Is the government's request for children under five and adults over seventy years old a suggestion or an actual law?

 

suggestion

Suggestion.

 

I'm 71, and live by myself and in very good health.

If by law l have to stay in my house, some one has to bring me food and water.

Presently I  stay home, and only do my shopping outside my home.

1 hour ago, Jurg said:

If by law l have to stay in my house, some one has to bring me food and water.

 

As you probably know, there are online services that will deliver to your home.

 

1 hour ago, Jurg said:

Presently I  stay home, and only do my shopping outside my home.

 

You should seriously consider avoiding this and any situation in which you are breathing air recently expelled by others, or touching surfaces and objects that others have touched or been around. Forget all the "social distancing" hype, that is insufficient.

 

It does not matter how good your insurance is, or how fit you are for your age. If this thing hits Thailand as hard as it has other countries, access to ventilators will be limited by age. They will want to allocate that scarce resource to those with the best chance of surviving and age was the fairest metric. In Italy, the cut-off point is 65. In Thailand, sadly, you also have the added complication of corruption and unvarnished bias against foreigners.

 

It takes about two or three weeks for an infection caught today to get bad enough for hospitalization. The situation in Thai hospitals could deteriorate badly by mid-April.

 

Remember, a law was introduced earlier in this outbreak to prevent hospitals and regional health managers from talking to the media. No one really knows what is going on and there are reasons to believe that the current unprecedented pneumonia crisis is actually Covid-19, deliberately mis-categorized to protect the tourist industry.

 

I do not mean to panic anyone, but this situation is real, the majority of humans are going to catch it, at your age you need to put yourself in the minority who do not.

 

 

It is the law but there are so many exceptions and no specific penalty provided for so practically speaking it is closer to a strong recommendation. See Article 8, Regulation No. 1 issued on 25 March, as translated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - http://www.mfa.go.th/main/contents/files/news3-20200327-221547-964607.pdf - which says “shall stay”. Article 18 does not provide a penalty for beaching Article 8.