I have no issue with wearing a mask when around others. I do miss the beautiful Thai female smiles I immediately came to appreciate.

I'll bet that Anutin still has his last used condom on, just in case he needs it again.

And how many Thai's are dead because of his Siam Bioscience delay/reliance. This xenophobe who needs tourism and retirees money is a hypocrite. If Thailand is so special why did his daddy pay for his foreign schooling? He might be credible if he wasn't such a  corrupt suck up as a politician. Then again it fits his role. Note that I do appreciate his ganja initiatives yet exposes how much he could do it he wasn't so deferential to his class view of human worth. Generally I like the can do efforts of engineers. 

6 hours ago, me4175 said:

Thais are used to sticking with outdated customs and beliefs.

I hope you are not English. 

 

I guess I'm a sheeple because I still wear a mask in taxis, in stores, and on the BTS.  I guess I can't think for myself, unlike all the fat, grossly tatted, maskless farangs who think they should be able to dictate to Thais how Thais should live. Real men, they, despite their meter plus girth !

 

I don't wear a mask in the gym, because the gym does not require it nor even request it, and about 90% of the Thais in the gym are maskless.

 

Do I think masks do any good?  Maybe a little. If surgeons give up masks, then I might change that view, but viruses are even sneakier than bacteria, and can enter a body even if it's not opened up by a surgeon's scalpel. Eyes, nose and mouth. Anyway, I don't really wear it to prevent getting or giving a disease.

 

Though I live in Thailand, I know I am an outsider, and try not to give anyone any reason to distrust or dislike foreigners. Homogenous cultures tend toward xenophobia, so why exacerbate it? Thais in Bangkok almost universally wear masks, and they seem to prefer---via announcements in English on the BTS, signs in taxis, signs in Immigration in English---that foreigners wear masks, too. I don't like wearing it, but I feel it is polite to respect their requests.

 

If that makes me a 'sheeple', so be it. Better that than look like the typical fat, tatted farang who is usually drunk and thinks he can impose his wishes on a country he is visiting. Rather than sheeple, I prefer greyhound....which most farangs are not. Hippos, yes.

 

As I was walking down the street recently, one of these drunk farangs decided he didn't like a fellow farang wearing a mask, and said, "How are you going to drink with that <deleted> mask on?", to which I replied, "How are you going to s h ! t  with those pants on?"

 

Go maskless if you choose, but shut the eff up if someone else chooses to wear one.

3 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Thailand has under 1`,000 a day now

There's absolutely no way there's under 1000 per day.

They may be testing and finding 1000 but we all know this is just the tip of the iceberg.

 

Or are Thai's keeping their masks on because of the bad air, smoke, vehicle fumes  in this country that  you the health minister do nothing about

I wear a face mask when out the house walking exercise ????

Or shopping not a big deal 

Personal choice ????

More like perpetuating ignoronce and worry!

4 hours ago, Baron Samedi said:

That guy is brain damaged.

And very rich ... shows ta go ya ! 

3 hours ago, ukrules said:

There's absolutely no way there's under 1000 per day.

They may be testing and finding 1000 but we all know this is just the tip of the iceberg.

 

Well, all nations report the numbers and they are compiled by Worldometer. I have found it to be an accurate gauge of what is happening. After all, when the cases were skyrocketing here, and in the US, they were reported, and counted.

 

I do not know anyone with Covid right now. I have friends who work in the local hospitals, and they have not seen a covid case in some time. It is possible that the current strain is so weak, no hospitals are required. 

 

The tip of the iceberg? Is that a guess? Do you have anything to back that up? Worldwide, the numbers are dropping precipitously.

6 hours ago, Iamfalang said:

It's been  years, and people STILL tighten their mask when I, the falang, walk by.

Just start coughing like crazy whenever someone does that. You've never seen someone move so fast in your life!

2 hours ago, ezzra said:

Yes, and it all has to do with the fact that 99% of Thai people are wearing masks  even though are allowed not too, and mind you, many of the people has got only 2 shots, not 4 as it should be, so until infection and death numbers will drop significantly, i say continue to wear masks...

The numbers ARE dripping significantly. Have you been following them, around the world and here? This thing is going away. Why can't some just face that? Is the end of a crisis so hard to embrace?

