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Immigration officer on duty at Suvarnabhumi airport contracts Covid-19, reports Thai media


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Remember people, not long ago Thailand bostered they had a "cure" for Covid-19, I suspect they will use this cure (no one else knows about) and turn Covid-19 into a common cold, or if the guy dies, pneumonia. 

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1 hour ago, Mister Fixit said:

Well, I hope this will make then understand the lie that wearing a face mask will protect the wearer from disease.  

This idiotic notion that is so prevalent amongst the lemmings here deserves to be squashed once and for all.  

 

NOTE WELL - the only reason a mask is worn by medical personnel is to stop THEM infecting anyone round them and NOT THE REVERSE!

Wearing a mask such as those so popular in Thailand CANNOT stop a person becoming infected with anything - coronavirus, measles, a cold, whatever - the wearer will NOT be protected against any air-borne diseases unless it's part of a military or hazmat grade protective get up or they are in a vacuum.

 

 

What you say above is simply wrong, depending on the kind of mask you're talking about.

 

The N95 respiratory masks can be and are very effective, if worn properly and combined with other hygiene protocols. Those are the type medical personnel typically are wearing when treating patients with the coronavirus, and for good reason.

 

The cheap paper drugstore masks that the Immigration staff mostly are wearing, on the other hand, are far less effective because they're not made to fit airtight on the face, whereas the N95 masks are. Meaning the wearer can be breathing in airborne virus particles that get around the loose fitting drugstore mask.

 

But either way, there are also other routes to infection, including through touching contaminated surfaces and then rubbing your eyes, or through airborne exposure directly onto the surfaces of the eyes. There's really no way the medical authorities here will ever have to find out exactly how this particular individual acquired the infection.

 

But the main point is, stop lumping all "masks" into the same general basket, because they're not all the same. In fact, they're very different between the two different types.

 

 

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2 hours ago, Matzzon said:

Yes, isn´t it funny that more people that return home from Thailand have COVID19, than cases in Thailand? It just must be a very lucky country.

 

Ummm.... not if people who returned home were infected by Cambodians ????

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23 minutes ago, SkyFax said:

From the OP:


According to (Dr.) Pichaya, the staff who works at the outgoing passenger screening checkpoint is now in quarantine at the hospital.

 

My bad!Presumably they should still be able to track the passengers he dealt with using the digital TM30 versions each country has of tracking individuals.

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Well on pictures of the airport i see many travellers without mouthmasks...so it's not strange..the Thai don't wear mouthmasks anyway in the malls.

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8 minutes ago, Jane Dough said:

When it comes to the virus, however, I try not to panic and generally accept what the Thais are doing and reporting.

But we are all gonna die! How about that? What are we gonna do! Arrrrrrggggggggggggggg

 

*begins running through the room bouncing off the walls tugging out hunks of his own hair and scalp while screaming crying and jibbering*

 

Thats how it should be reported. 

 

Ummmm.....

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4 minutes ago, Jane Dough said:

possibly a favorable climate.

Im curious...if the WHO and CDC have proven that sunlight kills viruses in water in 6 hours, why isnt the sun disinfecting that metal rail that the Chiese guy spewed germs on?

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Ravip - You are assuming that he caught it from a foreigner at the airport. It could have been caught from a Thai at the airport or outside. There are hundreds if not thousands of Thais working at the airport, plus all the taxi drivers, bus drivers and all their customers. There is no clear way of finding out. I think there are more Thais having it than they are letting on.

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And over 3,000 killed on Thai roads this year already. Let,s keep this ridiculous scaremongering in proportion ????

And this number is the "dead at the scene" tally, in reality somewhat higher !

And they taught us never to start a sentence with "and" ????

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8 minutes ago, fruitman said:

Well on pictures of the airport i see many travellers without mouthmasks...so it's not strange..the Thai don't wear mouthmasks anyway in the malls.

No, most people (at least Prayuth and Anutin) wear chin mask and don't wash their hands then wonder why they don't work as expected. 

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3 hours ago, ChipButty said:

Im surprised it's taken this long for some to get infected or are they not telling us?

I wonder if the officers are wearing medical gloves?

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2 minutes ago, phantomfiddler said:

And over 3,000 killed on Thai roads this year already. Let,s keep this ridiculous scaremongering in proportion ????

This is the animation they made to explain the situation to childrens. 

 

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Currently  not in Thailand. ,so on Virus. not sure. but was there on bird Flu. ,all cars where sprayed along the roads before going into a village. ,now near Italy. ,dont understand how its got this bad ,for sure lot business  are going to fail world wide ,on Road death. ,why does thailand make the roads bigger so people can drive faster , but in France roads are made smaller to reduce speed and make bus lanes.  seems  better system. ,who does own the road construction  company ? 

 

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3 hours ago, Matzzon said:

Nothing breaking with that! They deal with people everyday, and was sooner or later bound to get infected.

It should be all booths air tight and sterilised air via a HEPA filter and air conditioning with electronic microphone and camera.  This is not going away anytime soon 

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1 hour ago, Matzzon said:

Yes, and in warmer climate the virus, bacteria and infections are generally spreading faster. Yeah, of course, if you do not think we have reached the heat temeprature that is equal to sterilization. :cheesy::crazy:
 

 

Actually this virus doesn't, when warm it becomes inactive a lot quicker than when cold. Bacteria and infections have nothing to do with this.

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1 hour ago, FarFlungFalang said:

Average Bangkok temp for Febuary is 32 degrees and for Singapore it's 33 degrees.

The actual temperature in the last month has been higher here than in Singapore.

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4 hours ago, GeorgeCross said:

hopefully they can track and quarantine everyone he processed

There will be a lot of passports out there with possible contamination...????

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13 minutes ago, Mister Fixit said:

Yes, I know all that but had you read it properly, I mentioned the lemmings who all wear those green or pink paper masks which are worse than useless.  OK, IF a person is harbouring COVID-19 then wearing a paper mask MAY, just possibly, help them to not spread it to others, but as a protection against infection, sorry, nah.  

 

As to not touching your face or mouth, it seems not everyone has quite got the hang of that yet.  

 

Imagine the fun we would have had if this was done by a Thai, or Chinese, or Indian...

'nuff said.

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