Covid-19: All entertainment venues, nightclubs, massage parlors in Bangkok to be closed for 14 days

[zydeco]

44 minutes ago, z42 said:

But that said, the time frame is something else, how long can people living hand to mouth survive for with no chance to earn a baht.

About two days. Then, they'll be on the lookout for "Walking ATMs" to solve their problem.

[CNXexpat]

16 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

Good start.

Everyone will just come to Pattaya.

That's what I would do if I were a tourist.

 

 

Or Chiang Mai. Oh no, too bad air.

[Metapod]

well, i guess i just need to turn a negative into a positive.

 

stocking up on healthy food at home and just going to stay home and do nothing but work out and eat good.

 

going to be a boring month but eh

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Metapod said:

well, i guess i just need to turn a negative into a positive.

 

stocking up on healthy food at home and just going to stay home and do nothing but work out and eat good.

 

going to be a boring month but eh

month? this will be going on for at least another 6 months

[jojothai]

27 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

Good start.

Everyone will just come to Pattaya.

That's what I would do if I were a tourist.

 

 

Its probably not going to be so good when all the bars and restaurants are closed.

But people may have the beach to themselves.

Would you want to be caught there in a lockdown if it starts?

[NCC1701A]

18 minutes ago, Grumpy John said:

Stop it,  your turning me on! ????

 

18 minutes ago, Denim said:

 

No no no , you've been far too romantic with them. Their face should be two feet from yours ......unless......no......that's impossible.

i have to assume my description is what most normal well adjusted tourists and human beings do.

i have no actual empirical experience with this.  

[wombat]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

proposed by the committee

so it hasn't happened ?

[JAG]

5 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

 

i have to assume my description is what most normal well adjusted tourists and human beings do.

i have no actual empirical experience with this.  

So were you riding this horse along the road to Damascus then - when there was a thunderbolt which knocked you from the saddle, and a voice from the clouds spoke unto NCC1701A saying; "Go home, lock yourself away and <deleted> no more..."?

Edited March 17, 2020 by JAG

[lamyai3]

1 hour ago, dcsw53 said:

If he is willing to do this for Bangkok, the axe will fall on Phuket and Pattaya as well. Stand by Isaan massive repatriations about to happen !!

This would be a surefire way for the virus to escalate quickly from stage 2 to stage 3. 

[WalkingOrders]

I think what we are witnessing now, all over the world, from all politicians, is see me doing something syndrome. In a world filled with an angry finger pointing mob of wannabe experts screaming on social media, politicians seem to be pushed into acting out of appearances. 

 

I am not sure if the benefit of such actions are going to override the added economic devastation this will cause. 

 

As someone pointed out earlier, this could cause mass movement of people from city to province. Who could these people be? Asymptomatic, or lightly symptomed people going back to unwittingly infect the weak. 

 

I am starting to believe isolating the weak is a far better idea, and carry on. Italy had an aged population locally which caused problems, yes?

 

In two weeks, what then? Another two? At some point businesses are lost to buyers making out like bandits.

 

I am not liking this panic!

[glennb6]

and all this because 1 or 2 people in thailand have died so far.

[scubascuba3]

i doubt closure for 14 days will help much, other countries seem to be closing with no deadline

[DrTuner]

9 minutes ago, mrwinner said:

month? this will be going on for at least another 6 months

Probably a year or longer until there's a vaccine, but it won't be quarantine. People will get back on the streets, be more careful and alert than before, there will be outbreaks and further local quarantines and if there's no vaccine, it'll become endemic like influenza. The name of the game is now delaying it:

 

https://flowingdata.com/2020/03/09/flatten-the-coronavirus-curve/?fbclid=IwAR3sG7Mkre45ZOQMH-xwWhKZzgRF6PJfydjezgPR8mS8BJ-DuwNqBHTjdUM

[dukeandduke]

5 minutes ago, sanemax said:

How will the people who usually pay to get masturbated twice a week cope ?

 

I wasn't aware of that definition of the "m" word. Every day's an education. 

[dukeandduke]

Thanks for the graph, but I suck at reading those. It looks to me like the longer the time, the lower the mortality rate.

