Traffic jams as many Thais head up country for long weekend

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Traffic jams as many Thais head up country for long weekend

 

Image: 77kaoded

 

Thai media 77kaoded reported that Route 304 in Prachinburi was packed with traffic yesterday at the start of the long weekend.

 

A local police officer told them that as soon as the 4 am curfew was lifted there was a large amount of traffic on the road heading to the provinces.

 

By 11 am there was a 2 kilometer tailback at some roadworks where the road is limited to one lane.

 

The Wang Khon Daeng police contacted the highways department to open another lane such was the amount of traffic.

 

The government has urged people to stay home during the pandemic but it appears many have had enough.

 

Source: 77kaoded

 

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[JoePai]

Was a stupid idea on the part of the Government to allow the holidays to go ahead in the first place

[NCC1701A]

do whatever you need to do during this brief period because the seconds wave will be here by the end of the month. 

 

another lock down will begin again sometime in June. 

 

i hope i can get a haircut and get to home pro when it opens. 

  

[OnTheGround]

Yes, best way to ask for a second wave, is to let people travel freely.

I will prepare for a second wave, buy the things I missed last month. This can't go well.

 

[Guderian]

Six weeks or so ago, when people working in Bangkok lost their jobs and returned to their homes in the provinces, a major worsening of the C19 situation up-country in the coming weeks was predicted by many. We've been through several full virus incubation periods since then, and has it happened? I don't know why, but the C19 problem since then has remained focused on Bangkok and Phuket, and more recently the Deep South after infected Muslims returned from a religious ceremony in Malaysia. I haven't noticed any major clusters of infection up in Isaan.

[poohy]

This weekend is going to bring ....Beer at home and touch of the virus 

 

I actually thought the muppets were doing well but in the debate to allow folk to buy the beer it seems they missed the fact that all and sundry will wander around the country

 

Why on earth did they not cancel holidays enforce travel restrictions allow beer and oh of course haircuts

 

[soi3eddie]

29 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

 

i hope i can get a haircut and get to home pro when it opens. 

  

Plenty of barber shops open in Hua Hin these last weeks. Thai Watsadu on the road to Cha-Am has been open for the last couple of weeks

[HashBrownHarry]

SO by this i take it we can travel wherever we want throughout the country now without restrciton?

[ParkerN]

2 hours ago, OnTheGround said:

Yes, best way to ask for a second wave, is to let people travel freely.

I will prepare for a second wave, buy the things I missed last month. This can't go well.

 

I agree, it cannot possibly go well.

 

Still, Thais know best, and if they get themselves in the poop, well, they can just dig themselves out of the poop. And they won't be asking for any help to do that - will they?

 

Given what I believe are the massively understated statistics which are probably based on a simple refusal to do the appropriate testing for fear of the story that would tell, I would argue that they're already in the poop. In fact, they're probably in the poop all the time and it's only ever the depth that varies.

 

Som nam na. Make your bed and then lie in it - seems only fair.

 

 

[ParkerN]

1 hour ago, HashBrownHarry said:

SO by this i take it we can travel wherever we want throughout the country now without restrciton?

 

So it would seem, unless you can't.

 

Still, look on the bright side... you get to choose where to be infected.

[HashBrownHarry]

1 minute ago, ParkerN said:

 

So it would seem, unless you can't.

 

Still, look on the bright side... you get to choose where to be infected.

Excellent, can't wait to travel about again.

[DrJack54]

Slightly aside....earlier today the bridge crossing from Phuket had to be closed.

Interesting article in Phuket News. 

Bit of a powder keg. 

Many thousands want OUT

Edited May 2, 2020 by DrJack54

[ozz1]

In phuket now I see that anyone leaving phuket has to have a health  certificate  just slow down the flow  of people leaving    there will be trouble if this keeps up as thousands are trying to get out

[wmlc]

2 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

do whatever you need to do during this brief period because the seconds wave will be here by the end of the month. 

 

another lock down will begin again sometime in June. 

 

i hope i can get a haircut and get to home pro when it opens. 

  

What do you mean another lockdown. The curfew will still continue so the only thing that can be retracted is the allowed shop openings. The fact that you have this attitude makes you similar to these travelers. Just sayin!

[NCC1701A]

20 minutes ago, wmlc said:

What do you mean another lockdown. The curfew will still continue so the only thing that can be retracted is the allowed shop openings. The fact that you have this attitude makes you similar to these travelers. Just sayin!

we are in the first phase of the four two week phases of opening up.

there are many things you can do from today forward that will not be available next month if there is another flair up. 

 

 

 

[Cali farong]

Seems like most on here like to look for something negative to always say about Thailand and Thai people even though the death is one of the lowest.  Life is much more enjoyable when you look at the positive.

just sayin 

[ThailandRyan]

13 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

we are in the first phase of the four two week phases of opening up.

there are many things you can do from today forward that will not be available next month if there is another flair up. 

 

 

 

Looks like #3 on the Strict Measures side of the list failed miserably so far.  Al the travel must be necessary by all of these folks then....NOT

[rwill]

Hopefully everything goes well.

