Pattaya City has continued to sponsor and participate in food giveaways to hundreds of needy people at the Bali Hai Pier in South Pattaya during the Covid -19 crisis this week.

 

Due to Covid-19 related restrictions, thousands of businesses are forced to close currently in Pattaya and Chonburi, including the cities lifeblood tourism, hospitality, and entertainment industry. Unfortunately, cases continue to rise overall and there is no sign of loosening restrictions or easing closure orders anytime soon. On top of this, according to many people who have been laid off or lost their jobs, there has been little to no financial aid from the central government.

 

Major Jeerawat Sukhontasap, the head of Pattaya City Law Enforcement, told The Pattaya News, “This area at the Bali Hai Pier was previously used for people to do activities like skateboarding and before that tourism arrivals. However, during Covid-19, this area has not been used due to Covid -19 measurements and we have shut down sports-related activities and skateboarding due to concern about the spread of the virus. ”

 

Full Story: https://thepattayanews.com/2021/07/28/pattaya-city-residents-continue-food-giveaways-to-hundreds-of-needy-people-during-covid-19-crisis-around-pattaya/

 

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One might expect such scenes in North Korea, but every day it keeps getting worse, with fewer options, no assistance, betrayed trust, and no clear path out of this mess.

News reports constantly streaming news of hospitals over capacity, corpses dropping dead on the street, and the masses nearly climbing over each other in hopes of securing a vaccination.

How much longer can good Thai people keep putting up with those responsible that are now in power before it becomes untenable? I fear the resulting mayhem.

Pattaya's tears: Huge numbers queue in long lines for handouts

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Thai media Daily News went to Pattaya and found that the situation was desperate for people during the latest dire stage of the pandemic. 

 

They were at the activity area at the Bali Hai port in South Pattaya.

 

The area should be full of Chinese and tourists of other nationalities milling about or on their way to Koh Larn. They are long gone.

 

Instead the media had a picture of about a dozen lines of seated folk stretching far into the distance. 

 

There were so many that the tessakit, local officials and police had to arrange for the donations to be handed out in three stages at 8 am, noon and 5 pm. All with social distancing, masks and gels in place and on hand.

 

One person with tears welling up spoke for them all in saying they had no salary, no money, not enough for the rent and were relying on handouts from generous people. 

 

The person said they also needed soap, toothpaste and dry goods but didn't want to spoil the mood and speak up for fear of looking ungrateful. 

 

Pattaya's tourism has been completely obliterated in the latest wave of infections that shows no sign of abating.

 

The once prosperous resort city was already suffering from the previous waves but has now reached a new low despite the sterling efforts of people trying to help the needy. 

 

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This is what any vaccine center should look like - open air and spread well apart 

 

very sad to see this regardless 

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One person with tears welling up spoke for them all in saying they had no salary, no money, not enough for the rent and were relying on handouts from generous people. 

Just how long can this be sustained?   When they cannot pay their rent where do they go then?  If they cannot get enough nutrients into their bodies what chance do they have of fighting the virus when they inevitably contract it?   

31 minutes ago, James105 said:

Just how long can this be sustained?   When they cannot pay their rent where do they go then?  If they cannot get enough nutrients into their bodies what chance do they have of fighting the virus when they inevitably contract it?   

And the Pattaya sandbox is still on schedule for October ??

The virus is now widespread in Thailand. It is not going away without mass vaccination.  Is it not better to let fully tested and vaccinated people in without other hurdles.  They are low risk in terms of infection.  They will spend significantly more than a poor unregulated refugee slipping across the border from Myanmar. Time to get real. 

7 minutes ago, Adelphi said:

The virus is now widespread in Thailand. It is not going away without mass vaccination.  Is it not better to let fully tested and vaccinated people in without other hurdles.  They are low risk in terms of infection.  They will spend significantly more than a poor unregulated refugee slipping across the border from Myanmar. Time to get real. 

To properly open up Pattaya needs the workers who have returned to their homes, mainly in Isaan.

The majority of these will return without having had a vaccine in their home towns.

It can all be solved with money borrow it spend the massive fabled foreign reserve or lose another face????

53 minutes ago, fulhamster said:

To properly open up Pattaya needs the workers who have returned to their homes, mainly in Isaan.

The majority of these will return without having had a vaccine in their home towns.

Chonbury has gone from about 40 new Covid cases a day 2 months ago to 982 yesterday.  The genie is out of the bottle.  As a percentage of the population Chonbury is probably one of the more infected regions in Thailand.  Lockdowns don't seem to work with the Delta variant.  The numbers wanting to come to a pandemic ridden country with a failing health service are likely to be small.   So only a small numbers of workers if any are likely to return from their home towns - where the infection rate is probably much lower.  Without mass vaccination we will just have to live with this virus.   Just my thoughts.  

Then get Pattaya vaccinated! Why are these people being ignored? Dish out Vaccines not food parcels!

6 hours ago, webfact said:

One person with tears welling up spoke for them all in saying they had no salary, no money, not enough for the rent and were relying on handouts from generous people. 

Prayut cares.... 

1 hour ago, chilly07 said:

Then get Pattaya vaccinated! Why are these people being ignored? Dish out Vaccines not food parcels!

They don't have vaccins, my Thai wife registered already 4 times, and every time she go, the answer is , no have vaccins , and can you believe this is one of the richest countries of the world ? but no have money to buy proper vaccins fot there own people, shame on you.

2 hours ago, joskeshake said:

They don't have vaccins, my Thai wife registered already 4 times, and every time she go, the answer is , no have vaccins , and can you believe this is one of the richest countries of the world ? but no have money to buy proper vaccins fot there own people, shame on you.

One of the richest countries in the world? We are talking about Thailand not Norway.

4 minutes ago, soalbundy said:

One of the richest countries in the world? We are talking about Thailand not Norway.

True, but not exactly poor either, 7th in Asia, 75th in the world.

14 hours ago, Adelphi said:

The virus is now widespread in Thailand. It is not going away without mass vaccination.  Is it not better to let fully tested and vaccinated people in without other hurdles.  They are low risk in terms of infection.  They will spend significantly more than a poor unregulated refugee slipping across the border from Myanmar. Time to get real. 

What would vaxxed tourists do in case they get infected? I'm fully vaccinated but at present I rather stay put in Europe. There is nothing to attract many tourists, everything is closed. Plus the risk of getting Covid no matter how light an infection it may be. LongCovid risk is still there.

50 minutes ago, Letseng said:

What would vaxxed tourists do in case they get infected? I'm fully vaccinated but at present I rather stay put in Europe. There is nothing to attract many tourists, everything is closed. Plus the risk of getting Covid no matter how light an infection it may be. LongCovid risk is still there.

Hi Letseng.  Thanks for your question.  I was not thinking so much about tourists.  If you have a patrner, children, house or job in Thailand you could be attracted back.  I was just suggesting that for such fully vaccinated and tested people the risk of letting them return without additional hurdles was low - and it would only be the decent thing to do.  

14 hours ago, chilly07 said:

Then get Pattaya vaccinated! Why are these people being ignored? Dish out Vaccines not food parcels!

They are in need of both of course. 

19 hours ago, chilly07 said:

Then get Pattaya vaccinated! Why are these people being ignored? Dish out Vaccines not food parcels!

What vaccines? no hab.

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On 7/29/2021 at 3:12 PM, soalbundy said:

One of the richest countries in the world? We are talking about Thailand not Norway.

I'm not writing ''riches'' for the people, so easy to understand i think, but difficult to write about, they blocked me on several sites already because ..........