Thais in Pattaya forced to sell belongings to buy food

[heina]

Thats's all sad but it is how "open market" usury based economy works.

Banks will take all even their last meal as collateral. 

[miamiman123]

This is not the new norm...this has been going on for the almost 20 years I’ve been here.

its a <deleted> crime but does anybody in chg of this country really care????

not a chance 

selling at the pawn shop since I can recall 

[BestB]

2 hours ago, Liverpoolfan said:

Tourists won't be going back to Pattaya anytime soon.

Think around 18-24 month ball park figure.

Even then I think they will be thin on the ground.

 

Might be a good idea to get the old fish nets out again! 

I very disagree, the moment covid scare is over, both foreigners and all who ran away will flood back to Pattaya.

 

People have been locked up in the their rooms for months, first they will do is come to party, play with opposite or same same sex that looks like opposite ;), get drunk and be silly.

 

The only question is which businesses will still be standing and which will be gone

[Spellforce]

2 hours ago, Liverpoolfan said:

Tourists won't be going back to Pattaya anytime soon.

Think around 18-24 month ball park figure.

I'm not that sure, look at the last "new cases" of covid-19 in Thailand.

Thailand could be the 1st country to announce to be "free covid-19 country" before end of april.

That annoucement could be a bomb and boost the tourism this summer ! (with the condition to test tourists at the airport)

 

Remember how many time some people predicted the death of Pattaya ! Pattaya ever come back and ever stronger.

[Chazar]

1 hour ago, yuyiinthesky said:

Just the beginning. This lockdown is not collective suicide, as I first thought. The rich survive. It's just making the poor even poorer, and sacrificing the poorest. 

Disgusting to see the jokes coming up here about cheap bargains becoming available from the desperate selling of so many now. 

Instead of snitching around about who's wearing a mask or not and who is daring to leave his room to get some daylight, and calling the Covid police, why not thinking about helping these numerous victims of the lockdown?

starting with financial  planning after its  all  over

[sammieuk1]

When you have ramshackle governance you will end up with a ramshackle response as the woeful 5000bt scheme falls apart on day one????

[RedPill]

2 hours ago, z42 said:

Terrible. Truly terrible that the system put in place to help the needy is proving to be simply unfit for purpose.

My gf and kids are lucky that I am living here and can help them. But she applied for the 5k baht the day it went online, still not a word.

 

Thai people deserve better than this.

There was a great news update on The Nation news channel, on telly yesterday. With a big screen in the background, cartoons, spitting image style.

 

On top all of the gov team ... showing an empty wallet.

 

Below, a huge pile of Baht's, under the table ....

 

The news guy also said something about the top ... tee noon noon, far away

 

I hope he's back today on TV ... finally Thai people start to speak up, in public, on telly!

 

Something I haven't seen since I can think about ... very refreshing to see the Thai's speak up.

 

Not even sure I can say this in public, but since it was on public Thai TV ... I guess it's ok to talk about it?

 

Edited April 13, 2020 by RedPill

[PatOngo]

1 hour ago, Ventenio said:

i bought my online gf a gold chain for 50,000 but she said it hurt her neck and sold it after 11 minutes.

I think you should buy her another one, one that doesn't hurt her neck! 

[smedly]

19 minutes ago, Spellforce said:

I'm not that sure, look at the last "new cases" of covid-19 in Thailand.

Thailand could be the 1st country to announce to be "free covid-19 country" before end of april.

a true believer 

 

simply astonishing 

[Kerryd]

I think it will take awhile before tourism rebounds here, for the simple fact that half (or more) of the world's population is unemployed now. All the people who would have come there, or were planning to in the near future, are currently burning through their savings and what meagre stipends they can get from the government (if any).

When things finally get back to normal, one of the first things that will happen is gas and oil prices will skyrocket (they aren't stupid - they know demand will spike). People will start going back to work and are probably going to be more concerned about paying back owed money, replenishing savings and getting back to a normal life than they will about travelling anywhere.
Especially when fuel prices jump and airline tickets (naturally) jump as well.

