Facemask sales limited to 10 per customer

[snoop1130]

Facemask sales limited to 10 per customer

By THE NATION

 

 

The Department of Internal Trade has asked 14 major modern trade operators to limit sales of protective facemasks to 10 at a time per customer.

 

Director-general Whichai Phochanakij said while meeting representatives of the sales outlets on Wednesday (February 5) that the aim was to prevent hoarding following a spike in demand while the 2019-nCoV coronavirus remains a threat.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30381651

 

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[TallGuyJohninBKK]

I've yet to find a normal retail outlet in BKK that actually has any in stock, cheap drugstore masks or more expensive N95 respirators...

 

Every pharmacy, shop, store I've asked or checked, the answer has been the same - don't have any, and no idea if or when we'll get any back in stock.

 

[dauu]

In the provincial capital of LOEI
You can't get masks
And alcohol disinfectant gel

[ThomasThBKK]

14 minutes ago, dauu said:

In the provincial capital of LOEI
You can't get masks
And alcohol disinfectant gel

No better in bangkok really, only place to buy is amazon but now it seems they crack down on importing of masks...so stupid.

[DLock]

I posted this yesterday...but this is why...

 

Chinese entrepreneurs...

 

[bwpage3]

World Health Organization has already reported that masks do absolutely NO Good against Coronavirus!

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

7 minutes ago, bwpage3 said:

World Health Organization has already reported that masks do absolutely NO Good against Coronavirus!

 

You wanna cite/source the exact language from the WHO that says that?

 

And if that were true, which it isn't, then maybe you can explain why the hospitals in China with staff treating CV patients are begging for more masks, googles and gowns to wear in order to avoid themselves becoming sick?

 

There is a legitimate debate over the value/use of so-called surgical masks (the cheap paper drugstore kind) vs the N95 respirator masks that have an airtight fit to the face and are capable of blocking very small particles.

 

IMHO, health authorities are not recommending N95 masks for the general public not because they don't work (they do), but because if the general public started buying them up (which is increasingly impossible to do), then there wouldn't be any left for the medical staff that desperately need them.

 

 

[Dumbastheycome]

Masks may be of limited protection for the uninfected  but  when worn by the infected can decrease airbourne  cross infection.

[tomazbodner]

[tomazbodner]

Some new mask entrepreneurs, according to Thai social media...

 

Also in the post about mask manufacturers in Thailand, I noticed on headline photo that employees didn't even wear gloves...

 

How on Earth is that allowed...

[Gweiloman]

1 hour ago, DLock said:

I posted this yesterday...but this is why...

 

Chinese entrepreneurs...

 

Fake picture. According to some posters here, the Chinese don’t spend any money. Oh wait, they are zero baht tourists and get preferential treatment so they got the masks for free.  

[yokat]

I thought packs of 50 were a common format for surgical masks, are they going to gut the packs and put their hands all over the masks to sell them by pack of 10 ?

 

[Roy Baht]

1 hour ago, bwpage3 said:

World Health Organization has already reported that masks do absolutely NO Good against Coronavirus!

Not no good. Just unnecessary

[rabas]

1 hour ago, tomazbodner said:

Some new mask entrepreneurs, according to Thai social media...

 

Also in the post about mask manufacturers in Thailand, I noticed on headline photo that employees didn't even wear gloves...

 

How on Earth is that allowed...

I would think they must go through a sterilization process before packaging. Many things do, but I don't know for sure in this case.

[Tops]

12 hours ago, bwpage3 said:

World Health Organization has already reported that masks do absolutely NO Good against Coronavirus!

 

 

Most Thai can't read English. Next to this it is considered as fake news by the Thai government to keep on selling the masks and helping their friends getting richer.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

13 hours ago, Roy Baht said:

Not no good. Just unnecessary

 

YES - If you are regularly riding on the BTS or MRT lines in BKK where you're packed in like a sardine with scores of Chinese tourists with unknown points of origin.

 

If Thai taxi drivers can catch this virus from merely carrying Chinese tourists to or from the airport (as they clearly have, among the confirmed cases), then the kind of exposure I've described above re BTS & MRT is to me of equal or greater risk.

 

Or, unless you just believe in living dangerously... This, BTW, is the same WHO that has consistently recommended against travel restrictions, which is probably one of the few steps taken by countries outside China that has kept the non-China outbreaks relatively small thus far.

 

 

[FarFlungFalang]

Here you go China here's your ten face masks make good use of them. 

[KKr]

13 hours ago, rabas said:

I would think they must go through a sterilization process before packaging. Many things do, but I don't know for sure in this case.

As we used to call the Petri dishes we were turning out: "Industrially Clean"

[FarFlungFalang]

17 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The Department of Internal Trade has asked 14 major modern trade operators to limit sales of protective facemasks to 10 at a time per customer.

No mention of wholesalers is this new rule for everybody?Will this restrict profits for those trying to make money to feed their families (note the dramatic enhancement) in these troubling economic times?

[stouricks]

17 hours ago, DLock said:

I posted this yesterday...but this is why...

 

Chinese entrepreneurs...

 

These guys should be re-directed to the freight/cargo dept. It must cost a fortune to send this stuff as excess baggage.