By Nop Meechukhun

 

Bangkok –   Famous singer/songwriter Yuenyong Opakul, better known by his stage name ‘Aed Carabao’, had released a new song Thursday, March 17th, named “Let Go of Covid” (literal title, video below) as a message to the government to express people’s hardship and urge the government to relax the measures.

 

Aed wrote a message along with the post: “I went to hand a trophy at the Carabao Cup football trophy in England recently. Although the country was cold, they were still able to live with Covid-19. There were nearly 90,000 spectators at Wembley Stadium and I had to take off my mask. I was shy because I was the only one who was wearing it, feeling like a black sheep. I was astounded to see everything completely normal, all nightlife open without rules and restrictions, concerts and sports normal, no outdoor mask-wearing, all of it.”

 

“If [the government] wanted to do Covid-19 restrictions seriously, how about did it like Shenzhen, China, right now? Completely lockdown with a specific time limit.

 

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Born as a buffalo, they must eat grass.

Born as a citizen, a life is more important than your political game.”

 

 

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But we should accept this fact and live with Covid-19 and treat it, medically, as we do the flu. 

Bang on mate! It’s high again in UK but is on the back burner. People have had enough and are moving on. There’s no all encompassing plague and no one is dying in the streets. Move on and let’s live our lives. Autocrats don’t do that for the people, of course, as they perceive to lose power. 

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Aed wrote a message along with the post: “I went to hand a trophy at the Carabao Cup football trophy in England recently. Although the country was cold, they were still able to live with Covid-19. There were nearly 90,000 spectators at Wembley Stadium and I had to take off my mask. I was shy because I was the only one who was wearing it, feeling like a black sheep. I was astounded to see everything completely normal, all nightlife open without rules and restrictions, concerts and sports normal, no outdoor mask-wearing, all of it.”

Would you also be astounded to learn U.K. cases of infection, deaths and hospitalisation  are spiking upwards again…partygate just keeps on giving. 
 

Not that I’m against lifting restrictions. Vaccination levels are such in the U.K. that it was the right way to go. But it was clearly rushed through on political grounds rather than medical ones. 
 

I will still mask up when I’m there mind but that’s just pure contrariness on my part.
 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/30/covid-uk-coronavirus-cases-deaths-and-vaccinations-today?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other 

2 minutes ago, daveAustin said:

Bang on mate! It’s high again in UK but is on the back burner. People have had enough and are moving on. There’s no all encompassing plague and no one is dying in the streets. Move on and let’s live our lives. Autocrats don’t do that for the people, of course, as they perceive to lose power. 

Yep, a whole bunch of them around the world just don't want to let go of that mouth-water power they gave themselves. Bloody premier of Western Australia has introduced door-to-door covid test teams to catch the asymptomatic cases and therefore drive the numbers up in an attempt to justify his restrictions.

 

Anyway, good on Aed Carabao for making this effort. He's much admired in Thailand, so his actions may have some effect.

It will be hard for the Covid enthusiast’s, bureaucrat’s and fringe “medical” experts to ever let go of this thing.

Surprised they got away with that picture. If it was on the TV it would be so blurred and pixelated as to only show his guitar !

Wannabe outlaw biker who unfortunately is a total xenophobic Thai superstar [sic] --> there is no such thing as a Thai superstar. Unfortunately he is somewhat influential.

2 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

will still mask up when I’m there mind but that’s just pure contrariness on my part.

You're just to lazy to shave. 

Where can I buy a copy?

22 minutes ago, PoorSucker said:

You're just to lazy to shave. 

Yes but that's another issue...my unshaven state is clear even with a mask on.

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Famous Thai singer and songwriter ‘Aed Carabao’ composes song, urging government to ditch all Covid-19 restrictions like the UK and “move on” now

And infamous General cum songwriter 'Uncle Toot' retorts with a Thai cover of Fleetwood Mac's "You can go your own way!"

We have all had enough of the extreme cowardice, the government sponsored panic, the fright, the stupidity. I know people who are testing themselves twice a day, they are that scared of Covid. When I explain to them that Omicron is the best thing to happen to Covid, they do not get it, nor do they even seem interested in easing up on the panic button. Prayuth, and Anutin, congratulations. You have succeeded in scaring your people into total submission. 

