re: "Coronavirus blues and clues in Thailand" (BP, Opinion, April 17, 2020)
Dear editor,
As Thitinan Pongsudhirak points out, Mother Nature's infinitely mindless Covid-19 assault on humanity also lays bare aspects of traditional Thai society that are themselves viruses sucking the life out of the nation.
The economic malaise of forced salvation has thrown into stark contrast the lives of those who preach such deceits as "sufficiency economics" whilst living in careless luxury, even to the obscenity of fashion-coordinated face masks, and the precarious lives of the honest, hard working Thai people, the cooks, the taxi drivers, the vendors, the factory workers, the waiters, the teachers, and the good sex workers, who create Thailand's wealth, now thrown on the bonfire to protect the ungrateful rich and powerful from natural reality.
And as Thitinan notes, the Internet means that today even Thai citizens now know these truths about their nation's long-shrouded traditions. It will be most interesting to see how the self-replicating coup maker and those he fronts from Thailand's self-serving status quo respond to the rising tides of awareness of Thai affairs among the Thai nation.
Felix Qui
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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text as edited was published in PostBag on April 18, 2020, under the title "Thailand unmasked" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag
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