Monkeypox: Thais advised to avoid sexual contact with foreigners, hotels advised to clean properly

[ChrisKC]

To be or not to be:

 

Covid 19, or Monkey Pox 22

 

But Foot in Mouth is already endemic here!

[charmonman]

My advice to Thai people is not to take advice from people like Amon who is clearly an idiot.

[BusyB]

5 hours ago, Neeranam said:

True, it could be spread by gay Thai men returning from abroad. 

Not just gay. They used to say AIDS only affected gay men.

[StayinThailand2much]

56 minutes ago, kotsak said:

They already have, founded by Thaksin ????

Maybe they will rename it, to emphasize that Thais should have no contact with 'dirty foreigners' whatsoever.

[Walker88]

Are those 'international standards' for hotel cleaning followed by short term hotels or the upstairs rooms on Soi 6?

[Kerryd]

So they haven't detected any other cases in Thailand other than the one Nigerian tourist, but now they are thinking he may have contracted the disease in Thailand ?

He arrived in Thailand in October 2021, spent some time in Chiang Mai before going to Phuket. In July he went to the hospital as he'd developed blisters on his dick.
When they figured out it was monkey pox they told him to come in for treatment but he decided to skip the country instead.

What about the 19 people he supposedly had "close contact" with in Phuket ? Supposedly they were all tested by 25 July and the results were supposed to be back by the 28th.

I just saw a report on an English language Chinese news site dated 2 days ago soys that a 2nd case has been discovered. A Thai man in Bangkok.

[StayinThailand2much]

10 minutes ago, BusyB said:

Not just gay. They used to say AIDS only affected gay men.

When I was in highschool, my physics teacher once asked a sleepy-looking girl in class: "Do you have Aids?" - Well, that was in the mid 80s, and was meant as a joke...

[kingstonkid]

Back in the AIDS days the word condom was a nasty word that no one liked.  Most went by the adage you want glove then no love or money

 

Now it is no glove no love period.

[Kaopad999]

Planting the good old xenophobic seed again ???? 

[chilly07]

Sounds like good advice generally. Should include Thai on Thai as well as Thai on foreigner and then everyone is safe

[chilly07]

Sounds like good advice generally. Should include Thai on Thai as well as Thai on foreigner and then everyone is safe

[StayinThailand2much]

9 minutes ago, Kerryd said:

I just saw a report on an English language Chinese news site dated 2 days ago soys that a 2nd case has been discovered. A Thai man in Bangkok.

So you're saying it's not just foreigners who have Monkeypox?? - Perhaps Thais should stop all sexual contact... ????

[StayinThailand2much]

8 minutes ago, Kaopad999 said:

Planting the good old xenophobic seed again ???? 

Always works to get all Thais behind you, and distract from the real problems.

[StayinThailand2much]

29 minutes ago, vandeventer said:

He means gay foreigners?

No. By blaming 'foreigners' he gets popular approval. By saying 'gay', he would antagonise gay Thais, which would split the populace's support.

[ThailandRyan]

1 hour ago, kotsak said:

Next in the news, GDP is forecasted to drop following the "medical" advice. 

 

You meant Great Dane Pox (GDP) right?

[Archie Baker]

6 hours ago, Neeranam said:

I'm sure they meant with foreign tourists. 

How about a link to the original in Thai, maybe a mistranslation. 

Let's not attack the alleged culprit so soon.

"I say hang the damn critter"

[sambum]

"Dirty unwashed farangs" again!

 

How long do we have to wait for an apolgy for this latest slur?

 

And the spokesman should really have emphasised that " Most cases worldwide so far are among gay and bisexual men"

 

Also, I am totally confused by this sentence:- "This comes despite the fact that the disease can't be transmitted via sexual contact."(??????????)

 

Just another ploy to whip up fear and uncertainty among the populace, and is bound to do give the push for more tourists a much needed boost (NOT!)

[Tarteso]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

advised Thais to avoid sexual contact with foreign nationals

Idiots !

[DjSilver]

Here we go again with low IQ small brains xenophobic Thais. Everyone knows that when they say like this they actually mean Thai people are the one to avoid ????????????

[Bim Smith]

Who with serious health issues has sex? And do Thai not spread it also. What has foreigners got to do with it 

[whereyougo]

Boyz town is doomed

[RJRS1301]

12 minutes ago, sambum said:

And the spokesman should really have emphasised that " Most cases worldwide so far are among gay and bisexual men"

That is in the western world, as gay men and men who have sex with men , are more likely to attend a doctor more often for regular health reviews,  including sexual health and ask for tests,

Africa transmission different , as we will begin to see. Endemic in part of Africa and no one cared, no vaccine programs

 

[terryofcrete]

All Thai Ladies advised not to take money from Foreigners .,,,Well if they follow this advice they won't be ! 

[shackleton]

It's a known fact foreigners come to Thailand for sex 

With woman or men

Pattaya is known world wide for this 

Phuket now trying to catch up 

This Monkeypox will not deter tourists   coming  to Thailand 

[gvrixtel]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

A member of the Medical Council of Thailand has advised Thais to avoid sexual contact with foreign nationals to help contain the spread of monkeypox.

I told my Thai wife. She had a good laugh.

[SuwadeeS]

...and I advice to avoid any contact with Thais since they are dual pricing!!!!!!!

What a cruel of discrimination!!!!

So disgusting!!!!

[gvrixtel]

6 minutes ago, shackleton said:

It's a known fact foreigners come to Thailand for sex 

With woman or men

Pattaya is known world wide for this 

Phuket now trying to catch up 

This Monkeypox will not deter tourists   coming  to Thailand 

Some come to Thailand for sex. Not all. Xenophobe remark again.

[1duckyboy]

The current world-wide death toll from monkey pox is six persons. Yet health authorities world-wide are screaming the sky is falling. Covid-19 gave them some power and now they're drunk with it. 

[Millcx]

Here we go … Scare media tactics used to support more suppression and destruction of Thai economy .. MonkeyPox is similar to AIDS with men doing the business on each other and has been about for decades with vaccines… Scare the lemmings and watch the elite laugh as they control

[zzaa09]

7 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Oh dear...... he could have made a more general, less xenophobic statement. 

It appears to be the common mindset among authority types......for generations. 

Can understand how this thought process could develop among particular officialdom circles and associated - almost written in their cultural DNA, repeated often and loud enough. 

 

But such a statement deriving from an educated person of science and medicine is quite confounding. 

Should be known that the common xenophobic sense that is part and parcel of particular circles of authority is certainly not reflective of everyday Thai society at large.