3 hours ago, SpanishExpat said:

i hate the Thai elite so much for being able to manipulate the thai population, as it has nothing to do with fear anymore.

It's very sad to see.  Especially as it now has a theme of "If you see foreign people not wearing masks, don't get the idea that it's OK to not wear masks, instead view it as the foreign person is bad.  Good Thai people wear masks.  Foreign people are dirty and bad for not wearing a mask.  You wear your mask and don't let foreigners influence you.  Hate the foreigners in fact!".

 

Thais seem to be going along with it as they are heavily indoctrinated.

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5 hours ago, ezzra said:

so until infection and death numbers will drop significantly,

10 deaths a day is significant ? good grief. in a country of 70 million hahahah 

 

5x more die daily from vehicle accidents here.

Probably because they are still having the daily infections and deaths thrown at them, scare tactics to keep people "doing the right thing".

...if the majority of Thais are very concerned about their health, the first questions pops into mind...... why don't they wear a helmet when riding a motorbike? 

8 hours ago, Dmaxdan said:

Is there anything this man doesn't praise himself for?

Look like he forgot the chinese vaccine debacle already... and the vaccine they give now is outdated and not the newest vaccines they give in other countries.

Thais near to you in enclosed spaces will be uncomfortable if you're not wearing a mask. It's not our country and if that's the way the Thai people feel we should go along with them, out of politeness if nothing else.

It really is simple. The law does NOT require the wearing of masks, neither does it prohibit it.

Therefore the classic answer is "up to you". 

From that point of view, some people here in UK still wear them, but very very few.

9 hours ago, webfact said:

We're "na rak" aren't we," he quipped. It's an expression that means "lovely".

You, Anutin, not so much.

 

But the maskless girls in my favorite bar, mak mak ????

7 hours ago, josephbloggs said:

In the last two months I have been to Vietnam - mostly wearing masks; Singapore, still very common; Malaysia, mostly wearing masks.  I will be in Manila next week where I am told everyone wears masks.

Asians just like to cover their faces in general.

7 hours ago, Ohyesuare said:

Will never understand why people care so much or worry about what other people put on their face or not. 

The problem is it's putting extreme social pressure on the rest of society. If a critical mass of people start doing anything it becomes a cultural norm and it extremely hard to break. Most people wearing them are doing so because of pressure, not because they really want to.

9 hours ago, JoePai said:

Well I agree with Anutin - he should keep his mask on in order to hide his supercilious face

Yes, if I had a face like him I would also wear a mask all the time in public.

8 hours ago, Ohyesuare said:

Will never understand why people care so much or worry about what other people put on their face or not. 

Well I suppose wearing a mask is better than growing facial hair, what all the guys with unattractive faces did before facial hair came into fashion.

How I gonna hit the bong with a mask on?

 

Anutin clearly hasn't thought this through.

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5 hours ago, Snig27 said:

4 people on a motorbike, weaving through speeding traffic with a deathwise, no helmets but masks to keep them safe and healthy. The total lack of logic perplexes me. If anything speaks to the dreadful state Thai education is in (or lack of it), that does.

There are reasons why Thailand has a below average IQ, and that is one of them.

4 hours ago, phukettrader said:

Me too. I could never understand why I got so much s**t for deciding not to wear one.

Out in rural Kamphaeng Phet I don't wear one and less Thais are wearing them too. I carry one and use it in Kbank, BigC, Makro and Global House but rarely elsewhere.

 

The only comment I have had was the KBank security guard asking me to put it on. I had just walked in the door.

40 minutes ago, Thingamabob said:

Thais near to you in enclosed spaces will be uncomfortable if you're not wearing a mask. It's not our country and if that's the way the Thai people feel we should go along with them, out of politeness if nothing else

That’s how I feel as well, and it’s the reason why my first overseas trip from Australia after more than 2 years will be to Rio, followed by another holiday in Europe (direct flight), rather than back to my condo in Thailand.

4 hours ago, George Aylesham said:

Clearly not in the USA where 450 people a day are dying from Covid.

and how many of that 450 were obese?

