Pattaya: Keep the beer bars open! We are open air and less risky, says desperate bar rep

[webfact]

Pattaya: Keep the beer bars open! We are open air and less risky, says desperate bar rep

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

A representative of the beer bars in Pattaya has said that they should be treated differently to pubs, clubs and discos and allowed to remain open.

 

The comments from Saifon Khananyiam who represents dozens of bars in the red light area of Soi 6 came as the government was about to discuss proposals to shut down the entertainment industry in places like Pattaya. 

 

Saifon, 40, thinks that because the beer bars are open air they must represent less risk for transmission of the virus than closed in places like clubs and discos.

 

In addition, she is extremely worried about what will happen to staff and for the future of the beer bars. 

 

She was interviewed by Thai media 77kaoded who said that they went to Soi 6 off Sai 2 to an area where there are 50 beer bars. 

 

She said that there were a large number of staff affected. Beer bar employees are not like company or factory workers who have an official support network to fall back on. They won't receive handouts - they will get nothing. 

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

Many have already headed back to the provinces because there are so few customers, so few tourists. 

 

Closing the beer bars will cause a further mass exodus of bar staff and bar girls to the countryside. 

 

Saifon said that her association had no Plan B and needed help from the government.

 

She feared for the future of her association of members who are faced with having no business at all at "high season" next month. 

 

In this she appeared to be referring to Songkran that has been virtually called off in Thailand in response to the coronavirus crisis, notes Thaivisa. 

 

Thaivisa stresses that the proposal to shut down the entertainment industry is as yet just that, a proposal. 

 

Source: 77kaosod

 

 

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[JoeMc]

Sorry but answer has to be NO .. Thai girls get 'it' and then travel back to the provinces..chaos

[steve187]

open air makes no difference, its the person to person contact that transmits the virus, every busines is suffering, why should these bars be any different

[tifino]

 girls stay on,catch it; and this is what eventually greets you through the cobwebs 

 

[spiekerjozef]

22 minutes ago, webfact said:

In addition, she is extremely worried about what will happen to staff

Right. They couldn't care less...

[spiekerjozef]

24 minutes ago, webfact said:

She was interviewed by Thai media 77kaoded who said that they went to Soi 6 off Sai 2 to an area where there are 50 beer bars.

And, very important, NO prostitutes.

[madmitch]

Beer bars are if anything more dangerous than regular bars due to the tactile nature of the girls working in them..........and the often just as tactile nature of the client!

[ianezy0]

Close all bars, girls can go home. Disinfect Soi 6, Walking St etc.

 

In 3 months time Pattaya will be like a fresh meadow of newly grown grass! 
 

Ahhhhhh....breathhhhh....breathhhh

[Rimmer]

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[Sharp]

If its all about isolation of sorts its madness to let them all go back to their Villages there will definitely be a spike in cases and unfortunately the Older family members back home will suffer I would say the entertainment staff already contracted the virus and recovered a kind of 'herd immunity' if you will and then it died down.My thoughts anyhow!

[Kelsall]

"Desperate" being the operative word.

[ThailandRyan]

41 minutes ago, steve187 said:

open air makes no difference, its the person to person contact that transmits the virus, every busines is suffering, why should these bars be any different

Exactly, so she needs to keep crying because money is all she knows herself.  It is not about staff, its about greed over health.  Open air bar. tables and floor coughed on, spittle still transmitted through the air from a cough, <deleted> is she thinking, oh she is not....

[sezze]

I agree , i know , they are bleeding cash fast , nobody thinks otherwise . Its a very hard time , but keep people separate at all cost , if every human would do it , this thing would be gone in 2 max 3 weeks ( incubation time ) . I know it isnt possible , but lets make the time we are in it as short as possible , and this means avoid contact , bars and restaurants closed . Nobody in the world want this , but its here , react to it , and bar closing is 1 of the big contributors of human contact , and that is the 1 we want to avoid right now .

 

Everybody wants to get back to normal life , but this isnt happening right now , so lets make sure we get there as fast as possible . The virus does not make a difference in skincolor , religion , or anything else .

[ICELANDMAN]

Pattaya will be a future vacation spot for families like Prayut has long promised

 

 

[nausea]

I hsve some empathy, it's gonna be tough for everyone. At the end of the day eating animals that aren't meant to be be eaten is probably a bad idea.

[Matzzon]

43 minutes ago, ianezy0 said:

Close all bars, girls can go home. Disinfect Soi 6, Walking St etc.

 

In 3 months time Pattaya will be like a fresh meadow of newly grown grass! 
 

Ahhhhhh....breathhhhh....breathhhh

Hey, you forgot the pollution. Very irresponsible of you to promote breathing at a sensitive time like this.

