Pattaya City plans extravagant celebrations for Chinese New Year

[Rimmer]

Pattaya City plans extravagant celebrations for Chinese New Year

 

PATTAYA:--Lions and dragons will dance from morning to night when Pattaya celebrates Chinese New Year on Saturday, January 25. Around town, people will pay respect to ancestors at temples and individual homes, and many venues will hold celebrations for visitors. Below is a short list of city-sponsored events.

 

Chinese New Year celebrations will be held at three spots across the Pattaya area Jan. 25, featuring music, dance and games.

 

Events are planned for Walking Street, Lan Po Public Park in Naklua and Central Festival Pattaya Beach.

 

Festivities begin at 7 a.m. with four hours worship ceremonies in three locations: city hall, the Pattaya viewpoint, and Sawang Boriboon Thammasathan Foundation. At each spot there also will be lion and dragon dances.

 

Read more: https://www.pattayamail.com/featured/pattaya-city-plans-extravagant-celebrations-for-chinese-new-year-285077

-- PATTAYA MAIL 2020-01-24—

[Ramen087]

Still going through with the planned celebrations in Pattaya?  Packing a bunch of people in close quarters ... Huh?  Cases of infections have been multiplying daily {now at 830} with deaths now at 26.  Among the Pattaya attendees will be loads of visitors from China.  I’m a bit befuddled.  Why?  The Chinese government has been canceling Lunar New Year celebrations.  Would it make sense to follow suit?  

[legend49]

1 hour ago, Ramen087 said:

Still going through with the planned celebrations in Pattaya?  Packing a bunch of people in close quarters ... Huh?  Cases of infections have been multiplying daily {now at 830} with deaths now at 26.  Among the Pattaya attendees will be loads of visitors from China.  I’m a bit befuddled.  Why?  The Chinese government has been canceling Lunar New Year celebrations.  Would it make sense to follow suit?  

Common sense is not part of Thai vocabulary.

[jacko45k]

Free tissues and breathing masks?

[Leaver]

3 hours ago, Ramen087 said:

Still going through with the planned celebrations in Pattaya?  Packing a bunch of people in close quarters ... Huh?  Cases of infections have been multiplying daily {now at 830} with deaths now at 26.  Among the Pattaya attendees will be loads of visitors from China.  I’m a bit befuddled.  Why?  The Chinese government has been canceling Lunar New Year celebrations.  Would it make sense to follow suit?  

Money Number One here. 

[Cake Monster]

4 hours ago, Ramen087 said:

Still going through with the planned celebrations in Pattaya?  Packing a bunch of people in close quarters ... Huh?  Cases of infections have been multiplying daily {now at 830} with deaths now at 26.  Among the Pattaya attendees will be loads of visitors from China.  I’m a bit befuddled.  Why?  The Chinese government has been canceling Lunar New Year celebrations.  Would it make sense to follow suit?  

Not if you wish the Event to have dual purpose.

It will also be a " Farewell for now " event for the Chinese Tourist in Thailand, with over 20 Cities now in lockdown in China

[DrTuner]

I think they should announce an official beer for these celebrations.

 

[champers]

Or for non-drinkers .....

[ianezy0]

8 hours ago, Ramen087 said:

Still going through with the planned celebrations in Pattaya?  Packing a bunch of people in close quarters ... Huh?  Cases of infections have been multiplying daily {now at 830} with deaths now at 26.  Among the Pattaya attendees will be loads of visitors from China.  I’m a bit befuddled.  Why?  The Chinese government has been canceling Lunar New Year celebrations.  Would it make sense to follow suit?  

Bah humbug....shouldn’t be happening....not on my watch!

[URMySunshine]

Given what we don't yet know you would be mad to go and the council are mad to stage it. 

 

ALL CINEMAS ARE CLOSED IN CHINA - didn't they get the memo ?

[RotBenz8888]

Corona virus? Air pollution? Traffic madness? Ladyboys robbers on the rampage? But nothing of this beats that horrific noisy garbage Chinese New year.

[Traubert]

4 hours ago, Cake Monster said:

Not if you wish the Event to have dual purpose.

It will also be a " Farewell for now " event for the Chinese Tourist in Thailand, with over 20 Cities now in lockdown in China

 13 actually and all in Hubei province. All they have done is widened the quarantine area. They are all in close proximity. There are a lot of people live in China. Most of whom are nowhere near Hubei.

[Traubert]

11 minutes ago, URMySunshine said:

Given what we don't yet know you would be mad to go and the council are mad to stage it. 

