Thais become reckless in COVID-19 prevention

By Pattaya Mail

 

  

Thai people had become lenient in protecting themselves from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) after eased lockdowns in all kinds of activities.

 

BANGKOK – A survey has found that Thai people become obviously lenient in protecting themselves from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) when it comes to sanitizing hands, eating newly cooked food, using personal spoons, keeping distances from each other and refraining from touching faces.

The Public Health Ministry, the World Health Organization, the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, the Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, the National Health Security Office and the National Statistical Office conducted the survey on COVID-19 control after business lockdowns were eased. The survey occurred on May 8-14 and there were 19,378 respondents.

Of the respondents, 91% wore face masks but other self-hygienic practices were statistically significantly overlooked. The percentages of hygienic practices fell to 83.4% for washing hand with soap or alcohol gel, 82.3% for eating newly cooked food with personal spoons, 60.7% for social distancing, 52.9% for refraining from touching faces, and 72.5% for overall self-protection.

 

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So tired of this brainwashing

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17 minutes ago, Anton9 said:

So tired of this brainwashing

Maybe try brainwashing with alco gel for the sheep next time, then maybe they will learn to do as they are told. Personal spoons? GTFOH nanny state

1 hour ago, zeamonkey said:

Maybe try brainwashing with alco gel for the sheep next time, then maybe they will learn to do as they are told. Personal spoons? GTFOH nanny state

Yes total <deleted> nanny state all the PC Politically Correct snowflakes nothing better to do than poke their nose into other peoples business government included they allow a waste of news paper space for normal people doing normal things.

The BTS sky train is full every day more than full of sweaty people bumping of each other. Get a set of balls people.

Get out of you fear porn bubble and start living again. 

What do you expect when you lull them into false sense of security with the daily propaganda numbers.

46 minutes ago, eddiebat said:

Yes total <deleted> nanny state all the PC Politically Correct snowflakes nothing better to do than poke their nose into other peoples business government included they allow a waste of news paper space for normal people doing normal things.

The BTS sky train is full every day more than full of sweaty people bumping of each other. Get a set of balls people.

Get out of you fear porn bubble and start living again. 

Public health is everyone's business during a pandemic.

Get a set of brains and a slight understanding of how your egocentric behavior can harm others.

This pandemic is a stress on our species & evolution speeds up under such stress.

"Adapt or die" is how it goes... Being prudent is not fear, it is a healthy respect for nature. Your position seems to be based on fear of change and that somehow you can out macho a virus.

1 hour ago, DrTuner said:

What do you expect when you lull them into false sense of security with the daily propaganda numbers.

As the good Doc says.If people are Brainwashed into believing that there is little or no Covid19 in Thailand, they will all start to think they are perfectly safe.

This Virus has shown that it can transmit quickly, and it takes no prisoners in who it infects, whether they be Old, Young or weak or strong.

Letting down your guard at this time will surely prove fatal

 

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Thais become reckless in COVID-19 prevention

Given history, Thais show a recklessness for most things, so why expect Corvid 19 prevention to be any different.

After a few weeks they just go back to old habits, 

2 hours ago, eddiebat said:

and start living again.

And play a little Russian roulette with an excellent chance of dying of corona.

2 hours ago, Emdog said:

Public health is everyone's business during a pandemic.

Get a set of brains and a slight understanding of how your egocentric behavior can harm others.

This pandemic is a stress on our species & evolution speeds up under such stress.

"Adapt or die" is how it goes... Being prudent is not fear, it is a healthy respect for nature. Your position seems to be based on fear of change and that somehow you can out macho a virus.

What pandemic, the Thai government says everything is under control. Look at the numbers.????????????????

50 minutes ago, rudi49jr said:

And play a little Russian roulette with an excellent chance of dying of corona.

Oh please, you should take a look at the ridicolously low death rate for healthy individuals.

I see mass media did a great job with the fear mongering.

Edited May 26, 20206 yr by Anton9

10 minutes ago, bluedoc said:

What pandemic, the Thai government says everything is under control. Look at the numbers.????????????????

