Pattaya still mostly deserted - fears of rise in Covid cases when Sandbox rules relaxed

[webfact]

 

Thai PBS went to Pattaya and found the resort still largely deserted.

 

They said that people were put off going out to bars now selling alcohol as restaurants because of the protocols in place. 

 

They reported that operators feared that the Covid-19 numbers would increase again when Pattaya is designated as a "sandbox" from February 1st.

 

Picture: Thai PBS

 

They said staff were earning as little as 4,500 baht a month. 

 

There was in fact a staff shortage.

 

Bars were not hiring because of the uncertainty. 

 

Picture: Thai PBS

 

But there was some positivity that people would be able to drink up to 11 pm from today. 

 

The media showed people at night faced with staff in white suits doing ATK tests. 

 

Along with pictures of deserted bars. 

 

Picture: Thai PBS

 

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[spidermike007]

Fear, fear and more fear. That is the Prayuth/Anutin creed. Keep em scared, and maintain power. A power play as old as the hills. Once Covid is gone, so are the creeps, hopefully. 

[bkk6060]

This report seems bogus from my observation.  The bar they show is way north on Soi 18 in Naklua I believe.  Yes, not many people partying in Naklua.

Even during normal times you can find a deserted bar.

Plenty of places are open in and around central and full of people partying it up big time so maybe show photos of those places for proper perspective.

[tomster]

In years to come people will look back at these images of people wearing hazmat suits testing for a disease similar to the common cold and think what on Earth were they doing...

[bbko]

The headline says "Pattaya still mostly deserted...", Someone needs to tell Pattaya Immigration cause this was the line this morning @ 0745, out the parking lot and halfway down the soi.

 

 

 

[daveAustin]

fears of rise in Covid cases when Sandbox rules relaxed

 

Hardly. It’s there big time already. Cases will rise when you start testing locally. Oh yeah, I forgot, nobody wants to get tested in Thailand since they’ll be labelled a leper and/or imprisoned. The cat’s out the bag. Get with it. Embrace it. Let it go and live normally. Dopes in hazmat suits to have a beer?! F a doodle do!!

[smedly]

34 minutes ago, bbko said:

The headline says "Pattaya still mostly deserted...", Someone needs to tell Pattaya Immigration cause this was the line this morning @ 0745, out the parking lot and halfway down the soi.

 

 

 

OMG

[Mr Meeseeks]

40 minutes ago, bbko said:

The headline says "Pattaya still mostly deserted...", Someone needs to tell Pattaya Immigration cause this was the line this morning @ 0745, out the parking lot and halfway down the soi.

 

 

 

Ridiculous. 

[Tropicalevo]

1 hour ago, tomster said:

In years to come people will look back at these images of people wearing hazmat suits testing for a disease similar to the common cold and think what on Earth were they doing...

A bit of a mistaken view.

The common cold has not killed more than 5 million people in less than two years.
Not really similar at all.

 

More than 5 million people worldwide have died from Covid-19 less than two years after the novel pathogen was first documented,

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-01/covid-deaths-top-5-million-even-as-vaccines-slash-fatality-rate

 

[biervoormij]

1 hour ago, bbko said:

The headline says "Pattaya still mostly deserted...", Someone needs to tell Pattaya Immigration cause this was the line this morning @ 0745, out the parking lot and halfway down the soi.

 

 

 

Is this because of the end of the COVID extensions or is this an every day occurrence?

[KhunBENQ]

8 minutes ago, biervoormij said:

Is this because of the end of the COVID extensions or is this an every day occurrence?

My idea too or has the 25th January deadline been extended?

[fredscats]

1 hour ago, bbko said:

The headline says "Pattaya still mostly deserted...", Someone needs to tell Pattaya Immigration cause this was the line this morning @ 0745, out the parking lot and halfway down the soi.

 

 

 

Most for covid extensions

[b3pur]

1 hour ago, bbko said:

The headline says "Pattaya still mostly deserted...", Someone needs to tell Pattaya Immigration cause this was the line this morning @ 0745, out the parking lot and halfway down the soi.

 

 

 

Unbelievable! No 2 meter rule there i see, but i suppose you can not get C19 where the top dogs are making all the money! ????????????

[Wuvu2]

53 minutes ago, Tropicalevo said:

A bit of a mistaken view.

The common cold has not killed more than 5 million people in less than two years.
Not really similar at all.

 

More than 5 million people worldwide have died from Covid-19 less than two years after the novel pathogen was first documented,

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-01/covid-deaths-top-5-million-even-as-vaccines-slash-fatality-rate

 

Ya, and here's an alarming perspective for American - Covid has killed more Americans in two years than all wars put together in the last 150 years.

 

There have been about 634k American deaths in all the wars since the end of the Civil War in 1865. That includes WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan etc etc etc.  By contrast - Covid has killed almost 900k Americans (mostly civilians) in just two years.  

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualties_of_war

 

[klauskunkel]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Thai PBS went to Pattaya and found the resort still largely deserted.

Not true. There were apparently quite a few Thai PBS staff around.

[chilly07]

2 hours ago, bbko said:

The headline says "Pattaya still mostly deserted...", Someone needs to tell Pattaya Immigration cause this was the line this morning @ 0745, out the parking lot and halfway down the soi.

 

 

 

Very odd as using the immigration website you can set up an appointment for all services selecting a date and time. Last time I booked an appointment there was a queue snaking out through the car park but I just walked up to the doors at the appointed time and was waved straight through to the desk! I did use QueQ but that seems to have been taken over by the website.