Think about it. You've just gone through 3-4 (or more) months scraping by on potato soup and bread crusts (figuratively for some, literally for others). Things start getting back to normal. You go back to work.
Are you really going to walk into the boss's office the next day, ask for an advance and time off to go to Thailand for 2 weeks to party ? 

You are probably going to be working your butt off for the next year or more just to try and get back to where you were before the crisis.  Then you can start putting some money away and planning for a future trip.

I seriously doubt that if the crisis ended on 30 April or 15 May (for example) that a month later they'd be back to 3 million arrivals a month (or double that like the Tourism Minister predicted would happen after Songkran washed the virus away). 

 

[Spellforce]

@KerrydOn the other hand, many people will seek to forget and escape from this virus. So who knows?

[Odysseus123]

7 minutes ago, Kerryd said:

I think it will take awhile before tourism rebounds here, for the simple fact that half (or more) of the world's population is unemployed now. All the people who would have come there, or were planning to in the near future, are currently burning through their savings and what meagre stipends they can get from the government (if any).

When things finally get back to normal, one of the first things that will happen is gas and oil prices will skyrocket (they aren't stupid - they know demand will spike). People will start going back to work and are probably going to be more concerned about paying back owed money, replenishing savings and getting back to a normal life than they will about travelling anywhere.
Especially when fuel prices jump and airline tickets (naturally) jump as well.

Think about it. You've just gone through 3-4 (or more) months scraping by on potato soup and bread crusts (figuratively for some, literally for others). Things start getting back to normal. You go back to work.
Are you really going to walk into the boss's office the next day, ask for an advance and time off to go to Thailand for 2 weeks to party ? 

You are probably going to be working your butt off for the next year or more just to try and get back to where you were before the crisis.  Then you can start putting some money away and planning for a future trip.

I seriously doubt that if the crisis ended on 30 April or 15 May (for example) that a month later they'd be back to 3 million arrivals a month (or double that like the Tourism Minister predicted would happen after Songkran washed the virus away). 

 

That is very true..

People who are laid off now in the West will be using their holiday pay and (in some cases) their Long Service leave to survive.

 

There will be precious little money left over for a destination which was,in any case,catastrophically declining in popularity.

 

Not even the transmarine Thai really wish to return.

Edited April 13, 2020 by Odysseus123

[PatOngo]

37 minutes ago, BestB said:

People have been locked up in the their rooms for months, first they will do is come to party, play with opposite or same same sex that looks like opposite ;), get drunk and be silly.

How do you think they'll pay for it?

[natway09]

These are part of the massive "unregulated" workforce in Thailand who are just going to be shunned by the Government when it comes to even a Bht 5,000 handout. 

It is a very sad fact of life that unless you have a social security number you fly under the welfare radar.

[rasmus5150]

2 minutes ago, manzan said:

Our savings and pension are most likely soon going to be gone to.

 

The prolonged lockdown will cause the financial system to collapse, hyperinflation will ruin your savings and financial institutions collapsing ruin your pension. There will be no new jobs to get and we will all be depending on the government to provide us meager food allowances.  Just how governments like it, a dependent population is a obedient population.

 

You would like to think that all this was worth it, and that there is real solid scientific evidence that says this was worth it, however after 4 months of epidemic, all i see is media hype and twisting of figures to justify utterly destroying our society.

 

 

 

Somebody forgot to take their daily Xanax - cheer up dude....

[Spellforce]

2 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

How do you think they'll pay for it?

When the confinement is going to stop, we could also witness a wave of madness, people will want to regain their freedom & party, and money will be the last of their worries.

[HashBrownHarry]

42 minutes ago, BestB said:

I very disagree, the moment covid scare is over, both foreigners and all who ran away will flood back to Pattaya.

 

People have been locked up in the their rooms for months, first they will do is come to party, play with opposite or same same sex that looks like opposite ;), get drunk and be silly.

 

The only question is which businesses will still be standing and which will be gone

YIp, i totally agree.