 

Thailand, the lost frontier. 

Having watched the video, what amazed me was the vast gun collection on the wall behind him - personal protection ?????

3 hours ago, grain said:

Anyway, good on Aed Carabao for making this effort. He's much admired in Thailand, so his actions may have some effect.

It will have zero effect, as Covid has given the elite the god-given-gift of ultimate power control.

The sentiment is good but I was a bit disappointed in the lyrics. It needed a catchy chorus to be more effective. Mind you he delivered that final line "game garn muang" (political games) with venom! 

 

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40 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

We have all had enough of the extreme cowardice, the government sponsored panic, the fright, the stupidity. I know people who are testing themselves twice a day, they are that scared of Covid. When I explain to them that Omicron is the best thing to happen to Covid, they do not get it, nor do they even seem interested in easing up on the panic button. Prayuth, and Anutin, congratulations. You have succeeded in scaring your people into total submission. 

 

Thailand, the lost frontier. 

Who is "all"? You aren't a majority but a minority.

"Enough" yes but this doesn't change the situation. 

On 3/19/2022 at 6:51 PM, equalizer1970 said:

 

 

B: No one ever claimed everyone would have serious symptoms or get seriously ill. 
 

C; Too many have died or been hospitalised since the outbreak for it not to be considered a dangerous virus. 
 

D; You conveniently did not quote the part of my post where I agreed that vaccination numbers meant this decision made sense - though when johnson lifted the regulations it was done for political considerations rather than medical. 
 

 

2 hours ago, Letseng said:

Who is "all"? You aren't a majority but a minority.

"Enough" yes but this doesn't change the situation. 

Absolutely everyone I speak with, foreign and Thai alike. They are all so sick of this. 

8 hours ago, webfact said:

“I went to hand a trophy at the Carabao Cup football trophy in England recently. Although the country was cold, they were still able to live with Covid-19. There were nearly 90,000 spectators at Wembley Stadium and I had to take off my mask. I was shy because I was the only one who was wearing it, feeling like a black sheep. I was astounded to see everything completely normal, all nightlife open without rules and restrictions, concerts and sports normal, no outdoor mask-wearing, all of it.”

Well, the UK has a hefty percentage of the population fully vaccinated with vaccines that have a reasonable protection against the current Covid-19 variant.  Thailand has somewhere between 30 and 70% properly vaxed.  Maybe 50%.

I love his song homage to Luang Por Koon. 

9 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

Would you also be astounded to learn U.K. cases of infection, deaths and hospitalisation  are spiking upwards again…partygate just keeps on giving. 
 

Not that I’m against lifting restrictions. Vaccination levels are such in the U.K. that it was the right way to go. But it was clearly rushed through on political grounds rather than medical ones. 
 

I will still mask up when I’m there mind but that’s just pure contrariness on my part.
 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/30/covid-uk-coronavirus-cases-deaths-and-vaccinations-today?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other 

The last place in the world I’d be using as an example is the UK. Unmitigated disaster, and an absolute cash cow for a thieving government and it’s mates.

2 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

A: I’m not your boss (capitalised or not)

 

B: No one ever claimed everyone would have serious symptoms or get seriously ill. 
 

C; Too many have died or been hospitalised since the outbreak for it not to be considered a dangerous virus. 
 

D; You conveniently did not quote the part of my post where I agreed that vaccination numbers meant this decision made sense - though when johnson lifted the regulations it was done for political considerations rather than medical. 
 

 

I wouldn’t even say it was political considerations. It was purely to save his own skin, which as it turned out appears to have been saved by the Ukraine invasion by the Tories paymasters.

9 hours ago, grain said:

and therefore drive the numbers up in an attempt to justify his restrictions.

That’s the best conspiracy theory I’ve heard in ages

On 3/19/2022 at 7:20 PM, Bluespunk said:

 

B: No one ever claimed everyone would have serious symptoms or get seriously ill. 
 

