When will they understand in the Isaan that the face masks can be taken off?

Another pedantic piece: you are not the guest but you are the inhabitant, the neighbour, the customer and more. I tell the people that the government and the other agencies tell that it is not really necessary anymore. And see more and more Thais without masks here in Korat, Khon Kaen and other provinces. Gradually the change takes place.
More and more Thais themselves realize even after having experienced an infection that it is indeed not much, a friend was always frantically spraying and scrubbing and only in the car with a cap on, after her infection (with mild symptoms) she is freed from this obsession because he himself admits that it was not dangerous. And so it goes with many and people leave the cap for what it is.

I was at Khon Kaen airport to check in for my flight to Bangkok, and I had some time and hadn't eaten yet, so I went to the coffee corner to get a cup of coffee and a hot dog sandwich.
I sat back down in the waiting area, took off my face mask, took a bite and a sip of coffee,
then an agent came to check whether everyone had a cap on, and of course I didn't, he pointed this out to me, to do that, I asked him nicely how I should eat my coffee and sandwich, he came up with the movement to do this again, I thought walk away and continue eating, but the gentleman came to see if I had put it on in the meantime, a real stripes Boy, while that has long been released,
I don't think it's ever been updated

greetings Bart

In Bangkok I go every convenience store, every market, every Central, every Mall, public transport on the street without a mask and see enough others without a mask. Well, I can mention all 50 districts in Bangkok, but if you are talking about the tourist areas, you will see many without walking.
Compare it to the schools where the entire school closed again with 1 infection in thousands of students. Now I regularly hear about infections in classes and those who stay at home, the rest of the class goes to school and there is nothing else going on and certainly no panic at all.

Well said Lung Addie. Here in Chiangmai we wear a face mask in 9 out of 10 times when we are together with others. In the 10th case, distance is kept. everything is automatic, almost intuitive, has crept in completely. Don't bother with it at all. Another advantage: you smell less exhaust fumes and (some) food smells when you walk past food stalls at markets. Like then with Loikratong. All of Chiangmai seemed like one big open-air kitchen. Indeed Kiss. I think the last s is for the submitter himself.

I am glad, Addie, that there are others who think differently among us. I wear my mask as soon as I come among people and I feel good about it.

Correctly worded JJ ... the Farang who knows everything better!

Just the fact that people come here (once again) to ask the question when the face mask can be taken off speaks volumes.

I don't judge for others, but I have no problem wearing my face mask neatly. Although, last week at the hairdresser there was a dirty Thai man in front of me, completely unkempt and not wearing a face mask. I was very excited to leave again.

But in general, the majority of the Thai population wears their mask and I agree with that.

I wonder to what extent GeertP will follow our advice. He himself says that people look at someone angrily if they don't wear a cap. Well Geert, then you give the answer to your question yourself, don't you?

In Chiang Mai they wear a lot of the FFP2 mask. Of course I don't do it on the bike or in the car, but I do in shops and hospitals. And also on the street, but then more for social reasons. Due to the strict and long-term policy in Thailand, we have far fewer deaths here than in the Netherlands (per 100.000 inhabitants, of course.) Unfortunately, the figures in both countries have not been published for a while, but a while ago the ratio was 1 ;4. But yes, we don't have to party all night here like in NL, where everyone seems to have PTSD.

It has been debated for a long time, but researchers from Germany, aided by scientists from China and the United States, say they can now really demonstrate that face masks work in the fight against the corona virus. In many situations, a simple face mask is enough, say the scientists. They speak of 'a breakthrough'.

Chris van Mersbergen 21-05-21, 18:38 Last update: 21-05-21, 22:04
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute in Mainz and the Charité University Hospital in Berlin, among others, used scientific data for their research that show that regions where a larger proportion of the population wears face masks seem to keep the corona virus under better control. The Germans, Chinese and Americans also used a new model calculation that they believe convincingly demonstrates that the effectiveness of a face mask depends on the amount of virus in the air, they write in the influential scientific journal Science.

MAX PLANCK Institute is one of the leading INDEPENDENT research institutes in the world. So not some professor sitting in his attic room writing a piece.

Dear Pascal. I see a lot of (Thai) people everywhere with face masks, all day long and on many occasions. At immigration and the driver's license office you will be refused entry without a face mask, just to name a few. It is certainly the case that deviant behavior is frowned upon. Sometimes subtly and sometimes grossly this is made known. Why this has not happened to you is a mystery to me that only you can explain. It is certainly not figments of the imagination what others proclaim here.

Oh, and it's not that if you don't fully comply with a single one, the effectiveness immediately drops to zero.