 

I also suspect if these 'rules' of staying at home continue for much longer some business's will take the risk of starting up and i'm sure people will go.

[Em150]

2 hours ago, 19DL86 said:

That ll suit me, I m looking for a 2 year old SUV low Kms Everest, CRV, CX5 or such like. I ll guess another few weeks this situation will filter up the food chain.  Be lots of cheap properties another 3-6 months.

 

Fortune favors the brave, anyone holding cash will make a killing yet again.  Welcome to the "Money go Round"

You sound like a really pleasant and sympathetic bloke. I do hope you acquire several properties and vehicles for a rock bottom price while others around you struggle and starve. You deserve it. Well done mate

[Ketyo]

Countries are going to have to learn to live with this virus for many months until a cure or a vaccine is available. They will need to open up some economic activity while maintaining the levels of hospital admissions below what the health service can cope with.

 

If they don't open up the economy a bit people's needs for food and a little money will lead to serious social disorder.

 

But the backwards Thai authorities here will not be able to handle re-opening. They will no be able to handle the subtleties of allowing some activities and not others. The Authorities under the army are small minded, uneducated "Stoppers". They only know how to stop people and control people. 

 

Thailand will suffer more than other countries as they keep blanket controls on for too long leading to disorder.  They will not be able to handle a gradual sector-wise, region-wise, product-wise re-opening.

 

And my guess is that the poor Thais and small businesses and informal economy will suffer most. 

[PatOngo]

2 minutes ago, Spellforce said:

When the confinement is going to stop, we could also witness a wave of madness, people will want to regain their freedom & party, and money will be the last of their worries.

Free beer?

[moontang]

It would be more newsworthy if they weren't constantly pawning stuff for food. Try saving for a rainy day.

[AlexJohanson]

For Thai people suffering, children going hungry to bed. Keep your head down, dont make waves, donate the 5K promised back to the people in charge, wai, smile, pray that the people in charge are fat & happy and compensated with hard cash. 

[Odysseus123]

1 minute ago, moontang said:

It would be more newsworthy if they weren't constantly pawning stuff for food. Try saving for a rainy day.

Yup-who needs food?

 

They can survive on inane ThaiVisa posts,surely?

[Spellforce]

2 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

Free beer?

Everyday I chat with some friends who are living in Europe, they all tell me that their dick is going to explode ! They are all waiting for the end of the confinement and going back to Thailand.

They never mentioned money issue.

[Eibot]

3 hours ago, Liverpoolfan said:

Tourists won't be going back to Pattaya anytime soon.

Think around 18-24 month ball park figure.

Even then I think they will be thin on the ground.

 

Might be a good idea to get the old fish nets out again! 

They shouldn't come back for that long. But who is going to stop them?

 

Thai Goverment?

People working in Pattaya?

The Farang tourist that have been sitting at home in Europe?

The airline companies losing millions with everyday being grounded?

 

July/August people will come back. I believe this 100%.

[moontang]

1 minute ago, Spellforce said:

Everyday I chat with some friends who are living in Europe, they all tell me that their dick is going to explode ! They are all waiting for the end of the confinement and going back to Thailand.

They never mentioned money issue.

perhaps you should avoid gay chat, if people are talking about their dicks.

[yogi100]

2 hours ago, cornishcarlos said:

 

Why can't they do take aways ?? 

If they were successful before then people will still buy from them...

Just a thought 

People would still buy from them, if they had money.

 

In many countries if you don't work you don't eat. The LOS is one of those countries.

[ChrisY1]

2 hours ago, fishtank said:

The junta should be hanging their heads in shame but they won't be.

They could not give a toss about the population.

 

Not just the government......they take their lead from elsewhere....

[BestB]

17 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

How do you think they'll pay for it?

believe it or not, not all lost their jobs and many who have, will have a job to back to and not all who come holiday to Thailand are living month to month, hunting 300 baht rooms and 50 baht beers ????

[EricTh]

That's why when the Chinese tourists say they want to go to Thailand again, will they be welcome with open arms?