The truth is the cheap masks most people are wearing protect you from very little.

3 hours ago, Walker88 said:

I guess I'm a sheeple because I still wear a mask in taxis, in stores, and on the BTS.  I guess I can't think for myself, unlike all the fat, grossly tatted, maskless farangs who think they should be able to dictate to Thais how Thais should live. Real men, they, despite their meter plus girth !

First of all, there's no link between not wearing a mask and being overweight. 

 

And just because the Thais can't think for themselves, you following suit does not make you a better person.

Prefer to look at Thais with masks than dirty farang without.

7 hours ago, Dmaxdan said:

It's because people in other places are capable of thinking for themselves.

I have actually seen your face!  I very highly recommend you wear a mask permanently..  even when CoVid has been wiped out!

 

7 hours ago, webfact said:

The CCSA is being disbanded and visitors to Thailand will no longer have to have vaccinations or ATK tests from the end of next week.

does that mean Chinese can come..... hummmmmm that doesn't sound so good anymore

3 hours ago, Exilerunner said:

Each of us need to evaluate their own risk to wear a (N95) mask indoors. But the reason Thais are wearing masks outdoors (other than the pollution) is simply fear mongering.

Not really. It’s the sheepish mentality based on their education. Follow until a leader gives 100% clear instructions. „Up you you“ like it’s now = continue following.

 

 

42 minutes ago, terryofcrete said:

And very rich ... shows ta go ya ! 

I don't know about you but my parents were not rich... in his case easy money from family

2 hours ago, rwill said:

The truth is the cheap masks most people are wearing protect you from very little.

 

The only way the masks MIGHT protect from anything is by proper single short time use. If you keep putting on and off the same mask all day and many even many days, hanging out around your neck between each time you use it - worthless.

 

7 hours ago, webfact said:

And he he has said in pointed comments that "people in other places" may not be wearing them but Thais still were.

And he doesn't question why that is, because Thais always know best - even when they know nothing.

7 hours ago, Iamfalang said:

but here, in Maskland.......expect to wear your mask for the next five years.  or longer.  

Read forever, as:

"We have to remember that wearing masks is not just a preventative measure for Covid but protects people against resipratory and gastrointestinal diseases too", he noted.

 

And I have no doubt at all that many will wear one until they die anyway.

2 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

Am I allowed to say here on AN, less air to you Anutin, the sooner this racist is gone the more fresh air we will have to breath.  

He might be the next PM. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

14 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

He might be the next PM. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

I are say, he doesn't have the numbers, and if he does become the next PM, God help us farangs, as you say.

7 hours ago, ezzra said:

With daily average of 750-800 COVID infection in this country the right thing to do is still were the masks as i have witnessed my closest friend whom are all vaxxed getting it just the other week...

Doesn't it depend on the location and conditions?  Thais are still wearing masks outside and nowhere near any other people.

Funny.  I actually decided to carry my mask rather than wearing it to get from home to the supermarket this morning.  I passed an older Thai woman with who I assume was her daughter.  I tried to keep my distance but still the old woman moved her mask from under her nose to over it when she saw me.  She then stopped and seemed to be giving her daughter a lecture, possibly about me given the body language.  I guess they had been listening to Anutin and she was explaining how right he was and how bad foreigners are.

 

Very sad.  Kind of makes you wonder if this is the effect of covid, or if covid happens to have tapped into a strong anti-foreigner/Thai supremacy sentiment that has always been there.

2 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

The tip of the iceberg? Is that a guess? Do you have anything to back that up? Worldwide, the numbers are dropping precipitously.

It's not a guess, it's already been reported. If the following is in any way true, and I can believe that it is then 1000 per day is absolutely the tip of the iceberg and that's what I'm basing it on.

 

Assuming the 60% (lower bound reported) of the population which is about 70 Million, that would be 42 million infections.

 

Now they mention it's particularly the Omicron variant which is new so we can forget about the first couple of years which pre dates Omicron.

 

So a good chunk of this 42 million would have been infected with Omicron - recently.

 

 

With that level of spread it didn't disappear overnight, less people are reporting for tests and the same thing is happening all over the world.

They are "lovely" sheep.

2 hours ago, arick said:

Why worry about cannabis when there's bags of meth falling off the back of trucks on the way to Bangkok

I think you're missing the point!