BANGKOK (NNT) - The Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) has come up with a “bubble-and-seal” system to ensure Thailand’s industrial sector is not brought to a complete standstill by COVID-19.

 

Under the system, 10% of factory workers are to be randomly tested every 14 days and low-risk employees are allowed to continue working. The FTI is also seeking government funding, for factories with a workforce of 300 or more, to set up a quarantine/isolation area within the factory premises, so asymptomatic workers can continue working.

 

According to the FTI, those in the industrial sector believe the “bubble-and-seal” scheme and a wider vaccination rate will help prevent fatalities and the spread of COVID-19. The private sector is, therefore, calling on the authorities to inoculate the high-risk group (aged 40-59), as well as factory workers, especially those in places where clusters have broken out.

 

The National Communicable Disease Committee (NCDC) has also agreed to the planned “bubble-and-seal” approach for factories where clusters of COVID-19 infections were detected, to curb transmissions, while the factories will not be closed and workers will get their pay and the economy will move on.

 

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If it's all the same to them, bubble and squeak sounds much more palatable to me.

2 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The FTI is also seeking government funding, for factories with a workforce of 300 or more, to set up a quarantine/isolation area within the factory premises, so asymptomatic workers can continue working.

Ah huh…

it is lock them in and keep the wheels turning - civil rights removed

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) has come up with a “bubble-and-seal” system to ensure Thailand’s industrial sector is not brought to a complete standstill by COVID-19.

Transliterated... internment.

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Under the system, 10% of factory workers are to be randomly tested every 14 days and low-risk employees are allowed to continue working. The FTI is also seeking government funding, for factories with a workforce of 300 or more, to set up a quarantine/isolation area within the factory premises, so asymptomatic workers can continue working.

Are these Factory owners for real ?

Firstly they ask for Government Money to keep their Factories running, and then what they are basically saying is that Asymptomatic Employees will kep working, and therefore spreading the Virus in the Factory until the workers become sick enough that they are then needing Medical attention at a Hospital

22 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The FTI is also seeking government funding, for factories with a workforce of 300 or more, to set up a quarantine/isolation area within the factory premises, so asymptomatic workers can continue working.

A labor camp, essentially. All for the greater good, of course, to protect Thailand's exports and the wealth of the country's oligarchs.