Thunder26

I don't think Australia is a bad place to be stranded.

Ban this, ban that! It becomes annoying. People who want to smoke will smoke no matter what, menthol or not. There are age restriction laws. When people meet the age let them choose what to do. Stop babysitting!

Why threatened with closure?

By closing one place the crowd needs to move to another place and then it will crowd that place.

Bangkok is a very crowded city where implementing social distancing is very difficult or even impossible. Wearing masks and hand sanitizers should be enough for crowded places. And creating queues for the purpose of tracking does not help the problem.

3 hours ago, PingRoundTheWorld said:

Yes, I know it's a shocking concept that this coronavirus will act like all other coronaviruses and slow down in spring and summer. SARS did the exact same thing. Actual experts were saying months ago that it will slow down in May. It's almost as-if governments don't want to listen....

 

As far as Thailand goes, simply too hot for massive spread. That's it. No brilliant management or vigilant contact tracing - just luck and the weather.

I would add wearing masks and the culture of not touching each other while greeting. That plays a role too in the low spread of the virus in Thailand.

So, is it a good or a bad thing?

7 hours ago, webfact said:

She added that after the new semester opens, the Education Ministry will focus on reducing study time in classrooms and relieving the burden on parents of sending children to school, which will also help to reduce traffic congestion.

What an absolutely stupid comment.

Online learning for young learners engages parents exclusively. That could be a problem because parents have to work, and not all parents have proper skills to teach. Online teaching equals more burden for parents. It is opposite to her statement.

And this is part due to a "successful" implementation of COVID 19 amelioration. 

The government chose and is continuing to choose the destroying of local economy. Tourism industry is being completely demolished. 

Even if there are almost no cases of the virus people cannot book hotels or travel for pleasure inside Thailand. Which is absurd. So many people lost their income because of this.

Their 5000 Baht is an insult to those people. Many of them have a house mortgage and a car leasing to pay which is obviously not enough. 

Instead of making things easier, the government chooses to make it more difficult for them. Beaches are still mostly shut and national parks are still shut.

However, they chose to open malls that are perfect for the virus spread, especially implementing their stupid rules to track people. It looks that they are not very good with logic, shooting themselves in the foot.

Online teaching has many issues. It is not only unaffordable for some, but it is also a nuisanse for many parents.

International schools teach online and throw all the burden towards parents in educating their children. An online lesson consists of a teacher explaining a topic for about 10 minutes and then giving an assignment that young learners cannot complete independently. The question arises "Why do parents have to pay astronomical fees to end up teaching their kids by themselves or hiring tutors?". Most parents don't have the skills to teach or time.  It sounds like a scam. That's what the schools are doing now.

This madness needs to stop and allow physical learning where students spend the whole day with the teacher. Not 10 minutes by an online mini lesson. 

I thought the government said the teaching resumes from the 1st of July with the new year schedule. Then why are many government schools starting teaching online now? It baffles me.

With the current numbers of cases being so low the government could've started the real teaching in person by June 1st. 

Too much fuss about nothing, just a few cases that put the economy to its knees. Congratulations for this great achievement!

Also these officials come up with absurd measures, such as limited entry points to the markets creating unnecessary congestion and queues that could actually trigger the virus spread. Some of their measures are not very well thought and need to be reconsidered.

Checking temperature is useless and a waste of time. It doesn't prevent the virus spread. I feel sorry for those people who have to stand and take the temperature. They could've done something else more productive.

Wearing masks and personal hygiene should suffice entering a market. No need for long queues and congestions for a temperature check.

6 minutes ago, BigStar said:

 

More than you think.

 

After standing in another line for concessions, you found your reclining movie seat, sat down and swung over your tray, put your popcorn and soda on it and reached down to your right to find the plastic buttons that make the seat recline. Your hand came back up to dig into that communal popcorn tub you shared with a date, your kids, or your friends. Up goes that hand, toward your face, and…

     --https://deadline.com/2020/04/how-movie-theaters-will-reopen-coronavirus-exhibition-movies-1202912607/

 

Revamping the whole process to ensure safety all around isn't so easy. Plus the big movies aren't being released until starting in July. I doubt most movie chains want to open and may have asked not to have to.

 

In what way is the logic of Thai authorities inferior to that of US or UK authorities, where theaters seem poised to open as late or even later than in Thailand?

Great response and I completely agree with the risk of the spread you meantioned. However, Thailand's virus situation is not comparable to UK and US. There are just a few cases registered in Thailand that are close to 0. I believe it's the time to lift all the restrictions in Thailand, especially when the borders are closed.