Responding to last night's picture of the school assembly a reader noted few masks. This picture was taken pre-COVID, so the three students with masks were ailing in some way that caused their responsible adult to send them to school with a mask. When Ed and I were in Japan in 1961 we observed many Japanese wearing masks. Asians for decades have been in the practice of donning masks if they have any respitory symptoms of illness.
When COVID came on the scene in early 2020 virtually all Thai persons donned masks. Masks combined with social distancing and the closing of venues with crowds of people kept the first wave of the pandemic to a minimum. Thailand was caught unprepared when the highly contagious Delta Variant began to spread. Lulled into complacency vaccines were not emphasized and the ones available from China were not very effective. Now COVID is rampant in Thailand with new records of infections and deaths recorded daily. Thai officials are now scrambling to find reliable vaccines.
It's terribly unfortunate that masking has become a political issue in America. The primary reason to mask is not self=protection but the protection of others. There are myriad ways personal freedoms are curtailed for the sake of others, e.g., traffic laws, not yelling "Fire" in a theater, etc.
Responding to a post I made on Facebook the school principal reports that the teachers all have one vaccine. She didn't say which brand so I hope it's not the Chinese version.
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.25" of rain today.
Pre-COVID mask.
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A niece living in Palestine has rec’d a Russian manufactured Covid vaccine her mother reported to us. Israelis not providing vaccine by sharing??
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