Not much of an apology: Health minister Anutin unrepentant after face mask tirade against "farang"

[P100]

In social media he seem to get a lot of criticism, not only from farang but especially from Thai people...

Hopefully this buffalo will regret what he has said...

[DannyCarlton]

1 minute ago, JustAnotherHun said:

 

But as he did not, he may have avoided an infection refusing to touch a useless gadget handed out through a mentally challenged looking an grinning stranger.

Or the tourist was scared being pickpocketed with by the other hand while the first would hand out  the mask.

And he may have had a point. I'm sure ai Anutin didn't come by all his wealth by honest endevour. Look at him, would you buy a used car from him?

[Destiny1990]

2 minutes ago, P100 said:

I try to imagine what happens to that brave farang who dared to embarrass him by refusing his gift... deported, barred from entry, harassed by police? It`s Thailand ...

In all honesty who would accept a very simple looking unwrapped face mask from an Unknown asian masked person without gloves in a random public location? 

[Thian]

20 minutes ago, P100 said:

Anutin would never apologize to foreigners, of course not, he is a racist xenophobic, and just wait, if Thailand will have a real outbreak of Corona, he will be the first to put the blame on farangs, not on Chinese!

 

Chinese still are welcome to Thailand, sick or not, doesn`t matter. But farangs should follow his advice and wear a (useless) face mask.

 

Wouldn't it make more sense to fix the root cause instead by closing the border for Chinese ?????

How can a health minister, who himself has proven to be outrageously incompetent in handling the Corona crisis, who himself gave wrong advises to the public, who himself does not wear a mask on many pictures in the media, still be kept in office despite his unprofessional behavior ??

 

This man has once again proven to be unfit for office, 1. not competent at all, and 2. bad behavior in public. Insulting all foreigners when he has a private issue with one farang who made him -rightfully- loose face, while he was celebrating himself in the media? What an accomplishment to hold an unpacked face mask in his dirty and sweaty hand and expecting a farang who probably knows something about hygiene to wear that mask in his face??? Disgusting.

Is he a man ? Can he not take criticism and admit mistakes ? Does he know what the letters of WHO mean? Does he ever heard about their -competent- recommendation to Corona?

 

In this Thai government any kind of accountability is missing. Get rid of this idiot now! Employ instead a specialist, who doesn't celebrate himself in the media, but instead knows something about public health, there are many farangs, who actually know what to do, while that little man does only know how to pose for a photo in the media.

 

On top of that he wrote (on his facebook)  that said farang was a European but he didn't know from which country..i wonder how he knows that.

[holy cow cm]

29 minutes ago, Thingamabob said:

I would have hoped that the foreigner had accepted the offer of a mask in a polite manner. His refusal to do so has caused a lot of trouble. If you don't like the way things are done here just leave and don't come back.

Wrong! The guy is a full hot head whack job who was handing out unpackaged stacks of masks with his bare dirty little hands in an unsanitary way and then took his mask off to scream on a ranting tirade to the news media about, to nicely put it foreigners. He was extremely unsanitary in how he handled the masks and very unprofessional for his racist attitude. I have not heard one Thai yet who is supportive of his antics and agrees with what he did. Say what you want, but you cannot in any way shape form or manner justify it and him

[lvr181]

"But any racist foreigner is not his friend, he intimated."

 

& any racist Thai is not farang friend either!

[smutcakes]

2 minutes ago, DannyCarlton said:

And he may have had a point. I'm sure ai Anutin didn't come by all his wealth by honest endevour. Look at him, would you buy a used car from him?

His family own Sino Thai construction. Its not hard to see where his wealth comes from. At least he has a legitimate reason to be wealthy unlike many of the others with mysterious wealth with no clear method of acquiring it. Sure he is not straight but on the Thai scale of crookedness he is not THAT high up... his competence as health minister however...... and others in the Bhumjumthai party are another matter..............

[alexth]

The man is not even a doctor and hid govt...well, I’m going to censor myself...

[allenberg]

"The day will never come when I will apologize to foreigners".

 

Please DON'T!!!

[Bosse137]

 The story is in todays Swedish newspaper Sv.D  Many Swedes are regular visitors to Thailand;now they know what a government official thinks of them....

[DannyCarlton]

Just now, allenberg said:

"The day will never come when I will apologize to foreigners".

 

Please DON'T!!!

Yep, in the words of another intrepid Englishman in Thailand, "You can stick your apology where the sun don't shine".

[ratcatcher]

6 hours ago, Rookiescot said:

Problem is this kind of talk from a government minister is a dog whistle to all the village racists out there to further grief the local farangs. 

I am not sure how accurate your statement really is. Any talk from a government minister in my rural area is not what comes out of a dog's whistling mouth so much as what comes out of the other end. They feel most of what comes out of minister's mouths is good for the rice fields. 

[Fex Bluse]

7 hours ago, Somtamnication said:

Tons of Thais are shredding him to pieces on FB. Thank God.

Only because he has caused the country embarrassment, not because they disagree with his sentiments.

