Don’t believe your eyes, Thailand’s health minister says. “This is fine.”
Responding to alarming scenes at Bangkok’s Bang Sue Grand Station of crowds cramming inside for vaccination – without crowd control to keep them apart – controversial health minister Anutin Charnvirakul claimed that viewers could be tricked by “camera angles or whatever.”
“I can confirm this because I go there four days a week. The place is crowded only in the morning, and when I arrived there it wasn’t crowded,” Anutin said yesterday. “Camera angles or whatever can make a place look crowded.”
In case that’s not clear enough: It wasn’t crowded when he got there; therefore, it couldn’t have been crowded.
Those who don’t want to face a big crowd shouldn’t show up for vaccination until afternoon, Anutin went on to advise.
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