Wear a face mask for your travel by bus

[snoop1130]

Wear a face mask for your travel by bus

By THE NATION

 

 

The wearing of face mask is now a must for all passengers travelling on all public buses, under new rules announced by the Land Transport Department.

 

Anyone not wearing a face mask will be denied boarding a bus while passengers are required to keep the mask on throughout the journey, said the department's director general Chirute Visalachitra today (March 26), adding that bus operators must strictly adhere to the rules.

 

They must prohibit anyone without a face mask from getting on board , but they could offer masks to them at reasonable price, Chirute said.

 

Anyone presenting a body temperature higher than 37.5 degree Celcius will also be banned from entering all public transportation systems.

 

The Department of Rail Transport has instructed all train and electric train operators to require passengers to wear masks.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30384895

 

-- © Copyright The Nation Thailand 2020-03-26

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[Ireland32]

Wear 2

[Kadilo]

“ but the could offer masks to them at a reasonable price” ..........

 

They never miss an opportunity. ????

[scram]

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

They must prohibit anyone without a face mask from getting on board , but they could offer masks to them at reasonable price, Chirute said.

Would that be 2.5 baht each, as stipulated by the government?

[dinsdale]

Everyone should be wearing masks. One of the key ways to reduce transmission.

[Kadilo]

1 minute ago, dinsdale said:

Everyone should be wearing masks. One of the key ways to reduce transmission.

Hopefully they will do as they say and enforce it, not just on buses but trains, airports and all public areas. 
 

Even a surgical mask with limited protection may prevent someone sneezing directly onto you. 

[digger70]

5 minutes ago, scram said:

Would that be 2.5 baht each, as stipulated by the government?

Yea right  here down South THB 150 for a cloth one. still good for nothing but one can see that one is wearing one.  ????

[frequentatore]

I also started to wear a mask in the hallways of the condo, you never know who was walking there 10 seconds earlier...

[dinsdale]

15 minutes ago, digger70 said:

Yea right  here down South THB 150 for a cloth one. still good for nothing but one can see that one is wearing one.  ????

Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea all had high face mask wearing compliance. 

[dinsdale]

13 minutes ago, frequentatore said:

I also started to wear a mask in the hallways of the condo, you never know who was walking there 10 seconds earlier...

It's more about not transmitting it to someone else. Remember this can be transmitted when asymptomatic. A cough or a sneeze is enough. Maybe on someone or something. 

[frequentatore]

7 hours ago, dinsdale said:

It's more about not transmitting it to someone else. Remember this can be transmitted when asymptomatic. A cough or a sneeze is enough. Maybe on someone or something. 

3 hours after I mentioned the hallways, several guys sprayed all the open-air hallways with noisy spraying machines. It's organized by the district.

[dinsdale]

Wow! Be careful. That sounds like sanitization. This means someone in your block, whatever, has been confirmed or is suspected. It could of course be spraying for mozzies. Best you find out. Was the spraying smokey? If so that's for mozzies. Misty that's sanitization.

[mauGR1]

9 hours ago, Kadilo said:

“ but the could offer masks to them at a reasonable price” ..........

 

They never miss an opportunity. ????

It sounds reasonable to me, you'd better buy a mask than miss the bus.

Again, masks may be not that useful, but they help the public feel more comfortable.

[frequentatore]

54 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Wow! Be careful. That sounds like sanitization. This means someone in your block, whatever, has been confirmed or is suspected. It could of course be spraying for mozzies. Best you find out. Was the spraying smokey? If so that's for mozzies. Misty that's sanitization.

Not for mosquitoes.

[DrTuner]

One of the places where you need N95. There's a real possibility of catching aerosolized virus when in a small container with people coughing. The surgical masks will do very little against that. Stay home.

[pomchop]

Masks at least help prevent/remind people from touching their hands to their face?  So maybe not totally worthless.

[Chazar]

17 hours ago, digger70 said:

Yea right  here down South THB 150 for a cloth one. still good for nothing but one can see that one is wearing one.  ????

and  thats  all that matters  in the land of surrealism

[Chazar]

5 hours ago, pomchop said:

Masks at least help prevent/remind people from touching their hands to their face?  So maybe not totally worthless.

yeah because  you  never  see Thais  munching on food, the entire  bus  will be fiddling with them the entire  trip

[juice777]

Sorry guys face masks don't work. What works is not getting on the Bus in the first place. Just had a chat online with a Thai friend of mine she's saying basically saying dirty westerners not wearing face masks but she's going to get noodle soup three times a day and go around her friend's house to get drunk. Looks like some stupid Thai people are  putting their faith in face masks and not social distancing I'm afraid to say I think the deaths in Thailand could be 10 times worse than over other countries who abide by strict social distancing rules. Social distancing is not designed to stop you getting the virus is designed to slow the virus down and take the strain of the hospitals all at once meaning there will be more beds and ventilators for the people who need them i.e. fewer deaths.