Thread: Germans in Hot Water for Removing Covid-19 Barrier in Chiang Mai

The real worry is the practice the Thai are adopting whereby anyone with a fucking temperature over 37.5c must go to hospital and fuck knows thereafter but they cannot return home to recover. If the contagion spreads exponentially, which it undoubtedly will given their chronic inability to keep their distance from one and another, then just about every fucker hospitalised for whatever is going to get infected.

But the prospect of these vigilante village militia enforcing a testing regime is truly a daunting thought. " You, you farang, you rawn maak maak, you go, no come back, na!"

Originally Posted by Neverna

The locals and village headman seem to be justifying the barricade as it will make entrants to the village enter a checkpoint and be screened for Covid symptoms "according to the order of the province From 5 April 5 2020".

กำนันแจ้งความ ฝรั่งรื้อด่านโควิดฯ มั่วสุมปาร์ตี้ ทำผวาทั้งหมู่บ้าน

Oh they'll come up with any old bollocks won't they.

Even if it were true, as you've shown, they could have simply moved the barricade between the village and the nasty squareheads and their chums.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

The real worry is the practice the Thai are adopting whereby anyone with a fucking temperature over 37.5c must go to hospital and fuck knows thereafter but they cannot return home to recover.

I went to a shopping mall last week. I walked in the heat of the day from the car park to the mall entrance. At the entrance, a young man was taking the temperature of everybody entering. He took mine. He showed me the result: 37.8c. The young man wouldn't let me enter but indicated to me a chair to sit down on. I did. Thirty seconds of relaxing in the air conditioned environment and the young man came to check my temperature again. 37.3c. I was free to go shopping.

Originally Posted by Neverna

I went to a shopping mall last week. I walked in the heat of the day from the car park to the mall entrance. At the entrance, a young man was taking the temperature of everybody entering. He took mine. He showed me the result: 37.8c. The young man wouldn't let me enter but indicated to me a chair to sit down on. I did. Thirty seconds of relaxing in the air conditioned environment and the young man came to check my temperature again. 37.3c. I was free to go shopping.

I bought a lottery ticket two months ago and won over 4,000 baht.

Originally Posted by Warwick

And there in is the source of the problem. The sneaky farang has found some loophole in the law that has allowed him to set up a business.

That would be his missus then.

Originally Posted by Warwick

In doing so he has broken the first and most important law "No foreigner must be allowed to be successful" and any artifice to prevent him from doing so can be used.

Not so unusual elsewhere: Go and see how the local population looks on the many Vietnamese small shops spread up throughout the Germany and their neighbour countries...

Don't talk utter shite. What fucking indigenous European is going to fucking whinge about a few nail technicians, masseuse whores and cannabis growers, for fuck's sake.

Originally Posted by Neverna

The locals and village headman seem to be justifying the barricade

Of course they are . . . as they can do no wrong

Originally Posted by Neverna

I went to a shopping mall last week. I walked in the heat of the day from the car park to the mall entrance. At the entrance, a young man was taking the temperature of everybody entering. He took mine. He showed me the result: 37.8c. The young man wouldn't let me enter but indicated to me a chair to sit down on. I did. Thirty seconds of relaxing in the air conditioned environment and the young man came to check my temperature again. 37.3c. I was free to go shopping.

not bad

they are great at following literal orders, Hitler would be proud

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

Xenophobia against white people is a terrible thing, but in this case, as they were Germans, understandable and acceptable, imho...

At least now you know what's heading your way in Korea.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

The real worry is the practice the Thai are adopting whereby anyone with a fucking temperature over 37.5c must go to hospital and fuck knows thereafter but they cannot return home to recover. If the contagion spreads exponentially, which it undoubtedly will given their chronic inability to keep their distance from one and another, then just about every fucker hospitalised for whatever is going to get infected.

But the prospect of these vigilante village militia enforcing a testing regime is truly a daunting thought. " You, you farang, you rawn maak maak, you go, no come back, na!"

When we took MIL to the hospital our temperature was checked before we were allowed in. What would happen if we had a fever? No-one knew the answer to that little poser...

