Pattaya: Thai media reports it's deserted - businesses complying with closure order but beach has many people, they claim

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Pattaya: Thai media reports it's deserted - businesses complying with closure order but beach has many people, they claim

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

77kaoded reported that Pattaya was devoid of lights and sounds. 

 

Businesses were complying with orders to shut until the end of the month. 

 

They posted plenty of pictures of the quiet, deserted streets. 

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

However, they said tourists were going down to the beach instead of bars. 

 

They said there were lots of tourists on the beach - though they had no picture evidence of this. 

 

Source: 77kaoded

 

 

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[stuhan]

Such a pity to see this happening.

 

[GeorgeCross]

so they closed the bars and brothels and everybody left

 

wow who could have predicted that 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 20, 2020 by GeorgeCross

[Ron jeremy]

5 minutes ago, stuhan said:

Such a pity to see this happening.

 

Is it such a pity for the businesse o be complying with the new law to help control this deadly virus??????????

It should nave been done a lent time ago.

[kingofthemountain]

For some reasons they close all the bars but all the massage can still stay open

maybe the virus do not like the massages boum boum ?

Also all the guest house or hotel with a bar inside can have the bar open

Thai logic as usual

[Don Mega]

They should demand the beach complies with the order, if it does not fine it Bt.100,000 and toss it in jail for a year.

[Don Mega]

2 minutes ago, kingofthemountain said:

For some reasons they close all the bars but all the massage can still stay open

maybe the virus do not like the massages boum boum ?

Also all the guest house or hotel with a bar inside can have the bar open

Thai logic as usual

I thought massage places were part of the closure order............. or maybe that was just for Phuket.

[sammieuk1]

Wait until it rains and they will all be swept out to sea????

[adammike]

9 minutes ago, Don Mega said:

I thought massage places were part of the closure order............. or maybe that was just for Phuket.

They are,maybe he is not in Thailand.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

20 minutes ago, Don Mega said:

I thought massage places were part of the closure order............. or maybe that was just for Phuket.

 

In my BKK neighborhood, all the regular Thai massage shops appear to be closed as per the local order...even moreso than the drinks only bars, where some are actually still operating.

 

[Peterw42]

22 minutes ago, kingofthemountain said:

For some reasons they close all the bars but all the massage can still stay open

maybe the virus do not like the massages boum boum ?

Also all the guest house or hotel with a bar inside can have the bar open

Thai logic as usual

Massage places have been shut down, its all part of the same directive, bars and massage to close

[ThaiBunny]

1 minute ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

...even more so than the drinks only bars, where some are actually still operating.

Alcohol is a disinfectant after all

[johng]

Lots of Russians on Jomtien beach this morning.

[ThreeEyedRaven]

52 minutes ago, webfact said:

 

They said there were lots of tourists on the beach

I suspect that a great deal of those present at the beach were more likely to be freelancers rather than tourists.

[CNXexpat]

56 minutes ago, webfact said:

They said there were lots of tourists on the beach

Thai or farang tourists? But in the end it doesn´t matter - they are stupid. #stayathome

[MayPutThai]

1 hour ago, Ron jeremy said:

Is it such a pity for the businesse o be complying with the new law to help control this deadly virus??????????

It should nave been done a lent time ago.

Exactly that is the point. Doing so that Thai and Chines can't be infected but only Farang if they don't wear mask in the beginning of this problem. 

Especially taking the business of the hundreds of thousands Chinese from Wuhan and other place in China over the CNY before even just planning any fight against the virus. Also the uncontrolled import from Thai people, who spread the disease without control and no measures, increase the hidden count of infection. 

Thai logic, what you can't see or know, does not exist do not help here. 

Everybody can help to reduce. I stay at home, which I did anyway also before. But now I reduce contact to people outside my house as much as I can. I don't want get infected from outside, but I still live here now many years as my second home. 

This government seems not really suitable to manage the situation. Even as ex military, which should know the command structure, they speak all different from the PM down to the vice vice spare speaker off any official department. Can't even hold at least one official government web site updated.

