Local German news agency praises Thailand for efficiently coping with COVID-19

[snoop1130]

Local German news agency praises Thailand for efficiently coping with COVID-19

 

 

BANGKOK(NNT)-A German news agency has praised the Thai government’s measures to cope with COVID-19 saying that the German government should learn from the Thai government, while adding that even in small provinces of Thailand, the COVID-19 preventive measures are stricter than those of Berlin, Germany.

 

Mr Andreas Gandzior wrote in the Berliner Morgenpost, an online German news agency that the German government should learn from the Thai government in dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak, by employing vigorous, consistent and strict measures.

 

Gandzior’s article states that those who regularly visit Bangkok will clearly see the difference to previous years, as Bangkok is noticeably emptier than usual due to COVID-19, adding that its measures to the fight COVID-19 are much more consistent than those in Berlin.

 

Mr Gandzior said most people including foreigners wear a face mask to protect themselves. Bottles of alcohol hand gel are placed at the entrances of all buildings and almost everyone uses it. Signs with hygiene instructions to help in fighting COVID-19 are commonly seen.

 

Coping with COVID-19 by a lockdown or postponing activities that are normally attended by a large number of people are absolutely appropriate measures. However, education and disinfection are also very important. What may be considered exaggerated to visitors, can also be described as consistent. This should be used as an example. Body temperature measurement at the exits and entrances is what the Germans wish to see in their country. He went on to say that Germany should learn from Bangkok and appropriately apply the knowledge gained to Germany.

 

Mr Gandzior stated that at this time, even in small provinces of Thailand, the COVID-19 preventive measures are stricter than those of Berlin. Germany has recently identified more than 120,000 COVID-19 patients, making it the country with the world’s 5th highest number of COVID-19 patients.

 

-- © Copyright NNT 2020-04-13

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[Thailand]

The world will be turning the Thailand to show them how they have achieved almost unbelievable success.

[Yadon Toploy]

Reeks of a PR firm article.

[DrTuner]

4 minutes ago, Yadon Toploy said:

Reeks of a PR firm article.

https://www.thaienquirer.com/11154/high-priced-public-strategy-firm-once-hired-by-paul-manafort-defends-thai-governments-coronavirus-response/

 

Yes, somebody's looking at the wire trying to find any press releases or articles they could spin.

[Enoon]

 

Written on 6th March.

 

Before the Thai Army held its Covid party in Lumphini Stadium.

 

Before all the untested were made unemployed and sent home to spread it in their villages.

 

https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https://www.morgenpost.de/berlin/article228635547/Coronavirus-Was-Berlin-von-Bangkok-lernen-kann.html&prev=search

 

In his own way he was just another dazzled, 10 day millionaire.

 

And nowhere in the article is this said:

 

"Mr Gandzior stated that at this time, even in small provinces of Thailand, the COVID-19 preventive measures are stricter than those of Berlin."

 

The article is about Bangkok:

 

"Was Berlin von Bangkok lernen kann"

 

He mentions one other regional airport (because the whole article has probably been worked up from what was just a holiday visit).

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 13, 2020 by Enoon

[uhuh]

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. 

 

Edited April 13, 2020 by uhuh

[ParkerN]

3 hours ago, Thailand said:

The world will be turning the Thailand to show them how they have achieved almost unbelievable success.

Won't they just? The problem is they alredy know how TL did it.

 

Still, they also know the one thing TL craves above all else; which is for s bunch of farangs to tell them they're wonderful and help them to feel worthwhile.

 

So it worked, and there'll  be no downside except a bunch of Thais will die, and they don't matter to Prayuth or his backers. Grist to the mill, cannon fodder. A price worth paying.

 

As generally dim as the may be, they can be bamboozled  into showing what's important to them by the use of crafty language and syrupy flattery. The West knows this about Thais.

 

Works every time.  Thais can be relied upon that far.

 

 

Edited April 13, 2020 by ParkerN

[Matzzon]

Ok, now we have this situation. German news agency praises Thailand for handling the virus outbreak.  WHO have praised Thailand for the same. USA have initiated co-operation with Thailand to curb the spread of the virus.

Nevermind, all this and probably more to come. They are all wrong, because the TVF Negative Brigade refuses to face the truth and still dragging the country in the dirt. If most of you have been here during the pandemic, then most of you should also praise Thailand for creating a safer place for you.
 

10 hours ago, Enoon said:

 

Before all the untested were made unemployed and sent home to spread it in their villages.

 

Have you any special and unique channel of information. Do you have any facts that supports a big spread of the virus because of that? Like in UK or US?

[Jimbo2014]

Thailand has a very low testing ratio per 1 million population ????????????, but who knows, teflon Thailand.

[Deli]

April 1st ?

[scotsdude]

If this is true... I would say more luck than anything else.... Because the handling of the situation has been a farce like 90% of the rest of the world.... Wasn't taken seriously enough at the start...

[tomauasia]

A German franchise is there also some left over party girls in the news office lol.

[marko kok prong]

One thing i would say,many Thai's and other asians are used to wearing masks anyway and have been for years,for Europeans this is a totally new thing,and therefore maybe more difficult to adapt to.

[ParkerN]

1 hour ago, marko kok prong said:

One thing i would say,many Thai's and other asians are used to wearing masks anyway and have been for years,for Europeans this is a totally new thing,and therefore maybe more difficult to adapt to.

 

 

You don't survive for long in Thailand unless you learn how to wear an appropriate mask so you can appear to be something you're not. And you need to learn how to flatter the 'higher ups'. Thailand is built on undeserved flattery.

 

 

Edited April 14, 2020 by ParkerN

[SamMunich]

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.

[ParkerN]

2 hours ago, SamMunich said:

No test, no case,- the favourite solution in Thailand.

Well said sir... and very true.

[bluedoc]

No tests, no evidence.

[dsf9]

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.... 

Edited April 14, 2020 by dsf9

[moontang]

That means so much, because the Sgermans are the smartest and cleanest people in the universe..just ask them.

[DrTuner]

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.

[billp]

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.

[chainarong]

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.  

[welovesundaysatspace]

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. 

Edited April 15, 2020 by welovesundaysatspace

[uhuh]

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. 

 

 

[uhuh]

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.

[Surelynot]

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.

[uhuh]

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.

Edited April 15, 2020 by uhuh

[Surelynot]

25 minutes ago, uhuh said:

Infected doctors keep working.

WHAT???? Surely not!

Edited April 15, 2020 by Surelynot

[JustAnotherHun]

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.

[Saint Nick]

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!