[elliss]

1 hour ago, Maejo Man said:

Massage parlours too? Ouch!

 

Get a grip on yourself man . 

Same same  but different..

 

[sanemax]

2 minutes ago, dukeandduke said:

I wasn't aware of that definition of the "m" word. Every day's an education. 

That is the correct definition, although *Happy endinged * (which has the same meaning) would be incorrect

[mehrdad]

Those parlor massage can invite in home ?? 
I will promise with mask ????????

[sanemax]

8 minutes ago, DrTuner said:

Probably a year or longer until there's a vaccine, but it won't be quarantine. People will get back on the streets, be more careful and alert than before, there will be outbreaks and further local quarantines and if there's no vaccine, it'll become endemic like influenza. The name of the game is now delaying it:

 

https://flowingdata.com/2020/03/09/flatten-the-coronavirus-curve/?fbclid=IwAR3sG7Mkre45ZOQMH-xwWhKZzgRF6PJfydjezgPR8mS8BJ-DuwNqBHTjdUM

That would be classified as a porn video, in Saudia Arabia 

[cyril sneer]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

religious gatherings.

Good

[PixarDunphey]

Do you guys think they will close CW Government Complex tomorrow also? ???? I need to go for visa extension :o

[WalkingOrders]

41 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

so it is safe to get a one hour oil massage from another human being who is spending all day in extremely close contact with tourists from all of the world? faces sometimes just inches apart for a hour? head massage with your head in their lap while they are bent over you breathing in each others expelled virus?

rows of tourist lined up in a room right next to each other getting foot massages? 

   

I would say very safe. Compare to rush hour train, any crowded market, a busy restaurant, a hospital waiting room, a taxi, a McDonald's, or a girl in contact with how many people in her entire day? How often does she wash her hands and body? 

 

I think panic is causing the real damage here. Be afraid or don't be afraid. The choice is yours. It won't change anything other then the ability of the immune system to cope. 

 

If you order food you still can't trust it, wipe brown your water bottles! Close vents to the outside world!

[christophe75]

Sure.

 

Waiting now for the counter-orders, the amended orders... and all the other brillant ideas that our Great Leaders will be willing to throw into the (hot) air.

Tomorrow. And the day after.

 

One step forward. Half on the left. A third on the right. 2 steps backward. 

Rince, repeat. Change your feet position. 

 

Smile.

 

It's the Wuwudance thai style.

[GeorgeCross]

don't worry everybody its only temporary 

 

 

[ExpatOilWorker]

This is getting silly.  Now they also close kids play areas like Harborland.

[lkv]

2 minutes ago, GeorgeCross said:

don't worry everybody its only temporary 

 

 

Yep no longer than March 2021.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/15/uk-coronavirus-crisis-to-last-until-spring-2021-and-could-see-79m-hospitalised

 

Happy isolation, I'm going out for a coffee.

 

 

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, lkv said:

Yep no longer than March 2021.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/15/uk-coronavirus-crisis-to-last-until-spring-2021-and-could-see-79m-hospitalised

 

Happy isolation, I'm going out for a coffee.

 

 

this will be going on for years. thailand economy will be completely decimated- the bar and restaurant industry in thailand that cater to farangs with farang prices will be destroyed. it will be a different thailand once all this is over that's for sure 

[Yorkshire Tea]

1 hour ago, dcsw53 said:

If he is willing to do this for Bangkok, the axe will fall on Phuket and Pattaya as well. Stand by Isaan massive repatriations about to happen !!

Need to block the mass movement of people first, then close the entertainment businesses.

[Enzian]

Hummm, this is going to get very interesting, in ways it would be better not to enumerate.

[CGW]

1 hour ago, NCC1701A said:

so it is safe to get a one hour oil massage from another human being who is spending all day in extremely close contact with tourists from all of the world? faces sometimes just inches apart for a hour? head massage with your head in their lap while they are bent over you breathing in each others expelled virus?

rows of tourist lined up in a room right next to each other getting foot massages? 

Your scaremongering is getting more subtle ????