13 minutes ago, billd766 said:

Out in rural Kamphaeng Phet I don't wear one and less Thais are wearing them too. I carry one and use it in Kbank, BigC, Makro and Global House but rarely elsewhere.

 

The only comment I have had was the KBank security guard asking me to put it on. I had just walked in the door.

I would just have ignored him.

7 minutes ago, possum1931 said:

I would just have ignored him.

I didn't because he simply requested that I put it on, so I did.

 

His instructions probably came from the local or provincial manager via head office.

 

He is merely doing his job which I can understand and why I put the mask on. If I had not they would either have given me a mask, told me to get one or asked me to leave.

 

It is no hassle for me for 10 or 15 minutes, as it is only the bank in the village which enforces it.

1 hour ago, NorthernRyland said:

Most people wearing them are doing so because of pressure, not because they really want to.

Any you know this, how?  You just made it up.

12 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

Any you know this, how?  You just made it up.

No one is acting they're actually afraid of a virus for many months. No behavior has changed at all except for the masks. It's obviously just a matter of good manors now. 

2 hours ago, LetsGoJoe said:

A 'mask-formation' in late 2022 is bazaar....to say the least.????

There is NO biological crisis, but sure as hell a psychological and social crisis is being reflected right before our eyes, it's wildly bazaar!. mid-Sept. and just beginning to show some resolve.

 

Is this what 'mass-formation' looks like?

 

I'm finding it increasingly annoying though and somewhat un-nerving as the usual masked-stink-stares I get as an unmasked-foreigner range from zombie-like bewilderment to brow-beating animosity. This amount of 'anxiety' floating about the psychic-landscape can apparently reach a tipping-point leading to some form of release...I don't want to be that easy and justifiable "target" for societies inevitable psychotic-break! ???? I'm keeping a lower-than-normal profile while out and about.

This has changed my whole picture(illusion) I formed of Thai-people and Thailand in general.

 

I went to town for the first time in months last Friday and witnessed the bazaar parallel-reality of the 'no-mask' tourist crowd (plenty here now) and the fully-masked local Thai population, moving about and apparently invisible to each other.

2+2=4 / 2+2=5....."same, same BUT different" ????????

ba·zaar "a market in a Middle Eastern country."

bizarre "very strange or unusual, especially so as to cause interest or amusement."

Warning - Grammar Police at work! ???? 

WIMPS!!

He didn't get even ONE single vote in a poll of over 700 people in Bangkok when asked who they would like as Prime Minister.

 

Isn't that lovely! 

6 hours ago, NorthernRyland said:

No one is acting they're actually afraid of a virus for many months. No behavior has changed at all except for the masks. It's obviously just a matter of good manors now. 

@NorthernRyland Manners and Thais don't go together.  

I've been wearing N95 masks whenever I'm close around other people outside of the house for the duration of the pandemic, and will continue doing so until COVID is no longer a health risk one way or another.

 

I don't need or rely on Anutin or the Thai government to tell me what to do. I don't care whether Thai people have the custom of wearing them or not, though obviously I'd personally prefer they do. Don't care how many people in my home country (with 1 million+ "officially" dead from COVID) have stopped wearing them.

 

Rather, I follow the science, follow public health agency advice, and follow common sense, and do my best to both safeguard my own health and not endanger the health of those around me.

 

But it does quite amuse me how mask wearing for public health purposes seems to drive some folks here literally crazy.... ????

 

From June 2022:

 

“Now, more than ever, we need to decrease the transmission of COVID-19,” said Dr. Edje, noting that “Omicron is the most contagious of the variants, so far. It is three times higher than that of the Delta variant and the second most contagious virus known to man, only second to measles.

 

“This is the reason that N95s are recommended for use by the general public,” she added, noting that “N95 masks offer the highest level of protection because they protect against both large and small particles rather than just large particles.”

 

--Louito Edje, MD, a family physician and associate dean of graduate medical education at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center

 

https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/public-health/what-doctors-wish-patients-knew-about-wearing-n95-masks

 

 

It is difficult to cure stupid.

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