3 hours ago, RobbyXNorway said:

It's a nice gesture but where is the government aparatus that should have been put in place for this reason? Any idiot should know this would cause serious problems for the poorer part of the country.

The only thing that concerns the government is staying in power and using said power to rob the country. That has been clear for more than 5 years now. 

2 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

Been looking after a Thai family who was poor for 20 years the only praise I get is from the mrs. ????

2 hours ago, trainman34014 said:

I had a similar experience for 13 years until they all died !    They just can't bring themselves to say 'Thank You', as it means 'Loss of Face' having to admit they haven't got a pot to <deleted> in !

* 20 Ways to Give Without Expectations

 

https://tinybuddha.com/blog/20-ways-to-give-without-expectations/

3 hours ago, RobbyXNorway said:

It's a nice gesture but where is the government aparatus that should have been put in place for this reason? Any idiot should know this would cause serious problems for the poorer part of the country.

My thoughts exactly, where is the foresight to see the impact on people ? There are some very deep pockets in Thailand as well as the authorities who should be helping the ones in need.

Some Thai and farang friends of mine and myself have been doing the same thing here in Pattaya... It is really surreal and heart breaking to watch as the pickup truck pulls up and people appear from out of nowhere and ingulf the truck... I hope this China madness ends soon, or Thailand is gonna have some real problems! 

Apparently, Police called those foreigners to the station, and they had to apologize too.  Go figure.

Maybe they’re seeing it as a loss of face, or Farang doing the right thing doesn’t serve their agenda.

I doubt this thing would happen anywhere else in the world, Only in LOS

 

Here is a link to the article from the Samui Times

 

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According to the police, they posted a video of social media activity showing people who did not wear masks queuing to get donations without practising social distancing.

This may have fooled people around the world to assume that Thailand did not have the necessary protective measures in place for Covid-19, which tarnished the country’s credibility.

15 minutes ago, chobina said:

Apparently, Police called those foreigners to the station, and they had to apologize too.  Go figure.

Maybe they’re seeing it as a loss of face, or Farang doing the right thing doesn’t serve their agenda.

I doubt this thing would happen anywhere else in the world, Only in LOS

 

Here is a link to the article from the Samui Times

 

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This time in a organized manner where protective precautions has been added such as social distancing etc. - well done!

 

https://www.samuitimes.com/koh-samui-foreigner-have-a-second-attempt-at-handing-food-donations/

Edited April 25, 20206 yr by ttrd

4 minutes ago, ttrd said:

https://www.samuitimes.com/koh-samui-foreigner-have-a-second-attempt-at-handing-food-donations/

Good to know, Thanks for the clarification. 

Well hopefully it will make the idiot with the sling slot on face book look like the muppet he is if nothing else,this is happening all over,so all the posters who think Thai people hate us[there are a few as in any country] maybe think again,as i said where i live i have rarely ever encountered problems with the locals.

 May i add it seems new poster ss sturmbanfueher Hugolars has gone very quiet,thankfully.

12 hours ago, Eindhoven said:

Many foreigners consider Thailand their home and the people around them, their community. 

Truth be told, many care more about the land than the locals.

It's a shame that the powers that be don't seem to recognize this, making it easier for the good guys to make this their permanent home.

Well spoken! I feel exactly like this and do all I can to help not only my extended Thai family but charities, orphanages and the like in the city I live in. It's a shame also the powers that be don't differentiate between tourists here for a holiday and expats that have made Thailand their home....BIG difference.

Kudos to the foreigners doing this for a government that is only giving them so much problems in so many ways.

3 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

Been looking after a Thai family who was poor for 20 years the only praise I get is from the mrs. ????

There is some kind of saying like "don't give to receive" something like that.. I have helped people in the past in various charity and church ventures, quite often the most vulnerable will not thank but will just take whatever you offer. It can be  a bit disheartening but just the way it is. It doesn't change the fact that YOU have helped the needy. 

4 hours ago, Eindhoven said:

Many foreigners consider Thailand their home and the people around them, their community. 

Truth be told, many care more about the land than the locals.

It's a shame that the powers that be don't seem to recognise this, making it easier for the good guys to make this their permanent home.

 

Indeed. With some spunk & conviction, hopefully the good people of Thailand will rise and remove them.

2 hours ago, Neeranam said:

What is a "beer bar"?

In the UK in my early teenage years we had "Coffee Bars", so with a bit of sleuthing, Holmes.................! ????

 

5 hours ago, rooster59 said:

The local authority were informed and all protocols were followed including mask wearing, health checks and social distancing.

Nice to see this help, with the correct procedures in place to ensure people are fed and protected.

Well done all those involved and the public being sensible.

Well done, i'm pleased that foreigners are showing a great example to the Government how to organize feeding the Thai people, maybe it's time they stepped off their high horses and took some notice and maybe then they wouldn't show themselves up as they did in Pattaya.....  A government and a military that can't organize logistics ?   I hope Mr nasty Anutin's taking notice.....  

While one red-faced media mouthpiece screams "DIRTY FARANGS!" . . . and "FARANGS BRING THE VIRUS HERE!" "THROW THEM OUT if they don't do what they're told!" - what do the ordinary Thai people on the street see?

Do they see their leaders out on the streets helping them; visiting hard-hit areas and voicing concern? Do they see the Military activated and organised, running soup kitchens and handing out free food and water?

No!

