News is a crazy thing these days. I think most people don't believe any of it. I saw with my own eyes the Thai people take to the streets to today in order to protest the leadership of this country that was no elected but was taken by force, military force.
Taking leadership in Thailand instead of earning in or getting it by votes is not new. There have been a record setting number of coup d'etat s in this country to the point where no one, especially not the Thai people, take their country's leadership, their elections, or their elections seriously.
Corruption is everywhere, it is simply a part of life. Suppression of the media is expected and social media is something that will get you in trouble if you have the "wrong" opinion.
As fewer and fewer people take covid regulations seriously, protests against the government are growing again and not just in the capitol of Bangkok, but in Chiang Mai, where I Live. This is going to get larger if you ask me, because the people are no longer believing the constant "stay at home, save lives" directives that conveniently started to happen right around the time when anti-government protest were growing in popularity in Bangkok and other majaor metro areas in this country.
So far the government response has been a weak one were the big story on every newspaper, website, social-media gage, and TV station is a story about how a poll that was done shows that most people disapprove of recent protests.
If you bother to look into the actual poll, which was almost certainly rigged from the start since we don't really have a free press in Thailand. You will see that the poll was a phone poll, and was done with only 1300 respondents. The questions seemed loaded such as "do you believe there were unspoken people backing the protesters in the background?" which if you lack brainpower means "do you think someone else is financing this?" and another question, which the government heavily depends on for their movement, desperately tried to attach the antigovernmental displays as being something that could spread Covid.... a notion that the government, if not the world, has used as a means to suppress gatherings of any sort that the government does not approve of, worldwide.
No matter how you decide to look at this... Guess what? The average Thai person is pissed off again and they are in the streets to prove it.
No poll consisting of 1300 people in a nation of nearly 80 million is going to change that and the people aren't buying it. Get ready for more protests and therefore, more lockdowns. This Prime Minister is in trouble and he knows it