snoop1130 Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 The administration of Bang Lamung district in Thailand’s Chon Buri province, which includes Pattaya, is making preparations to convert hotels into “hospitels” with a capacity to accommodate 2,500 COVID-19 patients initially, if daily infections continue to rise steadily. Chon Buri province may also be declared a COVID-19 “red zone” again, as the province saw 769 new COVID-19 infections in the past 24 hours. The daily infection rate has overtaken Bangkok’s top spot since Sunday. Cumulative infections in the province, since last April, have soared to 115,902, with more than 4,000 people still being treated in hospitals. The death toll is 794, according to the provincial health office. Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/pattaya-hotels-to-open-as-isolation-facilities-for-covid-19-patients/ -- © Copyright Thai PBS 2022-01-06 - Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you - Follow ASEAN NOW on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ukrules Posted January 6, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 6, 2022 When they have tens of thousands of cases every day all these rules and regulations will be abandoned. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hammer2021 Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 4 minutes ago, ukrules said: When they have tens of thousands of cases every day all these rules and regulations will be abandoned. The opposite! As covid cases rise so regulations increase. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Gsxrnz Posted January 6, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 6, 2022 (edited) In the same way you can't be called a "guest" at a hospital, you can't be a "patient" at a hotel. However you can now be called an internee at both establishments... Edited January 6, 2022 by onthedarkside trolling comment removed 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sungod Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 So the isolation at home is now out the window? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ukrules Posted January 6, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 6, 2022 19 minutes ago, The Hammer2021 said: The opposite! As covid cases rise so regulations increase. The official regulations will be ignored when the country is overwhelmed with cases. I'm sure they will still be locking up foreigners but for the vast majority of the population nothing will happen - it will be ignored and allowed to play out. Remember, they said it's 'under control' - believe those words because they are the truth, nothing is happening that's not allowed to happen, perhaps not officially according to the law but it's allowed all the same. They can't open the floodgates and deliberately welcome Omicron with open arms, but they sure could have kept it out for months by cancelling the arrival of all the 'test and go' tourists which they chose not to do. There's a reason for that. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stigar Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 I must laugh to those who belived the governour what he said 2 days ago about not closing down. I would not take the chance to go outside eat and drink.U can end up in 10 days in a hospitel. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onthedarkside Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 A trolling comment and reply to it have been removed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hammer2021 Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 33 minutes ago, ukrules said: The official regulations will be ignored when the country is overwhelmed with cases. I'm sure they will still be locking up foreigners but for the vast majority of the population nothing will happen - it will be ignored and allowed to play out. Remember, they said it's 'under control' - believe those words because they are the truth, nothing is happening that's not allowed to happen, perhaps not officially according to the law but it's allowed all the same. They can't open the floodgates and deliberately welcome Omicron with open arms, but they sure could have kept it out for months by cancelling the arrival of all the 'test and go' tourists which they chose not to do. There's a reason for that. As covid cases diminish so do the rules and regulations in Thailand and elsewhere. The opposite hold true. Interestingly. The OP talks about rules and regulations but the article was not about new rules but simple the enlarged availability of medical facilities due to crowded hospitals I live near such a quarantine hospital. There were nine others. They were exclusively for Thais not paranoid farang. Some people might think your comment to be a long winded rant, littered with contradictions, innacuracies and suppositions ranging over a wide range of subjects not related to the article and serving no real purpose. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hammer2021 Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 1 hour ago, Gsxrnz said: In the same way you can't be called a "guest" at a hospital, you can't be a "patient" at a hotel. However you can now be called an internee at both establishments... Not with any degree of accuracy given what real internment camps are. It's a very good idea for the authorities to prepare sanctuaries with medical support staff available to take care of people. They are not places of internment at all. To suggest so is delusional and offensive. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ukrules Posted January 6, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 6, 2022 59 minutes ago, The Hammer2021 said: Not with any degree of accuracy given what real internment camps are. It's a very good idea for the authorities to prepare sanctuaries with medical support staff available to take care of people. They are not places of internment at all. To suggest so is delusional and offensive. They're covid prisons 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hammer2021 Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 2 hours ago, ukrules said: They're covid prisons No they are not. They sanctuaries set up in an effort to contain Covid-19. When similar schemes were set up in the rest of world notably Europe and the UK you did not call them prisons. Why not? 