Foreigners in Thailand warned about not wearing face masks

[superal]

13 hours ago, connda said:

Here we go again.  Bad Farangs!!!

What about the Thai tourist in the background.  You know, the maskless Thai behind the masked farang woman. 

Hey!  Thailand.  Where do I submit all the pictures I have of maskless Thais in public???

She looks like a typical UK national to me . ????

[huangnon]

5 hours ago, Willy Wombat said:

The leeches in charge are just deflecting AGAIN.

 

Just covering their asses for the abysmal vaccine procurement and rollout.

Yep. It's a very unpopular Govt trying to enforce compliance through fear-mongering and xenophobia.

[poohy]

3 hours ago, Captain Monday said:

Coming to Thailand should be a complete cultural experience for open minded people. The TAT and all travel industry channels should make it clear through international media that although it may not be scientifically essential wearing a mask AT ALL TIMES EVEN OUTDOORS is part of many Asian cultures already and will be required for in Thailand for several more years under force of legal prosecution or please do not come to Thailand. 

What ???!

Where i am admittedly not in a city life is relatively Normal you wear masks in shop markets  and thats about it

 

 

[NorthernRyland]

9 minutes ago, poohy said:

In real life outside prachuap masks are worn by thais about 50% of time and never when they socializing In local bars drinking shops (yes thereare many)

 

I'm seeing damn near 100% compliance in Chiang Mai. Even stupid stuff like, exit the car and put on the mask, arrive at the table and take off the mask, when you're finished put back on the mask and walk to the car, remove the mask in the car etc....

 

We're seeing in realtime how Thailand gets left behind the rest of the world. We all started out at the same place in 2020 and now over a year later Thailand still seems stuck in the past and struggling to process all the new developments since then.  It's a shame really because life may not be getting back to normal for a long time here....

[Almer]

I would suggest immigration on arrival advise all that masks are a requirement or even better a warning leaflet given to all arrivals lest there be no misunderstandings, nothing wrong in giving people clear definitive instructions.

[Lemsta69]

59 minutes ago, nchuckle said:

One look at the PISA educational tables will confirm the lack of education. Not the sharpest tools in the shed..

which keeps prices down and allows the old codgers to live here instead of smelly old ferrlung land. yet they complain about the poor standards. oh the irony! ????

[shackleton]

I wear my face mask all the time  when out walking in my compound  or shopping down town its no big deal

I think myself it should be compulsory  for all to wear 

Won't be long before the UK  does make it compulsory 

as to what is happening in Germany and Austria  plus the arrival of winter 

[wombat]

I must be the odd one out...I feel naked if I don't have mask on before I walk out my door.

 

[DjSilver]

10 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

Thai’s do tend to ask silly, clumsy and outright silly questions - its not because they are being judgemental, its just because in many cases they do not think before asking... its often harmless and quite amusing, especially when handled well...

 

IF a person (*Thai or otherwise) was silly enough to ask me if I have covid... I’d answer something like, yes, but only in the mornings !!!! 

 

Just like when all the aunties asked when we are going to have children (when my Wife and I got married), my Answer was usually something along the lines of 9am next Saturday. 

 

 

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Mask wearing indoors in public is fine...  be curious, walk to your table in a restaurant then take off the mask after being seated (put mask in pocket, not on the table).

Mask wearing in a busy outdoor market, 7-11, supermarket etc.. of course - thats common sense.

Mask wearing when riding a bicycle - no, not when exercising or outdoors in a quiet area (and definitely not when doing hard exercise). 

 

Theres an intelligent balance and while some people do not possess the common sense to apply an intelligent balance, most people do and are not judgemental to those exercising discretion and common sense. 

 

i.e. I do not wear a mask in my car with my Wife and Son... thats just silly - its one those regulations which is just too silly to be concerned with.

I do not wear a mask on my motorcycle when wearing a full face helmet.

I wear a mask on my motorcycle when wearing an open face helmet, but have it pulled down to my chin, so that my breath doest fog up the visor - its there just incase some BiB decides he’s going to chance things at the traffic lights. 

 

 

Thai people are mostly no thinking humans ????????????

