People warned not to let their guard down with Covid

By The Nation

 

Dr Suwannachai Wattanayingcharoenchai

 

The Department of Health on Wednesday called on the public to strictly adhere to Covid-19 preventive measures after a recent poll indicated that only 49 per cent of people wear a face mask at entertainment venues or while using public transport.

 

A poll conducted by the department found that 92 per cent of the respondents wore a face mask in shopping malls and retail shops, 90 per cent at exhibition centres and flea markets, 83 per cent at hospitals and sports stadiums, 78 per cent at workplaces, 62.44 per cent at educational institutions and 49 per cent at entertainment venues and transports.

 

Department of Disease Control director-general Dr Suwannachai Wattanayingcharoenchai, who also oversees the Department of Health, said that though the Covid-19 situation in Thailand has improved, people should adhere to preventive measures such as wearing a mask, washing hands frequently and maintaining social distancing.

 

"We also want people to check-in and out using the ThaiChana platform,” he said, referring to the tracking app.

 

He also urged restaurants, hotels, tourist attractions, shopping malls, sports stadiums, retail shops, transports, health and beauty centres, exhibition centres, theatres and travel agencies to implement preventive measures, such as setting up Covid-19 screening and hand sanitising checkpoints.

 

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Pretty close to what I have been saying I have been seeing at public venues like Khao San Rd., and then China Town during the Vegetarian Festival, a 50/50 mix of those wearing and those without.  I blame it on the Governments reporting that they have stopped Covid in its tracks, and have it under control.  This gives people a false sense of security.  On the other hand, just let it go and stop the madness, open up the country and lets see what happens since the Government has said it is under control, and Covid is not in the domestic arena, except for those rare cases where when they tracked and traced found no other cases.

15 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

just let it go and stop the madness, open up the country and lets see what happens

 

Something not so good might happen , too ... it's risky .

don't tell it to people, tell it to government officials planning to open this country for virus carriers from abroad for the sake of bar girls getting their baht

56 minutes ago, MasterBaker said:

don't tell it to people, tell it to government officials planning to open this country for virus carriers from abroad for the sake of bar girls getting their baht

everybody in the world is suffering. ,business  going under ,people going under. ,WHY. all due to the chinese eating bats and wild animals. ,,when will the world wage up ,blame them ,make them pay for the mess they made of the world 

2 minutes ago, davidmann said:

everybody in the world is suffering. ,business  going under ,people going under. ,WHY. all due to the chinese eating bats and wild animals. ,,when will the world wage up ,blame them ,make them pay for the mess they made of the world 

Spot on.  But blame can also be placed with many governments for their lousy handling of this pandemic.  China's under control, the West isn't.

2 hours ago, nobodysfriend said:

 

Something not so good might happen , too ... it's risky .

Exactly. Other countries need to get things under control before travel can be more open.

 

A man has been fined £10,000 for secretly organising an unlicensed music event with hundreds of people, in breach of Covid-19 restrictions.  

Police were met with hostility and violence when they arrived to shut down the event in south Gloucestershire.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/coronavirus-restrictions-law-music-event-yate-glos-b1596595.html

2 hours ago, MasterBaker said:

don't tell it to people, tell it to government officials planning to open this country for virus carriers from abroad for the sake of bar girls getting their baht

I didn’t realize that hookers catering  to sex tourists are so influential in the current Thai government.

2 hours ago, MasterBaker said:

don't tell it to people, tell it to government officials planning to open this country for virus carriers from abroad for the sake of bar girls getting their baht

I think there is a little more than that to the tourist industry.....

1 hour ago, davidmann said:

everybody in the world is suffering. ,business  going under ,people going under. ,WHY. all due to the chinese eating bats and wild animals. ,,when will the world wage up ,blame them ,make them pay for the mess they made of the world 

If there were as many Arabs as there are Chinese we may well have seen the same problem in 2012, no doubt you would still have blamed the Chinese.

 

Middle East respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus (MERS-CoV),^[1] or EMC/2012 (HCoV-EMC/2012), is a species of coronavirus which infects humans, bats, and camels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_respiratory_syndrome–related_coronavirus

30 minutes ago, sandyf said:

If there were as many Arabs as there are Chinese we may well have seen the same problem in 2012, no doubt you would still have blamed the Chinese.

 

Middle East respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus (MERS-CoV),^[1] or EMC/2012 (HCoV-EMC/2012), is a species of coronavirus which infects humans, bats, and camels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_respiratory_syndrome–related_coronavirus

In the end, it was China's fault.  They tried to hide it, lied about, and allowed wild, endangered species, to be kept live inside cages INSIDE wet markets. A recipe for disaster.  As has happened in the past.

18 hours ago, webfact said:

The Department of Health on Wednesday called on the public to strictly adhere to Covid-19 preventive measures after a recent poll indicated that only 49 per cent of people wear a face mask at entertainment venues or while using public transport.

51% are following Anutins example.

58 minutes ago, Jeffr2 said:

He's a professional medical doctor, not a political appointee.

Please be careful how and where you use that term 'Professional'.  From my observations the Thai doctors of his generation and older seem to have good guessing skills at diagnoses.  But little tasting is done to confirm their suspicions.

Please stop the nonsense. You cannot spread something, when there is nothing here! Just more panic mongering. If and when Thailand opens up to tourism, it may be a different story. It would be easier to catch a 10 lb. wild sockeye salmon in the Gulf, than it would be to catch Covid in Thailand right now. 

Troll post removed.

 

6 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Please stop the nonsense. You cannot spread something, when there is nothing here! Just more panic mongering. If and when Thailand opens up to tourism, it may be a different story. It would be easier to catch a 10 lb. wild sockeye salmon in the Gulf, than it would be to catch Covid in Thailand right now. 

