Covid-19: Stay in tonight! Break curfew and face jail and/or heavy fines

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Covid-19: Stay in tonight! Break curfew and face jail and/or heavy fines

 

Picture: Sanook

 

Thai media has said that people who defy the curfew tonight can be jailed or face heavy fines. 

 

Premier Prayut Chan-ocha announced a nationwide curfew starting tonight from 10pm to 4 am to prevent spread of the Covid-19 virus. 

 

People must stay at home. 

 

Sanook said that section 18 of 2005 regulations allow for a prison term of 2 years and/or a fine of 40,000 baht for violators. 

 

There are exceptions that include medical staff, bank employees, deliveries of food, agricultural products, medications, medical equipment, newspapers, gas tankers, postal delivery and parcel delivery. 

 

People travelling to quarantine facilities are allowed to be out as are those going to and from night shifts for work.

 

People are allowed to be out to travel to airports. 

 

Officials or those with special permission are also allowed to be out. 

 

Source: Sanook

 

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[Grumpy John]

Mmm,  at a guess they have eliminated the presence of somchai and friends.....but all the regular night owls will be roaming about! ????

[KhunKenAP]

Better than in the Philippines. Police there have orders to shoot violators. Hope Pattaya Police don't get confused.

[stephenterry]

There are exceptions that include medical staff, bank employees, deliveries of food, agricultural products, medications, medical equipment, newspapers, gas tankers, postal delivery and parcel delivery. 

 

Between 10pm and 4 am?

[Brewster67]

Typical backwards thinking.

 

When you impose a curfew, all you do is compress the time people can go out and do stuff, thus driving more people together, once curfew ends, everyone's natural instinct is to all go out at the same time, just because they can... Not because they have to.

 

You lock up an animal that is used to being free, even if it has plenty of food and water in the cage, what is it going to do the moment you open the door?

Edited April 3, 2020 by Brewster67

[SkyFax]

21 minutes ago, Brewster67 said:

Typical backwards thinking.

 

When you impose a curfew, all you do is compress the time people can go out and do stuff,

Maybe the goal of the curfew is to prevent the kind of social activities that tend to occur during those curfew hours and that can lead to cluster-type infections if any one person is actually positive knowingly or not.

[humbug]

Makes these gangsters look like they care

 

no mass testing, no human rights, just complete abuse of controlling a society, nothing but daily propaganda blaming western foreigners, for the Wuhan virus, even the thai guy at the thong lor party, said countless times on his facebook, that there was never, ever any one from Hong Kong, and they lied by blaming the party infection on a foreigner 

 

i pity the millions of families losing jobs, no idea when they will start to earn any income, all because of daily fake numbers saying 15 people have died 

Edited April 3, 2020 by humbug

[bangkokfrog]

Jealous of all you young guys out there. At 68 years old it's a long time since I've had a "long time".

Edited April 3, 2020 by bangkokfrog

[Brewster67]

1 hour ago, humbug said:

Makes these gangsters look like they care

 

no mass testing, no human rights, just complete abuse of controlling a society, nothing but daily propaganda blaming western foreigners, for the Wuhan virus, even the thai guy at the thong lor party, said countless times on his facebook, that there was never, ever any one from Hong Kong, and they lied by blaming the party infection on a foreigner 

 

i pity the millions of families losing jobs, no idea when they will start to earn any income, all because of daily fake numbers saying 15 people have died 

We don't even need mass testing... You can take a batch of samples from say 100 people who tested positive and send them to all the pathology labs in the country to speed up the process and test each one manually to see which are actually COVID-19 and which are other forms of the 'coronavirus' such as cold and flu... then extrapolate those figures across the amount of infected and even the rest of the population just to get a realistic ballpark figure.

[Brewster67]

I watched a video compilation of thais commenting on having their livelihoods removed and it is becoming clear that they would rather risk getting COVID-19 and take their chances than to starve to death.

[Jingthing]

2 minutes ago, Brewster67 said:

We don't even need mass testing... You can take a batch of samples from say 100 people who tested positive and send them to all the pathology labs in the country to speed up the process and test each one manually to see which are actually COVID-19 and which are other forms of the 'coronavirus' such as cold and flu... then extrapolate those figures across the amount of infected and even the rest of the population just to get a realistic ballpark figure.

Not nearly a big enough sample but mass random testing of the public to get a sample and make realistic national estimates is a good idea. But it also needs to include antibody blood tests to get an estimate of previously infected. 

[yogavnture]

HAS Thailand banned booze yet? what do the addicts gonna do then?  snort detergent?

[Jingthing]

1 minute ago, Brewster67 said:

I watched a video compilation of thais commenting on having their livelihoods removed and it is becoming clear that they would rather risk getting COVID-19 and take their chances than to starve to death.

Understandable. 

[baansgr]

2 hours ago, KhunKenAP said:

Better than in the Philippines. Police there have orders to shoot violators. Hope Pattaya Police don't get confused.

Its coming to that, mark my word...no money, no food, can't even go home....Governments are not stupid...why do you think booze bans and curfews are instigated...drunk starving people will loot and thieve at night...however this is just prolonging the imminent

rioting that is sure to happen

[CLW]

Okay, they made this rule. Will people obey it and will it be enforced is another thing.

