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Pattaya Nightlife Sandbox


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Here is one barowner's idea.   This is not something that governmental officials are discussing though.  Playpen might have a better ring to it than Sandbox.

 

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Idea: “Pattaya Nightlife Sandbox”
 
Lockdown ALL entry points on Walking street: the Northside, soi 15, soi 16, side alleys, and the Southside by Volunteers, police, and tourist police.
 
Who can enter the restricted Nightlife Sandbox? 
3 kinds of people: 
1. Staff with 1 or 2 vaccines or recovered from covid with proof
2. Customers with 2 vaccines or recovered of covid with proof
3. Food sellers can enter with 1 or 2 vaccines or recovered from covid.
 
EVERYONE gets checked: staff, customers, and food sellers on QR code, Mor Prom app, and temperature, etc. This way EVERYONE on Walking Street is checked and safe. All of those entering the sandbox will be checked with the assistance of those manning the Sandbox area so that individual businesses can’t break the rules and it allows everyone to be on the same exact page.
 
Venues can check the QR code of customers for a second time to be sure, as well as to narrow down any possible places where infections take place. It would be the first Nightlife Sandbox of its kind which will attract tourists, revenue, and positive media coverage. The goal would be to allow tourists to enjoy themselves while giving a window for business owners to be able to reopen for the first time in six months. Done the right way, there is no reason the nightlife industry should not be able to open similar to other large industries with many people like factories, malls, or hotels.
 
Domestic and international tourists expect the biggest attractions in Pattaya; as well as Walking Street; to be open and safe for a good night out. Having the nightlife industry running to complement the daytime attractions and tourist spots will truly help Pattaya bounce back quicker. The idea could also easily be implemented in other areas, like LK Metro, Soi 6, Tree Town and surrounding streets, Soi Boomerang, etc. 
 
Let us unite as business owners and show the government we are willing to find a solution within their rules and laws. The current solution of “stay closed indefinitely” is not a long-term solution and has only put many people into deep personal and financial hardship.
 
“To open up Pattaya with NO nightlife is like bringing back to life a body with NO heart!”
 
Pattaya Nightlife Sandbox: safety first & good times guaranteed!

https://thepattayanews.com/2021/09/17/opinion-editorial-pattaya-entertainment-business-owner-suggests-a-nightlife-sandbox/

 

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Cute but would be a waste of time and resources.  Off the bat, I can think of 5 overwhelming reasons:

1 - To cordon off Walking Street is impossible without a military style perimeter and enforcement.   There are the 2 north and south (Beach Road) main entrances and then at least 5 sois coming from 2nd road and soi Arab.   But what really makes it even harder is that many of the establishments on Walking Street have their own private exits to the back sois.  Each door and open air bar would have to be monitored.  Some (Thais) could disembark from the sea under the pillars of the seafront businesses. I have seen it from the Marine Disco balcony...  Plus where would they draw the perimeter?  Just along Walking Street? or all the way back to 2nd Road?  If the latter, it would cover a lot of rooms crammed with bargirls and staff whose occupants cannot be denied access to their rooms regardless of covid status...

2 - More importantly: Pattaya tourism is about freedom to enjoy the wickedness and step over the lines we don't dare to back home.  Who wants to be hassled with certificates and covid tests to go have a beer ?  Nobody! the tourists are not going to come until they are free to roam...  

3 - Arguably for the above reason, the Phuket Sandbox was a flop  (https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/phuket-sandbox-scheme-for-covid-19-not-quite-the-resounding-success-as-expected) .  What makes anyone think Pattaya would do any better ? 

4 - From a public health perspective it's not worth the risk, especially having endured a year and half of closure, what's another 2 or 3 months  ???...

5 -  If you allow a Walking Street Sandbox, then they are going to want one in Buakhao, and then one in Jomtien, and why not Naklua?  Not fair to channel business to some establishments while keeping others locked...  If they do allow only Walking Street bars to operate, they will have the pick of all of Pattaya's hottest whores who will understandbly head there at the expense of the bars where they worked before, which will loose their best staff possibly beyond covid...

 

PS -  And speaking of covid vaccination certificates, one of my ladyboy friends who refuses to take the free Sinovac shots and can't afford the farang shots in a private clinic told me he bought one such 2-shot SInovac vaccination certificate for 100 baht...

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The EU created a sanitary pass that EU residents obtain after being vaccinated. Rules here decided that we would get our pass 1 week afetr the second injection. Now, the Ministry of health is adding rules to allow people who had been covid sick and received on injection o obtain the sanitary pass. Temporary sanitary passes were also granted to unvaccinated people who's had negative PCR test for 3 days or less. However, PCR tests are no longer free as they were last month. 

Each country can then decide how to use the "Sanitary pass". Here, no one is allowed to go to a bar, a restaurant, a movie theatre or many other places without his sanitary pass. The pass can be checked rapidly scanning the QR code either in the App in a smartphone or on a certificate printed on paper. 

This week, employees working in facilities opened to the public must have a sanitary pass to work. Although the law wouldn't allow a business to lay off an employee, many private  employers threatened employees of being laid off if they wouldn't be vaccinated and this boosted the overall rate of vaccination of the population. This week, public hospitals and nursing hommes employees who still refused to be vaccinated had their work contract suspended in strict application of the law. 

I don't know if such sanitary passes exist in countries outside the EU but the norm could be copied and followed by other countries. This is what the Sandbox's idea makes me think. 

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