Thailand's tourism minister: Everything will be fine after Songkran - the hot weather will blow the virus away!

[MikeyScars]

Bahrain, Kuwait, and Afghanistan has cases of Chinese virus now.....

Weather in Bahrain and Kuwait is similar to Thailand, no? Hot and Humid? Afghanistan, not too sure...

 

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/3-suspected-coronavirus-cases-surface-in-afghanistan/1742379#

[thaikahuna]

This guy must be capable of blowing smoke up his own...

[Marley01]

Ok, got to say it, the tourism Minister is a bloody Goose

[Megasin1]

if they make it to songkran then maybe it will all be rainbows and unicorns. Maybe I'm just a pessimistic cynic but IMHO they are either lying or they are just not testing anyone and eventually their little bubble will burst like a great puss filled abscess.

[Knobby37]

And what if he is wrong and the virus adapts to the heat and mutates out of control??

[alzack]

5 hours ago, steven100 said:

it's all under control ..... 

The mans a fool What an idiot

[Traubert]

5 hours ago, Canuck1966 said:

This character is a complete and utter charlatan

He needs to be expunged from society

 

Well normally they just get ousted in a Cabinet reshuffle but I guess these are trying times. .....

[alzack]

30 minutes ago, anfh said:

Whilst his comments may seem daft, if you check the research, influenxa virus does not survive in areas of heat and humidity. So the comments are not quite as daft as at first site. Most influenza outbreaks occur in areas of low heat and humidity, and disappear as temperature and humidity rise. The virus is not as sustainable in highr humidity. 

Rubbish

[30la]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

 

Plus he expected his Chinese friends to have come up with a vaccine by then.

Thailand must feel proud of its government of experts (charlatans in search of glory)!

[PremiumLane]

 

10 minutes ago, Knobby37 said:

And what if he is wrong and the virus adapts to the heat and mutates out of control??

What if it mutates, grows two heads, grows to gigantic proportions and attacks every major city in the world!!!! We'd have to call Godzilla in then.... 

[johnny49r]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

"After Songkran the worst will be behind us".

What he really meant to say:

* During Songkran the worst will be upon us.

* A vaccine will become available long after it is needed.

* Thailand responded to the virus crisis by focusing on tourist revenue.

* Tourism in 2020 is toast and so is my job.

* Hot air blows from all politicians - maybe that will kill the virus.

 

[cmrichsw]

Hospitals keep the temperatures cold for a reason, germs cannot grow in cold. Now they want us to believe it is just the opposite Wow what a load of misinformation. This is from a tourism minister??? But I have heard this from Trump as well another expert on everything. 

[Cake Monster]

Its this fools turn in the barrel this week.

Last week it was Anutin

[millymoopoo]

Geez, where's this guy from, planet cloud cuckoo land...?

Certainly not from this planet.!

[newatthis]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand's embattled minister for tourism and sports has painted a rosy picture for the future regarding the Covid-19 virus outbreak.

 

As other countries were hunkering down and cities were being sealed off Pipat Ratchakitprakarn said he expects everything will be much better for Thailand by Songkran - mid April.

 

He told Thai Rath after a meeting in the south that the virus does not like hot weather and along with other countries entering summer its impact will lessen.

 

Plus he expected his Chinese friends to have come up with a vaccine by then.

 

"We'll be back to normal within half a year," he said. "After Songkran the worst will be behind us".

 

Pipat pointed to Thailand's brilliant response to the virus crisis and the kingdom's renowned health facilities, respected and appreciated across the globe.

That's a lot of bovine excrement to say at one time.

[Rimmer]

Troll also unsubstantiated posts removed

[sirineou]

Predictable FVF peanut gallery responses.

 

""It's not unreasonable to make the assumption" that cases will die down come spring, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told NPR. "We hope when the weather gets warmer it will diminish a bit," he says. "

For those who don't know who Dr Anthony Fauci is. He is a famous immunologist and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH) 

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/02/12/805256402/can-coronavirus-be-crushed-by-warmer-weather

[BTB1977]

The sun'll come out
Tomorrow
So ya gotta hang on
'Til tomorrow
Come what may
Tomorrow, tomorrow!
I love ya tomorrow!
You're always
A day
Away!

