15 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

"Thais and foreigners who came from these places will have to go through self-quarantine for 14 days at home or in a hotel room, where they have to report themselves to the authorities every day or officials will come to check on them," health ministry spokesman Rungrueng Kitphati told Reuters.

So effectively the holiday is a self imposed one in your room... if they abide by it.

Report to authorities everyday,,, how, by phone or venture out to see them... surely not?

Thais self-quarantining themselves at home is going to be impossible to impose, they will mix with family members and go out for sure!

Nothing like shutting a gate well after the horse has bolted. 
 

They’ve only realised China is risky now? ????????????

11 hours ago, ThailandGuy said:

How about mosquitoes spreading the virus?

The virus is immediately killed by the Thai malaria/dengue mafia alliance....????.

And Songkran is still OK tell me I'm dreaming!????

12 minutes ago, todlad said:

Take a look at the numbers and you will probably answer your own question.

The top four of the list, China, S Korea, Italy and Iran, have thousands of cases and have many deaths.

 

Germany has reported 545 cases and no deaths.

 

By contrast, Hong Kong reports 105 cases and 2 deaths while Macao has reported 10 cases and no deaths.

Oh, I know why Germany isn't on the list. And it has nothing to do with numbers or deaths. 

A letter from France  or a parcel from USA the two take about 10/12 days to reach me and they will disinfect them?

About damn time

Macao and Hong Kong are part of PRChina, so effectively two countries!

1 minute ago, rkidlad said:

Oh, I know why Germany isn't on the list. And it has nothing to do with numbers or deaths. 

Go on then, or is it your personal big secret?

 

Why only Germany? Why not France, Japan and Spain as well? With the USA coming up on the rails?

2 minutes ago, todlad said:

Go on then, or is it your personal big secret?

 

Why only Germany? Why not France, Japan and Spain as well? With the USA coming up on the rails?

There's no secret. You just have to connect the dots. 

North Korea has reported ZERO cases...

 

listen online detectives, quit reading "confirmed cases" and believing the narrative they want you to believe.....THINK.

 

add zeros..... zeros....  think of the country, THINK.   

 

15 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

Thais and foreigners who came from these places will have to go through self-quarantine for 14 days at home or in a hotel room, where they have to report themselves to the authorities every day or officials will come to check on them," health ministry spokesman Rungrueng Kitphati told Reuters.

 

If the person needs to go to the police station or the police come to check,  is it not endangering the police and others? 

Warmest

 

many tourist guides out of job ... 

 

maybe they can do like N-KOREA ...every TOURIST is assigned an agent that follow their every steps ...  

 

good idea right?

Just now, KaputtAlreadyNa said:

 

Do we really believe that will happen with people going to a police station or police going to them. The reality is most police don't care about doing their normal jobs.

11 hours ago, ukrules said:

This is a good first step, it should have been done a month ago but we have idiots running the country.

To be fair all European countries make all the same mistakes.

You still can come and go into/out most of Italy, Germany...

Italians still can travel to most countries in Europe. It seems to be very difficult (or don't want to?) to shut down all borders and travel in/out from a country even with a pandemic.

Example: Just last weekend a group of 900 dutch citizens decided to go on a ski holiday in northern Italy ? I mean really??

(I know other factors are in play like insurance, cancel your holiday, lose all that money.... but still.....common sense? )

They are coming back to Holland today. Just watch the numbers from Holland go up.....

 

3 hours ago, colinneil said:

Self quarantine, what a bloody joke.

Woman in our village back from Korea last week, told to self quarantine, ha ha.

Family had a welcome home party on saturday, complete with a BIG boombox blasting away.

Many people there ( free booze and food ), so much for self quarantine.

As Thais would say "I will die one day, so why be concerned, if I die, I die, can not change that

3 minutes ago, justin case said:

many tourist guides out of job ... 

 

maybe they can do like N-KOREA ...every TOURIST is assigned an agent that follow their every steps ...  

