Farangs who don’t wear face masks should be kicked out of Thailand says health minister

[BritManToo]

5 minutes ago, Felt 35 said:

I haven't been out of here for nearly two years so I dont see why should be more prone to have a virus than the locals. Btw, here South where I'm located maybe 1 out of 25 are to seen with a mask. On another not the minister of the great "Making belive ministry" do not need to kick me out.????‍♂️ Waging for and against every day when for the right time to go for when this start to get as bad here as in China we haven't a change to avoid infections.????

Asians are 20% more likely to have and spread the virus than Caucasians.

According to some scientist writing about 'receptors'

[ravip]

3 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I think we all know what the Thai government thinks of us (white guys).

He's just a bit more open and honest than the usual Thai government official.

I'm sure all the Thai immigration officers think exactly the same of us.

If what you say is correct, what could be the underlining reason for that?

Some people wouldnt suddenly start to hate other people, without any rhyme or reason.

[BritManToo]

2 minutes ago, ravip said:

If what you say is correct, what could be the underlining reason for that?

Some people wouldnt suddenly start to hate other people, without any rhyme or reason.

Off topic now, 

But we tend to spread education and western cultural thoughts among our families.

Thoughts about freedom and democracy and justice and corruption.

[Pluto56]

Hopefully stupidity isn't viral. If his is, I'm out hunting for a mask

[Fex Bluse]

I love this minister's outburst. 

 

It should make clear to all but the most dense defenders in these forums not only his individual anti farang xenophobia but also the likely general national xenophobia among the general population. 

 

Some of us have been saying for years how pervasive racism and xenophobia are in Thailand.

[Fex Bluse]

3 minutes ago, ravip said:

If what you say is correct, what could be the underlining reason for that?

Some people wouldnt suddenly start to hate other people, without any rhyme or reason.

A gross and deep national insecurity?

[CraigInBangkok]

9 minutes ago, ravip said:

16 minutes ago, SteveK said:

I doubt he gives a rat's ass about the virus, he just lost face because a holidaymaker refused to accept an opened (and useless) mask from a random Asian guy in a suit at a BTS station, who was handling it with his bare (and probably unwashed) hands.

WOW! Talking about racism on this thread... it's flowing freely.

I'm really not sure if your comment is sarcasm? I can't see anything racist in that statement and pretty sure I would be the same if a random ANY sort of guy in a suit was handing out masks. How many tourists will know hes the health minister?

[BobbyL]

44 minutes ago, JAG said:

If you have been living here for twenty years you surely realise that is just an entitled politician having a hissy fit because a passing white person wasn't prepared to play ball with his photo op!

 

Loss of face = loss of temper.

Definitely what happened I reckon. 

[nrasmussen]

9 minutes ago, Beggar said:

The last point might be a challenge to check. How I do I know if the general public doesn't have respiratory symptoms? Can I call the WHO do get this information? 

Don't you know yourself if you have respiratory symptoms or not? Why would you need the WHO to tell you? It's very simple: If you have symptoms wear a mask; otherwise, don't. Same goes for any other member of the general public.

[Felt 35]

5 minutes ago, Pluto56 said:

Hopefully stupidity isn't viral.

Its worse than any flu in some breeds.

[spiekerjozef]

Now that's a message that gives you a lot of friends

[DLock]

Funny little insecure man.

 

I reserves my absolute joy for the complete obliteration of you tourism industry and economy.

 

...and I refuse to wear a mask. Come at me bro.

[Fex Bluse]

29 minutes ago, SteveK said:

I doubt he gives a rat's ass about the virus, he just lost face because a holidaymaker refused to accept an opened (and useless) mask from a random Asian guy in a suit at a BTS station, who was handling it with his bare (and probably unwashed) hands.

Yes, my thoughts as well. 

 

The Asians and especially PRC Chinese are generally trained to acknowledge authority purely based on optics. 

 

A guy in an expensive looking suit with a lapel pin will be immediately important to them. 

 

But most Westerners don't respond to such superficiality. And, knowing Thailand, it's highly likely the whole mask handing out operation was done in the most casual and unprofessional way possible.

 

For example, a random man standing in the crowd handing out open masks with his bare dirty hands. 

 

I might have thought he was a scam artists handing out tuk tuk cards. I would have ignored him just like the other farang who hurt his fragile ego. 

 

What a caricature of a country. 

[Beggar]

7 minutes ago, ukrules said:

Indeed, you would need multiple masks per day and we know the capacity for producing the <deleted> masks that are not N95 respirators is nowhere near adequate even if they worked.