Edited May 2, 2020 by rwill

[Andycoops]

You give Thais a mm they will take a metre. 

Ridiculous to not have cancelled 4 pretty much irrelevant holidays.

We've had folks arrive in the village from BKK because they couldn't make it during the cancelled Songkran holidays.

I fear the beer ban will be back on in short order.

[overt2016]

2 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

we are in the first phase of the four two week phases of opening up.

there are many things you can do from today forward that will not be available next month if there is another flair up. 

 

 

 

I don't see anything about allowing students to FLASH MOB against this government. I think they left this out.          

[SantiSuk]

I guess the populace has caught onto the fact that the inter-provincial travel restrictions seemingly mostly only applied as a rule, not enforced in practice*. It worked well as a smoke and mirrors trick for a while - now it is busted.

 

* Some exceptions like the lockdown in Phuket and restrictions in central Pattaya

Edited May 2, 2020 by SantiSuk

[bodga]

5 hours ago, poohy said:

allow folk to buy the beer

I  thought  they  all  had  no  jobs  and  no  savings,  oh  I  forgot, it's  beer.

[ThaiPauly]

5 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

do whatever you need to do during this brief period because the seconds wave will be here by the end of the month. 

 

another lock down will begin again sometime in June. 

 

i hope i can get a haircut and get to home pro when it opens. 

  

Nostradamus is at it again ????

[spidermike007]

There will be no second wave. Covid is gone from Thailand. Some seem to want to cling to the apocalypse scenario. We beat it. Accept that. Let people go on with their lives. The number of new cases is astonishingly low. Whatever they did, it worked. End the panic. Let it go. 

 

However, having said all that, from what I hear it is still more or less illegal to travel to other provinces? So, how is this being regulated? Is quarantine still in place, in many provinces, for people just coming in? I hear that is the case in Surat, and Korat, for sure. 

[HashBrownHarry]

1 hour ago, Andycoops said:

You give Thais a mm they will take a metre. 

Ridiculous to not have cancelled 4 pretty much irrelevant holidays.

We've had folks arrive in the village from BKK because they couldn't make it during the cancelled Songkran holidays.

I fear the beer ban will be back on in short order.

I think it's great people are starting to travel domestically again - normality is returning.

[mrfill]

29 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

There will be no second wave. Covid is gone from Thailand. Some seem to want to cling to the apocalypse scenario. We beat it. Accept that. Let people go on with their lives. The number of new cases is astonishingly low. Whatever they did, it worked. End the panic. Let it go. 

 

However, having said all that, from what I hear it is still more or less illegal to travel to other provinces? So, how is this being regulated? Is quarantine still in place, in many provinces, for people just coming in? I hear that is the case in Surat, and Korat, for sure. 

Well, there may be no second wave. There wasn't that much of a first wave really despite all the TV experts saying that all the Chinese tourists were bound to bring massive infections and it was about to explode.... and then it didn't.

The infection around the whole of SE Asia has been very low for reasons we are yet to firmly establish. Almost certainly not due to superb public health services though.

I reckon there will be a small spike though. Just enough to impose another couple of weeks to make the powers feel good.

[Mavideol]

6 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

do whatever you need to do during this brief period because the seconds wave will be here by the end of the month. 

 

another lock down will begin again sometime in June. 

 

i hope i can get a haircut and get to home pro when it opens. 

  

end of the month? that's a positive thought, I would say 2nd wave next week when they start to come back

[bangsaenguy]

6 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

do whatever you need to do during this brief period because the seconds wave will be here by the end of the month. 

 

another lock down will begin again sometime in June. 

 

i hope i can get a haircut and get to home pro when it opens. 

  

Sure you are in Thailand? HomePro has been open for weeks. Was never shut long. 

Your info about the June lockdown comes from a reliable source, of course?

[mrmicbkktxl]

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

There will be no second wave. Covid is gone from Thailand. Some seem to want to cling to the apocalypse scenario. We beat it. Accept that. Let people go on with their lives. The number of new cases is astonishingly low. Whatever they did, it worked. End the panic. Let it go. 

 

However, having said all that, from what I hear it is still more or less illegal to travel to other provinces? So, how is this being regulated? Is quarantine still in place, in many provinces, for people just coming in? I hear that is the case in Surat, and Korat, for sure. 

Germany 900.000 tests per week,how many in Thailand?If 20 million people would be infected in Thailand nobody would know about it.

[bannork]

57 minutes ago, mrfill said:

Well, there may be no second wave. There wasn't that much of a first wave really despite all the TV experts saying that all the Chinese tourists were bound to bring massive infections and it was about to explode.... and then it didn't.

The infection around the whole of SE Asia has been very low for reasons we are yet to firmly establish. Almost certainly not due to superb public health services though.

I reckon there will be a small spike though. Just enough to impose another couple of weeks to make the powers feel good.

Don't forget the massive second wave predicted by the doomsayers to happen after many Thais went back to their home provinces following the Bangkok lockdown.

It never happened.