[MikeyScars]

4 minutes ago, sirineou said:

For those who don't know who Dr Anthony Fauci is. He is a famous immunologist and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH) 

""It's not unreasonable to make the assumption" that cases will die down come spring, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told NPR. "We hope when the weather gets warmer it will diminish a bit," he says. "

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/02/12/805256402/can-coronavirus-be-crushed-by-warmer-weather

But he sounds a cautionary note: "However, we don't know that about this [new] coronavirus. We don't have [a] backlog of history."

 

Don't be a Pipat!!! 

Pronounced Pie pat, or PEE pat?

[Parsve]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Pipat pointed to Thailand's brilliant response to the virus crisis and the kingdom's renowned health facilities, respected and appreciated across the globe.

Go on dreaming. As far as I know the EU did not trust the numbers from Thailand and that the Chinese would come back after Songkran, forget it. They will still have some own problems to work with before starting thinging of holidays in Thailand.

[TKDfella]

Well, at present scientist are not quite sure but they do not expect this virus to survive for long in warm/hot weather conditions. However, this should not be confused with the ability to infect and anyone carrying the virus can still spread it. It should be noted that it can still return in the winter via countries that have low temperatures now. We will just have to wait and see.

[sirineou]

4 minutes ago, MikeyScars said:

Don't be a Pipat!!! 

I will try but you know how hard it is.

[khunPer]

Quote

Will the covid-19 outbreak caused by the new coronavirus fade as the northern hemisphere warms up? This has been suggested by some researchers and repeated by some political leaders, including US president Donald Trump, but we simply don’t know if it is the case.
 

“We absolutely don’t know that,” says Trudie Lang at the University of Oxford. “I keep asking virologist colleagues this and nobody knows.”
 

“So when you hear people say the weather will warm up and it will just disappear, it’s a very unhelpful generalisation,” she says.
 

This is essentially what Trump said on 10 February. “The heat, generally speaking, kills this kind of virus,” he told a meeting. “A lot of people think that goes away in April as the heat comes in.”
 

Trump isn’t the only politician to make this sort of claim. The UK’s health secretary, Matt Hancock, told ITV reporter Tom Clarke last week that the hope was to slow the spread of the virus so it reaches the UK in spring and summer when coronaviruses, of which the new virus is just a specific example, are less transmissible.

Source: New Scientist "Will the covid-19 coronavirus outbreak die out in the summer’s heat?"

[DefaultName]

I'm seeing 31.5°C today in Pattaya.  Last year it topped out at around 34 on occasion, how much difference will those 3 degrees make?  IMO, not a lot.  In colder countries where there is a big difference between seasonal highs and lows it may matter but in Thailand, I don't think so.

[sambum]

6 hours ago, MikeyScars said:

"After Songkran the worst will be behind us"

"We'll be back to normal within half a year,"

 

Plus he expected his Chinese friends to have come up with a vaccine by then.

 

Such an irresponsible remarks....imbecile...

The trouble is that he expects everybody to believe this and all the other similar rosy pictures he and others in power have painted over the last few weeks. And that many gullible people will believe him - after all, he's part of the Government and therefore must be telling the truth!

[lensta]

I know, I know how we can fix this virus problem. Does anyone remember the floods in 2011, when that minister for something that they put 1000 boats in the river so the propellers could push the water out to sea? Weeelllll they could get a 1000 airplanes with propellers, and point them towards China and blow the virus back from where is came. Problem solved.

[sambum]

4 hours ago, GarryP said:

In the colder months people tend to stay indoors. That is, they tend to be in more confined spaces which leads to transmission of the virus. While when the weather warms up people spend more time outside in less crowded space which leads to lower transmission. It is not that the virus cannot survive in warmer temperatures, just that the opportunity for transmission is reduced. Hence higher transmission in winter.

 

In any case, my conclusion is that the minister is a dimwit.  

  

The only part of your post that makes any sense is the final sentence!

 

 

[transam]

1 minute ago, lensta said:

I know, I know how we can fix this virus problem. Does anyone remember the floods in 2011, when that minister for something that they put 1000 boats in the river so the propellers could push the water out to sea? Weeelllll they could get a 1000 airplanes with propellers, and point them towards China and blow the virus back from where is came. Problem solved.

You beat me to it........Though I thought a zillion Hatari fans in a row...????

[Magenta408]

Where on earth do they find people like this dude?

[Knocker33]

Come on. Own up. Which village is missing this idiot