from it before covid. but are now putting on the holier than thou act about caring about the community. the only one who could have preached to me about masks is michael jackson! you can drive a bus through any pro-maskers argument because they wasn't wearing them pre-covid. end of argument

funny how his boss the PM wasn't wearing one when he met biden yesterday.????

an endemic.... will still be forced to wear masks, will still have temp checks, will still have the pointless screens up in 7-11, a lot of schools will still make students have a jab, apart from that it will be back to normal life????

@hotchilli That's the problem here in thailand it isnt a free world, we are forced to wear masks, as you say you're not bothered if people wear masks or not but you will keep wearing yours, and that's your choice but people who dont want to wear them don't get a choice.

till a student tests positive which is inevitable and then most schools will have their usual knee jerk reaction even tho they've been told not to.

@ozimoron you're man of total contradictions....we are finally winning the war against against covid. It is always possible that we could see another, more infectious version. which one is it? we are winning the war or we could see another version?? you can't control a virus, no-one is god. we can try and minimize its impact within reason and that doesnt mean wearing masks for the rest of our lives or any knee jerk reaction to spikes in cases. i don't think you understood my point.....its here to stay as in, so is the flu. im not saying it will be rampant all the time but it will be seasonal like the flu no doubt. obviously there's gonna be a decline in cases but its also never going away completely. we have to move on. its been 2 and half years for god's sake so we have to learn to live with it