Social Distancers, will you return to the bars?

[frantick]

I don't know, maybe SD's don't go to bars/pubs. I'm amazed at the number of SD's on this site given the nature of traveling and or living in a near 3rd world country.

 

Anyway, when the bars, (pubs if you're not here in Thailand), open up will you be going? This under the most likely scenario that they open before a vaccine is available.

 

I'm a forced SD'er, so will visit the bar with my girlfriend the first day they're open. Hoping I don't have to pull a mask off my face to sip my cocktail.

[timendres]

8 minutes ago, frantick said:

Anyway, when the bars, (pubs if you're not here in Thailand), open up will you be going? This under the most likely scenario that they open before a vaccine is available.

I will be licking the poles! But I need to buy a duck...

[moe666]

I will cont. to play it safe no boxing matches or large clubs only out with people i know. It may look good but this will not be over until they have a vacine. will defiantly not hang with people from europe or GB. China lowered entry rules and immediatly had a uptic in cases mostly from new arrivals

Edited April 14, 2020 by moe666

[NCC1701A]

i can't wait to wear a mask and a pair of sunglasses at night at the bar in Oskars in Bangkok. 

[baansgr]

Some idiot bar owner in Pattaya is already screaming that bars should double their prices to that of Bangkok when they reopen....so yes...will be a very long social diatance

[brokenbone]

i dont care about covid19 tbh, but i also dont care about the gogo bars any longer, so i will just continue sd business as usual

[BritManToo]

36 minutes ago, frantick said:

when the bars, (pubs if you're not here in Thailand), open up will you be going?

........ so will visit the bar with my girlfriend the first day they're open.

Not in Thailand, way too expensive.

But I almost certainly will in Vietnam (Saigon) and Cambodia (Siem Reap and Phnom Penh).

 

Why would you take your gf to a bar?

Plenty of girls already there.

Edited April 14, 2020 by BritManToo

[DaRoadrunner]

47 minutes ago, frantick said:

I don't know, maybe SD's don't go to bars/pubs. I'm amazed at the number of SD's on this site

Depends whether SD stands for Social Distancing, or more likely, by the time the bars are open again, Sexually Deprived.

[Destiny1990]

Which guys ?

 

Are more interesting question would be : Are you guys considering returnIng to Thailand once there is a vaccine?

[champers]

14 minutes ago, Destiny1990 said:

Which guys ?

 

Are more interesting question would be : Are you guys considering returnIng to Thailand once there is a vaccine?

I think Thailand will be very picky about who they let into the country. As things stand anyone from the US and Europe can forget coming for a while. China? First ones back.

[AlexRich]

I suspect the bars will still get their regular customers, but I don’t think the tourist traffic will pick up anytime soon, only when people are convinced that the virus is no longer a threat.

[moontang]

2 hours ago, champers said:

I think Thailand will be very picky about who they let into the country. As things stand anyone from the US and Europe can forget coming for a while. China? First ones back.

Quite a few of us are already here, but getting back in if we visit home, could be problematic.  

[thaibeachlovers]

8 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Not in Thailand, way too expensive.

But I almost certainly will in Vietnam (Saigon) and Cambodia (Siem Reap and Phnom Penh).

 

Why would you take your gf to a bar?

Plenty of girls already there.

IMO he means he will go to the bar that has his GF, not that he'll take her with him.

[thaibeachlovers]

3 hours ago, Destiny1990 said:

Which guys ?

 

Are more interesting question would be : Are you guys considering returnIng to Thailand once there is a vaccine?

I'd go back tomorrow if I could. I always wanted to die in LOS, though I wasn't intending it to be soon, but we all die sometime of something, and I'm likely to die of sadness being far, far away from the country I loved so long.

[thaibeachlovers]

3 hours ago, AlexRich said:

I suspect the bars will still get their regular customers, but I don’t think the tourist traffic will pick up anytime soon, only when people are convinced that the virus is no longer a threat.

