News Forum - Government official expects Thailand’s first monkeypox case to happen at Pride Parade

[Thaiger]

A government official expects Thailand to record its first monkeypox case on Sunday at the nation’s first official Pride Parade in Bangkok. The Bangkok Naruemit Pride Parade, which will traverse the length of Silom Road, starts at Maha Uma Devi Temple on Pan Road, at 4pm. The parade plans to bring together the LGBTQ community, activists and allies, and help further promote sexual and gender diversity, and shed light on other social issues like marriage equality, the rights of sex workers and abortion. But, while the Pride Parade will be a day of celebration for most, Jakkaphat Pittayawongarnon, the Director-General of […]

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[JJJ]

Wait is this a reprint from an Onion article? His logic has as many holes as Swiss cheese. 

I can’t even begin to analyze all of his logical faults.

Except to say if he’s Director-General of the Division of Epidemiology, Department of Disease Control, no wonder the covid response is such a failure. 

[TheDirtyDurian]

"Foreigners from different countries would join the event, and there might be some cases for sure.”

Say no more....

[Thaidup]

99% of the population have nothing to worry about then.

[KaptainRob]

Fear mongering nonsense at its worst!  

[JJJ]

1 hour ago, Thaidup said:

99% of the population have nothing to worry about then.

Correction. 100% of the population has nothing to worry about. 

[Soidog]

The utter stupidity and ignorance of this imbecile is beyond words. What a total nutter! 

[Guest1]

4 hours ago, Thaiger said:

A government official expects Thailand to record its first monkeypox case on Sunday at the nation’s first official Pride Parade in Bangkok. T

One? 

[Pompies]

What a bigot! The risk of catching monkeypox is greater at a parliamentary meeting than at the Pride Parade. After all parliamentarians do little more than scr*w each other all the time!

[MikeW]

Just like the 100 thousand new covid cases after Songkran 

[thaicm]

Homophobia and ignorance are alive and well in the Thai government.  So reassuring.