Thanathorn launches crowdsourcing project for face mask, hand gel retailers

By THE NATION

 

 

Future Forward Party (FWP) leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit has invited people to join a crowdsourcing project to locate retailers of face masks and hand gels, as these items have become crucial in fighting the PM2.5 problem and the coronavirus outbreak and are often in short in supply and sometimes overpriced.

 

Crowdsourcing is a sourcing model in which individuals or organisations obtain goods and services, including ideas and finances, from a large, relatively open and often rapidly evolving group of internet users; it divides work between participants to achieve a cumulative result.

 

“I would like to invite everyone to input information to a crowdsourcing project aimed at establishing a public-created map highlighting the locations of retailers who have available stocks of protective face masks and hand sanitizer gels, items needed to fight PM2.5 and coronavirus,” he said in a Facebook post on Wednesday (February 5) . “This project was initiated by FWP MP Klaikong Vaidhyakarn and other party members.”

 

 

To take part in the campaign, participants have been asked to survey drug stores and medical supply retailers in their neighbourhood and input data into a form at https://forms.gle/a6qGFX9p8YYtMGXZA. “All information is vital, be it the store name, location, contact info, list of available products and prices,” added Thanathorn. “Some retailers have conditions regarding these products, such as selling only three face masks per person. This info shall be included in the database as well.”

 

“We hope that this project will be beneficial to those who are in need of these products, and that it will help notify government agencies of possible product hoarding and unfair price mark-up,” said Thanathorn. “The map will be updated in real time and is expected to come online on the evening of Thursday [February 6].”

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30381682

 

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This is something the Government should be doing

and they won't like been upstaged...

regards Worgeordie

44 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

This is something the Government should be doing

and they won't like been upstaged...

regards Worgeordie

And let's note Khun Thanathorn mentioned clearly that the idea came from one of his party members.

 

A quite new approach, typically leaders would not mention this point hoping to get personal acclaim for the idea.

 

Go Thanathorn...

50 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

This is something the Government should be doing

and they won't like been upstaged...

regards Worgeordie

I feel another prosecution is imminent.It's a "controlled for profit" product only to be controlled by this group of profiteering generals.

Edited February 6, 20206 yr by FarFlungFalang

15 minutes ago, FarFlungFalang said:

I feel another prosecution is imminent.

I hope not ;

but we must expect everything from a government not democratically elected.

It will be interesting to see what surfaces from this... Every day when I go out, I wonder where all the Thais I see wearing masks are getting them from...

 

Because, every legitimate online vendor and local store / pharmacy (ones who normally would sell at established prices) that I've checked with around my central BKK neighborhood has none and no idea if/when they'll get any. Not just of the N95 masks, but of the regular paper ones as well.

 

Perhaps it's only the shady profiteers that somehow are managing to obtain, and then sell at profiteering prices, these products.

 

 

Edited February 6, 20206 yr by TallGuyJohninBKK

Just as an add to that, last night, I put together a list of some larger / well connected pharmacies around BKK for my wife to call today and inquire about N95 masks... The list included several government GPO retail pharmacies and well as several large private ones around government hospitals.

 

The answer from of all of them was they had no N95 masks and no idea if/when they'd be getting any in stock. Some of the pharmacy people told my wife that their stocks of 3M masks in the past were always imported from China, and those right now obviously have been cut off cold.

 

2 hours ago, worgeordie said:

This is something the Government should be doing

and they won't like been upstaged...

regards Worgeordie

You are 100 % right. However, they will not be able to make a reaction over something that they never can understand.

1 hour ago, scorecard said:

And let's note Khun Thanathorn mentioned clearly that the idea came from one of his party members.

 

A quite new approach, typically leaders would not mention this point hoping to get personal acclaim for the idea.

 

Go Thanathorn...

Yes, but this guy has enough self confidence so he can be a fair and righteous person.

Ah... then you got hordes of people with symptoms running from one shop to the next infecting each other. While the idea is good, think ahead..

Edited February 6, 20206 yr by DrTuner

Nice one, hopefully it will be a success.

 

The obvious thing to do would be to make the wholesalers and manufacturers report where the masks have gone to. I suspect there's a massive emptying of warehouses towards China.