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko45k Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 14 hours ago, The Hammer2021 said: The opposite! As covid cases rise so regulations increase. Yes, of course they will, and likely the enforcement of them too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IAMHERE Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 How do you get out of one of these hotels? Mandatory 14 days or what ? Geting serious when you are swept up on the street by authorities and held against your will for who knows how long. Scary days, especially if it is to control Omicron. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Gsxrnz Posted January 7, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 7, 2022 12 hours ago, ukrules said: They're covid prisons Nuh, definitely Sanctuary - as in Logan's Run. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Paul Henry Posted January 7, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 7, 2022 When Omicron takes hold there will not be enough hotels in the whole of Thailand to quarantine the infected people. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hotchilli Posted January 7, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 7, 2022 15 hours ago, snoop1130 said: The administration of Bang Lamung district in Thailand’s Chon Buri province, which includes Pattaya, is making preparations to convert hotels into “hospitels” with a capacity to accommodate 2,500 COVID-19 patients initially, if daily infections continue to rise steadily Some business at last. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Cake Monster Posted January 7, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 7, 2022 If my experience of this Morning is anything to go by, its not before time to set up these Hospitels. Had to take my Wife to the Banglamung Hospital for a regular checkup. Arrived at 07.10 , and the outside of the Hospital was rammed. There were literally Hundreds of people sitting under a Canopy to await testing I guess. We went inside, and the place was almost deserted, unlike usual. When the missus asked why it was so quiet, she was told that many of the Doctors were not working as they were scared of catching Covid. My Wife was to have had a Blood Test, and that did not happen. Then to see a Doctor, and that also did not happen. She was to get her Meds after seeing the Doc, and this did not also happen, and she was told her meds would be sent through the Post to Her ASAP. Looks like an almost melt down situation to me. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Gsxrnz Posted January 7, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 7, 2022 10 minutes ago, Cake Monster said: If my experience of this Morning is anything to go by, its not before time to set up these Hospitels. Had to take my Wife to the Banglamung Hospital for a regular checkup. Arrived at 07.10 , and the outside of the Hospital was rammed. There were literally Hundreds of people sitting under a Canopy to await testing I guess. We went inside, and the place was almost deserted, unlike usual. When the missus asked why it was so quiet, she was told that many of the Doctors were not working as they were scared of catching Covid. My Wife was to have had a Blood Test, and that did not happen. Then to see a Doctor, and that also did not happen. She was to get her Meds after seeing the Doc, and this did not also happen, and she was told her meds would be sent through the Post to Her ASAP. Looks like an almost melt down situation to me. So much for their hypocritic hippocratic oath. Nosophobic medical staff are about as useful as an outdoor squatter on the subs the Navy want to buy. Note: If the Navy are reading this, that was a joke and not a design suggestion. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilly07 Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 If they had cancelled Countdown like Bangkok then Bangkok bar flies wouldn't have flocked into Pattaya bringing a spike much higher than Bangkok. Own goal I think. Can't fix stupid! (Did look like Pattaya expats also took advantage of such lassitude and pub crawls were the name of the game. Chickens coming home to roost- sorry for the bird flu parody) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilly07 Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 20 hours ago, sungod said: So the isolation at home is now out the window? Quarantining requires windows to be shut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiamB80 Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 I spent 2 weeks in one of these covid “hospitels” back in July after testing positive for covid during ASQ. They moved me from ASQ and transferred me by ambulance to the “hospitel” which was the Citrus Grand Hotel in south Pattaya. My insurance covered it. I was sick for a week and recovered but they made everyone stay 2 weeks. I was the only foreigner in there. All the other patients were Thai. Its not a very comfortable place to be in and it makes having covid worse and more stressful than it needs to be. Every meal was terrible and cold, a few times I could not identify what the meat even was, you’re only allowed to drink water. Nobody spoke english except the doctor who I never actually saw, only spoke to him on the phone. No special amenities, deliveries or anything like that. They let me out of the room a few times to get chest x rays on site and have blood drawn. Overall a very bad experience that I’ll likely never forget. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko45k Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 7 hours ago, hotchilli said: Some business at last. Hotel California......you can never leave. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandyf Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 20 hours ago, ukrules said: They're covid prisons You could say that about every quarantine hotel in the world. I did "time" at the Gatwick Holiday Inn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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