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https://www.morgenpost.de/berlin/article228635547/Coronavirus-Was-Berlin-von-Bangkok-lernen-kann.html

 

(in German)

The article is from March, 6 and goes on quoting German officials: "Fortunately,  we don't do things like taking people's temperature here".

They say they strictly follow their official rules. 

Today,  Germany has about 130000 cases and over 3000 deaths. They still don't take temperature and a mask is frowned upon as "culturally inacceptable" (Christian Drosten, Germany's most outstanding specialist for corona viruses - he wears a mask)

 

The author honestly admires the Thai response,  compared to Germany. He is not alone with this view. 

 

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Consistent is one word I never thought would be attributed to Thailand.  In other news, a regional doughnut shop in Frankfurt has praised Turkmenistan for their press freedoms read the thousand word article regarding mr noone's uninfluenced opinion here.... 

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10 minutes ago, dsf9 said:

Consistent is one word I never thought would be attributed to Thailand.  

Thailand is very consistent. The usurpers without fail put their efforts into feeding their troughs and ignore anything else.

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The Berliner Morgenpost is a long-running big-city daily newspaper owned by the Springer Group, with of course a website as all have nowadays, not a “local online news agency.”


The article dates to March 6th when it was still possible to travel in Thailand. When I left Thailand on March 26th, I was surprised at the lack of any form of health control when I arrived at Frankfurt Airport. Here in Berlin, almost no one is wearing a mask. A few people are learning how to sew their own masks. There is no hand gel being offered all over the place like in Bangkok, in fact rather a shortage of hand sanitizer at the moment. With the fine spring weather in the past week, many people are out in parks, and young people in particular are often disregarding social distancing regulations.

 

Still, someone must be doing something right, because infection rates are relatively low for Europe, and in Berlin there have been only 40 fatalities so far. Overall, Germany has about 3000 deaths compared to 15,000 in neighbouring France.

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There's not much difference to most other countries from the Thai administration and except for a few other measures in place it rates reasonably well against Singapore and Australia , Thai needs to boost virus checks and proper scrutiny of outer villages, the place where Thailand slips big time is its people, not all are staying home and that's where you've got to be home.  

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The article was written and published some weeks ago when measures in Germany weren’t in place yet. During the same time when that article was praising hand sanitizer in public places, I saw posters on TV talking about having to give fingerprints at the airport without anyone cleaning the fingerprint reader. It also doesn’t mention letting thousands of Chinese tourists in over CNY. 
 

Since a month now, measures in Germany actually are stricter than here. 

 

It is correct though that Germany started too late. They were doing their carnival festival (which caused one of the first outbreaks) and hundred thousands were gathering in the football stadiums. 
 

Anyway, I am surprised a five weeks old article of a local German newspaper is newsworthy. 

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23 hours ago, SamMunich said:

Obviously that article in the Berlin MoPo (which has also a printed edition!) was a paid-for piece. Likely the guy was either in Berlin or in Bangkok but has no way to compare. Remember, there are no flights going nowadays. The higher numbers in Gemrany might quite simply be due to much more rigorous testing in Germany that here... No test, no case,- the favourite solution in Thailand.

Article is from March 6.

Flights were available at the time. 

Thailand was reacting to the pandemic at the time. 

Germany at the time was still downplaying the danger. 

 

 

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20 hours ago, billp said:

 

Still, someone must be doing something right, because infection rates are relatively low for Europe, and in Berlin there have been only 40 fatalities so far. Overall, Germany has about 3000 deaths compared to 15,000 in neighbouring France.

... compared to 41 in far away Thailand.

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Based purely on the published data one couldn't argue otherwise. Let's hope and pray it's reasonably accurate. However, I think Thailand was very fortunate that it was the Chinese government that stopped the Chinese tourists coming here. TAT would have had them flooding in to this day.

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3 hours ago, welovesundaysatspace said:

 

Since a month now, measures in Germany actually are stricter than here. 

 

Germans don't wear masks. It is considered "culturally unacceptable" (Christian Drosten, virologist at Berlin's Charite Hospital and adviser to the federal government) You cannot buy masks. At the time the article was written Germans would scoff at you if you were wearing a mask. 

 

There is no public dispensing of hand sanitizer in Germany. 

 

There is no public education about the outbreak like in Thailand,  where public announcements and videos are everywhere. But plenty of fake news about the virus on German YouTube.

 

Frequency of trains and public transport has been reduced because occupancy was too low. 

 

Travel is de facto unrestricted. People visit the beaches of the Baltic, and the valleys in the Alps are crowded. It is no problem at all to travel from Vienna to Constance, staying there with friends and their old parents,  then traveling to Brandenburg to visit your old mom, then to Munich to visit your grandparents - criss-crossing all over Germany. 

 

Infected doctors keep working.

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49 minutes ago, uhuh said:

Germans don't wear masks. It is considered "culturally unacceptable" (Christian Drosten, virologist at Berlin's Charite Hospital and adviser to the federal government) You cannot buy masks. At the time the article was written Germans would scoff at you if you were wearing a mask. 

 

There is no public dispensing of hand sanitizer in Germany. 

 

There is no public education about the outbreak like in Thailand,  where public announcements and videos are everywhere. But plenty of fake news about the virus on German YouTube.

 

Frequency of trains and public transport has been reduced because occupancy was too low. 

 

Travel is de facto unrestricted. People visit the beaches of the Baltic, and the valleys in the Alps are crowded. It is no problem at all to travel from Vienna to Constance, staying there with friends and their old parents,  then traveling to Brandenburg to visit your old mom, then to Munich to visit your grandparents - criss-crossing all over Germany. 

 

Infected doctors keep working.

In which universe would thet be? Not i  ours I guess:

- Since I flew in to Munich from Bangkok on March 20 I wear masks whenever I'm out. No one scoffed.

- No public education? Really? You must be blind and deaf or without TV and radio if you do not realize.

- There ARE travel restrictions, you cannot travel from Vienna to Constance (if you are not an "asylum seeker"), the tourist hot spots in the Alps are deserted, the streets are mostly empty.

- Infected doctors working? Where do you get your fake news?

In your case I would compare the test rates in Germany and Thaiuland. Then you'll see where the small Thai numbers are coming from.

Your whole post ist just BS.

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1 hour ago, uhuh said:

Article is from March 6.

Flights were available at the time. 

Thailand was reacting to the pandemic at the time. 

Germany at the time was still downplaying the danger. 

 

 

...ahm...come again?

Are you for real?

Just because every Somchai was wearing a mask (mostly for the really bad air- quality) and that not even in a correct way, doesn't make Thailand "react" to the pandemic!

They are not even now acting!

There is still no nationwide, free testing, which makes it pretty clear, why the numbers are so low in Thailand.

In Germany there are free tests everywhere!

If you test a lot of people (alive or post- mortem) you get real numbers, concerning the pandemic!

If you don't test or make test avilable for paymen (and have population too p!$$- poor to pay!) , you get lower numbers!

 

By the way: the German - government is paying out money to businesses and private- persons, there is a payment-system in place for short- time - workers and there is a social net, that covers a lot of the hardships, people are going through!

Thailand well...."Crying doesn't help you!"

'nuff said!

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