What they see is the same leaders stumbling about, trying and failing to organise a cash hand-out that's barely two weeks average earnings.

And they see the same 'dirty farangs' out on the streets, showing concern and compassion, giving freely of their own money, time and resources, organising daily food pickup stations and actually SHOWING the Thai people that they care.

 

When the disruption all finally disappears, I wonder who the Thai nation is going to remember with fondness and gratitude? And I mean the ordinary folks on the street - not the people in power who are looking the other way and doing nothing while their people suffer.
 

Edited April 25, 20206 yr by robsamui

1 hour ago, Yadon Toploy said:

Thais see themselves as unique and superior and are educated (indoctrinated) to think so.

 

Reality as we know is very different and they are nothing special neither as a nation and very rarely as individuals.

 

If things get bad here expect foreigners to be scapegoated, and all blame shifted.

"If things get bad here expect foreigners to be scapegoated"

 

The MInister for Health has already started the ball rolling with his comments of the last couple of weeks!

This is great!  People helping people as it should be!

2 hours ago, trainman34014 said:

Meanwhile; the silence from the Gangsters in Government House is deafening !

Anutin is incandescent with rage at how this undermines his narrative!

5 hours ago, Eindhoven said:

Many foreigners consider Thailand their home and the people around them, their community. 

Truth be told, many care more about the land than the locals.

It's a shame that the powers that be don't seem to recognise this, making it easier for the good guys to make this their permanent home.

 

How very true. I was just asking myself if I think this will make Anutin pause for thought before slagging off 'dirty' foreigners again.

 

Sadly I don't think it will. To stop being a moron is harder than stopping being a loser. To stop being a loser in Thailand, all you really need is a brown tongue. To stop being a moron requires education, and that's harder.

 

 

Edited April 25, 20206 yr by ParkerN

It's quite disgusting really how the Government has promised money to alleviate peoples problems and they're seen to be welching on it, and now we're seeing foreigners in Thailand doing exactly what the government and military should be doing. I havn't forgotten years ago just after the tsunami i was sat in a boozer in England and a bucket came round for donations and everyone chipped in, 50 million quid was collected for the tsunami just from the ordinary people which the British government had to match...... 100 million pounds !  and just as we're seeing today the sticky little fingers couldn't take care of their own without filling their already fat bellies.......  Praise and good luck for those who are setting this great example and truth be known there's thousands of foreigners of all nationalities if called upon would sacrifice their time and resources to do the same.......  Shame on the powers that pretend to be....... 

4 hours ago, Eindhoven said:

Many foreigners consider Thailand their home and the people around them, their community. 

Truth be told, many care more about the land than the locals.

It's a shame that the powers that be don't seem to recognise this, making it easier for the good guys to make this their permanent home.

 

I am grateful to call Thailand my home, and since I am now stranded here for another month, and since I have a small pension and am not dependent on work, this inspires me to go out and do something. I have long considered the Thai people an extended group of neighbors and even family, and now is the time to express that gratitude.

Always amazes me what gets press in Thailand. The group of expats in Phuket that I hang out with, we've donated over 1 billion baht to local Thais in the past month. Just today, we were driving around handing out stacks of cash to locals ( we have a province pass ). Shouldn't the government and hi-so  Thais be doing this instead of relying on wealthy expats? But of course, you'll never read about all that we've been doing. Frankly, I'm glad my face doesn't land on Thai Visa but just saying, foreigners have been doing so much over the last couple months. This article represents a tiny fraction of all that we've been doing for Thailand.

There are a lot of professional critics trolling comments all the time here, how about stepping up like these folks did instead? Do what you can, people, and never mind what the government is or isn't doing. Comments about the government serve no useful purpose, they don't read them do they? I'm stuck here an extra month, normally I go back to the US just for summer, and I've decided I want to help out as well. I don't have visa problems or income problems, I haven't figured out the details yet, but the money I'm not spending in bars and on trips would be well spent on the needy Thai people, whose country is now my home. 

4 hours ago, ezzra said:

I'm told that yesterday some kind hearted foreigners in Pattaya were handing out food packages to local residents until the the police came and shooo them away saying that No, you can't do that.. go figure...

 

4 hours ago, petermik said:

Just jobsworths wanting to show their authority....people not queuing properly and no pre notification sent...as I said "jobsworths"

Without this, it would not be right all round. Let's have more...

5 hours ago, Odysseus123 said:

Well done to all-whatever their nationality-who,in this moment of world crisis, step up to the plate...

 

"No man is an island entire of itself,each is a piece of the continent,a part of the main.."

 

John Donne,1624.

..i knew there was good in us.

And they are wearing tanktops and having tattoo's , must be scum ????

Despite many foreigners helping Thailand in ways such as volunteering and keeping the economy going, we are the most discriminated against. The current dilemma here is a perfect example of what happens when foreign money diminishes. And we have to 'jump through hoops' in order to remain here, e.g., having to prove that we are bringing in ฿60,000 per month when an educated Thai person makes about ฿15,000 per month.

2 hours ago, Neeranam said:

What is a "beer bar"?

Many on here aren't probably old enough to remember, but before Covid 19 and prohibition it was a place where people would congregate and drink a liquid called 'beer'. If you drink a lot of 'beer' you are able to feel happy and in turn have something called 'fun.' Overall it was called 'going out.'

 

Anyway, an Englishman, Scotsman and Irishman walked into a bar......

 

(They were the days...... ???? )