BANGKOK, Jan 6 (TNA) – The Public Health Ministry raised its COVID-19 alert level to Level 4 which will result in the closure of the eateries that are similar to pubs and bars as well as liquor premises.

 

Announcing the level 4 COVID-19 alert, Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said that the level 4 alert was likely to lead to restriction on alcohol consumption because it was a main factor of outbreaks.

 

He declined to answer if a lockdown measure would be necessary under the worst-case scenario and said that the Public Health Ministry imposed measures to protect people.

 

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What's the bet they are still serving in the Army Club and various ministerial bars without any problem. 

There goes the hybrid Pattaya Tree Town "restaurant/bar/knocking shop/brown envelope" model.

At a guess at least a 3 month closure.

Most tourists had bailed when incarceration was brought back.

Plus the great omicron hospital raffle.

Here's your country of origin odds but i don't think includes the bonus ball of anyone sitting in the rows around you on the flight -

 

 

 

 

 

Meanwhile the UK has just announced that they no longer require a PCR on or before day 2 after arrival and have replaced it with a LFT? They have also scrapped the requirement to isolate until you get the result?

First - where is the scientific evidence that alcohol consumption is a main factor of outbreaks? 

Complete utter rubbish.

Next - is this tool going to pay all of these businesses he wants to shut down out of his vast fortune?

Feel so sad that the Thai people have to put up with this inept, ineffective, and economy destroying leadership.

Since 2014 it has been a slow slide downward and I don't even think we have hit rock bottom yet economically.

 

As I predicted yesterday. Start releasing the real figures today, start restricting the things they pretend to hate (but secretly partake in themselves) tomorrow.

 

It's beyond boring. 

53 minutes ago, Snig27 said:

What's the bet they are still serving in the Army Club and various ministerial bars without any problem. 

And the Gentlemen's Clubs in Thong Lor.

Restriction on alcohol consumption because it was a main factor of outbreaks. ???? What can you say? This is better than Fawlty Towers. This might be just another decision made in panic.

Hopefully this just means shutting down the girlie bars that bought a microwave and re-employed the girls as waitresses. 

 

It would be a real shame for the genuine eateries like the Irish pubs in Bangkok to suffer because of this. 

 

Of course being Thailand under this "barrel of a gun" regime I suspect it will be a lazy ruling that affects everyone. Because why would the filthy rich power grabbers care about the proles?

5 minutes ago, Farangdk said:

Restriction on alcohol consumption because it was a main factor of outbreaks. ???? What can you say? This is better than Fawlty Towers. This might be just another decision made in panic.

Same here in norway..every pub and bars closed until 14h january.Not allowed to serve alcohol since last month.

I dont understand why people can go to a restaurant dining and only allowed water og non alcohol drinks to the meal.

14 minutes ago, Farangdk said:

Restriction on alcohol consumption because it was a main factor of outbreaks. ???? What can you say? This is better than Fawlty Towers. This might be just another decision made in panic.

You'll have to excuse the guy in charge...He's from Barcelona.

 

19 minutes ago, Farangdk said:

This might be just another decision made in panic.

This might be is just another decision made in panic!

19 minutes ago, Farangdk said:

Restriction on alcohol consumption because it was a main factor of outbreaks. ???? What can you say? This is better than Fawlty Towers. This might be just another decision made in panic.

Being a Buddhist kingdom, alcohol is always the whipping boy for whatever ails Thailand. 

1 hour ago, Snig27 said:

What's the bet they are still serving in the Army Club and various ministerial bars without any problem. 

Maybe but I sure bet they are not taking IOU's from the police department anymore though

6 minutes ago, island coconut said:

You'll have to excuse the guy in charge...He's from Barcelona.

 

Why insult, in this case, the people from Barcelona?

????

1 hour ago, calbts2 said:

First - where is the scientific evidence that alcohol consumption is a main factor of outbreaks? 

Complete utter rubbish.

Next - is this tool going to pay all of these businesses he wants to shut down out of his vast fortune?

Feel so sad that the Thai people have to put up with this inept, ineffective, and economy destroying leadership.

Since 2014 it has been a slow slide downward and I don't even think we have hit rock bottom yet economically.

