Swimming pools at condos in Thailand to remain closed until further notice

[mighty]

1 hour ago, Kaopad999 said:

The bigger concern is contact with other people while swimming.

The key is still social distancing.  if you're in a pool and you're in close contact while not wearing a mask, then the virus can still be spread.

Then you may ask, well, why not wear a mask in a swimming pool?  Obviously swimming with a mask on your face can be dangerous for other reasons... 

while this may be true, how can it be worse than getting on the BTS? flying? foot massage? the list goes on and on.

[Canuck1966]

1 hour ago, Kaopad999 said:

Try and go swimming while wearing a face mask then. 

Why would anybody go swimming with a mask on. You've been utterly brainwashed in bs

[Percy P]

4 hours ago, ericdiam said:

Really crazy. My building has 25m long very wide pool. Only 3 people who live here long time swim.

And if the increase the chlorine then sure zero problem as chlorine kills the virus. 

Big busy public pools can understand they remain close 

 

4 hours ago, ericdiam said:

Really crazy. My building has 25m long very wide pool. Only 3 people who live here long time swim.

And if the increase the chlorine then sure zero problem as chlorine kills the virus. 

Big busy public pools can understand they remain close 

No need to increase the chlorine its sufficient as it is. Yes it's really crazy the swimming pools in condominiums should be closed . How many people in the pool at any one time .

They give reason of that salvia, I emphasize "

4 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Muriatic acid and chlorine would vaporize and obliterate Covid upon contact. So saliva is a non starter. Simply more ignorance, and fear mongering, from an administration that is so devoid of scientific facts, it boggles the mind. Social distancing can be practiced anywhere. People need exercise, and recreation. And people need to be outdoors. This encourages better health, and strengthens the immune system. They should have gotten rid of Anutin a long time ago. The nation needs someone with an education in health. He has proven himself over and over again to be inept, ignorant, and in completely over his head. A true BOB (bottom of the barrel) pick, totally without merit. 

Well they have to show that there doing something, whether it effective is another thing, but their names attached to it.

 

4 hours ago, ericdiam said:

Really crazy. My building has 25m long very wide pool. Only 3 people who live here long time swim.

And if the increase the chlorine then sure zero problem as chlorine kills the virus. 

Big busy public pools can understand they remain close

 

[Ranshoko]

Excellent news! Let's keep the Condo pools closed at present to stop the second wave. 

[Canuck1966]

1 hour ago, Kaopad999 said:

Here come the Thai brasher brigade... 
Let's face, it, it does not matter how well the Thai's do , some people will always find a way to criticize and mock them
 

They deserve it 99 percent of the time

[pixelaoffy]

Paranoid god forsaken hole run by control freaks!!.

[Bangkok Basha]

Idiotic. We are thinking of building a pool out here in the country province where we moved after abandoning BKK. Cost estimates run to half a million bahts. 

[drbeach]

5 hours ago, Gabor said:

Plain idiots.... Chatucak is OK, but saunas ( killing the virus inside your body ) and swimming pools increase your immunity, beaches to get vitamin D are a nő no. An other fine example to do something retarded childish thing to show they do something. 

Seems like there is another agenda at work here...to ensure you get sick by reducing your immunity. At least in Thailand they're not doing the rounds and imprisoning people for hugging their own children while running around their backyards. This happened recently somewhere in the USA though!

[Grace at Echo Lake]

I swim in my condo pool each evening.  Me thinks this rule is retarded

[pixelaoffy]

1 hour ago, Kaopad999 said:

Here come the Thai brasher brigade... 
Let's face, it, it does not matter how well the Thai's do , some people will always find a way to criticize and mock them. 
 

Thailand doesnt do' well' it just does ' 'we know best because we are in control.'

[Kaopad999]

20 minutes ago, Canuck1966 said:

They deserve it 99 percent of the time

Okay, Mr perfect, or do you prefer Mr grumpy? ????

26 minutes ago, Canuck1966 said:

Why would anybody go swimming with a mask on. You've been utterly brainwashed in bs

I take it you're another non believer in wearing face masks? 
 

