Do you ever confront mask shirkers in Thailand?

[Jingthing]

Venturing out, I'm sure we all encounter people that are not wearing masks in environments where they definitely should be, or having their masks down their chin, or wearing their masks ironically with their bad boy noses sticking out in a teasing manner. So rude!

 

Not talking about outdoors, but in places like crowded grocery stores.

 

So what to do about it?

 

Well, I do nothing. 

 

I kind of want to but this is Thailand, and even Thais in authority won't bother such people, so it seems confronting such people is asking for trouble and not consistent with the culture here.

 

I do give an automatic dirty look at them, I almost can't help it, and they usually notice, and they always know the reason for it, but they never fix the problem in response.

 

You hear stories in the U.S. of people getting murdered for confronting people over masks. I don't think that would happen here, but you never know.

 

My context is Pattaya and the shirkers here are almost always f-rangs. Coincidentally or not, they are Russians the majority of time in my experience. But I wouldn't confront Thais either, probably even more so, as this is their country, as we are so often reminded, especially when trying to get vaccinated.

 

I've never even witnessed anyone being confronted over mask wearing by anyone here, except like a security guard enforcing entry to a building, but once inside some people just can't help getting their face all naked.

 

What do you think about this? Have you ever confronted a mask shirker? Perhaps you're a mask shirker yourself. Has anyone confronted you?

In Singapore they have dedicated staff to enforce mask wearing indoors, but alas Thailand ain't Singapore:

 

 

[bojo]

6 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

with their bad boy noses sticking out in a teasing manner.

is that some kind of innuendo?

[asiam110]

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[RJRS1301]

24 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

n Singapore they have dedicated staff to enforce mask wearing indoors, but alas Thailand ain't Singapore:

Singaporeans were trained by their government decades ago to follow the law. I well remember flying through Singapore many years ago, and having hair cut by immigration officials before allowing me to enter as it was below my collar, and chewing gum was banned, that was confiscated as well.

An obedient and compliant population

[bojo]

4 minutes ago, RJRS1301 said:

having hair cut by immigration officials

Compliance and haircuts...............young Thai school students and haircuts (nits justification, a red herring)...................lots of compliance................. the locals have been trained to obey authority from an early age......I'm not currently in the Kingdom to witness behaviour, but I would bet on mask felony being a non Thai 'thing' (pro rata by populace).....................

[OneMoreFarang]

1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

I do give an automatic dirty look at them, I almost can't help it, and they usually notice, and they always know the reason for it, but they never fix the problem in response.

Try harder!

 

And if that doesn't help there is another version. Punk...

 

Apart from that I agree with you. Confronting those people is best case useless and worst case dangerous. 

 

[Ralf001]

 I don't confront them, why would I ?

 

FWIW I wear these, helps greatly with social distancing !!

 

[rumak]

my thai response look :

 

[BritManToo]

1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

Not talking about outdoors, but in places like crowded grocery stores.

Why are you going to crowded stores?

Shouldn't you be locked in your home, or don't you care about the COVID restrictions?

[nikmar]

3 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

I do give an automatic dirty look at them, I almost can't help it, and they usually notice, and they always know the reason for it, but they never fix the problem in response.

Try harder!

 

Even Clint cant beat the Pddington hard stare!! Tailored especially for when people forget their manners.

 

[EVENKEEL]

58 minutes ago, RJRS1301 said:

Singaporeans were trained by their government decades ago to follow the law. I well remember flying through Singapore many years ago, and having hair cut by immigration officials before allowing me to enter as it was below my collar, and chewing gum was banned, that was confiscated as well.

An obedient and compliant population

I came into S'Pore on a military flight from Diego Garcia, a 7 hour flight so I popped some gum for bad breath. I forgot. The military guys at passport counter made me get rid of it, I apologized profusely. LOL

[rumak]

I practice my dirty looks when on Thaivisa.    So far i have escaped detection ..........

[Ralf001]

11 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Why are you going to crowded stores?

Shouldn't you be locked in your home, or don't you care about the COVID restrictions?

 

Easier to crop dust those with noses out indoors than outdoors.

[tonray]

I've never confronted a 'mask Shirker' but did once call out a "Durian Denier" on the BTS. I suspected the old bird had stashed a Durian in her cloth shopping bag, unbeknownst to BTS staff. These law breakers must be stopped !

[Ventenio]

Last night I was at a 200-person orgy and there was this one lady not wearing a mask.....

 

oh, wait.......let me start over.

 

So my friend was at this........

[2long]

" they always know the reason for it, but they never fix the problem" 

So how can you possibly know that they know, but choose not to do anything?

[mtls2005]

Absolutely NOT.

 

Not my job.