Wife had a fever for a while due to a fish bone stuck in her gum...couldn't get anyone to look at it because she had a fever?? Anyway, it sorted itself out after about 3 days. When we were checked at a couple of shops her temperature was shown to us (38.7) but they let her in anyway, after we explained she had toothache.

Back to this story...

I guess the number of people going to the baker is the biggest concern for the headman. Lots of farangs with the dreaded lurgy. Perhaps the baker should have offered to do a delivery service to alleviate such worries. There definitely seems to be some friction and the Germans should try and calm it down.

The dumbkopf krauts, before taking matters into their own hands and dismantling the roadblock in anger, should have at least attempted some negotiation with their thai neighbours. Had they bothered to read the notice they would have seen it was written in a polite and non inflammatory manner.

Private road or not, legal or not, a well lit official road block or an unofficial dangerous night time hazard constructed out of bamboo poles and concrete blocks, we all know those points are completely irrelevant to the local thai and the thai police, so there is no point in even mentioning them.

What is relevant is that as is often the case the chickenhead seeks to confront the falang, and it is the response of the falang that generally decides the outcome. In this case, the squareheads reverted to type and chose to act aggressively thereby upping the stakes. Had they gone the conciliatory route, I am sure a compromise could have been reached. Its about coming to terms with the culture, however abhorrent one may find it, one is living in.

The dumbkopfs should have taken a plate of pretzels and weisswurst and sat down with their neighbours and calmly come to an agreement, but no, they knew better and decided to invade poland.

^ Beware Germans bearing gifts...

Originally Posted by Farang Ky Ay

Got stopped too because I was 37.6, well walking in a parking lot in the sun does that...he told me to sit and that he'll check me later, while he was telling me 5his I was in front of the fan so I said nevermind check me right now ... he did it and I was below 37.5 already...when I went back there I made sure to blow the Aircon toward my face before leaving the car, never been close to 37.5 again...I guess someone who isn't feeling well could pass this test if he does that.

Hmm, not sure this is a 'test' one should wish to scam. From what I've seen temperatures are being taken probably with second rate equipment and from farther away than they should, which ought to record a lower than actual temperature; so if someone is in the danger zone, say 37.8, which might be due to external conditions but could also indicate an infection, why would they wish to pass through rather than be subject to secondary testing?

Just called UK to wish someone a happy birthday, and got hit with a lost doctor cousin to the virus this morning, another doctor cousin with virus in icu a few days and coming along well, a third cousin died yesterday from cancer, his brother died last week after a stroke about 6 months ago, while his mother and daughter are both CV infected. WTF!

^Sorry to hear that

^^ One could want to cheat the test for the sake of being able to purchase supply? To avoid having to make arrangements to get them (get someone to do the shopping for them etc)?

When I went to immi 2 weeks ago, they were more clever ...nobody was tested "on arrival", everyone had to wait 5 minutes before testing...no use to blow Aircon on your face before turning up.

Sorry for your losses.

Look, the body raises its core temperature as part of the overall strategy adopted by the immune system to defeat invasion by bacterial or viral infections that are considered a threat - hence the 'fever'.

The surface temperature scanner is not accurate to the nth degree in determining core temperature and often indicate spurious readings according to several variables viz, ambient temperature and raised blood flow cooling the skin following exertions or as a reaction to excessive humidity in a warm environment.

There is one way to cheat a surface scanner that addresses core temperature increase and that is to consume two paracetamol tablets 40 minutes before the test which will help to reduce the signs of incipient fever.

Or placing an ice-pack on the forehead for a minute prior to entering the test location.

Originally Posted by Neverna

Or placing an ice-pack on the forehead for a minute prior to entering the test location.

To do the opposite you place raw garlic under your arm pit for a couple of hours.

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

To do the opposite you place raw garlic under your arm pit for a couple of hours.

Seriously?

How would anyone get the idea to do that in the first place?!

Originally Posted by panama hat

Seriously?

How would anyone get the idea to do that in the first place?!

By walking back from the market with more garlic than you can carry in your hands?

It's probably a European thing.

Shoving a chilli up your arse has a similar, if less odiferous, effect.

Originally Posted by panama hat

Seriously?

Live and learn.