Thailand wants answers over berry pickers’ Covid-19 outbreaks in Finland

[KannikaP]

19 minutes ago, klauskunkel said:

hence: migrants 

So they 'slipped over the border' with China, then possibly Mongolia or Kahzakstan before slipping over the Russian border, and hence into Finland.

[klauskunkel]

2 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

So they 'slipped over the border' with China, then possibly Mongolia or Kahzakstan before slipping over the Russian border, and hence into Finland.

Congrats, you got it!

[ThaiFelix]

3 hours ago, robblok said:

Not sure where you are but in BKK i see almost everyone with a mask the only ones that did not have a mask were some construction workers.

I live in Isaan, I couldnt say what is happening in Bangkok.

[djayz]

8 hours ago, tonray said:

Maybe a better question is why in supposedly one of the most 'developed' economies in SE Asia, Thai citizens need to travel overseas to Scandinavia to work as farm laborers. 

Because they are the "Hub of pickers"

[AwwYesNice1]

Sharing somtam with all that communal sticky rice picking is prolly the culprit.

 

 

[RJRS1301]

10 hours ago, klauskunkel said:

"Thailand wants answers over berry pickers’ Covid-19 outbreaks in Finland"

Answer: Some Burmese migrants slipped over the border with Russia and selectively infected Thai berry pickers.

Would it be anything to do with Sinovac ???

Efficacy??

 

 

[candide]

It's a bit strange that Finland needs to get workers from as far as Thailand, while there is a large supply of agricultural workers from Eastern Europe.

[FarangPumpui]

Thai berry Pickers have accommodation where a lot of people share small space. Thats why if one gets covid it spreads easyly. If everybody has their own condo it would be too expensive. Finnish people are too lazy to go get blueberries so we have to get pickers from Thailand. Eastern European people have also tried that but they cant work so hard like Thai people

[Cake Monster]

13 hours ago, webfact said:

Commenting on the ongoing situation regarding the infection amongst Thai workers in the country, Thailand’s Ambassador to Finland, Chavanart Thangsumphant, said that the Finnish berry picking firms are responsible for protecting the migrant workers’ health amid the ongoing covid-19 pandemic

So Thailand has a responsibility for protecting the Migrant workers on Thai soil then.

What a hypocrite.

[StayinThailand2much]

13 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand’s Ambassador to Finland, Chavanart Thangsumphant, said that the Finnish berry picking firms are responsible for protecting the migrant workers’ health (...)

Says a representative of a country that is not known for treating migrant workers well...

Edited August 21, 2021 by StayinThailand2much

[StayinThailand2much]

39 minutes ago, FarangPumpui said:

Thai berry Pickers have accommodation where a lot of people share small space. Thats why if one gets covid it spreads easyly. If everybody has their own condo it would be too expensive. Finnish people are too lazy to go get blueberries so we have to get pickers from Thailand (...)

Typical cheap labour/unavailable local labour scenario; Filipinas working as nannies, as they can speak English, other Filipinos, Indonesians, Vietnamese, etc.,  working on freight and cruise ships, thanks to their education and training. Thais, who neither speak English, nor are good with trades, do what they can do best, i.e. working in Israel's agriculture, or picking berries in Finland...

Edited August 21, 2021 by StayinThailand2much

[StayinThailand2much]

2 hours ago, djayz said:

Because they are the "Hub of pickers"

It's a win-win. Thai labourers are relatively cheap, don't mind primitive housing conditions, but are keen to 'strike it rich in the West'...

 

Don't know how much they make in Finland, but let's say it's 6,000€ in four or five months, that would be a fortune in Thailand, esp. as they won't spend much of their income in Finland. (If five siblings went there together, I can imagine that they could build a house in Esarn for that kind of money.)

Edited August 21, 2021 by StayinThailand2much

[IAMHERE]

I'd imagine this is an attempt to shake a Finnish berry bush hard enough that a brown envelope will fall out. ????

[djayz]

1 hour ago, StayinThailand2much said:

It's a win-win. Thai labourers are relatively cheap, don't mind primitive housing conditions, but are keen to 'strike it rich in the West'...

 

Don't know how much they make in Finland, but let's say it's 6,000€ in four or five months, that would be a fortune in Thailand, esp. as they won't spend much of their income in Finland. (If five siblings went there together, I can imagine that they could build a house in Esarn for that kind of money.)

True. I suppose somebody has to be the "cheap labour". 

[HiSoLowSoNoSo]

I can give you an answer that you maybe don't like: stop sending your infected, so called "fully vaccinated" workers to Finland and Sweden.

[placnx]

5 hours ago, StayinThailand2much said:

It's a win-win. Thai labourers are relatively cheap, don't mind primitive housing conditions, but are keen to 'strike it rich in the West'...

 

Don't know how much they make in Finland, but let's say it's 6,000€ in four or five months, that would be a fortune in Thailand, esp. as they won't spend much of their income in Finland. (If five siblings went there together, I can imagine that they could build a house in Esarn for that kind of money.)

There was a program about Thai berry pickers in Sweden last May, but the video is unavailable online. That's unusual.

[Sydebolle]

Tell 'em in Bangkok that nothing is done for those Thai berry pickers; Finn come first, dirty farang next and at the bottom of the ladder then the rest. 

No; Thais can count on the Finnish care like anyone else - except non-Thais in Thailand, but that is another story! 

[mac1970]

Right, checked some local news, and surprisingly...all were tested when arriving (this means all berry pickers, Thailand, Ukraine etc.). No infections. Took company bus, and travelled to the housing where they did additional testing after a while (during these couple of days they did not leave housing) and guess what, tens of them were tested positive (not people who were helping except company boss several days later). So now under quarantine and most of them back to negative (one of company which hired them). Of course business down and seems to be that officials are giving hard times to companies when checking them and requesting improvements. Of course who to blame, they knew risks and airport testing is not telling the truth. Berry pickers? Knowing that in the right conditions they could earn 3-4 times yearly income in Thailand, anyone would take a risk for that. Anyway seems to be that many of them are back to work earning by doing hard work. I would not go there, knowing how many bugs are awaiting fresh blood ????

[spidermike007]

And the correct reply should be how dare you question us.

You refuse to close your canning plants, resulting in thousands of new cases.

You warn your construction workers a week in advance of closing their sites, resulting in tens of thousands of new cases nationwide, and you refuse to even put up a roadblock, preventing people from traveling out of Bangkok, your Covid cluster center of the nation, to prevent the spread.

In addition you completely botched your vaccination program.

And you lecture us? You question us? Who do you think you are? Do you actually think anyone outside of your own army takes you seriously anymore? Your people do not even trust you.

 

You have no credibility. Just zip it, and try for once to be productive men. Can you handle that?

[Lingba]

and I want answers to the covid outbreaks in Thailand