Face masks to be still needed in Thailand even after the emergency said Minster Anutin this week

[EVENKEEL]

4 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

I met my Wife for lunch to day. I parked up (motorcycle) 2 meters from the door to the restaurant. 

My Wife was sat 3 meters inside. 

 

The idea of getting off my motorcycle, putting on a mask, just too take off the mask 5 meters later and drink the water that was at the table felt utterly preposterous....  I didn’t wear the mask of course.... so I’m now one of these bad foreigners Anutin hates. 

 

I’m not against mask wearing in busy areas such as BTS etc... but sometimes it seems to me as though the world has lost any logic and gone mad. 

 

 

The worst part of all of this in Thailand is the about turn that government officials keep making regarding face-masks.

 

Feb 2022: MOPH Confirms No Legal Obligations For People To Wear Face Masks

https://thainews.prd.go.th/en/news/detail/TCATG220203155951127

 

 

 

 

Should have been wearing mask on MC, TIT.

[jacko45k]

Just now, EVENKEEL said:

Should have been wearing mask on MC, TIT.

Yes, and kept it on, until sat down. As I see many of the locals doing. 

[NorthernRyland]

24 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Wearing a mask in open outdoor areas is the height of science denial, ignorance, and Zombie paranoia! 

I see cyclists DOUBLE MASKED on a daily basis here in Chiang Mai. We thought magic amulets and ghosts were silly but this tops it.

[EVENKEEL]

Just now, jacko45k said:

Yes, and kept it on, until sat down. As I see many of the locals doing. 

I know it's BS but yeah, they love the mask. I do it just to get along.

[Chongalulu]

4 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

I met my Wife for lunch to day. I parked up (motorcycle) 2 meters from the door to the restaurant. 

My Wife was sat 3 meters inside. 

 

The idea of getting off my motorcycle, putting on a mask, just too take off the mask 5 meters later and drink the water that was at the table felt utterly preposterous....  I didn’t wear the mask of course.... so I’m now one of these bad foreigners Anutin hates. 

 

I’m not against mask wearing in busy areas such as BTS etc... but sometimes it seems to me as though the world has lost any logic and gone mad. 

 

 

The worst part of all of this in Thailand is the about turn that government officials keep making regarding face-masks.

 

Feb 2022: MOPH Confirms No Legal Obligations For People To Wear Face Masks

https://thainews.prd.go.th/en/news/detail/TCATG220203155951127

 

 

 

 

It’s symptomatic of the unthinking mindset of Thais (and some other Asians) evidenced by seeing a motorcycle 3 up ,all mask wearing but no helmets ! ???? 

I live in a more rural area and mask wearing is  universal when out and about,but noticed on a trip to Phuket that both Thais and Farang mostly eschewed mask wearing in all settings. 

[Dmaxdan]

That's annoying. I've already given most of my masks away to the pixies that live at the bottom of our garden so they can use them as hammocks.

[Bkk Brian]

13 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

I might wait for the next one........

 

12 minutes ago, eastlight said:

I'd use the stairs with no mask. 

????

[mnomad]

I noticed this week a few more foreigners maskless in central Bangkok so things are looking up. I like to think that small nudges like this might encourage the Thais to participate in critical thinking rather than blind compliance, although I'm probably being optimistic here.

 

Middle class perfectly healthy Thais still look at you in utter disbelief when they see a foreigner maskless on Sukhumvit as they go about their day double masked and alcohol spraying every few minutes.

[NorthernRyland]

1 minute ago, nchuckle said:

It’s symptomatic of the unthinking mindset of Thais (and some other Asians) evidenced by seeing a motorcycle 3 up ,all mask wearing but no helmets ! ???? 

 

Not only that they setup their markets so tight you're walking shoulder to shoulder yet they want us to think we need to wear masks. It's not about a virus it's a new etiquette now in Thailand, which should terrify all of us.

[Chongalulu]

1 hour ago, Ralf001 said:

Leaving one's house with no underwear on is illegal.... not so much for the face mask.

I frequently confuse the two items wearing them in juxtaposed positions. This annoys the wife when she’s wondering where her panties have gone…. ???? 

