It's not a lockdown! Govt spokesman says new rules are to stop travel just as travel increases

[webfact]

Picture: Daily News

 

Thailand's embattled government was in total disarray Sunday as their spokesman said that new rules published in the Government Gazette did not represent a lockdown. 

 

People from ten provinces have been asked not to travel.

 

Yet all over the Thai media were stories of people packing the roads, defying bans and heading for villages. 

 

If this was the government's way of stopping the spread of Covid netizens thought it was about as much use as what happened in the country due to dilly-dallying at Songkran. 

 

The order - number 25 - referred to deep red zone provinces where Covid is spiking in and around Bangkok and in the far south.

 

It concerns people living in Bangkok, Nakhon Pathom, Pathum Thani, Samut Prakan, Samut Sakhon, Naratiwas, Pattani, Songkhla and Yala. 

 

Spokesman Anucha Burapachaisri looked increasingly flustered as he presented the closure of construction sites for 30 days and further restrictions on gatherings as most definitely "not a lockdown".

 

Meanwhile tens of thousands took him by his word and headed to the countryside.

 

And others especially in the hardest hit areas hunkered down. 

 

With the travel advisory largely ignored and on the other hand many people feeling as though they are actually in lockdown, the government looked increasingly out of touch. 

 

Daily News went with the headline: Spokesman says it's not a lockdown - People should just avoid interprovincial travel. 

 

They published a picture of Anucha like he had been caught in the headlights. 

 

Meanwhile he was forced to admit that the so-called Beta variant, a new strain that originated in Africa, has now been detected in the far south. 

 

The new regulations as announced in the government gazette come into force today, June 28th. 

 

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[Surelynot]

It is going to get worse.........the workers are being offered half pay and free food if they remain in Bangkok.....so they will all be coming back Monday/Tuesday.........you couldn't write this stuff.

[Justgrazing]

5 minutes ago, webfact said:

 

If this was the government's way of stopping the spread of Covid netizens thought it was about as much use as

 

a chocolate teapot .? 

[ThailandRyan]

7 minutes ago, webfact said:

the closure of construction sites for 30 days and further restrictions on gatherings as most definitely "not a lockdown

Well what the hell do you want to call it,"Selective imprisonment"....

[RotBenz8888]

39 minutes ago, webfact said:

total disarray

And these generals are supposed to protect Thailand in the event of a military attack... theyd be lucky if enemy would laugh themselves to death ????

[wensiensheng]

“Meanwhile he was forced to admit that the so-called Beta variant, a new strain that originated in Africa, has now been detected in the far south. “

 

no need to look so far.BP is reporting a case in Bangkok.

[Swimfan]

The guy looks like a deer in headlights with no idea what is about to hit him.

[pkrv]

3 minutes ago, Swimfan said:

The guy looks like a deer in headlights with no idea what is about to hit him.

Maybe he's just realised he's not wearing a mask and is calculating the fine he'll be due!

[MasterBaker]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

People from ten provinces have been asked not to travel.

i guess they didn't learn from what happened last time when they said that

[welshguy]

The report keeps saying out of touch.?   ..To me it seems they are more out of control.

[phetphet]

2 hours ago, Surelynot said:

It is going to get worse.........the workers are being offered half pay and free food if they remain in Bangkok.....so they will all be coming back Monday/Tuesday.........you couldn't write this stuff.

I think it's going to get a lot, lot worse once this Delta variant takes hold. Far more infectious for the young.

In the UK it is spreading quickly in the classrooms.

 

https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/06/1094852

[HarrySeaman]

My wife is living in a small town in Chainat province, which is in mid-Thailand, so she can take care of her ailing father.  I spoke to her this morning and she told me that several construction workers had returned to her small town from their work places in BKK after the work sites were shut down.  Worse yet, they are not isolating themselves but carrying on as normal, visiting markets, friends, and the temples.

 

Actually many of the temples are taking extra precautions so that is probably a minor worry.

 

Expect a fourth surge in less than two weeks.

 

As the philosopher George Santayana said, "“Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.”.  I guess the Thai government officials don't even know the history of what happened when they allowed Songkron travel (hint, hint:  Third surge).

