Thai Officials Announce "Innovative" Expat Health Measure

[Rotweiler]

cdnvic - please put them out of our misery.

[TroubleandGrumpy]

Just now, Goat said:

What is his name?

And from which govt authority?

get a life mate - insulting and arguing with other expats is not healthy (and makes you look like an idiot troll)

[Goat]

1 minute ago, Highlandman said:

Where I'm from, I'd be offended by such behavior as I'd take it as a personal insult. 

Bit of a snowflake are we?

Are you smarter than thais or have you been sucked in to the "i saw it on youtube so it must be true"

Please check your facts with this and get back to me.

 

It isnt the Thais who are fools, it is you.

[Highlandman]

4 minutes ago, TroubleandGrumpy said:

Indeed - thinking critically means being critical and that is not allowed in Thailand and most SEAsian countries

 

True, but Laotians, Burmese and Cambodians seem to be able to think for themselves more readily than Thais. Residents of these countries were largely mask-free as early as July 2022, even in the cities. 

 

The whole mask wearing to a restaurant and keeping the mask on until the food arrives ritual never really took off outside of Thailand. 

[MrPancake]

If they do that, I will start to wear a yellow star on my shirts.

I swear.

[Walker88]

11 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

Why do you continue to reply, when every one makes you look more ignorant? I already told you that I follow the rules, that I caught Covid, twice, from a local, and always do anything I can to not give anything I might be carrying to another.

 

Why do you care what I do? It's none of yours or anyone else's business.

 

I asked you if you were a Thai. You didn't answer. If not, you're a foreigner, another of the dirty ones we hear about, from misguided, ignorant, prejudiced morons that only like us for the money we spend, and have been taught this ignorance by generations of ill advised, non educated people who can't get out of first gear, and blame whoever they were taught to blame.

When you're at the bottom of a hole, put the shovel down.

 

Perhaps soon you'll understand what I mean.

 

BTW, is it Goat or Goad?

[ClydeSimpson]

Have any of you keyboard warriors considered what day it is today and other announcements on this website on the same date in previous years......?

[Goat]

Just now, Highlandman said:

True, but Laotians, Burmese and Cambodians seem to be able to think for themselves more readily than Thais. Residents of these countries were largely mask-free as early as July 2022, even in the cities. 

 

The whole mask wearing to a restaurant and keeping the mask on until the food arrives ritual never really took off outside of Thailand

I think you missed it. The new rules are only for farangs. Not Laotions, Burmese etc. 

Specially for you.

[TroubleandGrumpy]

Just now, Highlandman said:

True, but Laotians, Burmese and Cambodians seem to be able to think for themselves more readily than Thais. Residents of these countries were largely mask-free as early as July 2022, even in the cities. 

The whole mask wearing to a restaurant and keeping the mask on until the food arrives ritual never really took off outside of Thailand. 

Yes indeed - Thais are very 'complaint' in general - they are very much more about 'social harmony' than its neighbours are. 

[Highlandman]

1 minute ago, Goat said:

Bit of a snowflake are we?

Are you smarter than thais or have you been sucked in to the "i saw it on youtube so it must be true"

Please check your facts with this and get back to me.

 

It isnt the Thais who are fools, it is you.

 

No, it's definitely you (and many Thais).

 

Wearing a mask inside a van while with co-workers is the behavior of sheep.

[Goat]

1 minute ago, Walker88 said:

BTW, is it Goat or Goad?

You sound like a fool.

[cdnvic]

2 minutes ago, Rotweiler said:

cdnvic - please put them out of our misery.

 

You know who the funniest ones were? All the ones who thought they were the first ones to figure it out. 😉

[n00dle]

Gotta be April fools, but too close to home. 

[Goat]

1 minute ago, Highlandman said:

 

No, it's definitely you (and many Thais).

 

Wearing a mask inside a van while with co-workers is the behavior of sheep.

I think you are the fool. Not me, and not the Thais.

[Highlandman]

Just now, Goat said:

I think you missed it. The new rules are only for farangs. Not Laotions, Burmese etc. 

Specially for you.

 

I think you missed the significance of today's date or my comment, which clearly states that Thailand's neighbors stopped masking nearly 2 years ago.

 

Even during the restrictions phase of Covid, 50% of Laotian mall goers in Vientiane never wore masks!!

[Dcheech]

And here it comes. After farang be bad xeno month, they double down. This has nothing to do with health reasons. 

 

Glad I haven't bought the house yet. Back to the plan B & C options. 

