Entertainment Venues to Reopen on Jan 16 as Planned

[webfact]

 

BANGKOK, Nov 26 (TNA) – The Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration stands firm on its previous resolution for entertainment places to reopen on Jan 16 and picks zones for their late-night alcohol sales and consumption.

 

CCSA spokesman Dr. Taweesilp Wisanuyothin said the center viewed that entertainment venues posed many risks of disease transmission including their ventilation issues and the behaviors of their customers who would take off face masks and chat. In the past at least two big clusters of COVID-19 infections involved entertainment places, he said.

 

The CCSA spokesman said the government wanted the operators of entertainment venues to prepare for their reopening. From Dec 1, their conditions and ventilation systems will be improved. All their staff must be vaccinated against COVID-19. The places will then be evaluated for their reopening licenses.

 

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[Soikhaonoiken]

What about open air bars, can't improve the ventilation in those,.. 

[RichardColeman]

Link - There will not be a karaoke service, dance floor, promotion and alcohol for the customers who share glasses.

 

Not being a visitor to nightclubs and bars anymore, it is common two people go to a bar and order one alcoholic drink and two straws ? 

[OneMoreFarang]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The places will then be evaluated for their reopening licenses.

Will there be any corruption involved in these evaluations? 555

[Orinoco]

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

Link - There will not be a karaoke service, dance floor, promotion and alcohol for the customers who share glasses.

 

Not being a visitor to nightclubs and bars anymore, it is common two people go to a bar and order one alcoholic drink and two straws ? 

No, one drink 4 straws. guess what nationality. LOL.

Well healed tourists are a coming.

TIT. 

[arithai12]

2 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Link - There will not be a karaoke service, dance floor, promotion and alcohol for the customers who share glasses.

 

Not being a visitor to nightclubs and bars anymore, it is common two people go to a bar and order one alcoholic drink and two straws ? 

I can well imagine that two people order two different cocktails, and try each other's.

[dinsdale]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

customers who would take off face masks and chat.

And this is different to restaurants how? 

[Thailand]

South Africans welcome?

[smedly]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

The places will then be evaluated for their reopening licenses.

 

 

so spend a pile of money to stay shut

 

and no chatting allowed 

 

 

 

[smedly]

5 minutes ago, Thailand said:

South Africans welcome?

That new dangerous variant was also detected in HK

[Henryford]

What a farce. At the Pattaya Firework Festival last night there were thousands of people sat within a few feet of each other eating and drinking, in effect an open air bar. No problem. Sorry the only problem was the massive queue at 7/11 to get drinks.

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

BANGKOK, Nov 26 (TNA) – The Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration stands firm on its previous resolution for entertainment places to reopen on Jan 16 and picks zones for their late-night alcohol sales and consumption.

Limited opening... always the caveat.

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, Soikhaonoiken said:

What about open air bars, can't improve the ventilation in those,.. 

Nature always provides.

[jacko45k]

31 minutes ago, smedly said:

That new dangerous variant was also detected in HK

I thought it had been detected in Belgium but not yet UK. Irrelevant I suspect, it will get there. 

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Not being a visitor to nightclubs and bars anymore, it is common two people go to a bar and order one alcoholic drink and two straws ? 

Margarita time Thai style... unless Papa is buying.

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

and the behaviors of their customers who would take off face masks and chat.

Not to mention after arriving at a destination with said customers and taking the rest off.

[hotchilli]

2 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Will there be any corruption involved in these evaluations? 555

Absolutely.

 

[Gsxrnz]

4 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Link - There will not be a karaoke service, dance floor, promotion and alcohol for the customers who share glasses.

 

Not being a visitor to nightclubs and bars anymore, it is common two people go to a bar and order one alcoholic drink and two straws ? 

Only if they are from the Indian sub-continent.

[Mentors65]

Unfortunately this will not happen. 

New c-19 variant on the way

[bkk6060]

These places are common for people smoking, belching, flatulating, talking, arguing and complaining with their stinky buzzed loud mouths.

As the article states, potential super spreader venues.

 

[Thailand]

1 hour ago, smedly said:

That new dangerous variant was also detected in HK

The new mutations were first discovered in South Africa and have since been detected in Belgium, Botswana, Israel and Hong Kong.

 

 

[ehs818]

1 hour ago, Henryford said:

What a farce. At the Pattaya Firework Festival last night there were thousands of people sat within a few feet of each other eating and drinking, in effect an open air bar. No problem. Sorry the only problem was the massive queue at 7/11 to get drinks.

The real test of this will be if there is a new spike of Covid cases 10-14 days from now. Too early to conclude that the crowd gathering was safe!

[The Oracle]

4 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Link - There will not be a karaoke service, dance floor, promotion and alcohol for the customers who share glasses.

 

Not being a visitor to nightclubs and bars anymore, it is common two people go to a bar and order one alcoholic drink and two straws ? 

Yes, it is common in many places not frequented by foreigners.  A group will buy a bottle of (usually blended) spirits and use just the one shot glass between them.  Even in Hi-So places - although it wouldn't be Blend 185, Hong Thong, or Sang Som, it would be Johnny Walker or Jack Daniel's.  It is rumoured that is how the Thong Lor outbreak which caused the third wave started:  customers and hostesses sharing glasses.  But I don't put much weight into unsubstantiated speculation.

Also Bucket Drinks in the sports and themed bars which cater for the Shorts, Singlets and Thongs/flipflop Brigade are often shared.

[Heng]

Calendar date marked.  

[Andycoops]

And no doubt the poor sods will believe him and start making preparations to open

only to have it all killed off again, as they have continuously done every single time.

[StayinThailand2much]

New Year's Eve and Christmas are usually when I spend on 'entertainment', not mid-January. Guess, I'll add that money to next year's travel budget, and spend it in Bali. 

[RafPinto]

And close on the 17th as planned.

 

Entertainment Venues to Reopen on Jan 16 as Planned

 

[Jumbo1968]

4 hours ago, Henryford said:

What a farce. At the Pattaya Firework Festival last night there were thousands of people sat within a few feet of each other eating and drinking, in effect an open air bar. No problem. Sorry the only problem was the massive queue at 7/11 to get drinks.

I was there, didn’t stay long, in the past at the music festival chairs were spaced the relevant distance apart, last night there was row upon row sun loungers with no social distance space whatsoever and all occupied at 100 baht for one. Not a Policeman in sight, Beach Road had also loads of footfall, surely if there isn’t a cluster there is no reason why open bars can’t reopen ?

[smiggley]

So covid does not spread in the bars in Bangkok, Phuket and various islands but it will spread in places like Pattaya, Chiang Mai and various other places. A very smart covid we have here.

[Paul Kernell]

3 hours ago, Mentors65 said:

Unfortunately this will not happen. 

New c-19 variant on the way

Unfortunately I think you're correct. I've always said "you can't stop a mutating virus, as in the flu" we have as long as the government want us to have the restrictions.