Why are Cinemas not allowed to open with social distancing? Sell one ticket and keep the adjoining seats closed?  This list looks like the same type of businesses allowed to open in China?  

2 hours ago, thainet said:

 

 

At a press conference in Bangkok today held by the Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration, the English language spokesman for the CCSA, Mr. Natapanu Nopakun, specifically said that condo and public pools would remain closed.

I imagine that this extends to hotels pools. 

 

On the one hand they want to restart tourism, domestic first, asap, but on the other hand they do their best to make that impossible. 

 

Never mind, the millions who depend on tourism will keep on being fed by handouts in the streets... 

2 hours ago, sqwakvfr said:

Why are Cinemas not allowed to open with social distancing? Sell one ticket and keep the adjoining seats closed?  This list looks like the same type of businesses allowed to open in China?  

Agreed. Cinemas don't represent a high risk. However they are treated as one. Beaches that are very safe are still closed. Thai authorities are not very good with logic, therefore we could just hope and wait ????

 

58 minutes ago, Thunder26 said:

Cinemas don't represent a high risk.

More than you think.

 

After standing in another line for concessions, you found your reclining movie seat, sat down and swung over your tray, put your popcorn and soda on it and reached down to your right to find the plastic buttons that make the seat recline. Your hand came back up to dig into that communal popcorn tub you shared with a date, your kids, or your friends. Up goes that hand, toward your face, and…

     --https://deadline.com/2020/04/how-movie-theaters-will-reopen-coronavirus-exhibition-movies-1202912607/

 

Revamping the whole process to ensure safety all around isn't so easy. Plus the big movies aren't being released until starting in July. I doubt most movie chains want to open and may have asked not to have to.

 

58 minutes ago, Thunder26 said:

Thai authorities are not very good with logic, therefore we could just hope and wait ????

In what way is the logic of Thai authorities inferior to that of US or UK authorities, where theaters seem poised to open as late or even later than in Thailand?

1 hour ago, Brunolem said:

I imagine that this extends to hotels pools. 

 

On the one hand they want to restart tourism, domestic first, asap, but on the other hand they do their best to make that impossible. 

Not their best, as quite a lot of opening is already starting to take place, more than in many places in the USA or Britain. Tourism is important to both those countries also, BTW.

 

They may have the idea that infecting tourists with COVID is rather short-sighted. Harms the image, and a dead tourist isn't likely to return.

6 minutes ago, BigStar said:

 

More than you think.

 

After standing in another line for concessions, you found your reclining movie seat, sat down and swung over your tray, put your popcorn and soda on it and reached down to your right to find the plastic buttons that make the seat recline. Your hand came back up to dig into that communal popcorn tub you shared with a date, your kids, or your friends. Up goes that hand, toward your face, and…

     --https://deadline.com/2020/04/how-movie-theaters-will-reopen-coronavirus-exhibition-movies-1202912607/

 

Revamping the whole process to ensure safety all around isn't so easy. Plus the big movies aren't being released until starting in July. I doubt most movie chains want to open and may have asked not to have to.

 

In what way is the logic of Thai authorities inferior to that of US or UK authorities, where theaters seem poised to open as late or even later than in Thailand?

Great response and I completely agree with the risk of the spread you meantioned. However, Thailand's virus situation is not comparable to UK and US. There are just a few cases registered in Thailand that are close to 0. I believe it's the time to lift all the restrictions in Thailand, especially when the borders are closed.

5 hours ago, Thunder26 said:

Agreed. Cinemas don't represent a high risk. However they are treated as one. Beaches that are very safe are still closed. Thai authorities are not very good with logic, therefore we could just hope and wait ????

Closing the beaches has nothing to do with social distancing, The last thing that Thailand wants or needs right now is tourists,

13 hours ago, webfact said:

1. Shopping malls, community malls and department stores – except for cinemas, bowling alleys, fitness centres, water theme parks, fun parks, convention halls and Buddha image shops.

What year are the customers expected back?

16 hours ago, graemeaylward said:

 

Come on make your mind up, is it the end of this week, or Sunday which is the start of next week!!!

Saturday at midnight is the end of the week. Opening begins in the next moment, Sunday. Not confusing. 

The new normal:

 

16 hours ago, webfact said:

4, Beauty salons (for treatments that take no longer than two hours), nail salons

This is quite stupid. For example, why would 2 hours be safe, but 2.5 hours be a risk? If someone in the salon has coronavirus, you're going to catch it in the time it takes to get a quick haircut.

 

They said the malls are open, but nothing about whether the restaurants in the malls will be able to serve sit down customers.

 

 

16 hours ago, bodga said:

You'd  have to be desperate to go there????

or enjoy spending 20 hrs to assemble a table

"5. Beauty clinics, slimming centres."

Please don't open; saves me money from wife's dreams and I am a big fat <deleted> and those centers are like Church Of Scientology auditing centers. No thanks!

Please open schools. Other countries with far more cases than Thailand are opening schools.   

