Rapid Antigen Tests Required for Restaurants in Chonburi

[Kenny]

Last night I went for a drink with friends in the Jomtien Complex.
Like them, I had tested negative on an antigen test.
As the bar staff had also tested negative I felt comfortable that I was in a covid safe environment.

I received a message from a friend who worked in a nearby bar. He was self-isolating after testing positive.
I hadn't seen him for a few days but it was good of him to contact me just in case.
He had lost his senses of taste and smell and surmised that he had the Delta variant.
This morning he contacted me again. His condition had deteriorated, fever and chronic fatigue, and he was being taken to hospital.

I went on an errand by Motorbike taxi up Thepprasit Road. We were overtaken by two police trucks carrying about 15 people each, all Thai as far as I could tell.
As they flew past with sirens wailing I asked the mototaxi driver what they were going to jail for?

"Covid" was the unsurprising reply, the consequence of testing positive was two weeks quarantine at the government's pleasure.

Things are getting a little bit serious...

[goji]

.I went on an errand by Motorbike taxi up Thepprasit Road. We were overtaken by two police trucks carrying about 15 people each, all Thai as far as I could tell.
As they flew past with sirens wailing I asked the mototaxi driver what they were going to jail for?

"Covid" was the unsurprising reply, the consequence of testing positive was two weeks quarantine at the government's pleasure.

If there's any perception of the government detaining people, the population will do the obvious and avoid testing.

According to the CCSA briefing today, the options for people with covid are 1 Hospital at your own expense, 2 Field hospital or 3 Isolate at home. They didn't explicitly say who chooses if we can isolate at home. So until that's clear, I don't trust them.

[Dodger]

I don't trust them.

Don't feel bad, nobody else trusts them either.

Can you imagine going out to dinner and end up getting tossed in the back of a police pickup truck and carted off to quarantine in a field hospital for 14 days. I'm sure the field hospitals in Thailand are really comfortable too. You go in with a mild case of Omicron, and get discharged 14 days later with Delta from the overcrowded conditions in the hospital and die a few days later from double pneumonia. Too much fun!

[Manforallseasons]

Don't feel bad, nobody else trusts them either.

Can you imagine going out to dinner and end up getting tossed in the back of a police pickup truck and carted off to quarantine in a field hospital for 14 days. I'm sure the field hospitals in Thailand are really comfortable too. You go in with a mild case of Omicron, and get discharged 14 days later with Delta from the overcrowded conditions in the hospital and die a few days later from double pneumonia. Too much fun!

I don’t know the current status of the bars/restaurants in the Complex simply because I don’t go there however, at lunch today 2 friends went to a bar there last night and they were asked to show their test, each carried one and had the date written on it as they did the test in their room, test kits that were given to them for free in the U.K. they were then allowed entrance and actually saw the bar owner refuse entry to a fellow who had no test.
Good on him!