[sandyf]

14 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

While recently in the UK about 5-10% of people were wearing facemarks.. Life back to normal.

People still contracting covid, but vaccinated, not suffering serious symptoms, hospitals not being overwhelmed. 

Try looking in the mirror when looking for a xenophobe and feel free to spread the garbage.

 

LONDON — An increasing number of doctors in the U.K. are warning that the country, and its health service, are facing a renewed health crisis due to rampant Covid-19 infections and a rising number of hospitalizations and deaths.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/22/uk-covid-doctors-warn-of-crisis-as-officials-reject-restrictions.html

[redwood1]

2 minutes ago, wombat said:

I must be the odd one out...I feel naked if I don't have mask on before I walk out my door.

 

Me too but most maskers seem satisfied if you at least wear your mask like this..

 

[DjSilver]

What about the stupid people riding a motorbike with only face masks and no helmet? Smart Thai people ????????????

[mahtin]

Wouldn't be too hard to announce the fact that masks are mandatory on the plane.

[Bkktodd]

15 hours ago, pattjock said:

What about all the Thai people not wearing masks?

Deflection works sometimes….but if one walked on soi baukhao (Pattaya) you’d see  most farangs not wearing mask. Police would have a field  day if they bothered to enforce the rule

[John Drake]

3 hours ago, thai006 said:

Wear the mask or go home. Easy 

Neither coming here or going home from here is easy.

[Clarkey611]

6 minutes ago, mahtin said:

Wouldn't be too hard to announce the fact that masks are mandatory on the plane.

They are mandatory on the plane.

[sandyf]

15 hours ago, pattjock said:

What about all the Thai people not wearing masks?

What about trying to understand the English  language?

The comment was specific to recent foreign arrivals with the the implication visitors may not be aware. That implication would not apply to Thai nationals. 

 

"many foreigners who have arrived in Thailand since its reopening have not been wearing face masks as required"

"The rule also applies to visitors."

 

Of course a xenophobic interpretation is more acceptable on this forum.

[Derek B]

13 hours ago, Thailand said:

Picture is from March 2020

Burning season................................

[Joules]

Ignorance, such shameless ignorance.

 

The New York Times is reporting that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was relying on a faulty study in declaring a 10 percent chance of the transmission of Covid-19 outdoors. After using the “miscalculation” to support outdoor mask mandates for over 300 million Americans, the CDC now says that it is more like one percent. It is astonishing that such a key and controversial component of our Covid policies was not just based on a miscalculation but never actively questioned or reexamined to discover the error.

 

The Times’ Leonhardt noted “There is not a single documented Covid infection anywhere in the world from casual outdoor interactions, such as walking past someone on a street or eating at a nearby table.”

The outdoor risk has been a major source of disagreement with many contesting mandatory mask rules for those walking or working or recreating outside. It turns out that, according to the Times, the 10% benchmark is based “partly on a misclassification” of virus transmission in Singapore at various construction sites. Those sites were incorrectly described as outdoor but now appear to have actually taken place in indoor settings. Singapore also classified settings that were a mix of indoors and outdoors as outdoors, including construction building sites.

The real risk is one percent or less.  

[Clarkey611]

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

According to Dr Apisamai many foreigners who have arrived in Thailand since its reopening have not been wearing face masks as required and have also been gathering in groups and at parties. 

 

He only wants us to be protected from the dirty unvaccinated locals. 

[Bkktodd]

20 minutes ago, Almer said:

I would suggest immigration on arrival advise all that masks are a requirement or even better a warning leaflet given to all arrivals lest there be no misunderstandings, nothing wrong in giving people clear definitive instructions.

Lots of expats already in Thailand are above the law with the mask rule. Then the first ones to complain  the bars are closed.

[NorthernRyland]

15 minutes ago, sandyf said:

LONDON — An increasing number of doctors in the U.K. are warning that the country, and its health service, are facing a renewed health crisis due to rampant Covid-19 infections and a rising number of hospitalizations and deaths.

They've been saying that for years and why didn't wearing masks help all the previous months if they're effective? I seriously can't believe people are going in for another year of this nonsense, and we have the so-called vaccines now even!

