stuarty Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said: Unbelievable incompetence from the Thai government on this!! People have plans to travel on business or holiday from these countries and have no clue what to do now. Just published on the WHO Thailand website it states: The MoPH announced today that asymptomatic travelers arriving from at-risk countries and areas of France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Taipei and environs, or USA are strongly recommended to “self-quarantine” at home or residence for 14 days. Persons arriving from China (including Hong Kong and Macao), Iran, Italy, or Republic of Korea will face legal implications under the communicable diseases act if they do not “self-quarantine.” These persons are also asked to report their health status daily. https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/searo/thailand/20200306-tha-sitrep-15-covid-19-final.pdf?sfvrsn=660fff98_0 The key word there is asymptomatic. All others (non-asymptomatic) are OK in line with the earlier advice today. This seems OK. People should know what or what not to do. 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BobbyL Posted March 6, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted March 6, 2020 Once again the chumps running this place are trying their hardest to make it look like they're in a satirical comedy show. 2 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukrules Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 1 minute ago, BobbyL said: Once again the chumps running this place are trying their hardest to make it look like they're in a satirical comedy show. That's how it appears but I suspect it's something else entirely. This looks like a misinformation and interference campaign aimed at the masses of people about to return from Korea. When they get back to Thailand they won't know what's hit 'em. The flip flopping responses seem to be communicating two different things and aimed at two different groups - tourists and Thais returning from Korean hot zones. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThailandRyan Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 6 minutes ago, BobbyL said: Once again the chumps running this place are trying their hardest to make it look like they're in a satirical comedy show. I was thinking Benny Hill, or the Keystone Cops.. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tomacht8 Posted March 6, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted March 6, 2020 Chaos. Instead of coordinating clear and clean measures between the individual institutions, there is pure chaos. Everyone quacks what he thinks and uses the crisis to present himself selfish in the media. The Minister of Health. The health ministry spokesman. The Public Health Ministry permanent secretary. The Crime Suppression Division. The Ministry of Labor. The Immigration. The Bureau senior doctor attached to the 10th Health region. The Deputy Director-General of the Department of Disease Control. The Tourism Authority of Thailand. And on top. The Prime Minister A certificate of inability from the leadership and those responsible. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post balo Posted March 6, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) No need to comment yet, better wait for the health ministry to remove the Facebook post again and tell us something else tomorrow. Edited March 6, 2020 by balo 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post WineOh Posted March 6, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted March 6, 2020 what an absolute farce. These lot in power are a complete and utter joke. Hopefully they wont be around much longer. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dumbastheycome Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 My guess would be that legal opinion has been reached and a "visitor" can not be "detained" by virtue of arrival which has no basis of being an "illegal" act under Thai Law if they are admitted by Thai Immigration. Not the same as someone who attempts entry from a prohibited location. There may some overlap of a few from such locations due to being in transit since prohibition has been announced. Tai citizens are much more subject to Thai law in this instance. Media reports tend to exacerbate apparent anomalies in favor of any explanatory detail . While is not in denial of some obvious failures in cohesive attempts to demonstrate effective measures I am left wondering if really so many here would welcome the Chinese method of shutting down entire cities and enforcing and prohibiting free movement in public life? Cocooned in your condo rooms, etc, salivating over the latest declarations of pending anhhilation, playing tindly winks with a depleted supply of beer bottle tops when you are tired of endless hours of mind numbing zombie movies and freaking yourselves out if you sneeze or cough due to the aircon set to "best comfort " level ? No food delivery.? Would you trust it anyway? Not forgetting of course that if such measures were to be adopted in the effective global economies then consider the impact on incomes? Not a lot to draw down on in an economically silent world. Is there some genuine benefit in assisting and partaking of in paranoid reactions? Fed like turkey chicks by turkeys! You will be or will not be victim to CORVID-19. IF you were to be but were only mildly effected as many/majority have would that give you cause to declare yourselves a "survivor" and boast of it? Or could you/would you feel some guilt in being ignorant of your own infection which you past on? Finger pointing, blaming, does not protect, it only deflects. Stay well. I am done dusted with ! