Comments on: Thailand\’s approach to Corona https://radajonesmd.com/2020/05/23/thailands-approach-to-corona/ Fri, 29 May 2020 02:01:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: radajonesmd https://radajonesmd.com/2020/05/23/thailands-approach-to-corona/#comment-528 Fri, 29 May 2020 02:01:56 +0000 https://radajonesmd.com/radajonesmd/2020/05/23/thailands-approach-to-corona/#comment-528 In reply to Dana.

Thank you for the info. So glad to hear how things are there! Please stay safe.

]]> By: radajonesmd https://radajonesmd.com/2020/05/23/thailands-approach-to-corona/#comment-527 Fri, 29 May 2020 02:00:00 +0000 https://radajonesmd.com/radajonesmd/2020/05/23/thailands-approach-to-corona/#comment-527 In reply to David.

Hi David. Right now Thailand is under an Emergency Decree and a curfew, which of course extends the governmental powers, but I haven’t heard any rumblings, and actually people seem to be very much in agreement with the lockdown with two exceptions: One is the expat community, which is not happy with the restrictions, and the other is the alcohol ban – restaurants are still not allowed to serve alcohol, even though one can buy it is stores.

]]> By: Dana https://radajonesmd.com/2020/05/23/thailands-approach-to-corona/#comment-526 Mon, 25 May 2020 12:51:46 +0000 https://radajonesmd.com/radajonesmd/2020/05/23/thailands-approach-to-corona/#comment-526 Hi Rada,
Nice Rx of the Thai Stay at Home period and the „recovery” period.
Here in Romania the mask is mandatory only inside ( shops, public transportation, hospitals, markets, etc). Some of the temporary closed business, restarted: hair and nail salons, all shops with entry directly from the street, auto services, medical and dental private business. All of them asking for social distancing and wearing masks.
People love to socialize so even if all the restaurants and coffee shops are open only for TO GO, some of them hang out together , sweeping the coffee. If sunny and weekends the parks are full of people, on the central paths.
Only the traffic started to remember me about the old time…

Stay in touch and take care

]]> By: radajonesmd https://radajonesmd.com/2020/05/23/thailands-approach-to-corona/#comment-525 Mon, 25 May 2020 02:08:32 +0000 https://radajonesmd.com/radajonesmd/2020/05/23/thailands-approach-to-corona/#comment-525 In reply to Anonymous.

Thank you for sharing. It’s so interesting to see what other countries did. Keep safe and keep in touch, please.

]]> By: David https://radajonesmd.com/2020/05/23/thailands-approach-to-corona/#comment-524 Sun, 24 May 2020 13:10:34 +0000 https://radajonesmd.com/radajonesmd/2020/05/23/thailands-approach-to-corona/#comment-524 Hi Rada! I assume there is “free speech” in Thailand. Out of curiosity, is there any “push back” to the quarantine rules, in the media, ie people saying the virus is a conspiracy or protests demanding that the economy open back up?

]]> By: Anonymous https://radajonesmd.com/2020/05/23/thailands-approach-to-corona/#comment-523 Sun, 24 May 2020 08:17:19 +0000 https://radajonesmd.com/radajonesmd/2020/05/23/thailands-approach-to-corona/#comment-523 Thanks for the report. If only the American government had been so forward-thinking and Americans so compliant!

I live in Germany, where there have been 2149 cases/million and 100 deaths/million. There are two things the government failed to do: canceling Carneval (Mardi Gras) celebrations and quarantining the people who returned from skiing in Austria. (Ischgl was the source of Austria’s biggest cluster of Covid-19 cases, infecting more than 800 Austrians and almost 2000 foreigners, particularly Germans and Scandinavians.)

Fortunately, it is easy to get tested here in Germany. Because I am vulnerable and have had a couple of recent hospitalizations – one due to pneumonia – I have been tested 4 times in the last 2 months.

Like in the US, there is a rumbling in the population, wanting life to return to the old “normal”. I don’t believe life anywhere in the whole world will return to the old “normal” anytime soon. There will need to be a vaccine first, and it will take years to get enough of the population vaccinated (let’s not even get into the problem with anti-vaxxers!) to provide herd immunity for the vulnerable.

To all who might be reading this: stay safe!

]]> By: radajonesmd https://radajonesmd.com/2020/05/23/thailands-approach-to-corona/#comment-522 Sun, 24 May 2020 05:39:23 +0000 https://radajonesmd.com/radajonesmd/2020/05/23/thailands-approach-to-corona/#comment-522 In reply to Janie Baldwin.

Thanks, Janie. It means a lot.

]]> By: radajonesmd https://radajonesmd.com/2020/05/23/thailands-approach-to-corona/#comment-521 Sun, 24 May 2020 05:28:11 +0000 https://radajonesmd.com/radajonesmd/2020/05/23/thailands-approach-to-corona/#comment-521 In reply to Joyce.

Love you and miss you Joyce. We all do.

]]> By: Joyce https://radajonesmd.com/2020/05/23/thailands-approach-to-corona/#comment-520 Sun, 24 May 2020 05:24:38 +0000 https://radajonesmd.com/radajonesmd/2020/05/23/thailands-approach-to-corona/#comment-520 Thanks for this, Rada , I’m so pleased with Thailand who actually did the right thing at the right time….unlike the U.S.! I’m missing all my people there and at this moment, I don’t have a clue when I will be able to return! I heard an interview with the CEO of American Airlines and when asked about the resumption of international flights he said, “well, that will be very complicated!” So there you go! Take care of yourselves for me because as is said…..I vill return!

]]> By: Janie Baldwin https://radajonesmd.com/2020/05/23/thailands-approach-to-corona/#comment-519 Sun, 24 May 2020 03:10:42 +0000 https://radajonesmd.com/radajonesmd/2020/05/23/thailands-approach-to-corona/#comment-519 Your comments and observations are spot on! Being an English teacher, I generally read with a “red pencil” mentality and it comes with great respect that I say I find nothing needing correction in your post! Such a compliment you do not know! LOL Please continue your posts. They are accurate and informative and show keen insight to your surroundings………

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