New quarantine orders for foreigners and Thais in Chiang Mai

[Puwa]

Just saw this on cm108.com

 

The governor has ordered that all foreigners entering Chiang Mai must enter a 14 day quarantine. If you have your own residence, you can do it at home. If not, it is suggested that there will be mandatory quarantine locations specified. The same rules apply to Thais entering from high-risk locations. All must inform local health authorities or local officials for monitoring.

 

So this applies, for example, to those who have left Chiang Mai for the burning season, even if they haven't exited the country.

 

https://www.cm108.com/w/25204/

[drbeach]

When will this madness end? Governments going on a power trip.

 

Anyway, stay home. Don't travel. At least not this month. If you must travel, it should be to your home country only.

[WineOh]

Chiang Smog? 
no thanks, i need my lungs. 

[Lacessit]

That's going to be interesting. I have a friend who is coming back from Pattaya in May. He doesn't tolerate fools gladly, so he may well stay there.

[Puchaiyank]

It looks increasingly problematic to exit the Land of Smilies...

 

May be a good time to weigh all your options...have a workable exit plan in place.

 

The world is becoming a war zone...where do you want to be if all transportation comes to a halt?

[holy cow cm]

What is the definition of a high risk place? 

[holy cow cm]

My daughter comes in to the airport today. They better not be serious about it today. 

[OneeyedJohn]

7 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

My daughter comes in to the airport today. They better not be serious about it today. 

where is she coming from ?

[marcusb]

6 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

My daughter comes in to the airport today. They better not be serious about it today. 

Unless she came from a Corona free country you should be insisting your daughter quarantines.  Whether the govt says so or not. Social responsibility.

[holy cow cm]

2 minutes ago, OneeyedJohn said:

where is she coming from ?

Bangkok. But the letter mentions Bangkok 

[Puwa]

17 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

My daughter comes in to the airport today. They better not be serious about it today. 

Please do report back about what kinds of guidelines she is given to follow, if any.

[holy cow cm]

 

3 hours ago, Puwa said:

Please do report back about what kinds of guidelines she is given to follow, if any.

So it was the mandatory BS application they forced her to do and download at Suvarnabhumi giving them all her details and they said they will contact the relevant authorities to come check her out at my house. So this is just F n great! She has a mandatory 14 day quarantine in my house and they gonna come check and then as dominos fall make all of us stay quarantined. I am a little fuming right now she did not tell me that was happening as I would have refused her to come home here as she could have just stayed home with our other family members in BKK. So there you have it. On the other side love to have her home and the down side is there is nothing I can do now. This has supposedly been in effect for a week or so and not just now, but enforced from Bangkok and not CM. Time for a glass of scotch!

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[jimmjam]

4 hours ago, holy cow cm said:

What is the definition of a high risk place? 

Anywhere thats not chiang mai.????

[holy cow cm]

20 minutes ago, jimmjam said:

Anywhere thats not chiang mai.????

Apparently as I understand as of now.

[HungDonger]

So....My Thai wife and I have spent the last month in the clear air down south in a non 'high risk' region. When we drive home to Chiang Mai I need to self-quarantine for 14 days and she is free to roam as she pleases  !!   Thai logic at it's best.

[samsensam]

 

i dont understand the differentiation between thais and foreigners, is there some evidence that the virus behaves differently depending on race?

[Puwa]

11 minutes ago, HungDonger said:

So....My Thai wife and I have spent the last month in the clear air down south in a non 'high risk' region. When we drive home to Chiang Mai I need to self-quarantine for 14 days and she is free to roam as she pleases  !!   Thai logic at it's best.

We're in the same situation, having fled the burning season a few weeks ago, before things took a turn for the worse. We were going to stay here in our non-high-risk seaside province until late April, but have decided to go back to Chiang Mai next week, while the getting is still good, concerned that highway travel may be curtailed in the future. If you're driving back, take note that the new rule is that you must wear a mask at all times, even in your own vehicle, or risk a 20k baht fine. Absolute rollicking thunderstorm underway here at the moment.

[holy cow cm]

2 hours ago, jimmjam said:

Anywhere thats not chiang mai.????

Yeah it is now, They track you mandatory from your origin or you don't fly. Bangkok to CM.

[connda]

Do they have road blocks set up around the city like they did in 2014?  Are they tagging white expats and escorting them to their residence and locking the door?
I live in Lamphun but have family living in Chiang Mai.  I really wonder how far they want to put the racism.  Farang = Covid Carrier.  Looks like Mae Hong Song just went that direction.  I'm thinking it's only going to take a little push and expats living here will wake up one morning to find they they are being herded into trucks and moved to internment camps to wait out the War On Coronavirus.  Where have we seen this before? 

[connda]

5 hours ago, HungDonger said:

So....My Thai wife and I have spent the last month in the clear air down south in a non 'high risk' region. When we drive home to Chiang Mai I need to self-quarantine for 14 days and she is free to roam as she pleases  !!   Thai logic at it's best.

No.  Racist logic at its best. In a 'national emergency' the racism boils to the surface for all to see.  That's all. 

[connda]

5 hours ago, Puwa said:

If you're driving back, take note that the new rule is that you must wear a mask at all times, even in your own vehicle, or risk a 20k baht fine.

Can you source that.  Not being cheeky but I'd like to know where you read that all drivers must wear masks in their cars.  I drive highway 11 a lot, and I don't see anything like that.  People aren't wearing masks in their cars. But I know where they set up road blocks, so if true, we'll don them before the check points. If true it's simply a ludicrous example of authoritarian over-reach bordering on utter stupidity. 

[sammieuk1]

10 hours ago, holy cow cm said:

What is the definition of a high risk place? 

The PM's backdoor I think????

[PETERTHEEATER]

.........for the burning season, ......????

[1FinickyOne]

I don't quite understand all the outrage about quarantine... other than essentials we have been self-quarantined for a couple of weeks anyway... where would we go, everything but essentials is closed... 

 

lets hope all of this passes quickly though I don't see that happening... 

[TheFishman1]

If you value your health and lungs don’t come to Chiang Mai the air quality here is just terrible TIT

[roo860]

18 hours ago, Lacessit said:

That's going to be interesting. I have a friend who is coming back from Pattaya in May. He doesn't tolerate fools gladly, so he may well stay there.

Well, he's going to have to do what he's told to do, or risk the consequences, no choice.

[Gweiloman]

5 hours ago, connda said:

No.  Racist logic at its best. In a 'national emergency' the racism boils to the surface for all to see.  That's all. 

Unlike on TVF where racism is an everyday occurrence, national emergency or not. 

[SiSePuede419]

Only crazy people come to Chiang Mai during air pollution season, 555.

 

 

[soalbundy]

16 hours ago, holy cow cm said:

What is the definition of a high risk place? 

For Westerners it would be where the internet is slow and poor connection for the iphone.