More likely, IMO, when they can afford it. If you are in LOS, you may not realise just how screwed western economies are. Business as usual is not returning any time soon.

[lkv]

9 hours ago, moe666 said:

will defiantly not hang with people from europe or GB

Who's gonna hang out with you though, surely not Thai people?

 

If they did not like farangs lately, watch and see what will happen in regards to xenophobia in Thailand, encouraged by mother China's rhetoric, in reference to covid-19.

 

Suits uncle P well also, more anti westerner ammunition. As if Ai Anutin's  remarks were not enough.

Edited April 14, 2020 by lkv

[Destiny1990]

44 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I'd go back tomorrow if I could. I always wanted to die in LOS, though I wasn't intending it to be soon, but we all die sometime of something, and I'm likely to die of sadness being far, far away from the country I loved so long.

You sound desperate the world has many amazing spots but u cry about Unable entering thailand .. weird While i’am glad for not being stuck there.

[bkk6060]

Sure, they will return.

They want to go now even w/o SD.

Just read all the past posts from the drinkers who think booze kills the virus. They seem to actually believe it.

It would all be one big crowded party if they had their way and probably will be with any relaxing of the restrictions.

[NoshowJones]

7 hours ago, champers said:

I think Thailand will be very picky about who they let into the country. As things stand anyone from the US and Europe can forget coming for a while. China? First ones back.

Who gets in and who won't will depend on certain income streams, and yes, it will probably be the Chinese as the Thai government is not interested in their own people, more interested in buying submarines while people who lose their businesses could find it hard to survive.

[Rookiescot]

Yes. I will be going to the bars. 

And I shall pay cold hard cash to be able to drink my first beer from the chest of some dusky young maiden.

????

[Assurancetourix]

To return to a bar, you should already have been there once ...

Which is not my case and certainly that of many members of this forum.

[Proboscis]

17 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

i can't wait to wear a mask and a pair of sunglasses at night at the bar in Oskars in Bangkok. 

Yeah, one of the great benefits of wearing a mask (apart from the health ones, that is) will be to be able to go where you want without anyone knowing who you are!

[Kwasaki]

What's an SD's.

I'm still at one of my pubs the 2 I will  go to when I can.

I except no-one comes to see me.

[kingstonkid]

Yes I will be going to some bars like hard rock or open bars with outdoor seating. 

[hansnl]

19 hours ago, moe666 said:

I will cont. to play it safe no boxing matches or large clubs only out with people i know. It may look good but this will not be over until they have a vacine. will defiantly not hang with people from europe or GB. China lowered entry rules and immediatly had a uptic in cases mostly from new arrivals

Chinese arrivals!

[lumply]

Not caring about Covid-19 is a pretty rash attitude to adopt even in jest. It's also about the people you come into contact with

[Davo369]

I'm waiting outside one now.

[riclag]

Not unless they have been inspected and have certificates to prove their establishment has been approved safe!

Its gonna be tough,especially coming to terms with surfaces ,eating utensils,menus bottles,glasses ,tables  and social distancing. Its a new ball game now until the vaccines come out imop

Edited April 15, 2020 by riclag

[4MyEgo]

I actually bumped into the owner of the bar I used to frequent pre Covid-19 shut down, suffice to say I told him that I haven't had a beer since 20 March, he looked at me as if to say, are you feeling ok, then he told me he couldn't buy any alcohol, anywhere and was running low on stock for himself.

 

When he does re-open, I will be there as I enjoy the local catch up and BS 3 nights a week, unfortunately no girls at the bar, it's one of those, if I allow girls in here I will lose all of my customers because the wives will be kicking up a storm. 

[allanos]

I think that if one has been "religiously" practicing social distancing (SD), then I kind of think that the habit will tend to stick, even after a health authority declares the "all clear".  Not such a bad thing, in my opinion.  It means what it says, not that one must continue wearing masks, latex gloves and swabbing everything down.