[tomazbodner]

6 hours ago, Aforek said:

I wear mask outside, market etc and I am not sick : why ? 

here, 99.99 % people ( Thai, I am the only farang ) wear a mask

in Europe, few people wear a mask : you know the result 

of course, mask, vaccination and social distancing are the key 

Saw article (but not in English) that masks were 53% effective in preventing transmission and distancing about 20 something %. Not sure where they got that article from, it was posted 2 days ago with title (translated) "How effective are masks against COVID, really?". I'm sure it's not their article, as they keep reposting stuff from other agencies, but it's from one of largest media companies in Europe.

 

Now... I see all these protests around Europe in the past couple of days. Their numbers of infections are off the chart, yet you would be hard pressed to find anyone with a mask on...

 

A month or 2 ago I watched about The Flu that killed 50 million... I think it was BBC production. Amazon Prime has it (googled that, but watched it on True Science or whatever the name of that channel is) which basically showed how they were coming up with protections and what worked and what didn't ad-hoc. The lockdowns are actually what Manchester (if I remember right) mayor did and it worked in lowering infections there. Masks were what some doctors in UK found out worked in at least partially protecting their health workers from getting infected and dying.

 

Last bit I didn't know... Spanish Flu was only called that way as only Spain talked about it while others tried to play it down. But it actually came from farmer in Kansas who became a cook at a military camp there. The subsequent variants also came from the same military camp, before spreading by ships to Europe (France, mainly), and from there to the rest of the World.

 

Interesting thing to watch.

[Tropposurfer]

I see this every time I go out on west side of Phuket. And for the poster who made reference to Thai's doing this I can tell you where I live the number of falang's not wearing masks far outweighs the locals.

Hey !!! these privileged and 'special' people cry out they wander out without masks ... I'm a falang, don't you know who I am !!! I'm from a superior western nation how dare you or anyone expect or mandate I wear a face mask in the interest of other peoples safety ... especially a nation I'm visiting that is less-than my superior home nation. You should be so grateful I am gracing this place with my presence. (sarcasm and disgust in the post by the way for anyone unsure of my intent and feeling at my fellow white Caucasian humans).

I hope the fines flow fast n heavy!

[Seeall]

15 hours ago, pattjock said:

What about all the Thai people not wearing masks?

Dont you know that they are immune?  and if they are goverment they have a higher imunity,,, jeez,,, get with the plan man...

[spidermike007]

I am in the US right now, and a minority of people are wearing masks outdoors. Thailand happens to be one of the most fearful and paranoid nations around, when it comes to transmission of Covid, so I can understand the reluctance to follow this extreme trend and habit. It is NOT easily transmissible outdoors. 

[Seeall]

2 hours ago, IamNoone88 said:

Warned about not wearing masks .... no mention of motor bike helmets or condoms? 

oh... i though a face mask is  better than a helmet and a condom?

[snowgard]

3 hours ago, bluemoon58 said:

Absolute boll*cks! Thais are by far the worst culprits for all the above but the "dirty farang" are getting the blame again. TIT

 

Why??? Just when I look how much idiots demonstrate in the european cities about new lockdowns  without a mask, I am sure this man spoke right. So much farangs give a <deleted> about the law here. Just drive down the beach road in pattaya or jomtien and you can be rich if you give a fine to every farang without mask on the mouth

[Cake Monster]

12 hours ago, koratkarlos said:

I am farang and yes I wear a mask, even when bicycling in the countryside.  I certainly do not need this mask in remote areas but I wear the mask.  Why?  Because of the dirty looks I get when as a farang I do not have a mask on.  It is easier to just wear one.  You know, all farangs have COVID.  That is what the locals asked me a few days ago at the market.  Do you have COVID?   Perhaps there is a lack of education and understanding.

There is no lack of Education or understanding.

There is however, an ingrained fear and inner loathing of anything, and anybody that is not Thai, and this fire is continually being stoked by the Authorities in the speeches and mandates

[ronster]

Most of the tourists I seen on Sunday evening in an area of samui were not wearing masks while walking around or arriving at restaurants in minivan’s. Then add to that the photos online of the full moon party with just about everyone not wearing masks . Might be why they had 50 new infections In phangan the other day .