 

 

 

[ChipButty]

Keep your Nose out

[Peterw42]

I had an interesting encounter the other day, I got into a lift with a guy, I had a mask on, other guy in the lift had it on his chin.. The guy insisted on telling me that the mask does nothing etc.

 

My response was to thank the guy for understanding, I explained that I actually have covid at the moment and having trouble breathing, so very much appreciate being able to remove my mask.

I remove the mask.

The guys mask went straight on, he backed away and literally stop breathing until we reached his floor, and exited the lift very quickly.

[tifino]

and then there's those nincompoops who are inside the shopping plaza... with a mask on their head... be that: under nose, under chin, hanging off one ear...

 - yeah fair enough if they are eating/drinking something; but it is those who have it somewhere useless on their head that boasts back to the 'Official' that they have a mask exemption!!  

 

 - que??     

(why have a mask on your head at all/ if you are exempted from wearing one)  

[Ventenio]

47 minutes ago, mtls2005 said:

Absolutely NOT.

 

Not my job.

 

UNTIL IT IS your job.....

 

Example:    Sick person not wearing a mask coughing on you!!!  Coughing on your family.   Sick, definitely has the flu, and breathing on you and your family....

 

So "absolutely" might be "probably."

 

Unless it isn't your job to protect yourself or your family.   If someone was breathing on my 187-year old sick grandmother........i would not say, "Grandma, NOT my job to help you!!"

 

 

[BritManToo]

Just now, Ventenio said:

Example:    Sick person not wearing a mask coughing on you!!!  Coughing on your family.   Sick, definitely has the flu, and breathing on you and your family....

Would point out it's up to you not to get yourself or your family members near other people.

If you weren't there, they couldn't cough on you!

[Ventenio]

28 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Would point out it's up to you not to get yourself or your family members near other people.

If you weren't there, they couldn't cough on you!

What?????????????????????  You mean keep your family indoors 24/7????  You mean never go to immigration???  Never let them take their kids to school?  Never go to 711?  This has been 19-months!!!!!   what about the people who deliver food and stuff to the house???  

 

hahhahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahaha

 

 

[thaibeachlovers]

3 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

Singaporeans were trained by their government decades ago to follow the law. I well remember flying through Singapore many years ago, and having hair cut by immigration officials before allowing me to enter as it was below my collar, and chewing gum was banned, that was confiscated as well.

An obedient and compliant population

Been that way since the 70s when I was there.

Very safe country, and we were told that if a cop told us to stop and we didn't we might be shot. No gangs, no riots, no strikes- great country to live in.

[thaibeachlovers]

2 minutes ago, Ventenio said:

What?????????????????????  You mean keep your family indoors 24/7????  You mean never go to immigration???  Never let them take their kids to school?  Never go to 711?  This has been 19-months!!!!!   what about the people who deliver food and stuff to the house???  

 

hahhahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahaha

 

 

That's not what he's saying IMO. It's YOUR responsibility to protect yourself and family, not everyone else's to protect YOU, and I agree.

Too many nanny state believers in the world IMO.

[thaibeachlovers]

1 hour ago, tifino said:

and then there's those nincompoops who are inside the shopping plaza... with a mask on their head... be that: under nose, under chin, hanging off one ear...

 - yeah fair enough if they are eating/drinking something; but it is those who have it somewhere useless on their head that boasts back to the 'Official' that they have a mask exemption!!  

 

 - que??     

(why have a mask on your head at all/ if you are exempted from wearing one)  

fair enough if they are eating/drinking something

Huh! Are they not just as likely to infect everyone by not wearing a mask while eating/ drinking in public? Lets make it mandatory to wear a mask everywhere and have a little tube in the mask to suck liquid food through. We could even have CCTV in people's bedrooms in case they dare to remove it to do the biz.

 

Soooo, lets just confine everyone to their homes for ever. That's the only way to be completely sure, isn't it?

After all, no one needs to go to shopping malls, cinemas, bars, restaurants etc etc etc.

[thaibeachlovers]

3 hours ago, Jingthing said:

What do you think about this? Have you ever confronted a mask shirker? Perhaps you're a mask shirker yourself. Has anyone confronted you?

I dream about being confronted in public. I'd love to be giving said busybody some scolding to mind their own business.

Of course, in NZ we don't wear masks except on public transport, so that has never happened to me.

[Kwasaki]

4 hours ago, Jingthing said:

So what to do about it ?

I don't go in crowded shops that said the shops are pretty deserted where we live. 

People here where masks in there cars on there bike and I must say never see any people not wearing a mask. 

I wouldn't say anything to any Thai person I would to farangies.

 

[OneMoreFarang]

4 hours ago, rumak said:

my thai response look :

 

Or like this?

 

[lazygourmet]

I always put the mask on my chin when I smoke a spliff while cruising around on my Vespa.