C; Too many have died or been hospitalised since the outbreak for it not to be considered a dangerous virus. 
 

D; You conveniently did not quote the part of my post where I agreed that vaccination numbers meant this decision made sense - though when johnson lifted the regulations it was done for political considerations rather than medical. 
 

 

Johnson lifted restrictions because he vast majority of the people in the UK are fully vaccinated and the majority of the public don't want any more restrictions.

 

Plus he himself is anti-lockdown. This is clear from his actions throughout the pandemic. If he had his way the UK would have followed the Sweden model. 

 

I'm all for criticising Boris for his many failings. But being cynical about everything he does is pointless. 

 

 

 

2 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Absolutely everyone I speak with, foreign and Thai alike. They are all so sick of this. 

We may be sick of it but it's still here. I haven't been keeping up with the Thai Covid figures but I believe they are still high. They did really well early on but they do seem to have lost there way a bit lately. Some restrictions are a compromise between keeping the country and particularly the economy going but others aren't. I don't know all the figures so I'm only basing this on what I think is the case. Allowing businesses to open and in particular those that are tourist related is important to the economy and people's ability to live so they need to be opened as soon and as much as is possible. Dropping the need for Covid tests is good but I think it should either be all tests or if they insist on testing then before departure will mean you're unlikely to be bringing in Covid. After 5days you're most likely to have caught it here anyway so you aren't any different to anyone already here. My guess would be that all tests should be dropped. 

 

Masks don't really affect the economy or have a great detrimental effect on people's lives and do cut the chances of spreading Covid so they could be kept although I do think that the wearing of them outside should be dropped.

 

As for Boris Johnson, well I wouldn't trust him with anything important. When he dropped the legal requirement to wear masks indoors he said the government were going to rely on British common sense. If that were the case why have the legal requirement in the first place? Then when he was going to drop all restrictions he said they weren't needed to get people to do the right thing. So why did you have them in the first place. Much of what he does is to try to keep the right wing of his party happy.

 

The good thing here in Thailand is that if you don't like the rules as they are don't worry as they'll probably change next week anyway.

11 minutes ago, CG1 Blue said:

Johnson lifted restrictions because he vast majority of the people in the UK are fully vaccinated and the majority of the public don't want any more restrictions.

He lifted them because it was politically expedient to do so in the wake of partygate. 

 

11 minutes ago, CG1 Blue said:

Plus he himself is anti-lockdown. This is clear from his actions throughout the pandemic. If he had his way the UK would have followed the Sweden model. 

Then thank the big beard in the sky he didn’t get his way. The NHS was stretched to breaking point as it was. 

 

11 minutes ago, CG1 Blue said:

I'm all for criticising Boris for his many failings. But being cynical about everything he does is pointless. 

I disagree there. 
 

And yet again let me say, I agree it was the way to go but let’s not pretend it wasn’t rushed forward for non medical considerations. 

Unfortunately it will fall on deaf ears of this Government,  they are trying there damdest to keep control and power of there citizens...

14 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

Would you also be astounded to learn U.K. cases of infection, deaths and hospitalisation  are spiking upwards again…partygate just keeps on giving. 
 

Not that I’m against lifting restrictions. Vaccination levels are such in the U.K. that it was the right way to go. But it was clearly rushed through on political grounds rather than medical ones. 
 

I will still mask up when I’m there mind but that’s just pure contrariness on my part.
 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/30/covid-uk-coronavirus-cases-deaths-and-vaccinations-today?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other 

Yes, the UK's Covid figures are rising, but this was expected with all restrictions lifted,, 

But What about Thailands Covid spike , and they haven't lifted any restrictions...

6 hours ago, Soikhaonoiken said:

Yes, the UK's Covid figures are rising, but this was expected with all restrictions lifted,, 

But What about Thailands Covid spike , and they haven't lifted any restrictions...

I wasn’t talking about Thailand’s covid numbers but rather what has happened in the U.K. since johnson’s politically motivated decision. 
 

Numbers will rise once restrictions are lifted but vaccination numbers were such that it was a decision that was coming, but it was rushed because of partygate.