 

7 minutes ago, ukrules said:

Indeed, you would need multiple masks per day and we know the capacity for producing the <deleted> masks that are not N95 respirators is nowhere near adequate even if they worked.

I have 3M N95 masks. And I have to agree that it is a challenge to wear them for a longer time. It gets very hot under the mask and breathing is not easy. I use them in the shopping malls. But half an hour with these masks is enough - at least for me. 

[spiekerjozef]

It seems like he wants a new watch as well

[tingtongfarang]

11 minutes ago, ravip said:

If what you say is correct, what could be the underlining reason for that?

Some people wouldnt suddenly start to hate other people, without any rhyme or reason.

They hate us because they ain't us!

[spidermike007]

More racist ranting from this toxic administration. He was a former minister of the interior, from a political family. He was appointed purely on cronyism. Where is his "health" background? He speaks with zero authority. He is ignorant and fairly useless.  

[StayinThailand2much]

1 hour ago, JimG said:

The USA Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says people should not wear face masks.  Didn't really say why.  I read somewhere recently that those who are ill should wear the masks as it will keep their spray from getting in the air when they sneeze.  The regular surgical (blue) masks don't do much anyway.

What do the 'USA Centers for Disease Control' know? Thailand, in the opinion of this "health minister" and other such jerks, is #1, so they know everything better anyway...

[bobbin]

1 hour ago, Just Weird said:

"He asked Thai people to help kick out foreigners who don't wear masks."

He did not say that, at least that was not reported in the OP.  Let that sink in.

Yes he did..

You don't speak Thai?

 

[StayinThailand2much]

6 minutes ago, tingtongfarang said:

They hate us because they ain't us!

Can never have a white dick, or one larger than a chili pepper, so they hate us. So do rabid soi dogs, barking in the street...

[notasmartassknowitallfarag]

How does he know ‘these people’ are europeans? 

 

You know the 2 or 3 who had the audacity to refuse his cheap mask. 

[mtls2005]

Half-expecting Prayut to insist Anutin joins the next Wuhan airlift.

 

He was tabbed to go on the first trip this week but he found some "procedural difficulties" which pervented him from traveling.

 

 

[ravip]

19 minutes ago, Fex Bluse said:

A gross and deep national insecurity?

Really?

Of course the fault HS to be on the Thai side. OK

[ravip]

3 minutes ago, StayinThailand2much said:

Can never have a white dick, or one larger than a chili pepper, so they hate us. So do rabid soi dogs, barking in the street...

Now Rambo is coming out!

[Beggar]

9 minutes ago, nrasmussen said:

Don't you know yourself if you have respiratory symptoms or not? Why would you need the WHO to tell you? It's very simple: If you have symptoms wear a mask; otherwise, don't. Same goes for any other member of the general public.

The WHO writes "Not needed for general public WHO do not have respiratory symptoms".

 

That means if I don't have respiratory symptoms the general public without a mask doesn't have respiratory symptoms too. A very interesting hypothesis and extremely convincing. 

[CraigInBangkok]

25 minutes ago, ravip said:

If what you say is correct, what could be the underlining reason for that?

Some people wouldnt suddenly start to hate other people, without any rhyme or reason.

I would say there are a**eholes in all races. Can't treat everyone the same. 

[ravip]

Just now, CraigInBangkok said:

I would say there are a**eholes in all races. Can't treat everyone the same. 

100% correct. But many smart people think he is, I am not 9an a**ehole)

[SteveK]

Don't the travel guides tell you never to accept things from strangers anyway?

 

[Gecko123]

41 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I think we all know what the Thai government thinks of us (white guys).

He's just a bit more open and honest than the usual Thai government official.

I'm sure all the Thai immigration officers think exactly the same of us.

I know you are solidly in the school of thought that the "correct" usage of the term "farang" should be reserved exclusively for white people, but the fact is that many, many Thais commonly use this term very loosely to refer to pretty much any non-Asian foreigner.

 

While the people who declined to accept the masks could well have been white, his use of the term "farang" cannot conclusively be interpreted to mean that his comments were directed exclusively at white people. Posters using his comments as proof of racial animosity towards whites (rather than Westerners in general) may find themselves on shaky evidentiary ground. But I appreciate that these rules of evidence often fall by the wayside in TVF's high court of public opinion.

 

[Ventenio]

LOS:  Number 1 expat place ranked by ......  

You spend 40,000 a month, buy 4 million condo, get gf, be nice to everyone, wai people in 7-11, do 10000000 things for VISA, smile at everyone, try to be a better person.

 

NO MASK????   Deported, blacklisted, all assets seized.