 

Not the alcohol, it's the environment it's consumed in.

49 minutes ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

Being a Buddhist kingdom, alcohol is always the whipping boy for whatever ails Thailand. 

Shame them at the top wouldn’t apply the same to their greed? 

7 minutes ago, Petey11 said:

Not the alcohol, it's the environment it's consumed in.

Which is the same environment, with or without alcoholic drinks.

Here we go again! Like a rollercoaster. Time to buy a few boxes of my favorite drink as I'm sure that's the next step. 

35 minutes ago, Petey11 said:

Not the alcohol, it's the environment it's consumed in.

Maybe.  But I think it's equally if not more likely because under the current loopholes many of these bars might survive to the end of the pandemic and this, to the current administration, is unacceptable. 

35 minutes ago, billd766 said:

Which is the same environment, with or without alcoholic drinks.

Must been a while since you been in a bar, the moment alcohol flows social distancing is gone. Alcohol is a social lubricant and people who are drunk don't care about rules and distance. Its not the same as lets say in a coffee shop or restaurant (if seated properly)

1 hour ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

Being a Buddhist kingdom, alcohol is always the whipping boy for whatever ails Thailand. 

Right, in the west bars are also among the first to close. Lets not forget that.

Well that was a short-lived binge in between waves!

59 minutes ago, robblok said:

Must been a while since you been in a bar, the moment alcohol flows social distancing is gone. Alcohol is a social lubricant and people who are drunk don't care about rules and distance. Its not the same as lets say in a coffee shop or restaurant (if seated properly)

And that argument is reasonable. So why were top hotels prohibited from serving booze for so many months? Even a glass of wine with dinner was verboten. Insane application of the laws by neophyte science deniers.

1 hour ago, robblok said:

Must been a while since you been in a bar, the moment alcohol flows social distancing is gone. Alcohol is a social lubricant and people who are drunk don't care about rules and distance. Its not the same as lets say in a coffee shop or restaurant (if seated properly)

While that may be so Robbin, only a teetotaller would spout such logical tat. Having said that, if I could do boring—or have an agenda to rid the land of bars and fun—I would be one too. ????

16 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

And that argument is reasonable. So why were top hotels prohibited from serving booze for so many months? Even a glass of wine with dinner was verboten. Insane application of the laws by neophyte science deniers.

Im just giving you the reasonable explanation for bars, for restaurants the reason is that they will function as bars as soon as nobody is looking. Problem in Thailand is that they wont follow the rules. If they were sure it would be one glas of wine and not give me a box of crackers and 5 beers (you know what i mean) You also know how rules are flaunted here. That is why there are bans. Because they are lazy to check and enforce and the people love flaunting the rules finding ways around them.

 

 

1 minute ago, daveAustin said:

While that may be so Robbin, only a teetotaller would spout such logical tat. Having said that, if I could do boring—or have an agenda to rid the land of bars and fun—I would be one too. ????

Sorry to be logical, its not only logic its the truth.

 

I am not out to rid the countries of bars. But can you deny what i am saying. That once alcohol flows people forget about social distancing and rules and bar owners cant and wont enforce. I mean its the truth.

 

Now if i was an alcoholic or a bar lover I would not be that happy with this logic either because it deprives me of my fun.

 

But it does not change the fact that this logic holds. (unfortunately)

 

I could not care less if bars are open or closed but the logic holds and bars are ideal for spreading covid. 

 

There is a reason why in the west they closed bars and clubs first too. Its not just Thailand. 

 

Many on this forum are here for the bars the girls and are now bored to death. I get it. But nobody likes this. I would have loved for all this to be over and have a holiday with my parents. But with these rules im not letting them come over.

3 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

And the Gentlemen's Clubs in Thong Lor.

G Clubs in Thonglor?

13 hours ago, Trip Hop said:

Meanwhile the UK has just announced that they no longer require a PCR on or before day 2 after arrival and have replaced it with a LFT? They have also scrapped the requirement to isolate until you get the result?

Yes because the horse has bolted nearly 200,000 infections daily officially which probably about 2 to 3 times higher.

Are these numbered levels, i.e. "level 4" different than the colored levels, e.g. "dark red"?