PM calls for strict measures over concerns of COVID-19 spread

[snoop1130]

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - Thailand’s Prime Minister has expressed concern over the COVID-19 situation, in particular its spread via entertainment venues, and ordered strict measures to be imposed on bars, pubs and karaoke lounges, including 14 day closures if an infection is discovered.

 

Prime Minister’s Office spokesperson, Anucha Burapachaisri, said the PM has reiterated that strict measures are needed against COVID-19 at entertainment venues, explaining that, if an infection is found at any venue, it must be closed for two weeks and that, if multiple infections are found in the area, all of its venues must closed for the same period. If infections are found on a provincial scale, the local communicable disease committee is empowered to order a two-week shutdown of all relevant businesses. The premier has also asked that checks on venues be performed more frequently.

Eateries have been allowed to continue to operate normally, but are asked to observe stringent measures. They will also be subject to closures if an infection is linked to their premises.

 

Provincial governors have been given the authority to ask their local communicable disease body to order closures of restaurants, markets, food production facilities, entertainment venues and other institutes, if an urgent case is uncovered.

 

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[DLock]

What happened to "whatever will happen will happen." from this morning?

 

You flip-flopping fool.

[YetAnother]

19 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

Provincial governors have been given the authority to ask their local communicable disease body to order closures of restaurants, markets, food production facilities, entertainment venues and other institutes, if an urgent case is uncovered.

Don't be fooled, those govs are all Prayut shills, he appointed all of them except bangkok

[Excel]

Beyond shadow of a doubt, given is ignorance, incompetence in the past, his more recent utterances and now this statement he must have proved to the country beyond a shadow of doubt he is a complete imbecile putting countless thousands of lives at risk.

[Yorkshire Tea]

From UK Guardian newspaper:

 

"Indonesia has banned land, air, water and rail travel during the Eid al-Fitr celebrations from 6 May to 17 to curb Covid transmission, a spokeswoman for its transport ministry has said."

 

Here, no restrictions on travel for Songkran ????

 

 

[ThailandRyan]

I think his underwear has gotten all bunched up with a few of the hospitals running out of Covid 19 test kits and his ministerial staff now being infected.  Where is Prawit, has he gone into hibernation in the bunker?  These guys need to show some backbone and make firm non flip-flopping decisions if they want to maintain their plans for tourism.

[Petey11]

So a venue has a case of covid, close it down and people just go to next venue. The owners have no way of knowing who is infected if they have no symptoms and once on the premises to eat/drink they have to remove their face covering. You can clean down tables, floors etc all you like, but pretty sure they've found that 80% plus of infections are picked up by airborne transmission. Back door way of closing venues down and the government saying "It's not our fault you had an infection, it's your lack of hygiene protocols." Saving face at the forefront again I think.

[ozz1]

its a bit late now as people spread across the country what an idiot

[colinneil]

11 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

BANGKOK (NNT) - Thailand’s Prime Minister has expressed concern over the COVID-19 situation

He expressed concern why?

According to his previous ramblings everything was under control.

[hotchilli]

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Prime Minister’s Office spokesperson, Anucha Burapachaisri, said the PM has reiterated that strict measures are needed against COVID-19 at entertainment venues, explaining that, if an infection is found at any venue, it must be closed for two weeks and that, if multiple infections are found in the area, all of its venues must closed for the same period.

Once again the entertainment industry has proved beyond any doubt that it cannot be trusted to run itself, after crying that it needed to open to stay alive it has shot itself in the foot yet again.

[TKDfella]

Right in front of Thai New Year? I guess many will be travelling, probably from this evening, and that won't help the situation. During the last couple of days I've heard open music venues practising and getting ready so they must be expecting spectators.

[Artisi]

13 hours ago, Yorkshire Tea said:

From UK Guardian newspaper:

 

"Indonesia has banned land, air, water and rail travel during the Eid al-Fitr celebrations from 6 May to 17 to curb Covid transmission, a spokeswoman for its transport ministry has said."

 

Here, no restrictions on travel for Songkran ????

 

 

The road kill and debilitating injuries during this period will far exceed the covid-19 death rate, but will anything other than mouthing-off about it be put in place to reduce the slaughter - NO. 