Edited May 12, 2020 by Kaopad999

[Skallywag]

5 hours ago, Oldie said:

They cannot make a special law for your building. And people can gather in and around the pool and because being wet cannot use masks. Also some people lying in the sun will avoid to use masks so that not halve of their face will remain white. 

If you practice social distancing mask wearing is not necessary, e.g. lying by a pool in lounge chairs 1.5 meters apart

[Jonathan Swift]

6 hours ago, ericdiam said:

Really crazy. My building has 25m long very wide pool. Only 3 people who live here long time swim.

And if the increase the chlorine then sure zero problem as chlorine kills the virus. 

Big busy public pools can understand they remain close 

well then, we'll give you a SPECIAL exemption, because you're so much smarter and more deserving than everyone else. OK, here's a news flash for YOU personally. The laws must apply to everyone. In my condo there are a great many people who swim under normal circumstances. It's the same in most large buildings like mine. It is wholly appropriate to consider most condo swimming pools to be a risky situation. Laws are written for the greater good. If exceptions were made there would be no point to having a society of laws. So what's "really crazy"? Your attitude. why don't you think of folks other than yourself, and stop whining. If you don't have covid you should be grateful that there are rules designed to protect YOU as well as everyone else. 

[Elreeco]

The whole object of the exercise is control....

 

[asiaexpat]

5 hours ago, ChipButty said:

At our condo we have 2 pools both 25 meters so out of 100 units I think there is about 10 people in the building and it's not open to the public, if you dont have a keycard you cant gain access

If your condo can prevent AirB&B and other short term renters then you may have a point. My condo has a covenant preventing short term rentals but half the occupied units seem to be short term rentals or 30 day rentals. These renters are a risk to all in the condo, especially gym and pool. We already had a round of covid 19 in the condo.

Edited May 12, 2020 by asiaexpat

[Ranshoko]

59 minutes ago, Bangkok Basha said:

Idiotic. We are thinking of building a pool out here in the country province where we moved after abandoning BKK. Cost estimates run to half a million bahts. 

Don't bother. Breeding ground for mosquito's 

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, ericdiam said:

Really crazy. My building has 25m long very wide pool. Only 3 people who live here long time swim.

And if the increase the chlorine then sure zero problem as chlorine kills the virus. 

Big busy public pools can understand they remain close 

So what do you want them to do... name individual pools?

[Seeall]

5 hours ago, samtam said:

As I have explained several times, there is a misconception about [opening] condo pools. Most people, including those at CDC think of a pool more in terms of a social gathering venue. If you use the appropriately chlorinated pool only, with limited numbers, and prohibit social gathering round it, you have one of the safest spaces to avoid transmission of Covid 19. This protocol can easily be implemented by condo management, together with the requirement that users shower before and after swimming.

 

It's really that simple. To continue prohibition of condo pool usage for exercise is ridiculous, compared to what is being allowed to open...Chatuchak market (social distancing?)...beauty clinics and weight loss clinics (close person to person contact?)...foot massages (close person to person contact?)...outdoor stadiums for team sports, (no chance of saliva, sweat being dispersed there?)...

Whats more simple and logical is to go along with the rules, close the pools, gyms and whatever else they can,  cut down on work , less staff.. and RAKE IN THE MAINENANCE FUNDS!!!  (and we all know where that most often goes..)  

[Sumarianson]

Crazy!!!! Salt and Chlorine are both disinfectants, the kill viruses. So do saunas and sweating in the gym. All this inconvenience for nothing at all! All this for 55 people who died with COVID and not because of it. Also the tests are 80% inaccurate or of no validity at all as proven by the President of Tanzania who is a qualified doctor and has a degree in chemistry, a sight more qualifications than any of the other leaders of the world. See here. 

 

[John CS]

Enforced madness, less than 3000 infected cases, 56 deaths in a population of 60million? restricting activities that strengthen personal immunity and wellbeing, decreasing social activity & increasing stress due to lack of employment, and then constant FEAR repetion from Media is weakening immunity to infection, this makes NO sense logically or scientifically other than just blind observance of illogical rules from already compromised authorities The WHO.

Still looking for some common sense amongst collective hysteria..

[Charlie Jones 1957]

6 hours ago, Canuck1966 said:

another moronic rule with no scientific backing

If you don't like it, bro, you're free to leave any time you want to. 

