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51 minutes ago, trucking said:Anyone thinking that the alcohol ban will be lifted on 30th April might want to consider that the 1st and 4th of May are national holidays. 1st is Labour day and 4th is H.M. Kings Coronation .
https://www.officeholidays.com/countries/thailand/2020
That's a Friday and Monday making for a long weekend break. Can't see them allowing the sale of alcohol knowing that it will lead to massive binge drinking over that weekend.
I would guess that they will be pushing the alcohol ban forward again a week or two
Expect to see the dangling carrot of normalicy being pulled back many times in the future in this insane-demic.....
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On 4/20/2020 at 12:52 PM, scubascuba3 said:
Apparently Pitini was paying 120k a month in rent and didn't want to continue, same for 90% of places most likely.
Seems sensible for bars\restaurants to throw in the towel early, and reopen when things are looking better, with probably lower rent available
This is a good idea......Close down 100%.....And pay zero rent and zero utilities........And if things get good again...Boom.......Your back in business and you have saved a whole pile of money.......
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From my observation of the Indian restaurants most seem to be existing in a state suspended animation..Not really quite open but not quite fully out of business....
A few look kind of half-ass sorta open but the majority look mostly half-ass closed but not completely out of business......
A couple of the half-ass sort of open ones I have not seen a single customer going in to buy any thing in over a month now....
So now its pretty clear that their has to be one entity supporting all these Indian restaurants, who now have pretty much zero customers....Single owners would be dropping like flies...
Someone is still paying the rent and utilities.......If the rent was not being paid then they would be fully fully lights out, furniture gone, sign gone, fully 100% out of business...
But they are not....
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7 minutes ago, DrTuner said:
Maybe some tough love is needed. Learn how to queue properly or starve to death. Up to you.
What are exactly the priorities here?
Helping people to stand 6 feet apart..
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Helping people 6 feet under sooner....
The authorities need to make up their mind...
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5 minutes ago, Matzzon said:The hungry and poor citizens of Pattaya that has lost their work and income due to the virus shutdown, is now very grateful to City Hall. Morons are shutting it down and sending people home, instead of using the police to organize the lines and do the work they are supposed to be doing.
Exactly......
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There are really no words for how shameful this is.....
The huge massive lines at immigration that went on for months did not seem to be much of a problem at all..
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2 hours ago, balo said:
Someone should walk down the line with a long stick and point to where they should stand and keep distance, that someone should be.....the police.
We need complete police supervision of all human activity...Yawn
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26 minutes ago, elliss said:
Panic rules the World ..
Well it was going to be the Alien invasion that was going to cause the lockdown but then they decided the Corona flu would be more believable ...
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Thai shrimp are very frightened by this news...
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23 minutes ago, ukrules said:
When food runs out things will get ugly, they won't like that either.
Nobody can blame a man for taking whatever measures are necessary to feed his family,
Exactly...I think authorities are not quite realizing that Laws mean nothing to Desperate people.....
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Threatening to shut down charities giving out free food to hungry people who have had their jobs taken from them and also got shafted on the 5,000 baht relief is very low...
If I was giving out free food I would not feel the need to make things more complicated by this senseless bureaucracy.. I think everybody by now understands what social distancing is....
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13 minutes ago, Jai Dee said:It is inside checkpoint 8 and it is closed for business.
Thats what the Floating market gets for making farang pay 200 baht but letting Thais go free...lol
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My new name is Somchi am I eligible?
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Has anyone noticed anyone on motorbikes just ignoring the checkpoints and driving through them....
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So sometimes they take your temperature sometimes they dont...
Sometimes they want to see that form sometimes they dont
Sometimes they look at your id sometimes they dont
Sometimes they care about masks sometimes they dont
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Why only cut the budget by 33% I think 66% would have been better....
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3 minutes ago, Pilotman said:
So the lockdown idea worked well then? You just end up killing your own people. Good move. Actually, it was a stupid unworkable idea from the start. Pattaya is not London, or New York, nor even Bangkok.
Without tourist Pattaya is a lost cause....I would guess Pattaya depends on tourism about 80-85%...
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1 hour ago, essox essox said:
how many have received the 5k ??
Sir the check is in the mail....
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1 hour ago, smedly said:
not to worry, the government thinks by opening everything on 1st May all this will go away 555, they are about to get a huge awakening, none of this goes away until tourists come back which is at least 12 months away
Exactly......If you open your business 24/7 and have no customers its like not opening your business at all..
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8 minutes ago, TaaSaparot said:Why does everyone think Songkran has been cancelled for 2020, when it has just been suspended?
As far as I can see the usual whingers will get plenty to whinge about, just later in the year.
Yea right......Kind of like Christmas in July.....Its not going to happen...
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I have enjoyed every minute of Songkran 2020......I have not got one drop of water on me yet....I have not had to fear that I will get assaulted the minute I walk out the door....Wonderful Wonderful Songkran so far.....
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What amazes me is the humongous canopies they were able to put up in days.....The cost of the canopies had to have been huge....A massive effort for the most just to take someones temperature? and maybe a bit of paper work...
There has to be more to this limp noodle lockdown roadshow......
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31 minutes ago, actonion said:
Bars being a danger in spreading the virus? ....have you seen the street markets in every soi in East Pattaya, in particular the market in Soi Siam Country Club thats a danger in spreading any virus there are hundreds of people shopping so close together
Please let me know some one who has Covid....I want to prove to myself that all this is not way overblown...
There are only like 10,000 other diseases to also worry about...
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51 minutes ago, Don Mega said:
Currently there is still 964 active cases in Thailand, do you want to sit on a bar stool next to one of them ?
ok
Is the closure of your favorite bar or restaurant imminent?
in Pattaya
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If the Indian restaurants were operating on a shoe string budget....Just about every last one of them would be 100% out of business now......
But they are not out of business.....Hardly any of them....So that only means someone is bankrolling them,someone with HUGE money someone that wants them open no matter how huge past,present or future financial losses will be....Someone prepared to lose loads of money....