[pizzachang]

Wearing of facemasks did not prevent China and other nations from transmitting cee one nine. The sheer number of infections shows this clearly. Instead why not emphasize the things that did work? Handwashing, staying home if feverish or sick, were the most effective solutions worldwide. Even the constant testing, unless specifically done to identify "the virus", were just indicators of "some type of infection" - could have been any number of flu-type infections; since H1N1 etc, mysteriously dropped to levels that have no scientific, rational explanation. Just an opinion.

[pedro01]

4 hours ago, rabang said:

Asians truly love their masks, the compliance of use is incomparable with other parts of the world. Meanwhile the EU is removing the mask mandate at airports and in planes meaning that travel to Thailand or other oriental destinations is going to bear one more disadvantage. I have just travelled in a few European countries this month and about 99% of people have been maskless even in planes.

All Asians think the same, eh?

 

How insanely racist

[Iamfalang]

I wear one in shower, during sex, and this is our duty!!  This is not our country.  We must obey.

 

must.  wear.  always.   

 

I buy new gloves every day, burn my clothes, and jump in a pot full of acid for deep cleaning.

[mnomad]

1 minute ago, Iamfalang said:

I wear one in shower, during sex, and this is our duty!!  This is not our country.  We must obey.

 

must.  wear.  always.   

 

I buy new gloves every day, burn my clothes, and jump in a pot full of acid for deep cleaning.

Haha you just missed the "if you don't like it, go home"

[dogfish180]

5 hours ago, Captain Monday said:

Masking will be expected in most Asian countries for many years.

It's already been totally dropped in Cambodia, so not sure where your logic stands?

[G Rex]

21 minutes ago, NorthernRyland said:

I'm starting to ridicule the Thais I know who still do this. They know it's stupid but they feel some sense of greater duty to the mission.

 

Yesterday I even got in a little fight with my wife because I didn't wear my mask in the restaurant while waiting for the food to arrive. This is actually getting worse in levels of paranoia and could develop into long term mental disorder if goes on for much longer. 

I know exactly how you feel

 

My other pet gripe is the temperature checks and 'compulsory' squirt of alcohol before entering shops.  Yesterday , checked on entry to Robinsons, then 1 min later checked before entering the bank, and 5 minutes later checked before entering MK restaurant.  I know this palaver gives people jobs to do - but do people really think their core temperature will spike between shops?!  lol

 

 

[EVENKEEL]

1 hour ago, pedro01 said:

All Asians think the same, eh?

 

How insanely racist

"Asians truly love their masks,"  is not racist. But some see racism around every corner.

[jacko45k]

9 minutes ago, mnomad said:

I noticed this week a few more foreigners maskless in central Bangkok so things are looking up. I like to think that small nudges like this might encourage the Thais to participate in critical thinking rather than blind compliance, although I'm probably being optimistic here.

 

Middle class perfectly healthy Thais still look at you in utter disbelief when they see a foreigner maskless on Sukhumvit as they go about their day double masked and alcohol spraying every few minutes.

Yes that is also true around Pattaya, and on the streets, farangs are often not bothering now. But I dislike this superior, the 'farangs are always right, the locals wrong' approach.  Thailand managed to keep the number of deaths quite low somehow. 

[huangnon]

Predictable from Anutin. Hanging on to any type of control or hoodoo that his Govt can pull on a largely bovine population (reliant on information from the bubble of Thai language only).

The cloth masks especially are little more than comfort-blankets, by hey-ho, ignorance, conformity and fear is the way to go..

 

 

[Skeptic7]

Nope. 

[NorthernRyland]

6 minutes ago, G Rex said:

Yesterday , checked on entry to Robinsons, then 1 min later checked before entering the bank, and 5 minutes later checked before entering MK restaurant.  I know this palaver gives people jobs to do - but do people really think their core temperature will spike between shops?!  lol

It's because Thais don't coordinate together. Just saw yesterday they're drilling up a trench on a brand new concrete road not even open the public so they can put down pipes. Instead of have a manager coordinate between these 2 companies they've destroyed brand new road surface and wasted and money. Same nonsense happening in the malls probably.