[Blue Water Sailor]

I dont know when people everywhere will realise what is really going on here. This has nothing to do with a virus, it is all about total control of everybody, world wide, there are a lot of people though that do understand what this is. They are labeling ever death everywhere as the virus, this is total BS, has anybody seen the videos of police officers doing videos directed to other police officers to stop trampling on civil liberties. They are going to start a war and if that happens it will the American civil war look like kids playing In a sandbox, God help them if they force this

[GAZZPA]

Why cant there be social distancing or a limit of people in the pool at any one time? 

[mrfill]

8 minutes ago, Sumarianson said:

Crazy!!!! Salt and Chlorine are both disinfectants, the kill viruses. So do saunas and sweating in the gym. All this inconvenience for nothing at all! All this for 55 people who died with COVID and not because of it. Also the tests are 80% inaccurate or of no validity at all as proven by the President of Tanzania who is a qualified doctor and has a degree in chemistry, a sight more qualifications than any of the other leaders of the world. See here. 

 

A president who is up for re-election and who kept his international airports open, and through Lent, he encouraged people to keep going to church because, he said, COVID-19 cannot survive in the body of Christ.

 

Another stable genius.

[GAZZPA]

2 minutes ago, Blue Water Sailor said:

I dont know when people everywhere will realise what is really going on here. This has nothing to do with a virus, it is all about total control of everybody, world wide, there are a lot of people though that do understand what this is. They are labeling ever death everywhere as the virus, this is total BS, has anybody seen the videos of police officers doing videos directed to other police officers to stop trampling on civil liberties. They are going to start a war and if that happens it will the American civil war look like kids playing In a sandbox, God help them if they force this

For goodness sake will you and all the conspiracy theorists please just crawl back under your rock and stay there. Of course it isn't a global conspiracy, firslty how do you account for the hundreds of thousands of people who are now 6 feet under leaving hundreds of thousand of grieving family and friends? Secondly do you really believe all the governments all over the world have planned this together? Think for goodness sake!! This will be over soon and we will all look back and lump people like you in the "Elvis is alive and well" camp.

[rtco]

Been doing my 2 x swims per day in our village people forever and a day ... no change ... it's always been open

[GAZZPA]

Just now, rtco said:

Been doing my 2 x swims per day in our village people forever and a day ... no change ... it's always been open

Carry on if you can fella. ????

[The Barmbeker]

Just to give one more stupid opinion, maybe:

we have a pool in the condo, that is approx. 25 x 8 meters

Maximum people I EVER saw inside the pool at any given time was 5

Most of them are solo- swimmers, like me or the occasional family (mother/ father & child)

There are exactly 2 sunbeds and 2 tables with 4 chairs as pool- furniture.

The pool is now closed for 2 month and we did not have one single case of COVID inside the Condo.

Elevators are still operating, with up to 6 people cramming into them

 

Put a\way the sunbeds and tables and the gathering and wild partying around the pool is reduced to zero!

Make a rule that not more than 5 people are allowed inside the pool and you have all the social distancing you need!

 

I understand the closing of saunas and gymns- the opening of the pool would give people a means to exercize AND at least a bit to do against the total boredom, as long as everything else is closed down...except for all the markets (like JJ) were you shuffle through, shoulder to shoulder and cough on the laid out fresh meat!

Edited May 12, 2020 by The Barmbeker

[Blue Water Sailor]

3 minutes ago, GAZZPA said:

For goodness sake will you and all the conspiracy theorists please just crawl back under your rock and stay there. Of course it isn't a global conspiracy, firslty how do you account for the hundreds of thousands of people who are now 6 feet under leaving hundreds of thousand of grieving family and friends? Secondly do you really believe all the governments all over the world have planned this together? Think for goodness sake!! This will be over soon and we will all look back and lump people like you in the "Elvis is alive and well" camp.

I dont know anybody that knows anybody that's died of this thing, have you seen an interview with anybody that has lost a family member or friend as a result of this, NO, There are hundreds of doctors and scientists that have come forward and testified that this thing is BS, WAKE UP

[Lacessit]

3 hours ago, lee b said:

worried about saliva? Would the pools chemicals like chlorine not kill the risk of that???

Yes