 

good idea right?

as long it is a female agent

1 minute ago, ThailandRyan said:

As Thais would say "I will die one day, so why be concerned, if I die, I die, can not change that

and I will take you with me. Especially in the south, the countryside people don't care about you, they only care about themselves. My wife tells me this almost everyday, "They don't care you".

Thailand:  hub of ?????   

Suppose nobody has thought about the impact of the ladies of the night.?

 

They may have contact with several people (tourists) every day. 

In many ways...

"Coughs and sneezes spread diseases" was the old saying. 

 

I think their line of business has more transmission risks than a cough or sneeze...

 

Ban the bar girls and sex trade workers.

 

13 minutes ago, spiekerjozef said:

To be fair all European countries make all the same mistakes.

You still can come and go into/out most of Italy, Germany...

Italians still can travel to most countries in Europe. It seems to be very difficult (or don't want to?) to shut down all borders and travel in/out from a country even with a pandemic.

 

 

It's not a mistake.

 

It's done on purpose.

 

They are not in "containement" phase, because real containement goes against their open borders ideology (it's not even anymore an ideology, but a furious mental disease).

 

They are in "mitigation" phase.

 

Which you can translate by : "our healthcare system can cope... we will have casualties but it's okay, soon spring and warm temperature will come... the virus will die off... So we do nothing. We do not break the consensus".

 

In a word : hope. Or wishful thinking if you prefer... ????

 

If western governments were efficients and were having long term vision... we would know by now !

 

Like Thailand, there are just a bunch of parasits, inane bureaucrats and crazied ideologists.

The move to disinfect parcels is along the same lines as disinfecting Pattaya, the creation of activity with no discernible positive effect.

 

the self quarantine measure MIGHT have been effective some weeks ago, who can tell, but again, will have little positive effect now because that phase of controlling the virus ended some time ago.

 

at this point, Thailand has few alternatives other than providing good medical care to those who suffer severe symptoms. I truly believe any other kind of co ordinated coherent plan is beyond the the government and even if they did have one, its implementation could only be hap hazard at best. So might as well miss out steps 2, 3, 4 and go straight to looking after the very sick.

 

but government hospitals? My experience of them over a 10 year period hasn’t been good and a lot of Thai’s can’t afford private hospitals.

So if you're Austrian and just stayed 3 weeks in Northern Italy.

You came back into Austria crossing a land border and decide to fly tomorrow to fly from Vienna to Bangkok.

No 14 day quarantine.....

1 minute ago, spiekerjozef said:

So if you're Austrian and just stayed 3 weeks in Northern Italy.

You came back into Austria crossing a land border and decide to fly tomorrow to fly from Vienna to Bangkok.

No 14 day quarantine.....

Yes. Self quarantine is not effective in any country for the reason you describe and many others. Governments worldwide are creating talking points and trying to boost morale by making people thing they can do something. Self quarantine is just shot with through holes

okay how is the general covering up all the Thais that have the virus, he has been smarter than other counties to hide the numbers, but like all his plans it will bite him on the bum in the end,

Good luck with that.Tell a young bloke who arrives in Pattaya looking for some fun he has to "Self Quarantine for 14 days"

 

33 minutes ago, rkidlad said:

There's no secret. You just have to connect the dots. 

Ah! The dots.

 

Got it!

11 minutes ago, johnarth said:

okay how is the general covering up all the Thais that have the virus, he has been smarter than other counties to hide the numbers, but like all his plans it will bite him on the bum in the end,

I believe there are other countries covering up true numbers as well, not just Thailand. For example, I don't believe Hong Kong - Macau for a second that there are only 105 infected cases. Just my opinion and believe Thailand only cared about money and loss of tourism. My wife tells me everyday that she never believes what the government says along with her friends.

will there be a hotline to report those violating self quarantine laws?

Just now, rwill said:

will there be a hotline to report those violating self quarantine laws?

the smart beamer will get you