Pattaya Shutdown! Severe restrictions on movement and closure of hotels among new measures as Covid-19 cases rise rapidly

[NanLaew]

44 minutes ago, papa al said:

That map looks like Pattaya City has incorporated parts of Nongprue, Nongplalai and Huay Yai.

 

As thought the following defined the extents of the Pattaya City Municipality.

 

[fforest1]

To be honest there should be ZERO restrictions on anything until they get the mess at immigration cleaned up............Do as we say not as we do.....  

Edited April 3, 2020 by fforest1

[smedly]

Hair salons are serving beer to customers - I kid you not

[Walter Travolta]

54 minutes ago, Chivas said:

Enough warnings were given to foreigners to get out and go home and that includes those that claim to be "expats"

No point whinging now whatsover.

I havent read to the end of this topic yet, but up until now, I havent read 1 post that comes across as whinging, more concern about the ambiguity of the rules and how certain services will be affected or affect them, but not 1 whinge

Are you one of those that are great in a crisis? You know, the ones who say "I told you so" with the great benefit of hindsight?

[jacob29]

1 hour ago, christophe75 said:

Whenever inane officials slam any new regulations.... repeat the numbers.

 

"infections in Chonburi had rocketed to 61. "

 

And nationwide : officially the virus has killed.... 15 people.

 

Then, eventually, people will understand the current madness....

So you trust the numbers from the inane officials are accurate? This doesn't make any sense. If you think they're truly inane, you know they haven't been testing properly.

 

There are only two ways to combat this - robust contact tracing, or draconian lockdown measures. They've don't seem to keen on the former, so the latter it is.

 

[jacob29]

58 minutes ago, Chivas said:

Enough warnings were given to foreigners to get out and go home and that includes those that claim to be "expats"

No point whinging now whatsover.

Why whinge? This is good news, everyone who did stay put should be happy with the decision in retrospect. You want to be in a place that takes quarantine seriously right now. 

 

Why would many expats go home? The Vietnamese government even advised their expats *not* to come home.

[NanLaew]

The Pattaya stress monkeys are out in force today.

 

It's going to be a night-time curfew, broadly the same as will apply all over the country from tonight.

 

The shops where you normally buy your food will be open during daylight hours.

 

As for the hotel closures, I would imagine that some will need to stay open to address the stranded tourists and this will be formally organized and announced in due course. I would recommend that all tourists be relocated to the Jomtien Thani on Soi 5 so they can join the immigration office queues from their bedroom doors.

[Walter Travolta]

52 minutes ago, Chivas said:

What is somewhat amusing is that some actually believe the real numbers of cases are 61

There will be 1000s in reality and thats why the place is being completely closed and the Thais know it only too well

What is somewhat amusing is that some actually believe they are 100% correct with every prediction they make without having any evidence/proof/factual info - call it what you want. 

[NanLaew]

4 minutes ago, smedly said:

Hair salons are serving beer to customers - I kid you not

You only got a beer? Sucks to be you I guess.

[Walter Travolta]

The closure of hotels/guest houses will only force more people together in those that remain open will it not? Quite like a few of the other KJ reactions already made 

[Pilotman]

3 hours ago, Andy from Kent said:

 

Think they mean open air markets, mate.    Not  food stores.

how do you know what they mean? They don't know what they mean, so I don't see how you can know,

Edited April 3, 2020 by Pilotman

[doctormann]

21 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

That map looks like Pattaya City has incorporated parts of Nongprue, Nongplalai and Huay Yai.

 

As thought the following defined the extents of the Pattaya City Municipality.

 

Yes, that looks like the 20260 post code area, which is for Pattaya City.

The red boundary line certainly looks to be at the right place on Khaotalo.  My postcode is 20150, which is for Moo 10 Nongprue - to the east of the red line.

We still really have no idea where the checkpoints will be!

[henry2109]

39 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Some people really don't get it. 

 

It's not about 15.

 

Its about exponential growth in cases leading to exponential growth in demand for hospital icus leadimg to exponential growth of covid deaths. 

 

Luckily, as long as we stay with these low numbers, it's all good. 

 

Stay safe and wash your hands.

[jacko45k]

1 hour ago, time2093 said:

You do know that "The Dark Side" is still in Pattaya?, restrictions are for people coming in and out of Pattaya....I think you will be fine.

Do you know where the boundaries are, because some maps show a substantial part of the darkside outside of Pattaya City? 

[Rimmer]

 A most derogatory post has been removed

[from the home of CC]

3 hours ago, Samui Bodoh said:

My main concern would be how to get @NCC1701A into the city in order to single-handedly revive the working girl trade.

 

I told you guys to buy him a condo weeks ago!

being not happy is not the same as being suicidal..

[Walter Travolta]

14 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Do you know where the boundaries are, because some maps show a substantial part of the darkside outside of Pattaya City? 

