Checkpoints set up in Bangkok to stop construction workers leaving their sites

[snoop1130]

 

Six checkpoints are being set up in Bangkok and police and troops have been deployed to construction worker dormitories, in and around the capital, to prevent workers leaving their compounds and potentially spreading COVID-19, as the facilities are sealed for one month, effective today (Monday).

 

The six checkpoints, to operate from 4pm today, are on Vibhavadi Rangsit Road, near Don Mueang Railway Station, Suwinthawong Road, Bangna-Trad Road at 4.5 km, Borommaratchachonnani Road, Petchkasem Road, in front of Nong Khaem District Office, and on Rama 2 Road, in front of the PTT gas station.

 

There are 575 construction worker housing facilities in Bangkok, 77 of which have been completely sealed since yesterday. Active screening and inoculations will get underway as the facilities are sealed.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/checkpoints-set-up-in-bangkok-to-stop-construction-workers-leaving-their-sites/

 

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[Dmaxdan]

Closing the gate after the horse has bolted?

[AndyFoxy]

But most of them left yesterday

[ChipButty]

Blaming all the workers?

[connda]

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

Six checkpoints are being set up in Bangkok and police and troops have been deployed to construction worker dormitories, in and around the capital, to prevent workers leaving their compounds and potentially spreading COVID-19, as the facilities are sealed for one month, effective today (Monday).

Do you think they would ever seal bankers into their high-rise "compounds."  Well, on the other hand you'd also probably never see the government insisting that all bankers in a high-rise submit to forced PCR tests.  How about those working in government compounds.  It's interesting that when they go looking for 'cases' they find cases.  This is too much like smoke and mirrors. 
"Look at the dirty migrant construction and factory workers.  We're sealing them up. <don't look at the Hi-So politicos slumming in Thong lor>.  It's funny. What criteria is used to force mass-testing on sub-sets of the populace?  Being a migrant worker puts you at high-risk imho.  You think they'd ever force all workers in Government House to get mass tested no less the PM, MPs and Ministers?  When pigs fly perhaps.
In the meanwhile this looks like scapegoating.  Always the same demographic: working-class, factory workers, construction workers, laborers, fisherman - never the business class or the government class.  That's a little too convenient for me personally.  Smells?  Fishy.

Edited June 28, 2021 by connda

[KhunBENQ]

Stop Bangkok exodus with four(!) roadblocks?

 

[Caldera]

1 hour ago, KhunBENQ said:

Stop Bangkok exodus with four(!) roadblocks?

 

 

Four roadblocks, two days too late. What a mess!

[Led Lolly Yellow Lolly]

They're just there to check they didn't stop anything.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 28, 2021 by Led Lolly Yellow Lolly

[SCOTT FITZGERSLD]

IT sounds bad...i think i will cancell my trip to thailand...the

situation is propably much worse than what the media tell us and

those drastic measures are the proof.

i am affraid the train has left and the virus will have to take its course...brazil way...

sorry about that.

[nausea]

Fiddling while Rome burns. We all know the true solution, get everyone vaccinated. The sad thing is that Thailand had a unique opportunity to do this, and get through this with minimal pain, when they had the hiatus cushioning them from the effects that were battering the rest of the world, but instead they rested on their laurels. Hindsight is a great thing, I suppose. I don't know about the official figures, but people are dropping left, right, and centre where I live, it's way past cordoning off a few worker camps.

Edited June 28, 2021 by nausea

[RichardColeman]

8 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The six checkpoints, to operate from 4pm today, are on Vibhavadi Rangsit Road, near Don Mueang Railway Station, Suwinthawong Road, Bangna-Trad Road at 4.5 km, Borommaratchachonnani Road, Petchkasem Road, in front of Nong Khaem District Office, and on Rama 2 Road, in front of the PTT gas station.

I know I'm not the smartest person on here, but surely by publishing the roads they have the blocks on, they'll just use other non-guarded routes ? 

 

[Damrongsak]

21 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

I know I'm not the smartest person on here, but surely by publishing the roads they have the blocks on, they'll just use other non-guarded routes ? 

 

I wondered why so many apparently oriental people were driving by my house the last few days.  And I'm in the USA.  If someone stops for directions I'll ask them if they are Thai.

[webfact]

“Hundreds” of migrant workers found wandering along the road ahead of camp closures

By Pear Maneechote

 

 

Hundreds of Cambodian migrant workers were dropped at border checkpoints or even just forced onto the streets over the weekend without any further support, ahead of announced camp closures, a non-government organization said Monday.

 

“We received reports from the border-crossing point in Surin of the growing number of Cambodian workers rushing to return home,” Human Rights Watch senior researcher Sunai Phasuk told Thai Enquirer.

 

The government said Friday it will seal off worker camps in Bangkok and neighbouring provinces, as well as four provinces in the south.

