Thailand’s first infected cabbie recalls his experience of stigmatization

 

 

The first Thai taxi driver to be infected with COVID-19 has recalled the stigmatization he experienced and pleaded with members of the public to open their minds and not shun those who have recovered from the disease.

 

The CCSA made the story of Mr. Thongsook Thongrach public. He contracted the contagion from foreign customers during the early stages of the outbreak in this country.  

 

He said that he was shocked and cried when he was told by doctors that he was infected with the Wuhan virus, because there was no known cure.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thailands-first-infected-cabbie-recalls-his-experience-of-stigmatization/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2020-06-07

 

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No worries Somchai, I,ll have a beer or three with you if you brought your wallet ????

This concerns rather the missing education and mis-information about the disease. The enforced over-the-top measures just make people afraid of covid as if it was the Black Death.

Not his fault. Find the real source in China instead and point the finger there.

Could this stigma discourage people from seeking testing and treatment if they think they might have the virus?

everyone says thai people are so tough.  I think many people just stayed home sick.  I think respiratory illnesses like this are normal in Thailand.    

2 hours ago, JCP108 said:

Could this stigma discourage people from seeking testing and treatment if they think they might have the virus?

Especially if you test positive and the result is getting confined in a hospital with sick people for two weeks. Just like getting the elderly to a care home - they resist until it's so bad it's the last alternative left to dying.