[Artisi]

13 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

I think his underwear has gotten all bunched up with a few of the hospitals running out of Covid 19 test kits and his ministerial staff now being infected.  Where is Prawit, has he gone into hibernation in the bunker?  These guys need to show some backbone and make firm non flip-flopping decisions if they want to maintain their plans for tourism.

Back bone, flip-flopping, hibernation - sounds fairly normal procedure for these clowns. 

[Artisi]

11 minutes ago, TKDfella said:

Right in front of Thai New Year? I guess many will be travelling, probably from this evening, and that won't help the situation. During the last couple of days I've heard open music venues practising and getting ready so they must be expecting spectators.

Reported today 70,000 + crowding Mor Chit bus station - and it's only  just the start of the mass movement back home. 

[jvs]

Imo it is mainly the entitled vip section of the people spreading this at the moment.

They travel ant where for a good party and since there is only one rule(for the poor people)there are no rules for the rich and famous.

The poor people tend to stay at home and try to make enough money to feed and send their children to school.

Next lock down?The poor will suffer,the rest could not care less.

[MasterBaker]

and yet Songkran will go ahead

[edogthong]

I don't get it, this is confusing. So the earlier news that 41 provinces have to shut all their entertainment venues down for 14 days is no longer valid?

[Excel]

Well I would expect that those government ministers will take heed of their leaders instruction regarding "strict measures" and tell all of their respective  mia nois that they will receive a good spanking if they go to entertainment areas without them and/or without suitable protection  ????????????

Edited April 9, 2021 by Excel

[natway09]

Would be better to leave my  little regular bar open & stop ten of millions of people travelling home for Songkran so ensuring the cat gets well & truly out of the bag.

That way at least you isolate to a large degree

Stop all travel outside of your home province NOW until at least the end of the month.

Stop trying to be popular Sir, & make the hard decisions

 

[Excel]

20 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

I think his underwear has gotten all bunched up with a few of the hospitals running out of Covid 19 test kits and his ministerial staff now being infected.  Where is Prawit, has he gone into hibernation in the bunker?  These guys need to show some backbone and make firm non flip-flopping decisions if they want to maintain their plans for tourism.

Prawit is probably too busy wiping all his gifted watches with alcohol wipes at the moment

[unblocktheplanet]

6 hours ago, TKDfella said:

Right in front of Thai New Year? I guess many will be travelling, probably from this evening, and that won't help the situation. During the last couple of days I've heard open music venues practising and getting ready so they must be expecting spectators.

Lotta folks left for the provinces either last Friday or on Chakri Day to beat the rush & get some extra time with family. Were they carrying our new virus pal?

 

(Short)time will tell but when Indonesia acts more responsibly than Thailand, well, they call it exponential for a reason.

 

Uncle Too makes me want to cross my legs.

Edited April 9, 2021 by unblocktheplanet
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[Hayduke]

20 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Thailand’s Prime Minister has expressed concern over the COVID-19 situation

 

The priority must be to protect the country’s PM from this terrible danger.

 

He needs to be totally isolated, completely quarantined and securely locked down immediately….for the good of the Thai people.

 

Ten years should just about do it.

 

 

[poohy]

YET!

The strictest measure would be no travel, yes a hard pill to take , people would be cross, but better cross than dead

 

These tough guys supposedly in charge are both incompetent's and  cowards plan n simple

[overherebc]

7 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Once again the entertainment industry has proved beyond any doubt that it cannot be trusted to run itself, after crying that it needed to open to stay alive it has shot itself in the foot yet again.

Some appear to have shot themselves in the head.

[Artisi]

2 hours ago, poohy said:

YET!

The strictest measure would be no travel, yes a hard pill to take , people would be cross, but better cross than dead

 

These tough guys supposedly in charge are both incompetent's and  cowards plan n simple

The end paragraph is easily summed up as nothing between the ears.... If their brains were Semtex, there wouldn't be sufficient to blow the dust out of their ears. 

Edited April 9, 2021 by Artisi

[connda]

23 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Prime Minister’s Office spokesperson, Anucha Burapachaisri, said the PM has reiterated that strict measures are needed against COVID-19 at entertainment venues, explaining that, if an infection is found at any venue, it must be closed for two weeks and that, if multiple infections are found in the area, all of its venues must closed for the same period.