[Fancyzancy]

The good from this is the girls will become Freelancers and you won't have to pay bar fines 555

[likerdup1]

Yes, keep the beer bars open so all the bar girls who have multiple foreign sex partners per day can contract the virus and pass it on to still more witless sex mongers. Witless sex mongers will be the new Thailand Corona 19 virus cases. Let the games begin. They can then take home the virus to their countries and really show the world just how ethical and smart they really are!

 

You won't catch me in a beer bar, open air doesn't make any difference, it's close contact, touching the same things.. chairs, bar surfaces, bathroom faucets, toilet handles, door handles...  The ignorance is mind boggling... yea keep the beer bars open.. the alcohol in the whiskey will protect me from getting Covid 19. LOL!!!

[nausea]

Last time I was in Pattaya it wss quite pleasant. Maybe they'll rediscover the stuff that draw us there, before the hordes arrived.

 

[Traubert]

11 minutes ago, likerdup1 said:

Yes, keep the beer bars open so all the bar girls who have multiple foreign sex partners per day can contract the virus and pass it on to still more witless sex mongers. Witless sex mongers will be the new Thailand Corona 19 virus cases. Let the games begin. They can then take home the virus to their countries and really show the world just how ethical and smart they really are!

 

You won't catch me in a beer bar, open air doesn't make any difference, it's close contact, touching the same things.. chairs, bar surfaces, bathroom faucets, toilet handles, door handles...  The ignorance is mind boggling... yea keep the beer bars open.. the alcohol in the whiskey will protect me from getting Covid 19. LOL!!!

Paranoia 1.0.

[likerdup1]

27 minutes ago, Fancyzancy said:

The good from this is the girls will become Freelancers and you won't have to pay bar fines 555

I won't touch any prostitutes at all in Pattaya now. How many foreign partners from China, Korea, Italy and other countries have these girls banged in the last month? How many bar girls are smart enough to seek proper medical care if they get symptoms of Covid 19? It is taking a big chance with your health banging a Pattaya prostitute at this stage of the game. i don't dare do it .... to risky. Go ahead and play Russian roulette with your health.. and that's not to mention catching all the STD's possible to catch if you are stupid enough to bare back freelancers, and their are a lot of witless boneheads who do that.

 

[Boomer6969]

Essential services should remain available to the public.

[likerdup1]

7 minutes ago, Traubert said:

Paranoia 1.0.

yea, that's right Doctor. Thanks for the diagnosis. I'm just paranoid, meanwhile Italy and Korea as well as many other countries are racking up Covid 19 cases. Thailand is still letting in foreigners from all over the world.. yea, that's right Doctor, I'm just paranoid.

[Boomer6969]

25 minutes ago, Fancyzancy said:

The good from this is the girls will become Freelancers and you won't have to pay bar fines 555

We might see the Pattaya AIDS epidemic move to ISSAN.

[legend49]

3 hours ago, steve187 said:

open air makes no difference, its the person to person contact that transmits the virus, every busines is suffering, why should these bars be any different

they have no idea of self quarantine, no idea on how it travels from person to person. Imagine sitting 6 feet away from a bar girl you are buying drinks for.

[kingstonkid]

If the government is going to close these businesses then they should also ensure that the landlords are not allowed to charge rent while the bar is closed.

 

The problem iwth closing the restaurants or any venue is that they all pay rent of some sort as well as other bills.  The best thing the governement can do to help them is to say that if a business is forced to close due to the virus that the land lord must forgive rent until after the governement allows the businesses to reopen.

[Justgrazing]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Saifon, 40, thinks that because the beer bars are open air they must represent less risk for transmission of the virus than closed in places like clubs and discos

Is she naive or something ..

Reality of the current situation is the game is up ( 'scuse the pun ) for a lot of Patt's entertainment workforce for the time being .. There's nowt left but head back to the provinces until this blows over and see what's left after .. 

[jaiyen]

And the bar girls used to boast how many thousands of baht they made every week from the stupid tourists !  Its all over now !  Go home and look after your family. I know many are from a very poor family and need the bar money but millions of people are going to lose jobs and be poor, and they have HP and mortgages too.

[morrobay]

2 hours ago, likerdup1 said:

I won't touch any prostitutes at all in Pattaya now. How many foreign partners from China, Korea, Italy and other countries have these girls banged in the last month? How many bar girls are smart enough to seek proper medical care if they get symptoms of Covid 19? It is taking a big chance with your health banging a Pattaya prostitute at this stage of the game. 

 

And with all the above risky nationalities all over Pattaya in the last few months in buses   taxis, hotels, restaurants... There doesn't seem to be any cases in Pattaya? 

[CGW]

3 hours ago, nausea said:

At the end of the day eating animals that aren't meant to be be eaten is probably a bad idea.

Especially when they are located next door to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, or is that just coincidental?