Thai Officials Announce "Innovative" Expat Health Measure

[Nicholas Paul KNIGHT]

So living here for over TWO decades { will be made to wear a MASK should I visit a Holiday Spot o stop what the transmission of a disease I picked up in my current home town 600 odd KMs away from Bangkok .

Please can someone with a BRAIN educate the The Thai Government employee that thought this up , Maybe enter them into the Guiness Book of world records for stupidity 

[Skipalongcassidy]

Right now and in the foreseeable future more people will die in Thailand from the smoke and pollution problem rather than any disease.

[nickmondo]

Lets all share this as much as possible to all of our countries, so that everyone at home can buy good quality masks to ensure our Thai friends are protected.

i wonder if this will have an effect on the tourism industry?

but as usual, this stupidity will go away very fast.

[IamNoone88]

The only question it raises is one of competence. 

[nickmondo]

you also have to remember this is a country that thinks Covid is still dangerous

[cdnvic]

1 minute ago, nickmondo said:

Lets all share this as much as possible to all of our countries, so that everyone at home can buy good quality masks to ensure our Thai friends are protected.

i wonder if this will have an effect on the tourism industry?

but as usual, this stupidity will go away very fast.

 

Sharing this far and wide is the only way they'll learn.

[thesetat]

2 hours ago, EVENKEEL said:

Next we'll be branded on our forehead

isn't being singled out by being forced to be the only ones wearing a mask just another form of branding? 

[Basso53]

Living in CM I am wearing my PM 2.5 mask outside already.

[chrisbangkok]

I'm all for this initiative,  I think it's a fantastic forward thinking idea , I hope its implemented immediately. ( cheques in the post Khun A).

Chris . CEO , I make masks Ltd 😁

[waders123]

There is nothing like the feeling of pulling out the old pistol and aiming it at the foot.  This mask move is bound to play right into the "hate foreigners" playbook. If this gains traction, it could easily spiral into a nightmare for everyone. It's time to wake up the boys at the top and urge action. Someone needs to be reassigned to a "quiet" posting in upper Thailand before this situation escalates further.  Just say it was a misunderstanding, a language barrier problem; you know.

[JBChiangRai]

Far better to say ALL overseas arrivals regardless of nationality must wear face masks for 10 days or so

[DjSilver]

This just shows how incompetent Thais are 🤣

[Bangkok Barry]

1 hour ago, CANSIAM said:

Lol, dirty foreigners again and all Thai's are of pure perfection health........BS 

 

Yep! How many of these are sick because of us filthy diseased foreigners?

COVID-19 outbreak at Prachuap prison: 79 confirmed infections

[Bangkok Barry]

9 minutes ago, waders123 said:

Someone needs to be reassigned to a "quiet" posting in upper Thailand before this situation escalates further. 

 

Inactive posts are only for serving police officers, not politicians.

[nausea]

Stupid idea, expect it to wither on the vine.

[Muhendis]

In the accompanying picture, the masks being handed out are surgical masks.

Surgical masks are worn to prevent the wearer transmitting their germs etc. 

They should be giving out N95 masks to protect the valuable tourists/farang.

[troy]

Next they'll want us to wear rubber gloves in tourist pubs.

[Matt K]

[eumenades]

1 hour ago, Crossy said:

 

Along with ringing a bell and calling "Unclean. Unclean." at regular intervals.

 

Wow. Someone on this site has studied history. (Or was it a Robin Hood movie?)

[JimTripper]

Could also be a way to generate fines. It would be easy for local police to fine a handful in any crowd and supplement their income as the economy gets worse. It's all about the money usually.

[wensiensheng]

Locals don’t need masks because of their greater resistance to regional ailments?

 

1. Covid is a regional ailment now?

 

2. Locals can not only resist the effects of Covid, but also can’t catch it and pass it on?

 

how about some scientific studies proving both these points.

[soalbundy]

2 hours ago, EVENKEEL said:

Next we'll be branded on our forehead

Followed by a Thai official ringing a bell shouting, "unclean, unclean'

[wensiensheng]

26 minutes ago, JBChiangRai said:

Far better to say ALL overseas arrivals regardless of nationality must wear face masks for 10 days or so

How could that conceivably be enforced though? Once out the airport there’s nothing identifying a new arrival.

[Crossy]

3 minutes ago, wensiensheng said:

Once out the airport there’s nothing identifying a new arrival.

 

Weren't they going to use ankle-monitors at one time during COVID?

[daveAustin]

This kind of thing—it is xenophobia, pure and simple—is the absolute worst in Thais. It doesn’t matter what colour my skin is, if I’ve lived here for years on end, there is nothing I will have that a Thai person won’t already have. They’re always harping on about image, but it is this type of discriminatory behaviour that harms the image of Thailand. This guy should sew a swastika on his sleeve. Let’s hope tourists get the message and go to Vietnam instead where they value their visitors. 

[Kwaibill]

On a recent trip to hospital couldn’t help but notice a number of Thai people without masks or using them as chin slings. At hospital.

i have no problem wearing a mask despite COPD and asthma.

That said I believe this latest bureaucratic boondoggle is rooted in Asian xenophobia.

[CM Dad]

The world-wide pandemic of Covid 19 came from the Chinese.  Therefore I propose that all Chinese citizens in Thailand and all Thai people of Chinese descent in Thailand be forced to wear masks and a large badge in Chinese, Thai and English that says "Stay away, I am unclean".

[Excogitator]

Clickbait?  I'll believe this if/when they enforce this where I live. In any case, to help prevent covid, everybody must wear masks in public, not just a few select people..

[troy]

2 minutes ago, Crossy said:

 

Weren't they going to use ankle-monitors at one time during COVID?

Too expensive with normal tourist numbers. They'd just use a wristband with some ridiculous fine for removing it.

[nobodysfriend]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

concerns about the potential for foreign visitors to introduce new illnesses

 

This time foreigners need to protect Thai People .

Masks are not meant to protect the one who wears them , but the one who does not need to wear them .

This will help ...

Tourists , stay away from Thailand , you are not welcome .

Just send your money .

 

3 hours ago, webfact said:

ensures that our international guests don't unwittingly compromise the well-being of our citizens.

 

Next is the body glove ...

A version for the beach and a version for shopping ...