[Screaming]

There really is no reason to come to Pattaya at this time. Covid has not dissipated in the Pattaya area.

[johnnybangkok]

47 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Everything about Covid is so skewed. It is very hard to get accurate information and much of the official narrative is colored or inaccurate. 

 

60 million people die worldwide in an average year. How many of these folks with multiple co-morbidities would have died anyway? How many would have died of old age and natural causes?

 

In the US, if you die in a motorbike accident, but have Covid, that is a Covid death. How many other nations do this? Just how accurate are the numbers, really? 

Absolute nonsense.

 

'If someone dies in circumstances involving an accident, violence or suspicious circumstances, the case is referred to a coroner for investigation. A post-mortem examination is carried out and usually an inquest is held. The Coroner's Court hears all the evidence and follows legal rules of evidence when deciding the causes of death. It is extremely unlikely that a coroner would find that someone was involved in a traffic accident, or was the victim of violence, because of having COVID-19 or a positive COVID-19 test -- so they would not mention COVID-19 on the death certificate. This applies to any death caused by an accident, violence, poisoning, or other external causes'

https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/whetherthosewhohavediedfromacaraccidentwithcovid19willbecountedinonsstatistics

 

This is from the UK but I can't imagine it's much different in the US.

[Johnny Mac]

What a sad image. It's tragic what has happened to this country because of this disgusting government. I hope karma gets them all one day.

[Jester69]

3 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Fear, fear and more fear. That is the Prayuth/Anutin creed. Keep em scared, and maintain power. A power play as old as the hills. Once Covid is gone, so are the creeps, hopefully. 

That will never happen while the cultural following is adhered to.

[Jingthing]

3 hours ago, tomster said:

In years to come people will look back at these images of people wearing hazmat suits testing for a disease similar to the common cold and think what on Earth were they doing...

No they won't because they'll know the stats showing massive numbers of global deaths.

[jacko45k]

3 hours ago, bbko said:

The headline says "Pattaya still mostly deserted...", Someone needs to tell Pattaya Immigration cause this was the line this morning @ 0745, out the parking lot and halfway down the soi.

Yes, again.... and someone also should tell the people around soi Buakhao, hardly looked 'deserted' to me this morning. Cheap Charlies busy for breakfast and the Grab riders and baht buses scaring the meadow muffin out of pedestrians. Big CX and the mall pretty busy at midday.....

Scaremongering headline.....

[jacko45k]

2 hours ago, biervoormij said:

Is this because of the end of the COVID extensions or is this an every day occurrence?

Started late December IIRC.... back then blamed on a few local holidays.....still a problem. The fact piles of passports come in through the side windows along with piles of money seems to be slowing the Q at the front down..... go figure.

[david555]

3 hours ago, bbko said:

The headline says "Pattaya still mostly deserted...", Someone needs to tell Pattaya Immigration cause this was the line this morning @ 0745, out the parking lot and halfway down the soi.

 

 

 

 

 

That is because of the use of Covid ext. to get a stay Thailand e.g. Pattaya ,..instead of taking a proper visa .....it is  "the silver lining " of the virus pandemic ...????????

 

PS:  can you imaging what all those would do if Gov. Would decide to only allow the new entry programs and should stop the covid extensions .... I said IFF ! ????

 

Edited January 24, 2022 by david555

[Polaky]

3 hours ago, bbko said:

The headline says "Pattaya still mostly deserted...", Someone needs to tell Pattaya Immigration cause this was the line this morning @ 0745, out the parking lot and halfway down the soi.

 

 

 

Because there is a q at immigration doesn't mean the the place is busy, i just left there to head north and can concur that the place is dead as a door nail, depressingly so, Tourist's appear to be avoiding patts and only expats as evident by the q at the incompetent IO, It will take years to get back to its glory days, meanwhile tourists are right to choose phuket and surrounds, beach road was once littered by luscious females displaying their goods, now all you see are very unfit farangs exercising.

[Guderian]

3 hours ago, bbko said:

The headline says "Pattaya still mostly deserted...", Someone needs to tell Pattaya Immigration cause this was the line this morning @ 0745, out the parking lot and halfway down the soi.

 

 

 

 

That's going to be real fun come the hot season.

[Swampy999]

3 hours ago, bbko said:

The headline says "Pattaya still mostly deserted...", Someone needs to tell Pattaya Immigration cause this was the line this morning @ 0745, out the parking lot and halfway down the soi.

 

 

 

Why do people bother to go to immigration? Use a reliable visa agent and if necessary the Thai postal service.

[david555]

2 minutes ago, Guderian said:

That's going to be real fun come the hot season.

"Rent an umbrella " could become  a opportunity bussines for the Thai hawkers ????

[david555]

Just now, Swampy999 said:

Why do people bother to go to immigration? Use a reliable visa agent and if necessary the Thai postal service.

No!

the 90 days repporting have their own seat section on the right when entering ..., i had only to wait for a half hour to received my passport back ....they seem to take good care for us originnal visa  ret.extenders 90 day reporting ...????

[sambum]

3 hours ago, bbko said:

The headline says "Pattaya still mostly deserted...", Someone needs to tell Pattaya Immigration cause this was the line this morning @ 0745, out the parking lot and halfway down the soi.

 

 

 

Queueing for what? Visas? Or reentry permits? ????