[Surelynot]

4 minutes ago, phetphet said:

I think it's going to get a lot, lot worse once this Delta variant takes hold. Far more infectious for the young.

In the UK it is spreading quickly in the classrooms.

 

https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/06/1094852

100%.......We ain't seen nothin' yet..........Once the delta variant takes off we could be looking at another India.......as you say.......even with the Uk's efforts to vaccinate they are still neck and neck virus versus vaccine.

 

In Khlong Toei at the moment and watching the numbers............going to give it another few days and then think we will decamp to the sticks.

[bluedoc]

40 minutes ago, HarrySeaman said:

 

My wife is living in a small town in Chainat province, which is in mid-Thailand, so she can take care of her ailing father.  I spoke to her this morning and she told me that several construction workers had returned to her small town from their work places in BKK after the work sites were shut down.  Worse yet, they are not isolating themselves but carrying on as normal, visiting markets, friends, and the temples

 

Yes, mass exodus from Bangkok construction sites. Inter provincial travel full on. I think chocolate teapot is a good description.

[holy cow cm]

It's not a lockdown, but it is just say restricting things, same as its not feeding at the trough but is a mere' bonus related on performance. 

[Almer]

Lets tell everybody on Saturday that we will lock down the Migrant camps on Monday, most will do a runner and that will stop Bkk hospitals from over flowing, yes but what happens if the migrants and others leaving Bkk spread the virus, don't ask hypothetical questions.

[dinsdale]

Thon Lor, Songkran and now Fleeing Foreign Workers. Words fail me. Basically how to assist pandemic spread 101. 

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Well what the hell do you want to call it,"Selective imprisonment"....

It does have a nicer ring about it.

[connda]

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[KhunMorris]

Not looking good for Somchai and co.

 

5000 cases a day, Delta variant will become dominant shortly and is MUCH MORE efficient with transmission, could see 10 or 20k a day easily by mid-July after this ludicrous sandbox plan comes to fruition.

 

Simply put. They are <deleted>.

 

Sincerley

 

MORRIS

Ex Bar Owner, Speaks Thai, Laos

[connda]

Wife <our Thai News source> informed me that people in Bangkok are heading to Chiang Mai and starting to buy condos and rent property in an effort to split the Red Zone (and of course bring the viruses to the North).
They are right about one thing.  Asking nice and polite that people (pretty please) don't engage in inter-provincial is not a lock-down.  Locking foreign factory workers into their plants is a lockdown.  That's just for dirty migrants.  Clean Thais from Dark-Red Zones are free to travel just like Songkran - and just like Songkran there will be a spike in Covid nationally.
Who's to blame?  That's easy.  The same people as before.  It's almost like the goal is to get Covid infections widespread.

[rodknock]

if not a lock down, a quarentine, sounds more relistic!!

[ozz1]

lockdown  but keep all the big shopping malls open can't upset the hisos they need the money 

[bangon04]

2 hours ago, hotchilli said:

It does have a nicer ring about it.

a workers' camp without the (re)- education is known as a concentration camp.....

[Peterphuket]

You can say whatever you want but they are the best at making excuses.

[MrJ2U]

7 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:

And these generals are supposed to protect Thailand in the event of a military attack... theyd be lucky if enemy would laugh themselves to death ????

Fakers.

 

Generals should be experts in the supply chain. 

 

Totally useless waist of medals for these wanna be "generals".

[Anton9]

How many more months of this useless restrictions?

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11 hours ago, wensiensheng said:

“Meanwhile he was forced to admit that the so-called Beta variant, a new strain that originated in Africa, has now been detected in the far south. “

 

no need to look so far.BP is reporting a case in Bangkok.

As has been the case elsewhere, Beta will be overwhelmed by Delta.

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9 hours ago, HarrySeaman said:

As the philosopher George Santayana said, "“Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.”. 

Santayana was on to something. I knew so little of history that I failed it in school and had to repeat it the following year.

[Rampant Rabbit]

9 hours ago, connda said:

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phew  shes  a  loolker  alright