With claps and chants Thais salute medical personnel on Covid-19 frontlines

[webfact]

With claps and chants Thais salute medical personnel on Covid-19 frontlines

By The Nation

 

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Thai people united on Sunday (March 29) to hail the work of medical personnel and send encouragement to everyone working hard to fight the new coronavirus (Covid 19).

 

For five minutes -- from 8pm to 8.05pm -- in many areas throughout Thailand, people joined in a clapping activity to provide moral support with many shouting and some even singing "keep fighting".

 

At the same time, in the social media world, they shared a lot of clapping clips together with the hashtag #เสียงปรบมือคือกำลังใจ or #ClapBecauseWeCare

 

You can watch some of their videos below:

 

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30385057

 

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[edwardandtubs]

I didn't hear anything and I wasn't even made aware of this. Compare that to the UK where the whole country seems to have erupted.

[Mavideol]

nothing original here, poor copycat action...... it's not in their DNA to praise anybody

[Cake Monster]

How very original - yawn !

[Mavideol]

37 minutes ago, webfact said:

At the same time, in the social media world, they shared a lot of clapping clips together with the hashtag #เสียงปรบมือคือกำลังใจ or #ClapBecauseWeCare

had to read it 2 times and still can't believe, all for the show off .... 555

Edited March 30, 2020 by Mavideol
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[watthong]

Exactly, it happened last night in front of my BigC on the steps to ground floor entrance. Several rows of staff standing several feet apart with paper fans spelling out bigC and held aloof. Thanks to my fluency in Thai, I caught the words of "hospital" and "covid sip kao" - put two and two together and figured it was a show put on for the video clip they were taking reserved for social media later. The whole "show" lasted less than 5 minutes...

[Mavideol]

4 minutes ago, watthong said:

Exactly, it happened last night in front of my BigC on the steps to ground floor entrance. Several rows of staff standing several feet apart with paper fans spelling out bigC and held aloof. Thanks to my fluency in Thai, I caught the words of "hospital" and "covid sip kao" - put two and two together and figured it was a show put on for the video clip they were taking reserved for social media later. The whole "show" lasted less than 5 minutes...

and maybe they called it social distancing

[sapson]

Great! better than the <deleted> minister of personal wealth issuing derogatory official statements!

Edited March 30, 2020 by sapson

[CraigInBangkok]

same as the thoughts and prayers nonsense ....people still in desperate need for attention .... #clapBecauseDontForgetAboutME

after all this over, maybe the world should take a look at the panic and post virus problems the massive over reaction social media will have mostly caused

Edited March 30, 2020 by CraigInBangkok

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

How about instead of clapping and chanting, the government actually provide the country's doctors and nurses and other medical staff with enough N95 masks and other protective equipment to keep them safe while doing their jobs???

 

Nahhhh.... clapping and chanting is better.....

 

Edited March 30, 2020 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[billd766]

7 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

How about instead of clapping and chanting, the government actually provide the country's doctors and nurses and other medical staff with enough N95 masks and other protective equipment to keep them safe while doing their jobs???

 

Nahhhh.... clapping and chanting is better.....

 

But this was ordinary Thais showing their appreciation for all the doctors and nurses working on their behalf.

 

I wonder if the government and all its ministers would get a reception like that from ordinary Thais. ????

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

8 minutes ago, billd766 said:

 

I wonder if the government and all its ministers would get a reception like that from ordinary Thais. ????

 

If they hired/paid them to show up as usual for staged events, then yes, they would.... 

[SkyFax]

1 hour ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

How about instead of clapping and chanting, the government actually provide the country's doctors and nurses and other medical staff with enough N95 masks and other protective equipment to keep them safe while doing their jobs???

How about instead of mocking their clapping you do a little yourself to help with medical supplies?

[peterinbangkok]

In the video clip at 1:29, people are clapping. It was supposed to be at 8 pm. How come it's so bright outside!!!

[rasmus5150]

56 minutes ago, SkyFax said:

How about instead of mocking their clapping you do a little yourself to help with medical supplies?

Isn't that what the government was supposed to do?

 

Give away 5000 Thb to the masses, and ask for them back as "tambun" to healthcare workers.

 

Reminds me of my wife giving money to her mom. And mom goes to temple and donate money for a better life for us......... - why not cut out the middleman?

[Dogmatix]

No medical personnel clapping and cheering their health minister?  Funny that.

[Artisi]

2 hours ago, billd766 said:

But this was ordinary Thais showing their appreciation for all the doctors and nurses working on their behalf.

 

I wonder if the government and all its ministers would get a reception like that from ordinary Thais. ????

In one word

 

"NO". 

[Artisi]

1 hour ago, SkyFax said:

How about instead of mocking their clapping you do a little yourself to help with medical supplies?

Sorry, far too busy taking the p1ss and criticising the average Thai who is endeavouring to show some appreciation. 

Hopefully karma might catch-up with some of the keyword warriors - then you will hear a far different tune from them. 

[Nyezhov]

I think its a nice gesture. I love when people pull together. Reminds me of the spirit we have in The US.

[Odysseus123]

Well done-anything that gives the front line workers a bit of a lift is fine by me.

 

This is/was a world that pays nurses amd other emergency personnel peanuts and rewards sports people with millions.

 

They even call them "heroes" for some inexplicable reason.

[khunken]

I didn't know about it until I heard the clapping from people at their windows or on their balconies at my condo complex.

 

So I just joined in.

[billd766]

20 hours ago, Artisi said:

In one word

 

"NO". 

Wot. Not even a slow hand clap?

 

There is even a song about clapping, but you have to be old to remember it.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWuSPPLtkEQ

 

[Artisi]

4 hours ago, billd766 said:

Wot. Not even a slow hand clap?

 

There is even a song about clapping, but you have to be old to remember it.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWuSPPLtkEQ

 

I remember ????

[billd766]

1 hour ago, Artisi said:

I remember ????

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Are_Old,_Father_William

 

"You are old, Father William," the young man said,
    "And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head—
    Do you think, at your age, it is right?"

"In my youth," Father William replied to his son,
    "I feared it might injure the brain;
But now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,
    Why, I do it again and again."

 

 

"You are old," said the youth, "as I mentioned before,
    And have grown most uncommonly fat;
Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door—
    Pray, what is the reason of that?"

 

And there is more.........

 

They even got my name right and some of the description about my size.

Edited March 31, 2020 by billd766
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