Thailand’s Misplaced Priorities Against Pandemic

Government uses virus as an excuse to tighten the screws on its citizens

By Pithaya Pookaman

While Thailand seems to be reaping international accolades, particularly from the World Health Organization, the United Kingdom and the Japanese and German press, for boasting one of the world’s lowest rates of transmission and fatalities of Covid-19, it is also coasting on thin ice which could easily shatter, exposing its vulnerabili…