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post stuarty Posted March 6, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted March 6, 2020 4 minutes ago, Dumbastheycome said: My guess would be that legal opinion has been reached and a "visitor" can not be "detained" by virtue of arrival which has no basis of being an "illegal" act under Thai Law if they are admitted by Thai Immigration. Not the same as someone who attempts entry from a prohibited location. There may some overlap of a few from such locations due to being in transit since prohibition has been announced. Tai citizens are much more subject to Thai law in this instance. Media reports tend to exacerbate apparent anomalies in favor of any explanatory detail . While is not in denial of some obvious failures in cohesive attempts to demonstrate effective measures I am left wondering if really so many here would welcome the Chinese method of shutting down entire cities and enforcing and prohibiting free movement in public life? Cocooned in your condo rooms, etc, salivating over the latest declarations of pending anhhilation, playing tindly winks with a depleted supply of beer bottle tops when you are tired of endless hours of mind numbing zombie movies and freaking yourselves out if you sneeze or cough due to the aircon set to "best comfort " level ? No food delivery.? Would you trust it anyway? Not forgetting of course that if such measures were to be adopted in the effective global economies then consider the impact on incomes? Not a lot to draw down on in an economically silent world. Is there some genuine benefit in assisting and partaking of in paranoid reactions? Fed like turkey chicks by turkeys! You will be or will not be victim to CORVID-19. IF you were to be but were only mildly effected as many/majority have would that give you cause to declare yourselves a "survivor" and boast of it? Or could you/would you feel some guilt in being ignorant of your own infection which you past on? Finger pointing, blaming, does not protect, it only deflects. Stay well. I am done dusted with ! I am guessing you are in a pub. Amirite? 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snoop1130 Posted March 6, 2020 Author Share Posted March 6, 2020 Tourism-driven Thailand softens 'compulsory' self-isolation language A woman wearing a protective mask against coronavirus makes is having her nails done in a shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand March 6, 2020. REUTERS/Jorge Silva BANGKOK (Reuters) - Officials in tourism-reliant Thailand sought on Friday to ease worries about new self-quarantine measures for arrivals from six countries and territories with coronavirus, a day after announcing compulsory isolation. There had been days of confusion as officials gave different explanations of regulations that could further damage tourism, which accounts for about 12% of Thailand’s economy. South Korea, China, Macao, Hong Kong, Italy and Iran were designated on Thursday as “dangerous communicable disease areas”. Health Ministry spokesman Rungrueng Kiphati told Reuters on Thursday that arrivals from these places would be fined 20,000 baht ($630) if they did not 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”. On Friday, however, other health officials took a slightly softer line. “For now, we are recommending people to exercise home quarantine. But if you don’t follow that, then we will use the law to take you to government quarantine centres,” said Sukhum Kanchanapimai, the health ministry’s permanent secretary. Nevertheless, the government information department’s verified Twitter account on Friday repeated the threat of a 20,000 baht fine for those who failed to self-quarantine. Tanarak Plipat, deputy director-general of the Department of Disease Control, told reporters the health ministry would issue regulations requiring all arrivals from the six areas to report their health condition daily. “If people don’t follow the rules or falsely report their condition, like they have a cough but said they do not, then they would be breaching an official order and that will be punishable,” Tanarak said, adding that the daily health report could be done by phone, mobile phone app, or other channels that the ministry will create. The ministry also said that the measures could become stricter depending on the circumstances. On Tuesday, health minister Anutin Charnvirakul had posted on his Facebook page that all arrivals from Japan, Germany, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, France, Singapore, Italy or Iran “must be quarantined for 14 days” - before deleting the post a few hours later. Other ministries have issued different regulations on home quarantine. The education ministry recommended to schools that children who had travelled from France, Germany, Japan, Singapore or Taiwan stay home under quarantine, according to an email sent to parents on Friday from the International School of Bangkok, even though the health ministry did not recommend this. Thailand has recorded a total of 48 coronavirus cases since January, including a case reported on Friday of a 43-year-old British man who had travelled from London via Hong Kong and had been admitted to hospital on Tuesday. There has been one death so far. The government expects foreign tourist arrival numbers to fall 5 million this year from 39.8 million last year, due to the outbreak. -- © Copyright Reuters 2020-03-06 Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking Thailand news and visa info 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomazbodner Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 3 hours ago, rvaviator said: Report to WHO ? And report what? "Yes, yes, I'm fine, really, no fever or cough at all *MUTE* cough cough cough.... cough cough cough... *UNMUTE* Sorry, bad signal here..." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post DrTuner Posted March 6, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted March 6, 2020 Forget about the tourism already. It's dead, Jim. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post trainman34014 Posted March 6, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted March 6, 2020 2 hours ago, ThailandRyan said: I was thinking Benny Hill, or the Keystone Cops.. Benny Hill and the Keystone Cops were funny; these Idiots are pathetic ! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCC1701A Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 2 hours ago, DrTuner said: It's dead, Jim. Thai tourism was wearing a red shirt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post NCC1701A Posted March 6, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted March 6, 2020 i went out for four hours. have they flopped back yet? 