We all have fear. But also Farang live long time already in retirement, spend money for normal things, handymen etc. or have any business and thought they could become part of the community. I learn from now, Farang will never be welcome by the government, except they spend 2 Million for a privilege visa. 

Will see in the future when you think back at the time before you took over the steering wheal, if that was really so bad if no more tourist, even from China or India will come to Thailand.

Not only tourists, also Investors are shy like deer and think twice about the actual situation, when they see how the government manage crisis

[champers]

I am sat on the beach now and there is plenty room to self isolate. In Pattaya the genie was out of the bottle long ago when Chinese tour groups and others were freely arriving here from Wuhan after the crisis began there.

[Matzzon]

Obvious there are too many morons in Thailand, disregarding nationality, citizens or race. Instead of going home and try to keep away from each other and many people, then they gather for a party on the beach.

Say a lot about human intelligence and the respect for fellow human beings.

[PatOngo]

7 minutes ago, Matzzon said:

Obvious there are too many morons in Thailand,

Thankfully there are 4 or 5 smart ones!

[Greenhill]

17 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

Thankfully there are 4 or 5 smart ones!

 

But none of those are anywhere near the Government - unfortunately!!

[wombat]

47 minutes ago, champers said:

 In Pattaya the genie was out of the bottle long ago when Chinese tour groups and others were freely arriving here from Wuhan after the crisis began there.

The only thing i see wrong there is the quack in China waved the flag in December 2019...
With the number of tour groups from China doing the snake walk up WS on a nightly basis why isn't walking street ground zero for Coronavirus in Asia if others were freely arriving here from Wuhan before the crisis started officially.

 

[cryo]

3 hours ago, johng said:

Lots of Russians on Jomtien beach this morning.

As their Russian language newspaper's and internet is saying there is no problem why would they not be acting as normal. It will slowly sink in as they start asking why everything is shutting down. Do not blame them they are just too trusting of their leaders as are Thai's. I know one or two fairly educated Thais and I can guarantee they will be in lockdown or something similar.

Edited March 20, 2020 by cryo

[DefaultName]

As to the beach, isn't a regular dip in salt water a good way to disinfect?

[Isaanbiker]

They said there were lots of tourists on the beach - though they had no picture evidence of this.

 

The beach road after dark was always diseased even before the virus. 

 

Many freelancers and cheap Charlies who didn't want to pay a bar fine.

 

It's understandable that they do not show photos of something that doesn't exist.

 

But for what do we have Google? 

  

 

 

   

[johng]

49 minutes ago, wombat said:

why isn't walking street ground zero for Coronavirus in Asia if others were freely arriving here from Wuhan before the crisis started officially.

If I remember correctly there where 7000 from Wuhan and 11 million +  from China as a whole tourist to Thailand in 2019/early 2020 but somehow they managed not to spread the virus ??????

[johng]

5 minutes ago, Isaanbiker said:

Many freelancers and cheap Charlies who didn't want to pay a bar fine.

 

 

That's quite an old photo..they did away with those round "seats"  presumably to stop the "undesirables"

sitting there..it used to be good fun just to sit with a 7/11 beer and watch the world go by listen to the music from the bars opposite and talk with the  (mostly) girls.

[Benmart]

3 hours ago, ThaiBunny said:

Alcohol is a disinfectant after all

Yes, and a poisonous one in sufficient quantities.

[johng]

19 minutes ago, DefaultName said:

As to the beach, isn't a regular dip in salt water a good way to disinfect?

errmmm not if the city has no waste treatment plants

[chilly07]

No sign of anything closing in South Pattaya. Tesco car park full. Plenty of traffic on road. Thais and Tourists everywhere. Rumour has it that Thais very angry about cancelling Songran. Full on party next door last night. Thais don't like to be told what not to do!  

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, stuhan said:

Such a pity to see this happening.

 

Actually it's the best thing to happen.... a couple of weeks of forced separation from crowds might just slow down the infection rate. Thais/tourists won't do it voluntarily so it has to be this way.