UPDATE: Thailand imposes tighter restrictions to slow virus spread - including curfew

[jacko45k]

2 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

The places that have always had me worried where I live are the markets recently 2 got shut down for a week I stopped using them well before covid started 

3 closed  in my area about a week ago.

[DjSilver]

skip the ridiculous restrictions and let the people live their lifes as usual 

[Ralf001]

14 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

 

A major supermarket is on the second floor of Big C... so how does that work?

Use the tradesmans entrance.

[Saltire]

Well it seems in my province (Kanchanaburi), they have since Monday gradually been introducing many 'lockdown' restrictions.

 

As of today, announced by the village chief ....

 

Curfew - dont leave homes between 10 PM and 4 AM

No alcohol to be sold before 10 AM and between 2 and 5 PM, shops to close 8 PM

No one allowed in or out the village except with a letter from the poo yai stating it's neccessary. This is also apparently in effect in the nearest supply town so could cause some people hardship. People returning from Bangkok etc are turned around.

Ban on delivery vans in and out. They today set up a depot in the Highways depot for all delivery vans. Many entrepreneural types have set up large lorries selling direct to customers - this place is 5 minutes from the checkpoint (on the wrong side), but packed today when I went to collect a packet from Lazada.

 

If this is already in place in my small village am pretty sure the Bangkok and surrounding areas will be announced soon.

 

The 10 am alcohol was sprung on the worthies today and there was a queue of shaky-hand-men lining up for their morning shots.

 

Edited July 9, 2021 by Saltire

[statman78]

6 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Hairy.... never mind the restrictions for getting out of Bangkok... Chiang Rai has been known to implement it's own very strict rules for those traveling in. Paperwork showing just out of ASQ a must I expect.

I already checked with Chiang Rai.  I need to show my ASQ release and my proof of vaccination.  At least if I get stuck in Bangkok we have a condo I can stay at.  
 

Of course between now and Sunday things may change in CR

Edited July 9, 2021 by statman78

[Pattaya Spotter]

Tokyo has more or less just announced a month long lockdown...it's bad in many places around Asia...not just Thailand.

Edited July 9, 2021 by Pattaya Spotter

[ChipButty]

2 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

3 closed  in my area about a week ago.

The hygiene alone should be a major concern with them markets they are disgusting, flee bitten places,

Thee funny thing is I have a friend who has a top restaurant and bar he spent a lot of money fitting the place out and it's in new shop units not some old shack in a field he is a chef he put in a good kitchen all S/S he gets visits from the health department checking the place out 

The place is spotless 

[alien365]

20 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

In nakhon pathom where I reside and an area which would be included in any restrictions it says shopping malls must be closed but supermarkets open?

A major supermarket is on the second floor of Big C... so how does that work?

I assume it will be the same as last time when all the shops on the ground floor were closed. By shopping malls I assume they mean like Central Salaya. Last time all the shops were closed there too, apart from Tops supermarket, if I remember correctly. 

[natway09]

At last, they realize that malls are not exactly necessary.

If they really wanted to help in the red zones  all planes flying internally buses would be stopped.

Keep all interprovincial travel to an absolute minimum.(emergency & transport only)

It is pretty obvious that you need to keep folks in their own neighbourhood, say a 10 KM radius.

These restrictions should have been put in place 1st April

[ripstanley]

Basically this means more Bangkok registered vehicles will be sighted in the North and North East. Stop travel between provinces.

Edited July 9, 2021 by ripstanley

[Surelynot]

Just now, natway09 said:

At last, they realize that malls are not exactly necessary.

Try telling that to the big five Chinese families that own Thailand.

[Surelynot]

1 minute ago, ripstanley said:

Basically this means more Bangkok registered vehicles will be sighted in the North, Easts. Stop travel between provinces.

....or get yourself some new plates.....?

[Golden Triangle]

11 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

3 closed  in my area about a week ago.

You must be close to Naklua, the market on SSCC opposite the newish condo's was packed when we went past yesterday, apparently picking up the slack from the closed Naklua ones, I personally wouldn't go anywhere near them.

[jacko45k]

1 minute ago, Golden Triangle said:

You must be close to Naklua, the market on SSCC opposite the newish condo's was packed when we went past yesterday, apparently picking up the slack from the closed Naklua ones, I personally wouldn't go anywhere near them.

I thought they were due to reopen after a few days.... we don't regularly use them but Mrs tried to last week. Two in Naklua and one in Rong Po she went to. All shut.... 

[Golden Triangle]

2 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

I thought they were due to reopen after a few days.... we don't regularly use them but Mrs tried to last week. Two in Naklua and one in Rong Po she went to. All shut.... 

Not sure if they have reopened or not, sorry I'm on the Darkside 55

[Surelynot]

23 minutes ago, DjSilver said:

skip the ridiculous restrictions and let the people live their lifes as usual 

....................or deaths as the case might be.

