Phuket To Ease COVID Restrictions On June 1

[Pattaya Spotter]

PHUKET: Phuket officials will relax a wide range of business closures on the island ordered to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and relax measures to allow people to enter the province under a new order yet to be issued, but announced to come into effect on June 1.

 

https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-to-ease-covid-restrictions-from-june-1-80144.php

[Boomer6969]

Hmmmhhh these guys seem to believe that Covid is "funborne". Interestingly the same people who outlaw fun for foreigners want tourists to come back. Come back for what? The essence of tourism is fun, isn't? 

[Pattaya Spotter]

5 hours ago, Boomer6969 said:

Hmmmhhh these guys seem to believe that Covid is "funborne". Interestingly the same people who outlaw fun for foreigners want tourists to come back. Come back for what? The essence of tourism is fun, isn't? 

"Fun," as you put it, has been outlawed in most of the world during the pandemic to control its spread. It is just now coming back in North America and parts of Europe now that they have have levels of vaccination. Thailand's Covid restrictions apply to all residents of the country, so I don’t understand the reference to outlawing fun for foreigners. Basically, the "lockdown lite" restrictions in effect since 18 April are being rolled back and all businesses, except bars/pubs (I take this to mean night time entertainment venues like nightclubs, discos, go-gos, etc.) can open. The real question is why would anyone come during monsoon season (it's been raining heavily almost 10 days in a row) and with many non-entertainment businesses still closed or shuttered for good. I've spent a week in Patong recently, and staying in a ghost town is no fun and I couldn't wait to leave.