Best to stop flapping and asking on a forum where YOUR boundaries are. Im sure all will be revealed later and if there is still any confusion on your part and you do go out and reach a boundary, there will be a BiB to send you back. Im in Central Patts and my postcode is 20150 or at least that is what it says on all my documentation

[jacko45k]

5 minutes ago, Walter Travolta said:

Patts and my postcode is 20150 or at least that is what it says on all my documentation

Yah, so is mine and I am 15 km out and it includes near to Laem Chabang. Look here and if you believe they can cordon that off ask the tooth fairy. I think that represents Banglamung, not Pattaya City.

Edited April 3, 2020 by jacko45k

[champers]

27 minutes ago, doctormann said:

Yes, that looks like the 20260 post code area, which is for Pattaya City.

The red boundary line certainly looks to be at the right place on Khaotalo.  My postcode is 20150, which is for Moo 10 Nongprue - to the east of the red line.

We still really have no idea where the checkpoints will be!

My 20150 Naklua postcode address is West of the red line.

[Leaver]

41 minutes ago, Walter Travolta said:

What is somewhat amusing is that some actually believe they are 100% correct with every prediction they make without having any evidence/proof/factual info - call it what you want. 

If they admit to 61, you can bet there are 600, and if there are 600, there will soon be 6000. 

[Walter Travolta]

1 minute ago, jacko45k said:

Yah, so is mine and I am 15 km out and it includes . Look here and if you believe they can cordon that off ask the tooth fairy. I think that represents Banglamung, not Pattaya City.

That would suggest to me that a shared postcode is inclusive and not 2 separate areas? Id wait until the actual statement comes out and then ask a local of the new SS law

[lucjoker]

3 hours ago, andre47 said:

6. All markets are to shut. 

Where to buy food?

finally we can eat some of those 1 million stray dogs ?

Hot-dogs are my favorite !

If not.....keep eating pussy...cats 

[asiamaster]

Get a grip and provide better translations!

It says: Close all flea markets defined as secondary markets.

So not food markets.

 

 

[Walter Travolta]

4 minutes ago, Leaver said:

If they admit to 61, you can bet there are 600, and if there are 600, there will soon be 6000. 

My point was these holier than thous who make their own statements and pass them off as facts. Chivas' last short sentence included 3 statements he passed off as no argument without ANY evidence, he may well be correct, but believing something and passing it off as facts only induces more fake news and unnecessary arguments, especially when all you see lately is people making up their own stats to back up their scaremongering. Thailand was the 1st country outside China to have someone get the virus* This was 3 months ago* 61 people have got the virus throught Chonburi NOT JUST PATTAYA* which is not a high figure in the grand scheme of things, and Id like to know the figure it "rocketed up" from? When I read the headline, I was expecting the figure to be in the thousands!!!

Here are Chivas' claims just so you dont have to go back and check . . . 
 

"There will be thousands in reality and thats why the place is being complete closed and the Thais know this"
 

 

*If figures are to be believed

[Borzandy]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Hotels that still have guests were given three days to decide whether to close down or stay open.

Oh YES !

[JeffyInBkk]

I personally think that with everything going on, anyone who is brainless to go on trips since the mid of February does not deserve an ounce of sympathy but are rather the problem makers. Just leave them on the roads and hopefully the virus rids the world of more intellectually challenged people.Some of these foreigners with their behaviour is really bring the rest of us down . For instance those scum in phuket still partying etc

 

On the other side, we also have a local dimwits not practicing social distancing and precautions, yesterday I went to makro at Srinakarin bangkok, was a total nightmare! Locals do not understand the term social distancing!!!!!

[spidermike007]

4 hours ago, jimn said:

Such an overreaction with only 61 cases and thats in the whole of ChonBuri not just Pattaya. Dont forget thats from the start of the problem. Without looking it up there will be some of those 61 who are now recovered.  Wonder where they will put the roadblocks. At each entrance on to the Sukumvidt I presume. Absolute nonsence.

True that. Massive over reaction nationwide. Still under 2,000 cases and barely 100 new cases a day. Like a pimple on a teens face. That is NOT a cases rising rapidly scenario. 

 

This is not the zombie apocalypse, though you might think so, based on the millions of businesses being shut down. The deprivation of income for the ones barely getting by, will be far worse than the 4,000 or 5,000 cases total that Thailand will likely end up with. 

Edited April 3, 2020 by spidermike007

[30la]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

The meeting heard that infections in Chonburi had rocketed to 61. 

It's absolutely ridiculous, 61 and you call it rocketed, I don't really understand why the PM doesn't intervene.

[skorp13]

Sorry but this needs to be said. Yes lock down the town as it has worked so well for France, Spain and Italy! There is already a curfew in effect here in Chonburi province, 22:00 - 05:00 which is more than what that article stated .All businesses are shut including delivery so there is no reason to be out anyways.. Just more global governmental panic

[Mattd]

28 minutes ago, Walter Travolta said:

Im in Central Patts and my postcode is 20150 or at least that is what it says on all my documentation

All of Pattaya is now considered as 20150, which denotes Banglamung Post Office, 20260 was used before and was for the post office in soi post office (13/??)

The post code has nothing to do with the city limits.