SURVEY: Should Thailand lift restrictions on alcohol sales?

[Scott]

There has been a lot of discussion about opening bars and serving alcohol.  In your opinion, is it a wise move for the government to limit alcohol sales in order to slow the spread of Covid?   Choose the option that best expression your thoughts.

 

Please feel free to leave a comment.

[Credo]

I don't know if now is the time, but it had better be soon.  Life won't be normal without bars and pubs open.

 

[jacko45k]

@Scott

The question 'Should Thailand limit alcohol sales?' .Does not seem to go along with the choices there for answers. Perhaps it should be 'Should Thailand lift restrictions on alcohol sales?'

Edited November 21, 2021 by jacko45k

[meechai]

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1. SURVEY: Should Thailand limit alcohol sales?

Judging by the answers/choices seems you want to ask should Thailand Lift restrictions on alcohol sales?

 

Edit: I see Jacko beat me to it 555

Edited November 21, 2021 by meechai

[Peterw42]

A confusing survey, as others have said, the answers/choices are opposite to the question being asked.

By voting yes you are answering no, by answering no you are saying yes

Edited November 22, 2021 by Peterw42

[Scott]

3 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

@Scott

The question 'Should Thailand limit alcohol sales?' .Does not seem to go along with the choices there for answers. Perhaps it should be 'Should Thailand lift restrictions on alcohol sales?'

Thanks.  The wording has been changed.  Good catch-- you've got a sharp mind; mine's a little foggy!

[bdenner]

It was time when the Czar graciously allowed just a few selected restaurants to serve alcohol!

 

And don't forget there was at least one occurrence his higher echelon flouted the rules, in the first place, by nightclubbing etc. irresponsibility.

Edited November 22, 2021 by bdenner

[Gsxrnz]

A suggested format for future surveys. "Should restrictions an alcohol sales be lifted"

 

1. <deleted> Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2, Yes.

3. Yes - I've swallowed the blue pill so I will stay home to avoid infection and be responsible for my own well-being. I do not want my personal anxiety to result in the unnecessary limitation of other's freedoms.

4. Abstain from voting.

[paddyfield7]

It is particularly unfair for those who are used to drink responsibly.

[yogi yogi]

yes roads are too dangerous now.  how do all those drunks get home.  rideshare? not.  

[Gsxrnz]

6 minutes ago, paddyfield7 said:

It is particularly unfair for those who are used to drink responsibly.

Yep, all three of them.

[yogi yogi]

5 minutes ago, paddyfield7 said:

It is particularly unfair for those who are used to drink responsibly.

yes but so many do not drink responsibly and damage lives of those of us who dont booze it up at all

[JonnyF]

Paternalism from government is undesirable at the best of times, but when those in charge lack any form of decency and integrity it is a particularly bitter pill to swallow.

 

It's time to get back to normal and stop using Covid to push through increasingly authoritarian forms of government. 

[shackleton]

I am not to concerned about Clubs and bars opening  early

But as I am living outside Bangkok  would like the Country to open up for all restaurants  to be allowed to serve alcohol 

Same as they allowing the  big tourist areas  Bangkok Phuket Krabi ect 

[pollyog]

They should also scrap the stupid restricted hours for alcohol sales in shops, as it only inconveniences sensible people and does not really stop the alcoholics buying booze.

[cyril sneer]

41 minutes ago, yogi yogi said:

yes but so many do not drink responsibly and damage lives of those of us who dont booze it up at all

they should start boozing up then 

[unblocktheplanet]

As a non-drinker who can't afford restaurants & bars, I shouldn't really comment here. If alcohol restrictions are lifted due to profit from foreigners, that means they're lifted for Thais, too. As has been amply demonstrated in the past, indoor social drinking gets out of hand & Covid is spread, breathing, laughing, talking loudly, sex with strangers. I'm not a moralist, that's the fact. Yeah, I miss the old Thailand, too, but it's just not time yet.

[dlclark97]

If Thailand actually wants tourists, many will expect to have alcohol available.  What is needed more is local education on responsible alcohol consumption.

[AseanLao]

1 hour ago, yogi yogi said:

yes but so many do not drink responsibly and damage lives of those of us who dont booze it up at all

 

The Thai Wives Temperance Movement is a force to be reckoned with ... ????

[mikeymike100]

I have some friends who went to Phuket for a few days. They tell me its very very busy, all bars are in fact open selling alcohol also restaurants. lots of foreigners, just like normal.

Why are places like Pattaya still closed as far as bats etc are concerned?

[yogi yogi]

47 minutes ago, AseanLao said:

 

The Thai Wives Temperance Movement is a force to be reckoned with ... ????

u mean mothers against drunken driving?

[AseanLao]

1 minute ago, yogi yogi said:

u mean mothers against drunken driving?

 

A lot of Thai mothers seem to support drunken driving ????

[yogi yogi]

1 minute ago, yogi yogi said:

u mean mothers against drunken driving?

never get between a drunkard and his bottle

[Moonlover]

20 minutes ago, mikeymike100 said:

Why are places like Pattaya still closed as far as bats etc are concerned?

Didn't know bats drank alcohol. ????

 

[CM Dad]

26 minutes ago, mikeymike100 said:

I have some friends who went to Phuket for a few days. They tell me its very very busy, all bars are in fact open selling alcohol also restaurants. lots of foreigners, just like normal.

Why are places like Pattaya still closed as far as bats etc are concerned?

"Bats" should be banned everywhere in Thailand except on sports fields.  In fact, round them up and ship them to China where they are considered a delicacy.

 

[Gsxrnz]

6 minutes ago, yogi yogi said:

never get between a drunkard and his bottle

Drunkard is a very non PC word, even those ingrates the Alcoholics are objecting to its use.  

 

Us Drunks prefer to be described as victims of alcohol overuse. Alcoholics prefer victims of problematic alcohol overuse.

 

Either way, we are victims and deserve everybody's sympathy - it say's so quite specifically in the "Victim's Guide to the Galaxy" available from every good socialist bookstore.

[Gsxrnz]

9 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

Didn't know bats drank alcohol. ????

 

They will if they suck my blood.

[Moonlover]

I am not a drinking man anymore, but I did none the less vote for a full opening up of alcohol sales.

 

It's time that the Thai public and its quests (including us) made its own minds up concerning the risks we are prepared to take. Riding my motorcycle is probably more dangerous than mixing it in a bar, but that hasn't been banned yet.

 

We've also heard a lot in these passed months about 'herd immunity'. As best as I can tell the best way to achieve 'herd immunity' is to allow 'the herd' to mix freely.

 

Yes, get those clubs and bars open.

[mahtin]

Lift, swallow, repeat.

 

Lift the supertax on wine, Drop.

[mikeymike100]

2 hours ago, mikeymike100 said:

I have some friends who went to Phuket for a few days. They tell me its very very busy, all bars are in fact open selling alcohol also restaurants. lots of foreigners, just like normal.

Why are places like Pattaya still closed as far as bats etc are concerned?

bats should of course be bars!