I always cringe when posters who mostly come for Thailand experience which includes debauchery and indulgence at the expense of the poorest of the poor are somehow offended by a tiny barbed wire. 

 

Jesus Wept, if anything I'd love for this to happen to me. Instant 1 million followers on gram and tiktok. 

 

Let's not forget it was only a few months ago and the same thing was happening at housing commissions in Melbourne.

No barbed wire but basically the same thing in essence.

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Foreign workers penned in by BARBED WIRE at condo

 

How about this surrounding Government House in Bangkok?

 

 

1 hour ago, bwanajohn said:

Yes isn't Thailand just the worst.... all the other countries treat their migrant workers so well...

NOT

The best you got to defend Thailand ' not the worst "?  Known as "damning with faint praise "

5 minutes ago, Benmart said:

A sad and irrelevant comparison. 

Racism is irrelevant? Really now,  If they wanted to say it was for safety of others then did they test the entire condo unit. If they did and found many infected why the need to lock healthy people in with the infected and then not supply them with services to assist with food and such.  Did they lock the Thai's in Nonthaburi in their condo as well all the others who live in the same places, I think not.  Irrelevant in yours maybe but not in mine. They are socially distancing themselves from  race they feel is inferior to themselves.  Tell me again how they are being treated equally.

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I don't see any issue here. They are enforcing quarantine. Tests have shown large number of occupants were infected. They are just not allowed to leave. Authorities are bringing food to them everyday.  Can you trust these people will fully coorporate and won't leave the building and do whatever they please? well I cant. I can't even trust farang would coorporate either. Look at what happened in switzerland. Over 200 Brit tourists escaped from quarantined. Considering how covid19 is out of control in faranglands, more strict measure is necessary to enforce quarantine

Covid has been a blessing for power hungry politicians around the world

2 hours ago, from the home of CC said:

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/regional/2020/04/18/singapore-pm-migrant-workers-accounted-for-the-vast-majority-of-the-new-infections

 

Singaporeans utilized this initially, guess who they learned it from...

Trying: their Imperial oppressors?   (Covers a few angles, at least.)

Next up? 

All dirty Farangs, Indian, Middle Easterners and Africans will need to be surrounded by barb-wire fences and remain is their concentration camps.  I can't wait until I wake up one morning to find my home barb-wired shut (although I have wire cutters).

Is this where Thailand is headed?  It's starting to look like it as well as smelling of racism unconstrained.  Has this hit AP or Reuters yet?

Any razor wire around condo blocks where Thais have tested positive?

14 minutes ago, sitti said:

I don't see any issue here. They are enforcing quarantine. Tests have shown large number of occupants were infected.

 

I think the issue is WHERE and HOW the Thai authorities are using the barbed wire...

 

If they were using it around ALL quarantined sites/facilities, that would be one thing.

 

But AFAIK, they're not. In this case, they're using it to contain non-Thai citizens, while not employing the same measures against Thai citizens held in quarantine elsewhere.

 

That's what leads people here to start posting about racism.

 

 

 

Yes this is barbaric behavior but the Thai's are not alone.   The Premier of the State of Victoria in 1st world Australia (whaaaaat), locked up 3,000 people, mostly immigrants, in apartment blocks, with no notice, for up to two weeks.

13 minutes ago, sitti said:

I don't see any issue here. They are enforcing quarantine. Tests have shown large number of occupants were infected. They are just not allowed to leave. Authorities are bringing food to them everyday.  Can you trust these people will fully coorporate and won't leave the building and do whatever they please? well I cant. I can't even trust farang would coorporate either. Look at what happened in switzerland. Over 200 Brit tourists escaped from quarantined. Considering how covid19 is out of control in faranglands, more strict measure is necessary to enforce quarantine

Did they lock their own Thai citizens up with barbed wire as well? if not then there is a definite issue here.  If you can not see that then maybe your view on racism and the current feudal system where someone is lording over others is okay in your view.  It is not okay in anyway shape or form, and is a violation of human rights to be penned up like animals.  Now if it was equal amongst all races, colors, and creeds and explained as a constraint measure with a field hospital put in to treat those that were possibly ill, then I could buy into it, but this is just abhorrent in my view.

Haven't we already been here before, do we never learn from history. Now it's the infected and possibly infected, next will be dissenters and free thinkers who don't comply.

7 hours ago, pixelaoffy said:

So are these foreign workers who have been in Thailand throughout the pandemic since April or have entered legally or illegally since?  Because if they have been in Thailand all year it says what a racist country Thailand is !

 

All this despite Lao and Myanmar people being of the same race as their Thai hosts [insert roll-eyes emoticon here]

If you scroll to the bottom of the page of this news article you will see what the majority of Thais think

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 Panic forces uneducated governors  to take drastic measure's without any regard to others 

7 hours ago, PatOngo said:

Such a heartfelt Thai buddhist gesture!  ???? Shame, shame, shame!

You don't understand, the Thais are all heart, they're protecting the migrants by keeping others out.

7 hours ago, pixelaoffy said:

So are these foreign workers who have been in Thailand throughout the pandemic since April or have entered legally or illegally since?  Because if they have been in Thailand all year it says what a racist country Thailand is !

It's not racist, it's nationalistic.  If they locked me in my house, that would be racist. 

2 hours ago, TheFishman1 said:

Amazing Thailand what a great Buddhist country TIT

Most people in Thailand are not practicing Buddhists. That's like calling the US or UK Christian countries and the government in all are not religious in the slightest. 

7 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

Barbaric, and yet more disgraceful behaviour by Thais !

Maybe to level the playing field, they could put razor wire around the state government and alternate quarantine facilities. Then all would be content.

I wonder if and when amnesty international will comment on this  and the PM defend his actions in front of the united nations

3 hours ago, soi3eddie said:

 

Agreed, there are some sensible Thai people here. A very large number of them are wishing for changes in the government etc. Hopefully their time will come. 

 

Everyone's waiting for that, not just Thais........ 

3 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

This one idiot is not Thailand.

We should remember that there are some sensible Thai people out there as well.

I would like to hear all these bashers here if they would live close to there, infections rise in a few days and the offials did nothing.
To lock all those poor souls up is cruel, but would it be a difference if 99% of them lived in TH during the whole pandemic and 1% came in illegally in the last week ?
ThaiVisas job would be to interrogate what the reason for this action was, if there are people living in the condo who tested positive yesterday or today, not only bringing up a story without any further information.

Totally disgusted! Shame on Thailand.

True colours of Thai administration are really come out now. CCP Annexe coming

That'll Get The Social Justice Warriors, choking on their Sum Tam

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3 hours ago, PatOngo said:

3 hours ago, TheFishman1 said:

Amazing Thailand what a great Buddhist country TIT

Yes, they have temples everywhere!  ????

You mean money and food collecting points, where people go to make merit to (in their mind) benefit themselves. The most selfish of religions. All about me me me.

22 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

I wonder if and when amnesty international will comment on this  and the PM defend his actions in front of the united nations

I agree this is a human rights scandal - what an absolute disgrace... I'm appalled by this action.   LOS - Land of Suppression!!!