 

Full story: https://www.thaienquirer.com/29051/hundreds-of-migrant-workers-found-wandering-along-the-road-ahead-of-camp-closures/

 

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[jethro69]

8 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

Stop Bangkok exodus with four(!) roadblocks?

 

and everyone know where they are ????

[smedly]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

The government said Friday it will seal off worker camps in Bangkok and neighbouring provinces, as well as four provinces in the south.

 

it is imprisonment - no other word for it

 

no wonder they are now on the run trying to escape 

 

disgraceful 

[bradiston]

2 hours ago, smedly said:

 

it is imprisonment - no other word for it

 

no wonder they are now on the run trying to escape 

 

disgraceful 

Seal off the Hisos!

[mrfill]

Quelle surprise!!! Nobody could have predicted that.

 

Oops sorry, meant to say everybody could have predicted that.

[hotchilli]

13 hours ago, AndyFoxy said:

But most of them left yesterday

Some were on the road Friday, news of the impending closure traveled faster than the government.

[ChipButty]

Im getting a bit worried, my wife has to go to hospital in BKK next month, I think the worst place to be is in a hospital she has 2 jabs I know that still doesn't stop from getting infected,

 

[Golden Triangle]

The way these migrant workers are treated is obscene, these people have built probably 80% of the major infrastructure in this country yet are cast aside like an old T shirt or broken toy when they become too much of a perceived problem.

 

We have a new road & drains being installed out by Mabprachan lake on the Darkside of Pattaya, 95% of the workforce are migrants.

 

Sometimes this country and the attitude of its people stinks, if it wasn't for migrants the Thais would still be living in tin shacks and riding buffalo on dirt roads.

[StevieAus]

2 hours ago, smedly said:

 

it is imprisonment - no other word for it

 

no wonder they are now on the run trying to escape 

 

disgraceful 

Isn’t enforced quarantine for fourteen days, when you cannot leave the room?

Desperate measures for desperate times

[Cake Monster]

Wow ! Six checkpoints

Thats what I call a really concentrated effort to stop the Migrants leaving Bangkok.

Like Swallows in the late Summer, they all left late last week.

Now they just have to stop the Bangkokians leaving.

Edited June 29, 2021 by Cake Monster

[Cake Monster]

13 minutes ago, Golden Triangle said:

The way these migrant workers are treated is obscene, these people have built probably 80% of the major infrastructure in this country yet are cast aside like an old T shirt or broken toy when they become too much of a perceived problem.

 

We have a new road & drains being installed out by Mabprachan lake on the Darkside of Pattaya, 95% of the workforce are migrants.

 

Sometimes this country and the attitude of its people stinks, if it wasn't for migrants the Thais would still be living in tin shacks and riding buffalo on dirt roads.

The way in which these Migrants are treated from the moment they set foot on Thai soil, is indeed an International Disgrace.

Its way overdue for some International Human Rights Organizations, Foreign Governments to start rocking the Thai boat over this issue.

And yes, the attitude of the Thai Government and the people really suck, with their Racism and Paranoid Xenophobia

[Sticky Rice Balls]

OR......just shut down the 7-11 nearby

 

close the noodle shop?

 

send the lottery lady home?

 

fold up the 2 chairs and table aka thai bar

 

shut down the papaya salad and moo ping cart?

 

????

[Golden Triangle]

I wish the government were as good at telegraphing the winning lotto numbers as they are at forewarning the migrants of impending incarceration ????

[crazykopite]

3 hours ago, smedly said:

 

it is imprisonment - no other word for it

 

no wonder they are now on the run trying to escape 

 

disgraceful 

Seal off the Government Parliament with all the ministers locked up inside it and don’t allow them out until they get this virus sorted out they’ve had over a year to do something and just stood there spouting out BS hoping it would fly away with the wind 

[DefaultName]

Would it be wrong to think that this was a cynical attempt to make Bangkok safer by letting the infected leave?  To some, the capital is all that really matters in this country.

[greenmonkey]

2 hours ago, Golden Triangle said:

The way these migrant workers are treated is obscene, these people have built probably 80% of the major infrastructure in this country yet are cast aside like an old T shirt or broken toy when they become too much of a perceived problem.

 

We have a new road & drains being installed out by Mabprachan lake on the Darkside of Pattaya, 95% of the workforce are migrants.

 

Sometimes this country and the attitude of its people stinks, if it wasn't for migrants the Thais would still be living in tin shacks and riding buffalo on dirt roads.

so true.

[greenmonkey]

this smacks of desperation by the govt. I think they know there is a lot worse to come so they either tell the migrants to leave or get locked inside their camps. I am really beginning to worry now about what comes next. We all saw what happened in India...

[FarFlungFalang]

25 minutes ago, DefaultName said:

Would it be wrong to think that this was a cynical attempt to make Bangkok safer by letting the infected leave?  To some, the capital is all that really matters in this country.

The capital is all Thailand really was the rest of the country was given to them by foreigners drawing lines through Laos, Burma, Cambodia and Malaysia.