[Goat]

Just now, cdnvic said:

 

You know who the funniest ones were? All the ones who thought they were the first ones to figure it out. 😉

Good one.

It brought out all those halfwits that live in constant paranoid fear in Thailand.

Classic

[cdnvic]

Seriously though, stop the all the name calling. This is meant to be fun, so let's keep it that way.

[Highlandman]

3 hours ago, Marco51 said:

As "farang" are the ones who are immediately visible as foreigners, my guess would be this is another great idea the chinese ambassador came up with to

facilitate the sinoisation of Laos, sorry, already done, Cambodia...ooops, also done....Thailand. Dirty, criminal tourists and worse : expats? Farang expats! Just

leave your money, don't forget,  and piss off. Let us run every 90 days on the "inmate presence" report, within 24 hours on the "return to the paid home from

wherever report", file for ever more complicated stay permits after decades, push the boulevard media and social smutworks to show en detail every "misdeed " of

a (yuk!) whitebread, if they insist on staying, tax their already taxed pensions and life savings, check very very closely if anyone who does not look SEA or Han has

possibly bent the medieval property laws a little (with the most competent "help" of a local lawyer or something in kind) to be able to keep control of the little

company (that does employ and pay taxes) or his/her living quaters, etc etc etc......what? Still want to be here? OK, now put on masks as a public nuisance, sorry,

health risk because everybody knows the dirty West is responsible for the Wuhan Virus, the put it in the lab to smeer the brothers and sisters of the ....whatever....

and now same same but different in supermarkets or airports or otther public places the constant squeek " doo see, farang not put mass, to pai tamruat reo reo....

bad man" Then public shaming ? Way-ing to man in way too tight brown uniform? To boulevard press, then pay huge fine and agree deportation. Health minister

is invited to a personal handshake with the evil emperor. Tourists will leave $ and Euros in Europe and Philipines and Vietnam. Mission accomplished.

This story and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or preferably dead is coincidal and  intended by the author.

 

The Chinese themselves wear masks far less frequently than Thais. Go to China and see for yourself. 

[Rockhopper]

In health classes, I was taught that masks do not work. The bacteria/germs are smaller than the weave of the mask and penetrate the space left open during the manufacturing of the mask. The exception is the surgical mask. 

[Carlos Primeros]

It seems, my post has been deleted regarding the today's date of April 1 with possible fake news being shared in the media... I don't know why h it was deleted? Well, anyway...

[Highlandman]

Just now, Goat said:

Oh dear.

A bit wound up by the new rules are we.

April Fools 

Sucked in.

 

even if this story were real, I wouldn't follow the rules anyway. I didn't do so during Covid either. My freedom and my human rights are what matters. I don't comply with tyrannical rules that serve only to oppress the common man. 

[n00dle]

3 minutes ago, Goat said:

Good one.

It brought out all those halfwits that live in constant paranoid fear in Thailand.

Classic

 

it is very good, but it works because it is so very possible.

[Highlandman]

8 minutes ago, TroubleandGrumpy said:

Yes indeed - Thais are very 'complaint' in general - they are very much more about 'social harmony' than its neighbours are. 

100%. I noticed this years before Covid, and yet Thailand is less ethnically homogeneous than Cambodia and Vietnam, for example. 

[cdnvic]

1 minute ago, Carlos Primeros said:

It seems, my post has been deleted regarding the today's date of April 1 with possible fake news being shared in the media

Yours and about a hundred and fifty others. It was a joke. We've been doing it for 20+ years.

[soi3eddie]

Fools. What's the date today? 

 

[Highlandman]

4 hours ago, Kwaibill said:

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.

 

That surprises me because most hospitals in Thailand still have nearly 100% of visitors/patients in outpatient settings wearing a mask and this includes children. 

[trainman34014]

Well; we live in Chiang Mai and have been wearing Masks in Public Places since the Covid Outbreak.  Now we are in 'Pollution Season' so all the more reason to use them.   In other words; any new regulation is pointless for us personally but it is descriminatory no matter how you look at it, but what do you expect when the whole Country is Xenophobic thanks to years of Government mismanagement regarding people from other Countries.   As i remind Immigration Officials on every visit to Offices...'' People from another Country are called 'Foreigners' and people from another Planet are called 'Aliens' '' !

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Just now, Highlandman said:

 

That surprises me because most hospitals in Thailand still have nearly 100% of visitors/patients in outpatient settings wearing a mask and this includes children. 

And me..........😷..............🤭

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Just now, n00dle said:

 

case in point.

look at you doubling down, how can you be so vociferously blithe?

Is that French........?