[holy cow cm]

2 hours ago, transam said:

.......And I bet he didn't wear a crash helmet on his way home.....????............????

Yep and why would he. He probably has an honorary high ranking police officers cap to wear which makes the helmet irrelevant.

[Jester69]

The Minister is a clown and uneducated!

[Fex Bluse]

23 minutes ago, Destiny1990 said:

In all honesty who would accept a very simple looking unwrapped face mask from an Unknown asian masked person without gloves in a random public location? 

Uneducated PRC Chinese tourists

Thais

 

Don't forget he was wearing a suit and lapel pin which instantly makes him an authority for the above groups 

[FarFlungFalang]

1 hour ago, Nigel Garvie said:

Yes, thank you gents,  this aspect of it drew my attention also. You would feel that there might have to come a time when the EU, US, AUS, and UK Ambassadors get together and ask Thailand if they really wan't to sell us their shrimp etc,

They got together and came up with a "Novel" idea.

[Fex Bluse]

40 minutes ago, herwin1234 said:

its hilarious. To WHO should he apologize? To all the farang of TV who constantly trash Thailand and Thai people in the most  cynical and unfair way? 

I bet this Thai official singles out the noble Farang in his tirade (and doesnt mention eg Chinese ppl)  bc he has too many experiences with extreme rude and arrogant farangs.

Anyway, its his country, he doesnt have to bow his head to farang, or "apologize", if he wants to do a good scolding, let him.

 

Ok. Fair enough.

 

I REALLY wish some of these people had the strength of their conviction.

 

Please kick out ALL Farang. Kick out our businesses as well. And refuse all our investment. Separate yourselves from any and all Farang influence.

[BobBKK]

Racism is alive and well then in the LOS

[Destiny1990]

14 minutes ago, Fex Bluse said:

Uneducated PRC Chinese tourists

Thais

 

Don't forget he was wearing a suit and lapel pin which instantly makes him an authority for the above groups 

Seems he said it to wrongly influence the locals to somehow blame the farangs for this !

He says he doesn’t know where unmasked farangs have been before so does he knows where unmasked thais have been before?

Edited February 8, 2020 by Destiny1990

[sirineou]

His ego was bruised, that a foreigner would refuse his magnanimous genericity, because let's not forget this whole thing is all about him and not the safety of the public. 

Only one phrase describes a government that would accept behaviouse like this from its members .

Banana Republic.    

[BobBKK]

14 minutes ago, Fex Bluse said:

Only because he has caused the country embarrassment, not because they disagree with his sentiments.

and you know that how?  Jeeze

[FarFlungFalang]

1 hour ago, Thian said:

In that case they should also cover ALL FOOD on ALL markets...if one contaminated person sneezes over it the party will start.

 

Also they should bring loads of people in a small place together, in Impact Muang Thong are still fairs organised every day.

 

In restaurants we still don't get a serving spoon when eating in a group.

 

Thailand does nothing to prevent themselves from the virus...handing out a few mouthmasks is far from enough.

If one person sneezes and is wearing a mask the damage maybe reduced,but of course it's a stupid idea because Anutin would have to be able to supply 66 million masks every half hour so that everyone can adhere to his directive but he doesn't seem to have a brain capable of thinking through his stupid ideas.

[Thian]

32 minutes ago, DannyCarlton said:

Ai Anutin speaks passable English, maybe he realised that the guy's english wasn't great, which would make him likely to be European but not British.

Well it could also be a russian, israelian, south american,south african....it's easy to say it's a european and use derogatory terms with it but i feel insulted by that, even more because he doesn't even know for sure if that person was a european.

[memooz]

Gentleman / Ladies

Please have a look at this site.... That Farang didnt have manners ; he should accept it and say " Thank you " 

We are playing at AWAY not at home; we shouldnt forget this. Still "Thank you Thailand you let us to live here"

with my best regards

M

T   

[hotchilli]

8 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Thailand's Public Health minister Anutin Charnvirakul has refused to apologise for suggesting that foreigners who don't wear face masks should be thrown out of Thailand. 

I'm not going to bite... because that would just lower me to his level.

[Fex Bluse]

7 minutes ago, BobBKK said:

and you know that how?  Jeeze

From living in Thailand for more than 3 decades and having enough data points to recognize and accept that not all people in all countries share Western values of racial equality and respect

[KenKadz]

So it is all about his "perceived" racism and his frail Thai male ego?

I see only one racist here.

[DannyCarlton]

2 minutes ago, memooz said:

Gentleman / Ladies

Please have a look at this site.... That Farang didnt have manners ; he should accept it and say " Thank you " 

We are playing at AWAY not at home; we shouldnt forget this. Still "Thank you Thailand you let us to live here"

with my best regards

M

T   

That advice has been superceeded by the WHO. It's now "No need to wear a mask if you aren't unwell".

 

Nice try for a massive Thai apology but no cigar.

[memooz]

Dear Danny Carlton

If that is the case ; why Chinese government buying millions of masks today.

Also this Health Minister is not referring us, only farangs recently arrived to the airport.