Thats amusing ???? Hey, don't ruin it for the "scaremeongers" how anyone can be gullible and naive enough to believe the "numbers" is beyond me, you have to Really be determined to make them work for you, even then you need a good dose of brainwashing!

More deaths from suicides & people struck by lightening yet folks still are waiting for the pandemic to start, at what point will people start to think for themselves?

Or have the majority lost that ability, seems so to me!

How many months is it now when the hospitals were going to be overwhelmed with the sick and dying, reality is private hospitals are dying due to lack of business!

yet fear is still being promoted?

2 minutes ago, CGW said:

 

Lovely artwork, who's the artist?

all these official point.something percentages make me dizzy - this is sheer electronics; about 80 years ago we would have said "between 70 and 90 percent...."

5 hours ago, zeamonkey said:

Maybe try brainwashing with alco gel for the sheep next time, then maybe they will learn to do as they are told. Personal spoons? GTFOH nanny state

So you share spoons with other people when eating do you?

Every day, the govt tells us that there are no deaths & very few infections.  No wonder people are "reckless".  Tell the freaking truth & stop kidding the world, so you can get tourists back ASAP!

6 hours ago, Anton9 said:

So tired of this brainwashing

Yes, but obviously the trouble here is that the Thais are not falling for the brainwashing.

 

How long will it go on? 

Will we be carrying on like this for months/years after the last patient is checked out of hospital?

 

If no-one around you has got it, the idea of taking all these measures to "protect yourself"....

 from something that isnt there is just frikkin silly.

 

Fair enough, if the numbers were crazy high like in other countries,

but in Thailand

90% of the very few people who get it will recover in the same manner as a common cold.

 

Funny, a lot of these western snowflakes are here commenting negatively about how Thais are going about it.

 

But they themselves could have retreated home 3 months ago and hid in their mommas basements if they were that worried about how Thais would handle it.

 

7 hours ago, DrTuner said:

What do you expect when you lull them into false sense of security with the daily propaganda numbers.

...and, the constant narrative of: common Thai people don't catch Covid-19 from Thai people inside Thailand...it's Thai people returning from elsewhere and dirty farang who get infected. So, y'all are completely safe. 

Hard to credit, after Thailand has kept us safe so far, that there are so many ungrateful people around... 

 

 

 

7 hours ago, DrTuner said:

Lovely artwork, who's the artist?

Don't know & I did try to find out, I would say it was done by a person with more insight than many though! ???? 

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On 24 May 2020 at 18:00, Thailand announced that 3,536 additional people met the criteria for PUI, raising the total to 153,991 PUI, as shown in Table 1.

 

I believe this is the reason why the government continues with the emergency decree and why they are still not opening everything up. What we really need is serology testing to tell us how many people have had the virus. And we need the less vulnerable to slowly build an immunity firewall, which I believe has already happened to some extent. The first case was in Jan, and thousands entered Thailand from Wuhan in Jan and Feb. It is very likely that we have many who have had the virus already, which would be good news.

Being "lenient" isn't the same thing as being pointlessly irrational. 

 

doesn't matter what the people do, the stats will always be excellent ????

20 hours ago, Anton9 said:

So tired of this brainwashing

Shut your eyes. It enters your brain through your eyes. 

14 hours ago, Yorkshire Tea said:

Every day, the govt tells us that there are no deaths & very few infections.  No wonder people are "reckless".  Tell the freaking truth & stop kidding the world, so you can get tourists back ASAP!

If the truth will bring back the tourists I prefer the lies. 

11 hours ago, JCP108 said:

...and, the constant narrative of: common Thai people don't catch Covid-19 from Thai people inside Thailand...it's Thai people returning from elsewhere and dirty farang who get infected. So, y'all are completely safe. 

Yawn.

 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/05/south-korea-coronavirus-fight-trouble-surge-cases-200528041458518.html

 

 

 

 

 

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Edited May 28, 20206 yr by 3NUMBAS