Netizens ask: Will Chiang Mai pub make good on its Covid payment boast?

 

Image: Sanook

 

Social media is abuzz with comments regarding the Warm-Up Cafe in Chiang Mai. 

 

On December 2nd the popular nightspot boasted that they would pay 100,000 baht if anyone caught Covid there.

 

They would even pay a million baht if anyone were to die.

 

They claimed their premises were clean and full of fun and all the Covid protocols were in place.

 

Now FIVE people have been connected with the venue. 

 

And netizens are asking: Are you going to pay up?

 

A 25 year old woman was the 50th case in Chiang Mai and she was at Warm-Up on New Year's Eve.

 

Now cases 54-57 have been linked to the pub. 

 

Sanook reported long queues at a royally sponsored vehicle for Covid testing yesterday. 

 

Meanwhile Thaivisa notes that Warm-Up have made a half hearted apology for pictures of their New Year countdown that were widely shared that showed huge crowds in close proximity. 

 

They explained this away by saying that people had come back inside to see the countdown on a large screen. They claimed that all Covid protocols were followed and that all bills were settled up by 12pm. 

 

No mention was made of their previous promise.

 

But one of the first posters on their apology reminded them.

 

A large number of people replied including people saying: "Don't remove your promise".

 

The pub made no apparent attempt to quell the discontent.

 

Source: Sanook

 

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19 hours ago, rooster59 said:

On December 2nd the popular nightspot boasted that they would pay 100,000 baht if anyone caught Covid there.

I imagine their response would be that those people didn't get there but already had it. 

Just furthers the case in alcohol restrictions in the future. 

On 1/9/2021 at 7:11 PM, rooster59 said:

Sanook reported long queues at a royally sponsored vehicle for Covid testing yesterday

Manufactured in Germany by any chance?????

16 hours ago, rwill said:

I imagine their response would be that those people didn't get there but already had it. 

Which would, of course, imply that not "all" protocols were followed