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Thailand's Minister of Public Health and deputy PM Anutin Charnvirakul has been ranting again.
Following more measured comments last week as Thailand continued to reopen, the controversial minister took direct aim at nightclubs, pubs, bars and karaoke for damaging the country.
He blamed bars in Bangkok directly for causing the misery and death of the last six months.
In an interview with Thai media he was clearly referring to the now infamous clusters in exclusive Thong Lo clubs that kickstarted the deadly wave of infections from April.
Conveniently he failed to mention that some key figures in the government were in attandance at those clubs and completely brushed any of his own alleged misdemeanors under the carpet.
He said that nightlife establishments that continue to flout the rules were similarly damaging the country.
His use of Thai vocabulary made it appear he was calling it tantamount to treason.
Instead he praised his leader Prayuth Chan-ocha for doing everything right and providing wonderful vaccine for the people.
It was right, he said, that Prayuth was thoroughly concerned about new clusters coming from the pubs and bars where alcohol is served.
He was not about to suggest that industry pressure to reopen the nightlife industry on December 1st would be successful.
On the contrary he said it was scary that some staff in places that had opened illegally were not vaccinated.
His only concession to a more relaxed atmosphere was in saying that the CCSA in their meeting today may relax rules for foreigners allowing them to just have ATK tests on arrival and not the far more onerous and costly RT-PCR tests.
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