It seems like there is a concerted effort to kill all businesses that are viewed by elitists as being places where commoners have fun. 
We're told with a straight face that an 'entertainment venue' is more dangerous that a packed Makro or other packed hypermarts.  We're told with a straight face that bars and pubs are more dangerous than coffee shops and restaurants.  We're told with a straight face that massage shops are more dangerous than barbers and beauty shops.  It's absurd logic.  Using the exact same logic, then if an infection is found in a Marko or hypermart, they should be closed for 14 days.  If an infection is found in a coffee shop or restaurant, they should be closed for 14 days.   If an infection is found in a barber shop or beauty shop, they should be closed for 14 days. But that doesn't happen, so it's not about stopping the spread of Covid.  It something else.

What is it.  It's about pure Control. This is about putting a knee on the neck of a public that would like to have some fun, and then reveling in having the power to control the actions of the average plebs and commoners.  If it was about 'controlling Covid' then they would be closing any and all "venues" be they bars or coffee shops, be they a live outdoor concert or indoor shopping in a ram-jam-full Makro, be it a massage shop or a beauty salon.  But that's not what they are doing - they are being highly, highly selective.  Places of fun.  Place where people can relax and get away from the world for a little while.

This is about controlling the common folk in the name of Morality using a pandemic as the excuse.  And we are being told by world leaders that pandemics will be with us from here on out.  From 2020 until forever - cyclical pandemics.  Forever pandemics means forever control.

"Just get a vaccine.  We'll let you out the locked gate on a leash for a short walkies before we drag you back again and lock you up in your hovel or simply restrict where you can go."

That's a very dark, stark, grim looking dystopian future imho. 

[johng]

6 minutes ago, connda said:

This is about controlling the common folk in the name of Morality using a pandemic as the excuse.  And we are being told by world leaders that pandemics will be with us from here on out.  From 2020 until forever - cyclical pandemics.  Forever pandemics means forever control.

 

100% agree with you a very sad and disturbing future in store sadly cheered on by quite a few who what to "keep safe"  ????

[Bkk Brian]

26 minutes ago, connda said:

What is it.  It's about pure Control. This is about putting a knee on the neck of a public that would like to have some fun, and then reveling in having the power to control the actions of the average plebs and commoners.  If it was about 'controlling Covid' then they would be closing any and all "venues" be they bars or coffee shops, be they a live outdoor concert or indoor shopping in a ram-jam-full Makro, be it a massage shop or a beauty salon.  But that's not what they are doing - they are being highly, highly selective.  Places of fun.  Place where people can relax and get away from the world for a little while.

Brazil may be a good choice for you, President thinks the virus is just a cold, hardly any control measures or vaccines there, just make sure your healthy though because the health system has already collapsed with sick and dying patients which have a strange disease affecting the lungs. Run out of ventilators already, oxygen supplies dry out in a couple of days.

Edited April 9, 2021 by Bkk Brian

[connda]

1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said:

Brazil may be a good choice for you, President thinks the virus is just a cold, hardly any control measures or vaccines there, just make sure your healthy though because the health system has already collapsed with sick and dying patients which have a strange disease affecting the lungs. Run out of ventilators already, oxygen supplies dry out in a couple of days.

Sweden didn't mandate any WHO or CDC restrictions and look!  It's not Brazil. 

Thailand doesn't have the on-going Machiavellian lockdown mandates like the UK, Australia, or New Zealand, and look!  It's not Brazil. 

It's going to be a long time before epidemiologists can analyses the data to come up with a plausible reason for why there are pockets of Covid where there are extreme levels of restriction and enforcement, and why in some locales there are fewer cases and fewer deaths where enforcement is more lax.  It's way counter-intuitive.  

My point was the government is locking down entertainment venues when other venues (hypermarts, restaurants, coffee shops, etc) are as crowded as the venues they have targeted.  So if "Controlling The Spread Of Covid" is their actual purpose, they should be closing any and all venues where someone comes down with the virus - and for the exact same reasons. 

That has nothing to do with Brazil's Covid statistics.  
And I'm done on this topic. 

Edited April 9, 2021 by connda

[Bkk Brian]

4 minutes ago, connda said:

  And I'm done on this topic. 

Thats quick!