Special buses will take Thai workers home when they return from South Korea

[webfact]

Special buses will take Thai workers home when they return from South Korea

 

 

Special transport has been arranged, by the state-run Transport Company, to take returning Thai workers from the airports their homes once they land from South Korea, as a precautionary measure to avoid close contact with other people during their 14-day mandatory home quarantine period.

 

Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob told a news conference Wednesday morning that involving the bus company is to ensure orderly travel from the airports for the returnees, who will have gone through a stringent screening process at arrival airport.

 

The minister said that the returning workers who will be allowed return home will have passed through three screenings, namely prior to boarding the flight from South Korea, at the arrival point in Thailand and the immigration checkpoint.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/special-buses-will-take-thai-workers-home-when-they-return-from-south-korea/

 

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[champers]

No slinking off to a tourist resort to earn a living or joining in with Songkram activities. Good luck enforcing self isolation.

[Justgrazing]

39 minutes ago, webfact said:

Special buses will take Thai workers home when they return from South Korea

Special buses .! Is that code for ones that the brakes work on .. 

Edited March 4, 2020 by Justgrazing
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[rabas]

 Ah yes 'special' buses. Why didn't I think of that? 

 

"The minister said that the returning workers who will be allowed return home will have passed through three screenings, namely prior to boarding the flight from South Korea, at the arrival point in Thailand and the immigration checkpoint. "

 

Might as well walk them out of the airport with a thermal gun to their heads.

[ukrules]

Mass quarantine in a guarded and specially prepared, monitored hotel / apartment block or even military base would be more appropriate and in my opinion much more likely.

 

Does anyone really think that these special buses are going to tour all around the country for many 100's of miles over multiple days dropping them all off in one by one at their respective homes?

 

If they've been there for years then there might not be a home where they can be isolated, more like a shared family home where they will be exposed to multiple generations of family members.

 

That ain't gonna happen. Not a chance.

Edited March 4, 2020 by ukrules

[PatOngo]

It's a toss up as to which is more dangerous, Thai busses or the Corona Virus!

[colinneil]

Welcome home, if the corona dont get you, chances are the crazy bus driving will.????

[ezzra]

On a one hand panic is ensuing in the land but on the other, it's like Que Sera Sera and she'll be right mate attitude, or is it the can of the right hand not knowing what the left is doing?...

[lockyv7]

i dont have a home so just drop me off at the pub thanks ???? 

[ChipButty]

I've been away that long I've forgot where I live

[Aussieroaming]

Go home to their family homes, where the other home residents are subject to transmittal of the virus but aren't bound by any quarantine regulations. The virus will spread faster than butter on a hot day.

[Emdog]

2 hours ago, PatOngo said:

It's a toss up as to which is more dangerous, Thai busses or the Corona Virus!

More like hitting box cars in a game of craps. No contest, no toss up IMO. Buses more dangerous

[Tops]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

14-day mandatory home quarantine period

Change death island Koh Tao to a quarantine zone and bring them there for 14 days on their own expenses. 
 

[Laughing Gravy]

Or more likely this

[Ventenio]

will those buses be quarantined after?  

 

they just renamed the Diamond Princess Cruise ship and painted it purple.  New name, "Don't ask, Don't tell."  

[DLock]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Special buses will take Thai workers home when they return from South Korea

 

Yellow and short...something they are probably used to.

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

The minister said that the returning workers who will be allowed return home will have passed through three screenings, namely prior to boarding the flight from South Korea, at the arrival point in Thailand and the immigration checkpoint.

So when they arrive home after "3 stringent temperature checks" they will be advised to stay at home in a self imposed 14 day incubation period.
But does this include "isolation" from family friends at the home, as they will be living working as normal??

[Andycoops]

555

Too late over 1000 have already missed the bus. 

[NCC1701A]

"Sorry you on wrong bus. This is special bus. We need to take your temperature now."