[anchadian]

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thai-government-may-impose-24-hour-curfew/

 

The Thai government may impose a 24-hour curfew, if the rate of new COVID-19 infections does not slow substantially to a satisfactory level, after a week of the 10pm-4am now in effect.

[bangkokfrog]

10 minutes ago, anchadian said:

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thai-government-may-impose-24-hour-curfew/

 

The Thai government may impose a 24-hour curfew, if the rate of new COVID-19 infections does not slow substantially to a satisfactory level, after a week of the 10pm-4am now in effect.

All for show. How can they talk about the "rate of new infections" when there is no robust testing regime?

[AlexRich]

27 minutes ago, Brewster67 said:

I watched a video compilation of thais commenting on having their livelihoods removed and it is becoming clear that they would rather risk getting COVID-19 and take their chances than to starve to death.

This is not a country’s that can survive long in lockdown. I suspect more people will die from lockdown than from covid-19.

 

At some point every country will need to adjust their strategy. Put support groups around the vulnerable, but let everyone else get back to commerce. The younger people who get this will be in lower numbers, and a small % will need ventilators. A vaccine is not guaranteed, and will not protect everybody even if one is produced.

[Brewster67]

14 minutes ago, anchadian said:

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thai-government-may-impose-24-hour-curfew/

 

The Thai government may impose a 24-hour curfew, if the rate of new COVID-19 infections does not slow substantially to a satisfactory level, after a week of the 10pm-4am now in effect.

If they try to impose a 24 hour curfew, that is when the rioting is going to kick off... I guarantee it.

 

You take a population of 68 million people and lock them up in their homes with kids to feed, they are going to bust out only to find the entire country shut down and nothing to be had, then the doors of makro, Tesco and 7/11 are going to be busted open.

 

You put army and police with guns guarding the shops, the people are going to get THEIR guns, and there are a lot of guns in Thailand.

 

Edited April 3, 2020 by Brewster67

[Brewster67]

I can see that Prayuth is going to end up going the same way as Thaksin and Yingluck... Into luxurious self-exile with a portion of Thailand's money.

Edited April 3, 2020 by Brewster67

[DavisH]

19 minutes ago, AlexRich said:

This is not a country’s that can survive long in lockdown. I suspect more people will die from lockdown than from covid-19.

 

At some point every country will need to adjust their strategy. Put support groups around the vulnerable, but let everyone else get back to commerce. The younger people who get this will be in lower numbers, and a small % will need ventilators. A vaccine is not guaranteed, and will not protect everybody even if one is produced.

The distribution of infection is similar across age groups, but not many are infected less than 10 years old. There aren't many deaths in Thailand so far because the median is 34 y.o. One son got infected at the boxing match, took it home, and killed his elderly father. This is the problem we face. 

[FarFlungFalang]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

People are allowed to be out to travel to airports. 

 

1 hour ago, Misterwhisper said:

Looking at that list, it seems like pretty much everybody is allowed to be out... except street hookers and burglars. 

Lots of people will be going to the airport I would imagine,also possible that lots of airports may open up as well.Welcome to the Airport Bar.

[Ventenio]

in the PHILIPPINES....  the president said 'shoot to kill' if violating lock down.

 

our rights are lost.  this simulation just went to Defcon 4

 

 

 

 

[Kadilo]

2 hours ago, stephenterry said:

There are exceptions that include medical staff, bank employees, deliveries of food, agricultural products, medications, medical equipment, newspapers, gas tankers, postal delivery and parcel delivery. 

 

Between 10pm and 4 am?

I’m sure at some point they meant it to be 10am to 4pm and then it got so far and thought ..........”oh just leave it now” 

[marko kok prong]

3 hours ago, KhunKenAP said:

Better than in the Philippines. Police there have orders to shoot violators. Hope Pattaya Police don't get confused.

Yes i beleive DUeterte is joining up with a police patrol,he wants to make people "eat some lead'

[tifino]

45 minutes ago, Brewster67 said:

I can see that Prayuth is going to end up going the same way as Thaksin and Yingluck... Into luxurious self-exile with a portion of Thailand's money.

but, he has gained some strength, in being labelled, at top; with a more CCP friendly term... that of Premier... a promotion above PM!

[NanLaew]

1 hour ago, Brewster67 said:

I watched a video compilation of thais commenting on having their livelihoods removed and it is becoming clear that they would rather risk getting COVID-19 and take their chances than to starve to death.

You suggest that they'll 'rise up' against a confirmed, faceless killer but when it comes to autocratic and corrupt government, they go all mai bpen rai on themselves.

Edited April 3, 2020 by NanLaew

[daveAustin]

1 hour ago, yogavnture said:

HAS Thailand banned booze yet? what do the addicts gonna do then?  snort detergent?

I thought they already did.

[mok199]

The optics and grandstanding should end by sunday..then its a return to life in lawless Thunderdome...

[NanLaew]

19 minutes ago, tifino said:

1 hour ago, Brewster67 said:

I can see that Prayuth is going to end up going the same way as Thaksin and Yingluck... Into luxurious self-exile with a portion of Thailand's money.

but, he has gained some strength, in being labelled, at top; with a more CCP friendly term... that of Premier... a promotion above PM!

 

I've stopped responding to @Brewster67's posts directly as it appears he hasn't quite got a grasp of the intricacies of Thailand's computer crimes act.