Coronavirus quarantine in Thailand: great food and fast Wi-fi, sleeping with a stranger … and a shame about my underpants

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Coronavirus quarantine in Thailand: great food and fast Wi-fi, sleeping with a stranger … and a shame about my underpants

+ Ever wondered what two weeks in a Thai government-run coronavirus quarantine facility might be like?

+ Then wonder no more, Thai-American freelance visual journalist Charles Dharapak experienced it so you don’t need to

Charles Dharapak

 

A Thai Ministry of Public health official takes a man’s temperature through a window at the barracks of the Royal Thai Air Force Flight Training School, serving as a state coronavirus quarantine facility for Thai citizens returning from overseas. Photo: Charles Dharapak

 

I stood at the curb with a group of 75 newly returned Thai citizens from Indonesia. After three hours of tedious processing at Suvarnabhumi Airport, they still wouldn’t let us leave. Officials posed with us for photographs as if we were celebrities.

 

“Don’t worry,” one officer said through his surgical mask. “Just be patient.” We were grateful to be back in Thailand. Many had been stuck overseas, flights cancelled due to Covid-19 travel restrictions. We were finally going home. Or so we thought.

 

Unclear on what was happening, we boarded buses. I checked the news. Thailand’s government had just announced new restrictions on inbound flights to limit imported infections.

 

Full story: https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3080798/coronavirus-quarantine-thailand-great-food-and-fast-wi

 

-- SCMP 2020 04-21

 

 

[Neeranam]

"Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul treated us to KFC"

 

See! He isn't as bad as many paranoids think! 

[Misterwhisper]

"The room was clean and well-appointed: flat-screen TV, air conditioning, refrigerator, and a mop. A hot shower and ample toilet paper. Fast Wi-fi. Two brand new beds, two sets of personal items including toiletries and hospital pyjamas."

 

What... no mini bar? This is an outrage!

[RubbaJohnny]

I think there was a film or song about this , By Moray Head a fright in Bangkok , or was Strangers on a Drain?

[audaciousnomad]

Same protocol implemented in S. Korea.

Edited April 21, 2020 by audaciousnomad

[rasmus5150]

1 hour ago, Neeranam said:

"Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul treated us to KFC"

 

See! He isn't as bad as many paranoids think! 

No, he's much worse.....

[DrTuner]

1 hour ago, Neeranam said:

"Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul treated us to KFC"

 

See! He isn't as bad as many paranoids think! 

I think he's hoping they choke on a bone and can be removed from the pool of possible confirmed patients into other causes of death.

[ThailandRyan]

1 hour ago, RubbaJohnny said:

I think there was a film or song about this , By Moray Head a fright in Bangkok , or was Strangers on a Drain?

Eagles, Hotel California.....

[sammieuk1]

Will stranded farangs be give the colonel's finest along with some accommodation? answers on a pin head????

[Jumbo1968]

Is it free ?

[petermik]

7 hours ago, Jumbo1968 said:

Is it free ?

For Thai yes..farang 10,000 baht/night payable up front 

[Boomer6969]

I'm impressed.

[AgMech Cowboy]

I hate to think what it would have been like if someone tested positive. ????