 

[Misterwhisper]

It's good to be an illegal worker nowadays: amnesty, free plane ticket, tender triple screening on arrival, private bus to drop you off at the very homestead that you once so willfully abandoned to illegally seek your fortune abroad. How about a banquet, a welcoming reception at the prime minister's office, perhaps even a festive parade through the village street?

[tifino]

... this their latest trip, has turned out quite fruitful for them!  i.e No Overheads to take their profits

 

 

and its too late to be now organising Buses...

as the horses have already bolted

Edited March 5, 2020 by tifino

[Grumpy John]

Does the Thai government run the country in accordance with  the plot from "Alice in wonderland"?  Cos they sure come up with some funny ideas!  21 days of quarantine in a isolated facility would be the best option. 

[ukrules]

It's all blowing up today, these people went home, stayed with their family, went out for meals, etc.

 

Now they're disinfecting restaurants, etc. This example was from Chiang Rai.

 

 

[Assurancetourix]

10 hours ago, ukrules said:

Does anyone really think that these special buses are going to tour all around the country for many 100's of miles over multiple days dropping them all off in one by one at their respective homes?

 

Especially that in another post we are told that the authorities do not know where are more than 1000 Thai  working in Korea and returned to Thailand ...
It’s messy, right?

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

10 hours ago, ukrules said:

Mass quarantine in a guarded and specially prepared, monitored hotel / apartment block or even military base would be more appropriate and in my opinion much more likely.

 

The separate thread today on the formation of a CV management center headed by the PM seemed to say the Korea returnees from the virus outbreak areas were going to serve their 14 day quarantine time at some state-selected facility in each province.  Now we have this seemingly totally contrary report.

 

More conflicting/contradictory B.S. from these guys. The part below, posted here earlier today, is from an NNT news release dated today.

 

Quote

He has assured the public that Thai workers, who are returning to Thailand from Daegu and North Gyeongsang in South Korea, will be placed in 14-day quarantine at state facilities. They are not allowed to return home, to prevent the potential spread of the virus.
...
North Gyeongsang province and Daegu city in South Korea have been severely affected by COVID-19. Thai workers traveling from these two locations will be placed in 14-day quarantine at state facilities immediately.

Workers who return from at-risk countries will be taken straight to hospitals, if they have a fever. If they have no fever, they will be quarantined in their respective provinces.

 

 The 

 

[connda]

11 hours ago, champers said:

No slinking off to a tourist resort to earn a living or joining in with Songkram activities. Good luck enforcing self isolation.

They really expect Thais who break immigration law in other countries to come home on a S. Korean amnesty and then obey the law and self-isolate?  The pattern is break the law in S. Korea; break the law in Thailand.  In the meanwhile, vilify all foreigners as potential criminals to draw the public's eye away from true criminality within their own ranks. Hypocrits.

[ukrules]

It's all over the Thai language TV news today, they even interviewed one of the women who returned from Korea and went to the all you can eat barbecue.

 

She said she's sorry and just wanted to have some food with her family, she clearly doesn't give a crqp about not only her family but everyone else.

 

If people like this do turn out to be infected it's not going to be nice when the elderly villagers start dying, things will turn nasty very quickly.

 

 

 

 

 

[pookondee]

10 hours ago, lockyv7 said:

i dont have a home so just drop me off at the pub thanks ???? 

yep, preferably a pub at soi Cowboy, where can get a cheap room upstairs

[Isaanbiker]

A couple of smart BMW's would do the trick. These cars know where they belong to. 

 

 

[Isaanbiker]

2 hours ago, ukrules said:

It's all over the Thai language TV news today, they even interviewed one of the women who returned from Korea and went to the all you can eat barbecue.

 

She said she's sorry and just wanted to have some food with her family, she clearly doesn't give a crqp about not only her family but everyone else.

 

If people like this do turn out to be infected it's not going to be nice when the elderly villagers start dying, things will turn nasty very quickly.

 

 

 

 

 

You're so right. There's a time when I thought that they only act like that when they see a foreigner.

 

But I'm certain now that they do the same with their own folks. 

 

They don't give a flying Somtham about anything.