One of the things they are doing here is to warn Thai people about Burmese migrants.  They are coming across the border and the virus is starting to rage there.  I've seen the army trucks near Hua Hin going towards the border for patrols.  They are issuing a lot of warnings to locals in this area.  Even down on the Samui islands.

3 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Please stop the nonsense. You cannot spread something, when there is nothing here! Just more panic mongering. If and when Thailand opens up to tourism, it may be a different story. It would be easier to catch a 10 lb. wild sockeye salmon in the Gulf, than it would be to catch Covid in Thailand right now. 

Thanks for posting this!

The Masker Brigade will of course come with the BS story that Thailand is covid-free BECAUSE of the mask-wearing discipline.  Utter nonsense. 

Mask-wearing was imposed when Thailand was in full panic-mode, and the government simply doesn't have the balls to state that it is not necessary anymore and so this idiocy lingers on. 

 

4 minutes ago, Peter Denis said:

Thanks for posting this!

The Masker Brigade will of course come with the BS story that Thailand is covid-free BECAUSE of the mask-wearing discipline.  Utter nonsense. 

Mask-wearing was imposed when Thailand was in full panic-mode, and the government simply doesn't have the balls to state that it is not necessary anymore and so this idiocy lingers on. 

 

Right.  Not necessary other than for the migrants illegally crossing the border.  Many of whom are infected.

They are just injecting fake fear into Thais so they can keep farangs out. 

A post with rampant misinformation about the coronavirus has been removed, along with multiple ensuing replies.

 

 

 

4 hours ago, Jeffr2 said:

Spot on.  But blame can also be placed with many governments for their lousy handling of this pandemic.  China's under control, the West isn't.

Not all of the West,  Australia and NZ are now genuinely Covid free, not so sure about China and a few others

Too many of the right wing governed Western countries (think USA & UK) put Wealth before Health and opened far too quickly, now they are paying the price for their greed before need policies

The risk is not domestic, and therefore it's difficult to make the population keep up with protection, as it doesn't make sense.

 

The real problem for infection – in view of the escalation in many parts of the outside world – is the borders. Just think of that almost daily, new imported cases in quarantine have been reported – many even tested negative before travelling – and that number is relative high, as not that many are let in from foreign areas.

2 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

It would be easier to catch a 10 lb. wild sockeye salmon in the Gulf, than it would be to catch Covid in Thailand right now. 

Could I catch it in my mask?

I wondered how long it would take for a "warning" statement " like this to be issued after allowing "Special" tourists in, and as in the other "Top Story" about a visiting "European" Minister  having been found to be infected. (No quarantine for him then - on his 2 day visit?)

 

"There is no Covid in Thailand!!!" Then why the ongoing  "State of Emergency" and the need to wear masks to prevent spreading Covid if it is not here anyway?

 

I do however think that it is a good idea for people with colds etc to wear masks  and my wife was wearing a mask while outdoors on a regular basis as she hates smoke of any description - either from cigarettes, faulty exhaust systems or neighbours burning rubbish - which is fairly frequently where we live!

 

 

 

 

38 minutes ago, Nanaplaza666 said:

China's under controle because there is no news coming from there anymore but for sure they are also not under controle yet . And when they are under controle because of having a vaccine don't you qeustion yourself that they might have had it all along ????? All of the rest of the world's doctors and laborants and money couldn't get a vaccine before China did ??? 

I have several friends who own big factories there.  According to them, from their decades long managers, no worries, just a small number of cases.  Agreed, they aren't the best with reporting news, but seems they are doing OK with regards to the virus they allowed to be let loose.

 

No conspiracy theories about the virus being created.  That's pure BS.

22 minutes ago, Jeffr2 said:

I have several friends who own big factories there.  According to them, from their decades long managers, no worries, just a small number of cases.  Agreed, they aren't the best with reporting news, but seems they are doing OK with regards to the virus they allowed to be let loose.

 

No conspiracy theories about the virus being created.  That's pure BS.

Ok conspiracy is BS but the story about the virus being let loose by the chinese also was a conspiracy theory at the beginning untill it was proven that they did .

4 minutes ago, Nanaplaza666 said:

Ok conspiracy is BS but the story about the virus being let loose by the chinese also was a conspiracy theory at the beginning untill it was proven that they did .

They let it loose because they allowed live, wild animals to be caged inside a wet market.  The virus jumped to humans just like it's done in China many times before.

 

But it did not come from a lab.  That's the conspiracy theory.

Has the good doctor borrowed his watch from anyone special?

Would help if everyone on every flight coming into Thailand had proper COVID/SARS swab test within 72 hours to comply with the fit to fly certificate rather than accepting the phone consultation companies which simply issue a FTF certificate  on a verbal conversation over the phone to see if you have any covid symptoms!! This is excepted by  certain airlines and by immigration in Bangkok from returning Thias yet no physical test has been carried out and explains why returning Thia's on flights have Covid. Pretty sure if they have just paid best part of £1000 for an economy flight they are hardly likely to tell someone on the other end of the phone they have any covid symptoms and risk not being able to fly...I suppose £80 phone consultation and certificate  versus £225 for proper swab test and certificate at a proper clinic is the deciding factor. Its also unfair on the Farangs & Thais that have to have the proper swab test and 100% know they are free of COVID/SARS to board a flight with other people who have simply had a phone conversation and hope they are free of it...

On 11/4/2020 at 9:12 AM, webfact said:

He also urged restaurants, hotels, tourist attractions, shopping malls, sports stadiums, retail shops, transports, health and beauty centres, exhibition centres, theatres and travel agencies to implement preventive measures, such as setting up Covid-19 screening and hand sanitising checkpoints.

He urged them to set up Covid-19 screening??? Or did he mean temperature screening?