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traveling Thailand during Covid-19

Just my two cents from my experience as an Irish man in Thailand during the coronavirus pandemic... In SE Asia it is taught in schools to be respectful and thoughtful of how your actions affect others. When you see an Asian person wearing a mask, this is usually because they have the cold and they wear the mask so they don't spread the germs around. Respect. How many times have you been sitting in work with someone rubbing their wet nose and coughing over everyone then the whole office has the cold? This is built into people from a young age and is one of the main reasons I believe SE Asia's general public is combating corona so well. As per WHO, each case of Covid-19 Coronavirus infects 1.4-2.5 people. Hong Kong for example, having a population density of 17,300 per square mile managed to contain the virus to 274 confirmed cases (as of writing this 22nd March 2020), compared to the numbers of confirmed cases in Italy, which has reached 53,300 cases today with a much less d...