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dublin14 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 Just made a cup of tea, have they flipp flopped again 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatOngo Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 7 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said: You couldn't make it up! Oh, but they do! Everyday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chazar Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 7 hours ago, FarFlungFalang said: Often off and on and off again.They're 100% sure that they're clueless I think. its called a "definite maybe" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tifino Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 Reuters opportunistic choice of source photo... like duh! - a face mask on a girl with her face near nail fumes... - this could have been taken from a many years old archive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fex Bluse Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 Half the problem is that the Thai language is too rudimentary to efficiently communicate nuances. The other half is that Thais themselves often find it challenging to communicate in a clear and consistent manner without lots of context because they have only ever used Thai. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tifino Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 4 minutes ago, Fex Bluse said: Half the problem is that the Thai language is too rudimentary to efficiently communicate nuances. The other half is that Thais themselves often find it challenging to communicate in a clear and consistent manner without lots of context because they have only ever used Thai. that's why just about every 10th word uttered is using 'falang' to try to mimic(paraphrase) the intent of what they are trying to say... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocket3rider Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 Cluster<deleted> 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metisdead Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 A post containing a screenshot of some site has been removed as a screenshot is not a valid link to the source of information. Posts containing links and content from unapproved sources have been removed. Please remember this is a forum, not a Twitter site. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colabamumbai Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 Just how many test kits does the government have? Probably none. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChipButty Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 They probably realised at the last minute there was about to be mass cancellations of bookings at hotels we had a couple ready to cancel because of the 14 day nonsense the guest messaged us they are keeping the booking because the Thai government has dropped it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazykopite Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 True to the advert “ Amazing Thailand “No Yes No Yes No Yes ???? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonclark Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 This is fast becoming a perfect storm which will no doubt bring increased hardship to the majority. On one hand the trade war and surging baht has impacted the industrial output of Thailand, the drought has hit rice production, which was already under pressure from cheaper rice prices and arguably better quality rice from Vietnam. Now tourism has taken a huge hit and the government through design or incompetence is struggling to find a way through. My own view is covid 19 are probably much higher than official results as people may not be going to hospital as a positive would result in days of work which they may not be ble to afford. And simply hospitals not testing for Ccovid 19 as part of standard screening. European countries screen of covid 19 as part of standard screen process which is why in part they have such high numbers. Once tourist return home from Thailand with Covid 19 I think heads will start to roll in government and add fuel to political discontent. We live in interesting times. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bkkthebest Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 (edited) This virus crisis is considered high risk globally and if that is how this minister handle it, it will make Thailand LOST FACE, a major major lost of face. I thought Thailand place a lot of emphasis on face? no? i am confused here. How are potential tourists gonna be confident with Thailand even after the virus crisis is over. They do not have the system to trace the virus clusters of affected individuals. If they only knew about the virus cluster by someone reporting to the hospital, then you are gone case. To Thailand: Face (honour/ status) is about earning it BY REAL EFFORT AND COMPETENCE, not demanded or expected from it out of nothing.. ( it is the same as respect). Your lousy work attitude and incompetence is not getting you or earning you any freaking face at all. Maybe you should resign to retain some face if you are really serious about having face. Btw, you are an absolute disgrace for being a health minister in representing Thailand. Edited March 7, 2020 by Bkkthebest grammar correction. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phuketshrew Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 7 hours ago, NCC1701A said: i went out for four hours. have they flopped back yet? Are you OK? Can't believe you lasted just four hours before flopping back again ... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoffggi Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 There is a requirement for some of the health officials to be transferred to inactive positions, I'm not saying who but I do believe with the rest of us they know who they are......... LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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