 

ALL CINEMAS ARE CLOSED IN CHINA - didn't they get the memo ?

All cinemas are closed because it's Chinese New Year. I smell a British tabloid sensational headline.

 

99.9% of everything is closed.

[URMySunshine]

3 minutes ago, Traubert said:

All cinemas are closed because it's Chinese New Year. I smell a British tabloid sensational headline.

 

99.9% of everything is closed.

Up to you if it's on - your call. 

 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/chinas-cinemas-officially-close-response-coronavirus-outbreak-1272566

[impulse]

9 hours ago, Ramen087 said:

Still going through with the planned celebrations in Pattaya?  Packing a bunch of people in close quarters ... Huh?  Cases of infections have been multiplying daily {now at 830} with deaths now at 26.  Among the Pattaya attendees will be loads of visitors from China.  I’m a bit befuddled.  Why?  The Chinese government has been canceling Lunar New Year celebrations.  Would it make sense to follow suit?  

 

The USA alone loses about 100 people a day during a typical flu year.  With 5x the population, that means China probably loses 500 people A DAY during a normal flu year.  Deaths at 26?  That's about an hour's worth on a normal flu year.

 

China's got political reasons to look tough after their mis-handling of the SARs epidemic (which still killed a lot less than the normal flu that year).

 

If you're worried, stay home.   Problem solved.  That's the beauty of living in a free society.  We get to choose. 

 

Edit:  BTW, the reason I call out the USA is because that's the easiest place for me to look up CDC flu data...  Not to hold it up as any kind of beacon for health care excellence.

 

Edited January 24, 2020 by impulse

[daveAustin]

7 hours ago, impulse said:

 

The USA alone loses about 100 people a day during a typical flu year.  With 5x the population, that means China probably loses 500 people A DAY during a normal flu year.  Deaths at 26?  That's about an hour's worth on a normal flu year.

 

China's got political reasons to look tough after their mis-handling of the SARs epidemic (which still killed a lot less than the normal flu that year).

 

If you're worried, stay home.   Problem solved.  That's the beauty of living in a free society.  We get to choose. 

 

Edit:  BTW, the reason I call out the USA is because that's the easiest place for me to look up CDC flu data...  Not to hold it up as any kind of beacon for health care excellence.

 

I was saying the same yesterday - it's all a bit sensationalist though I guess it has the potential to be huge. Always said mother nature would take care of overpopulation. 

[Ramen087]

13 hours ago, impulse said:

 

The USA alone loses about 100 people a day during a typical flu year.  With 5x the population, that means China probably loses 500 people A DAY during a normal flu year.  Deaths at 26?  That's about an hour's worth on a normal flu year.

 

China's got political reasons to look tough after their mis-handling of the SARs epidemic (which still killed a lot less than the normal flu that year).

 

If you're worried, stay home.   Problem solved.  That's the beauty of living in a free society.  We get to choose. 

 

Edit:  BTW, the reason I call out the USA is because that's the easiest place for me to look up CDC flu data...  Not to hold it up as any kind of beacon for health care excellence.

 

Have no idea why people keep comparing this to the flu.  Flu has less than one percent mortality rate, and the medical community does provide an annual shot to help discourage the passing on of the virus... this coronavirus is an unknown, it could be SARS or MERS like in nature... and I fail to see why comparing it to a known entity like flu makes sense, since the ease of contagion and the true nature of the virus has yet been discovered... people dismissing the chances by looking at the odds are the people who create epidemics and pandemics (proof... people who continued to have unprotected sex at the very beginning of the aids epidemic, citing the odds and their ability to choose freely in a society that allows it...how did that work out.). This isn’t aids, but it could be if people don’t act according to disease control specialist’s recommendations)... As for the advice, I watch out for my health, and the problem isn’t it any way solved when people fail to act like it until an epidemic or pandemic is raging...

Edited January 25, 2020 by Ramen087

[GeorgeCross]

[bert bloggs]

well the wife and i will not be joining in this year(no loss i am sure) but try to keep away from crowded places.

[gamesgplayemail]

have you spotted many chinese this year ?

 

and why Thai put flowers in front of their cars ?

 

 

[overherebc]

48 minutes ago, gamesgplayemail said:

have you spotted many chinese this year ?

 

and why Thai put flowers in front of their cars ?

 

 

Australians put rhubarb, or something like that, on the front of their Utes. Is that similar?

[jacko45k]

8 hours ago, overherebc said:

Australians put rhubarb, or something like that, on the front of their Utes. Is that similar?

Do sheep eat rhubarb?