[jacko45k]

2 minutes ago, Golden Triangle said:

Not sure if they have reopened or not, sorry I'm on the Darkside 55

My Mrs says they have....

[Cake Monster]

Again the Authorities will be pussy - footing around with restrictions.

These restrictions are as good as all the others.

And thats no good.

If people are allowed to Travel, they will. And there in lies the issue.

If you are trying to stop a Virus Travelling, then you have to stop the carriers travelling.

It aint Rocket Science.

Without hard Lockdowns that are enforced to the max, the Virus will take over big time.

 

[IamNoone88]

Their course of action should be vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate. Protection not restrictions. But that bird left the nest a long time a go and this is the result.

[Bangkok Barry]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

The measures, which are expected to be formally announced following the conclusion of the CCSA meeting on Friday afternoon, are as follows:

 

• Work from home where possible

• Shopping malls closed

• Supermarkets to remain open but hours restricted

• No unnecessary travel

• Vaccinate vaccinate vaccinate

Edit: Posted before I read the comment above. Spooky.

Edited July 9, 2021 by Bangkok Barry

[JonnyF]

It should be either a hard lockdown or just keep it the same as before IMO.

 

These half measures will wreak havoc on the economy and livelihoods while doing little to stop the spread. 

 

Seems like a token gesture from the government to try and prove they are taking it seriously while not really doing very much.

 

Vaccines are the real solution, and they've screwed that up. If I wasn't working here I'd go back to the UK for 12 months. The next few months are gonna be grim.

[Bangkok Barry]

2 hours ago, Golden Triangle said:

Probably, I count that as essential shopping, failing that we have a very friendly bottle shop owner who always looks after us ( I mean me ) 

Someone very close to me has a brother who is a policeman and he supplied us with beer last time there was a lockdown :)

Edited July 9, 2021 by Bangkok Barry

[Surelynot]

1 minute ago, Bangkok Barry said:

Someone very close to me has a brother who is a policeman and he supplied us with beer last time there was a lockdown ????

Same here....but he was just stood at the other side of the bar.

[jacko45k]

3 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

These half measures will wreak havoc on the economy and livelihoods while doing little to stop the spread. 

 

Well we are in the midst of 'half measures' and as you say, they aren't working. Yes... vaccinations needed.... stop the dying.

[Ralf001]

31 minutes ago, ripstanley said:

Basically this means more Bangkok registered vehicles will be sighted in the North and North East. Stop travel between provinces.

They are flowing quicker into Pattaya than the rising flood waters on beach road !!

[brewsterbudgen]

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

In nakhon pathom where I reside and an area which would be included in any restrictions it says shopping malls must be closed but supermarkets open?

A major supermarket is on the second floor of Big C... so how does that work?

It means Big C is open (for food sales) but the other parts of the mall are not.  Just like in April 2020.

[Golden Triangle]

Just finished watching a very late CCSA broadcast, one little snippet I saw, 80% of all available vaccines will be redirected to Bangkok, tuff tittie provinces, you're getting next to chuff all. 

 

Please get the emoticons working ????

[HandsomeTallFarang]

57 minutes ago, natway09 said:

At last, they realize that malls are not exactly necessary.

If they really wanted to help in the red zones  all planes flying internally buses would be stopped.

Keep all interprovincial travel to an absolute minimum.(emergency & transport only)

It is pretty obvious that you need to keep folks in their own neighbourhood, say a 10 KM radius.

These restrictions should have been put in place 1st April

Why stop at interprovincial? Does the virus suddenly respect county and district lines?

 

Why not restrict everyone to soi only? Or how about within one BTS station’s length away? Why not just put a bubble with a checkpoint every 500 meters?

 

Every one of these travel restrictions they do are arbitrary and do literally nothing. They’re just trying to save face, I don’t see why they are so petrified of COVID... it kills less than 1% of people who get it.. 

 

There’s like 5 TV channels here that are dedicated to COVID fear porn 24/7. Those channels show two things: Fear porn and big scary statistics, or useless footage of workers spraying down stair cases with pesticide sprayers filled with sanitizer and stuff like that, as if that’s supposed to make anyone with a brain feel better.
 

What is the deal with recording and taking photos of useless activities here? It was the same at my gym, the staff would literally go around in pairs taking turns taking photos of each other wiping down a machine with a spray bottle. Or taking photos of useless paper sign in sheets that nearly everyone ignores. By the way, that’s another genius move right there. Make everyone touch the same pens so they can write their name on some paper.
 

This isn’t normal or rational behavior... but neither is riding three people on a mostly plastic Moped with no helmets. TIT.

Edited July 9, 2021 by HandsomeTallFarang

[Hepbub]

This is just to confirm the no lockdown LOCKDOWN, nothing will be closed except those that have to close

[johng]

3 hours ago, Crossy said:

Can I buy BEER in the supermarkets??

 

Yes from 11am to  2pm  and then again from 5pm till 8pm   for the moment !