Coronavirus: Stay calm and carry on spending! Tourism minister tells tourists

[PETERTHEEATER]

2 hours ago, BTB1977 said:

In addition staff are cleaning handrails,toilet door knobs and other knobs. 

Where exactly is all this happening.  Asking for a friend. 

Does your friend understand the effect of neat Chlorox when applied to skin.....

[khunpa]

Looks like the girl behind him is about to have a good laugh.

[zyphodb]

Ha, and these are the people supposedly running the country?

 

      All hail the great god Baht....   ????????????????????

[potless]

2 minutes ago, khunpa said:

Looks like the girl behind him is about to have a good laugh.

Taking his temperature with her right forefinger.

[dcnx]

2 hours ago, BTB1977 said:

In addition staff are cleaning handrails,toilet door knobs and other knobs. 

Where exactly is all this happening.  Asking for a friend. 

I’ve been sitting in a cafe for an hour and can see the front doors and escalators. No one has cleaned anything while I’ve been here. 
 

You can believe a word these people say.

MONEY #1

 

ALWAYS. 

[Asquith Production]

1 hour ago, mickymouse1 said:

I do not believe he said " carry on spending " unless he is a total Moron!

He must have been watching one of the British Carry on films Carry on Regardless or it could have been Carry on Dick most likely.

[kingofthemountain]

53 minutes ago, herwin1234 said:

"dont panic" seems sound advice to me. What SHOULD his advice be?? "Stay all day in your hotel room and prepare to die."? 

If he has nothing clever to say, he could also say nothing.

 

When a volatile human-to-human virus mainly from China is here

the last advice to give is ''go hanging around in shopping malls full of chinese''

[Bkkthebest]

I can't put my trust on someone in charge of tourism watering an army uniform. 

[Tops]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Stay calm and carry on spending!

At a bank robbery where I was a victim I heard them say "Stay calm and give us your money" !!!

Same, same but different...

[michael888]

Keep spending?   I guess we can all see where his priorities are.  Typical ignorant sentiment and attitude

[dcnx]

36 minutes ago, smedly said:

so huge areas and millions of people in China are on lockdown and this idiot is telling people to gather in large numbers in confined places and go shopping

 

He needs to waken up

 

Thailand will crumble if they have 1/4 of the outbreaks they are having in China. The Thais are not equipped for a wide scale health crisis. 
 

I can’t even imagine the price gouging that would happen. 
 

That said, they won’t report a lot of cases anyway. It would harm tourism. They did the same thing for H1N1, Bangkok Post made a big deal about them being forced to not report the numbers anymore.

[dcnx]

2 minutes ago, michael888 said:

Keep spending?   I guess we can all see where his priorities are.  Typical ignorant sentiment and attitude

Don’t worry, the Thais will discover a vaccine for this any day now.

[Chongalulu]

1 hour ago, mickymouse1 said:

I do not believe he said " carry on spending " unless he is a total Moron!

You have to be to get the job. He aced it by looking like one too.

[Chongalulu]

5 minutes ago, Bkkthebest said:

I can't put my trust on someone in charge of tourism watering an army uniform. 

He’s pi$$ing himself? ???? 

[Tops]

19 minutes ago, malibukid said:

why can't Thailand clean up it's act and be more like Singapore?

Brain failures and brake failures !!!

[Christie Paul]

I don't know the seriousness of the situation and I certainly don't know if authorities are responding appropriately. 

 

But if the above statement was indeed released by an authority it is a terrible example of Public Relations.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[bangrak]

2 hours ago, colinneil said:

The uniform he is wearing in the photo is a civil service uniform, not army uniform.

Yes i do agree with you about the diatribe he is spouting.

Right you are, one question though: in which kind of countries do one see civil servants wearing army-style uniforms...?

[Yadon Toploy]

2 hours ago, colinneil said:

The uniform he is wearing in the photo is a civil service uniform, not army uniform.

Yes i do agree with you about the diatribe he is spouting.

Yes it is a civil uniform but it looks like a military uniform.

 

A bit like the pretend civil government at the moment. 

[RichardColeman]

Nero Incarnate !

[simtemple]

3 hours ago, thisisrascal said:

Shop until you drop!

Chinese Coronavirus victims are literally dropping. 

[RoiEtDale]

KEEP SPENDING, is he serious? I haven’t drank one single Corona since this virus began lol. ????

[peter14]

????????????  Thailand showing their real  face   cant loose face. Come here spend and get out of Thailand.. 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

he media mentioned Paragon, Discovery Center, Siam Center and Icon Siam. 

 

Such places are checking air-con and ozone treatments and have plenty of sterilizing alcohol gel on hand.

 

I went to Central Chidlom today, and the men's bathroom I visited to wash my hands had one solitary soap dispenser that was empty as of noon time...

[Burma Bill]

Quote:-

"Stay calm and carry on spending!"

Unbelievable! With a World health crisis, all Thailand thinks about is MONEY. Can't they get into their heads that the ban on travel and tour groups from China (imposed by China) there will be NO MONEY to spend!

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

In particular he has told everyone to carry on spending at places like the big department stores in Thailand, all of which have measures in place to tackle the health emergency. 

 

Dear Minister...

 

I'm spending all my money on N95 face masks, washless hand cleaning gels, air purifiers, etc etc... Unfortunately stocks of those and related items are getting hard to find!!!  Because Thailand has no efficient supply chain for so many things!

 

[holy cow cm]

Maybe this guy should personally spit shine all the other knobs on his knees. Seems he is not living in reality. Judging by the Chiang Mai airport mall yesterday, there is no way in heck they can control sterility with all the Chinese there.

[spidermike007]

This from the mystery man. Few know anything about his background. Yet, he is worth over 5 billion baht. Easy for him to recommend spending. One thing we do know is that in his previous work, he never had a thing to do with tourism, that he was appointed based entirely on cronyism, and nepotism, and his appointment had zero to do with merit, as is the case with nearly everyone in this hapless and unbelievably incompetent administration. 

 

Great advice, you absolute genius. Stick to high priced department stores, which are almost always empty, charge double to triple what we pay in other countries for imported products, because they have sterilizing gel on hand. It appears you have some real creative juice. 

 

Where did they find you? And in a time of crisis for the tourism industry, were you really the best man available for the job? Really? Seriously? 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

56 minutes ago, dcnx said:

I’ve been sitting in a cafe for an hour and can see the front doors and escalators. No one has cleaned anything while I’ve been here. 
 

You can believe a word these people say.

 

What you said, THAT I can believe!!!  

[Tarteso]

...The militar says; ”not to believe rumors circulating on social media”,..

 

well, this is a social media. Isn’t?

 

????

[CNXexpat]

"But in a reminder of how deadly the respiratory virus can be, federal health officials estimate that as many as 16,000 people have died (in the USA) of flu this season (2019)..."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/02/14/this-years-flu-vaccine-is-doing-well-deaths-are-still-high/?fbclid=IwAR3o66egvLxu3ky6FJ4Zblk4IGl0SNRqvfIIVlUUTrP3PYxo849hHtzT3pI

 

Why is the world panicking about the Coronavirus? The risk of contracting influenza and dying is much higher.