Blue Flag caravan ready for street sales of consumer goods

By The Nation

 

Jurin Laksanawisit, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Commerce

 

The Commerce Ministry will roll out a caravan of 200 Blue Flag vehicles to sell consumer goods and has established two special working groups to prevent and suppress stockpiling and overpricing by retailers, said Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Commerce Jurin Laksanawisit after a meeting held to lay down guidelines on consumer goods as fears grow over the Covid-19 outbreak.

 

“The ministry will waive regulations on transportation of goods to retailer stores and convenient stores,” he said. “Also, we have appointed the Department of Business Development (DBD) to help develop a delivery system for timely supplies to grocery stores”.

 

He said the Blue Flag cars will be loaded with consumer products, such as rice, vegetable oil, canned fish, and hand wash gel for sale in communities in Bangkok and its surrounding areas, as well those provinces affected by Covid-19 before expanding throughout the country.

 

“We have discussed with product manufacturers and retailers to prepare products. The caravan is expecting to be launched on Tuesday (March 24),” he said.

 

He said two special working groups on the national and provincial levels had been established, tasked with the prevention and suppression of stockpiling and overpricing by retailers.

 

“The ministry’s permanent secretary will be the president of the national working group, while provincial governors will take charge of the provincial working group,” he said.

 

“We will hold a meeting with the Joint Public and Private Sector Consultative Committee to evaluate the Covid-19 situation on March 25.”

 

He added that the ministry had adjusted its working methods by using teleconferencing with Provincial Commerce Offices nationwide and the Department of International Trade Promotion (DITP) in 15 countries worldwide.

 

“We will follow up various assignments, especially procuring face mask raw materials, increasing export markets, and reporting the Covid-19 situation in each country,” he added.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30384683

 

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Can't believe this. In a country of this size with 70 million people, this is a shameless showtime sham. Still, at least it gets Khun Jurin his moment of fame (or is it infamy?).

More urgently needed are face masks!! Here in Hua Hin, can't find any and when I asked for children's face masks they just looked at me as if I was daft. So stop telling us to wear masks when we can't buy them!!!

Those are priorities....

Doesn't every village have a local store that sells those basics?

Not to mention that the nearest 7-11 is mostly not far away....

Wonder who's behind this little business venture then... 

18 hours ago, Admiral Hornblower said:

More urgently needed are face masks!! Here in Hua Hin, can't find any and when I asked for children's face masks they just looked at me as if I was daft. So stop telling us to wear masks when we can't buy them!!!

Why bother? They are only (partially) effective when worn by infected individuals, not people seeking to avoid becoming infected.

 

If it is any reassurance, children - assuming they are healthy - seldom exhibit more than mild symptoms if they are unlucky enough to catch the virus.

18 hours ago, Admiral Hornblower said:

More urgently needed are face masks!! Here in Hua Hin, can't find any and when I asked for children's face masks they just looked at me as if I was daft. So stop telling us to wear masks when we can't buy them!!!

 

you be better informed if you followed WHO advice regarding the wearing of masks and safety in these unprecedented times and not the unqualified members of the government.

19 hours ago, Admiral Hornblower said:

More urgently needed are face masks!! Here in Hua Hin, can't find any and when I asked for children's face masks they just looked at me as if I was daft. So stop telling us to wear masks when we can't buy them!!!

Once again, they do NO GOOD.

18 hours ago, Admiral Hornblower said:

More urgently needed are face masks!! Here in Hua Hin, can't find any and when I asked for children's face masks they just looked at me as if I was daft. So stop telling us to wear masks when we can't buy them!!!

Do what others do. Get it on Aliexpresss or from Cambodia. There is abundance of face masks. Won't be cheap though.

11 minutes ago, Krataiboy said:

Why bother? They are only (partially) effective when worn by infected individuals, not people seeking to avoid becoming infected.

 

If it is any reassurance, children - assuming they are healthy - seldom exhibit more than mild symptoms if they are unlucky enough to catch the virus.

Bo..ocks.

Masks can help various ways, such as preventing you from digging in your nose, touching your mouth, catching your exhaled particles and blocking incoming particles. NO, the virus won't penetrate your mask in  moments. Someone coughed around you? Go away and change mask. No probs.

13 minutes ago, garrya said:

Bo..ocks.

such as preventing you from digging in your nose, touching your mouth, catching your exhaled particles and blocking incoming particles. NO, the virus won't penetrate your mask in  moments. Someone coughed around you? Go away and change mask. No probs.

Masks can help various ways

 

But not in the way that matters, which was my point. Thanks for underlining it. 

10 minutes ago, Krataiboy said:

Masks can help various ways

 

But not in the way that matters, which was my point. Thanks for underlining it. 

Whatever, masks help a lot. 

Compare the spread in Asia and Europe. ????‍♀️

No need to argue over this. Check what people wear in hospitals. ????

Edited March 24, 20206 yr by garrya
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17 minutes ago, Krataiboy said:

Masks can help various ways

 

But not in the way that matters, which was my point. Thanks for underlining it. 

But, in a way that matters to the wearer.

56 minutes ago, stouricks said:

Once again, they do NO GOOD.

 

No, they say they don't want the public to wear them, especially the N95 masks, because they DO do their intended job.

 

Because there's a severe worldwide shortage right now and they want to reserve available supplies for medical personnel who need them. If they did "no good," then why would the masks be so desperately needed for medical personnel?

 

Edited March 24, 20206 yr by TallGuyJohninBKK

19 hours ago, Admiral Hornblower said:

More urgently needed are face masks!! Here in Hua Hin, can't find any and when I asked for children's face masks they just looked at me as if I was daft. So stop telling us to wear masks when we can't buy them!!!

In Europe they tell you that face masks are no protection unless it is FFP2 or 3 standard.

Ordinary surgical masks are protection others against you provided you don't wear your mask no longer than 2 hrs.

Once the mask is damp, it gets porous.

Thread gone completely off track very quickly. 

Anyway, there s no problem getting food etc this seems to  a complete waste of time, money & resources.

Just somebody's new money maker.