17 hours ago, webfact said:

2. Food outlets in office buildings – including restaurants, canteens, beverage shops, ice cream and dessert shops.

Will this include places in Pattaya..? For some reason not disclosed although may reasons are being talked about, Pattaya appears to be penalised unnecessarily when it comes to restrictions, for example restaurants in BKK are allowed to open keeping within guidelines but not in Pattaya the they open the biggest market in BKK where people congregate in large numbers yet the open beaches in Pattaya are closed which makes no sense other than what appears to be a conspiracy to run Pattaya into the ground.....!!!! 

Nothing was learned from this pandemic. 

Damn , my 2 hour massage ends with a 30 minute Soapy. Hope there's no meter running. These clowns just suck the fun out of everything...

Yes crazy about Pattaya and Phuket both. These fiefdoms seem to just run Amok with no adult supervision ( but they've got cool hats ) ! 

Buddha image shops ??????????

<deleted>? 
foot massage ok you are 2 feet away from any oriface! 

17 hours ago, graemeaylward said:

 

Come on make your mind up, is it the end of this week, or Sunday which is the start of next week!!!

A week ends at 00:00 as Thailand displays time so, May 16 00:00 is the end of the week and at 00:01 Malls can open but, no one will be awake to open or go shopping! IT WILL be Sunday May 17 when a week begins!

The Geezer in the topic Pic reminds me of Adrian Mole aged 14 Diaries

18 hours ago, graemeaylward said:

 

Come on make your mind up, is it the end of this week, or Sunday which is the start of next week!!!

Only if you are Muslim. in the Middle East the weekend is Friday and Saturday.

18 hours ago, webfact said:

Meetings inside and outside workplaces via video conferencing software.

Huh?
<deleted> - can this government finally make up their mind?
There are only 163 cases under treatment left in Thailand... 

11 minutes ago, kcpattaya said:

Huh?
<deleted> - can this government finally make up their mind?
There are only 163 cases under treatment left in Thailand... 

Oh the irony that a country has all these nonsensical measures for a virus that barely exists and even if it was would still transmit whatever ' lockdown ' measures. Match that with deaths from road which it COULD reduce with enforcement and it sums up what an irrational country Thailand is ! Mad place 

23 minutes ago, pixelaoffy said:

Oh the irony that a country has all these nonsensical measures for a virus that barely exists and even if it was would still transmit whatever ' lockdown ' measures. Match that with deaths from road which it COULD reduce with enforcement and it sums up what an irrational country Thailand is ! Mad place 

I suppose Thailand is easing the restrictions gradually and if so is anyone aware when the out of your province travel will be allowed without having to do a 14 quarantine on return to your home ?    Also can hotel residents drink alcohol within the hotel at the moment ?  

49 minutes ago, AhFarangJa said:

Only if you are Muslim. in the Middle East the weekend is Friday and Saturday.

Jewish sabbath is Saturday.

19 hours ago, graemeaylward said:

 

Come on make your mind up, is it the end of this week, or Sunday which is the start of next week!!!

Monday is conventionally the start of the working week, Sunday being a day of rest.

 

Why is it so hard for officials to come to their senses, or even for ordinary people to reach them with some common sense input? 

 

It is obvious that standard-size pools (25 m - thus not fancy-shaped splash pools) in condos could be safely opened for swimmers, if these rules were observed: 

The pool will be opened for swimmers only, not splashers or sunbathers. They must register a day earlier in a list. If it is a 7-lane pool like the one at <deleted>, Pattaya, then open lanes 1, 4 and 7. Every swimmer receives one of these lanes, and they get 1/2 hour, staggered, thus from minute 00 to 30 on lane 1, 10 to 40 lane 4, 20 to 50 lane 7. This way, there is no risk for contact, not even in the toilet/shower building. Of course, they won't stay in the pool area longer than necessary. A condo supervisor can check that the rules will be observed. But as there are swimmers only (thus maybe 20 people a day), no splashers or sunbathers, this will hardly be necessary.

 

Please remember: It is apparently not Covid that kills, it is lifestyle diseases (LSD) being accelerated by covid. LSD are being caused by body fat excess, something that can be prevented through proper nutrition and sufficient sports (! swimming). So prohibiting swimming indirectly promotes covid mortality. Not to mention that swimming has a number of other positive health effects that are lost through the present blockade.

 

57 minutes ago, AhFarangJa said:

Only if you are Muslim. in the Middle East the weekend is Friday and Saturday.

Has it changed. When I was there it was Thursday and Friday.

1 hour ago, Geoffggi said:

Will this include places in Pattaya..? For some reason not disclosed although may reasons are being talked about, Pattaya appears to be penalised unnecessarily when it comes to restrictions, for example restaurants in BKK are allowed to open keeping within guidelines but not in Pattaya the they open the biggest market in BKK where people congregate in large numbers yet the open beaches in Pattaya are closed which makes no sense other than what appears to be a conspiracy to run Pattaya into the ground.....!!!! 

Restaurants in Pattaya are open with the same guidelines as Bangkok. Many restaurants choose to remain closed because of those restrictions, the inability to sell alcohol and the fact that they would have insufficient customers to make opening viable.. Many markets never closed in Pattaya, but were restricted to selling food items only. They are now fully open. Beaches in Pattaya are closed to discourage tourists (primarily from Bangkok) to visit.