Text/Fang Wenguo (Former Overseas Chinese Counsellor, Embassy in Thailand)
Graph/Network
The humorous nature of Thais was vividly expressed during the epidemic prevention period.
The government launched the "Emergency Law", the epidemic prevention agency recommended that everyone wear a mask when going out, maintain social distancing, and immediately hung a lot of photo cartoons on the Internet that made people look at it, mainly based on photos, which showed that everyone has a talent for acting.
A fat big sister put a dishwashing sponge and scotch tape and tied it to her mouth and nose to show off the market.
At the bank counter, the resident uses a long bamboo pole for catching birds to put the passbook in a small net and hand it to the bank clerk, as if after the business is completed, the cute female staff like a bird will go home.
For such a serious activity as the monk's transformation, the netizens with open brains did not forget to be silent. The givers knelt down and stretched out their hands to lift the food forward as far as they could, much like the elephants in the Dragon and Tiger Garden who crawled their long noses to reach the bananas in the hands of tourists, while the monks wore masks and transparent protective shields that covered the entire face, and solemnly prayed to the givers.
Before this, Thailand announced the ban on plastic bags, and funny pictures of going to 7-11 stores with four layers of fishing nets on their backs immediately appeared on the Internet.
These are the pleasures and humors of the idlers, and the poor have their own unique humor, and they get unexpected results.
A taxi uncle named Xi Cha because there are no tourists, business interruption, in order to make a living to drive to deliver express parcels, but even the oil money and share of money can not earn back, the taxi uncle to the Internet sent a sigh. In just one night, he received 8.3 million baht in donations from the public on his account. The rental uncle was frightened, immediately closed the account, and told everyone that enough was enough, too much. He then plans to use the huge sums of money to buy a house because he has been renting a house, and in addition, he will pass on the donations to the hospital to help the medical staff who are treating COVID-19 patients, buy firefighting equipment to donate to the fire brigade that extinguished the Chiang Mai mountain fire, and donate money to help the taxi drivers. He folded his hands and told the people that his life would continue to be solved by his own hands.
The rich man's humor of the epidemic is more ostentatious. On the morning of the 17th, a rich man took a sack of cash and sent money at the entrance of a temple not far from Don Mueang Airport. Soon there was a kilometer-long queue at the door. This alarmed the district government, the people's representatives checked the legal documents, it was wrong, the large-scale gathering, in violation of the national emergency law, and the queue did not maintain a safe distance from the epidemic prevention. The government came forward to let the well-meaning rich man put away the sacks and go home, the people in line dispersed first, and the people who had received the money automatically came to the government to report, not to recover a thousand baht, but to carry out isolation and epidemic prevention testing. As soon as the matter was reported by the media, there was a jubilant discussion on the Internet.
Big people do things with humor to death. Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha comes from a military background, usually everything seems to be normal, in the past wearing a military uniform embellished with stars, and now he often goes to the TV station to fire a cannon. According to his subordinates, he was not afraid of the prime minister's serious face, he was afraid that he would let go of his expression and pretend to be cute, and there must be something wrong when he was cute.
Yesterday, the prime minister faced the reporter's microphone, and the prime minister's particularly joyful face really squeezed out a smile first, and then said, I know which people in Thailand are the richest, next week I will send a letter to each of the top twenty rich people, telling them how our government and our people have lived under the blow of the epidemic. As soon as this remark came out, it is presumable that the Xie people have already begun to prepare checks.
Such a serious matter made the prime minister say it in such a brisk tone, let the Thai people look at each other and laugh at the same time, but also worry about Prime Minister Prayut, the sixteenth richest man is mr. Tassin, the brother of Prime Minister Yingluck who was ousted by the barrel of a gun, Prayut to go to his door to change his fate, is it to let Trayn return home, or to visit Tassin's home in montenegro?
The number of new confirmed cases in Thailand in recent days is also quite humorous, with more than 30 cases a day, which does not let the people relax their vigilance, nor does it take this country that advocates "braking and praying " (easy) to live too far. Today there were 32 new cases and no new deaths.