[LukKrueng]

1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said:

Well if I was aware I was getting in a lift with a bunch of covid infected people I would wear a good mask. Feel free to try the same experiment without one

Your post reflects exactly the main problem with this "pandemic". How could you be aware that those people are indeed infected? Before COVID, have you ever looked at people around you fearing they're sick and infectious?

I stopped looking at COVID daily statistics long ago, but even at the beginning of the panic over 2 years ago the overall % of "infected" people never reached 5%, yet governments around the world looked at 100% of the population as disease carriers. They pumped fear with help of the media and got most of the people to believe the same.

In Sweden there were no COVID restrictions, no mandatory masking or social distancing, no curfews or lockdowns and currently their COVID related deaths stands at about 50% of other European countries and 25% of East European countries. 

[Daimler]

It is obvious who is making money from masks

[jacko45k]

3 minutes ago, LukKrueng said:

Before COVID, have you ever looked at people around you fearing they're sick and infectious?

Well yes..... often.

Lay there on the massage table and the girl has a few coughs and sneezes, I often think, 'damn, I am going to get sick'......

[Skeptic7]

2 hours ago, StevieAus said:

the tourists I have seen around Chiang Mai in recent weeks are not wearing them

Yep same in Jomtien where I live. Am in CM now and guesstimate 80% of foreigners I see, including me, are not masking. It's great. 

[timkeen08]

2 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Another new poster spouting this nonsense.

What do you make egregious assumption like that? I was looking at ThaiVisa for 6 years before I signed in.  One of my first comments on one of my first posts was "You'll never make friends like that". Or something to that affect.  My Reply was that I was not on TV to make friends but only looking for good information, blah, blah, blah.  Something like that then probably friends, drining buds, followers, or like minded degenerates started to also inundate me with worthless harassment. I'm used to it now. I always have to swim through sewage like yours, even now. 

[Bkk Brian]

5 minutes ago, LukKrueng said:

Your post reflects exactly the main problem with this "pandemic". How could you be aware that those people are indeed infected? Before COVID, have you ever looked at people around you fearing they're sick and infectious?

I stopped looking at COVID daily statistics long ago, but even at the beginning of the panic over 2 years ago the overall % of "infected" people never reached 5%, yet governments around the world looked at 100% of the population as disease carriers. They pumped fear with help of the media and got most of the people to believe the same.

In Sweden there were no COVID restrictions, no mandatory masking or social distancing, no curfews or lockdowns and currently their COVID related deaths stands at about 50% of other European countries and 25% of East European countries. 

Have you ever heard of a hypothetical scenario?

 

Ok let me dumb it down a bit for you. If I had no choice but to enter a covid hospital ward full of patients coughing and sneezing then I would do so with a good mask on for a level of protection, what that level is? But any tool to help.

[NorthernRyland]

1 minute ago, LukKrueng said:

I stopped looking at COVID daily statistics long ago, but even at the beginning of the panic over 2 years ago the overall % of "infected" people never reached 5%, yet governments around the world looked at 100% of the population as disease carriers. They pumped fear with help of the media and got most of the people to believe the same.

That's a good point, never thought about it like that. The infection numbers were always incomplete but still helpful to get an idea.

 

One of the first things I did early on was look at infection distributions in geographic ares to get an idea how how bad things were. Once you take the infections/hospitalizations in your state/province and divide them into counties you can get an idea of the scale of things. It was pretty clear even way back in 2020 that this was media BS and not be taken too seriously.

 

For example in my home state of Colorado at the peak there was about 20 people hospitalized per hospital and about 40 people per county. There's no way you would ever know the pandemic was even happening unless it was blasted at you every day on the news. These hospitals are massive and they want me to get all worked up because 20 extra people in their 70s and 80s are in there?

[RandiRona]

You know what's better than a single mask...double mask!! Did someone told Anutin that double masking is doubly effective than single?? That would teach the Thai who is the boss!!

[mikeymike100]

2 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

Well if I was aware I was getting in a lift with a bunch of covid infected people I would wear a good mask. Feel free to try the same experiment without one

If you were aware you were getting into an elevator with people who had covid, why would get in with them? Wait for the next one?????