Pattaya mayor declares himself a HUGE SUCCESS

Pattaya was ruined under this man's term in office. But he insists he is a big success.

Pattaya’s LOCKDOWN mayor, Sontaya Khunpluem,  thanked his staff and the public for their efforts during his city isolation that ended two-months ago. 

As expected he declared his safety measures, that included eight Nazi-style checkpoints around the city, at which angry looking people wearing uniforms and face-masks checked people’s permission to travel, a huge success.

And he proudly told the local media that there had been no new cases of COVID-19 in Pattaya since he came up with his isolation plan.

He went on to claim that Pattaya is now a White Zone, whatever that is.

Unsurprisingly he failed to mention the real cost of his childish posturing in terms of business failures, unemployment, poverty, starvation, malnutrition, suicide, crime, police extortion, a decimated tourist industry and ex-pats who have packed up their money and moved away, never to return.

It is worth noting that this is all because of his lock-down and NOT because of the virus.

The root of this failure is not the original problem, it is the hysterical reaction to it.

Pattaya is FINISHED as owners pack up and leave

Instead of addressing those issues, this week’s idiot has cautioned that it is only a first step.

He has spent his time wondering how he can next interfere and decided that while exercising around the beach area can take place, with proper social distancing measures, people must not congregate or bring food and drink to consume.

He doesn’t want to think about the food lines full of starving locals. He only wants to think about his next public orders.

Because he still believes that drinking and eating is dangerous and that citizens are too stupid to survive without following his directive.

And this comes from a man who closed the safe bicycle paths and ordered cyclists onto the busy main roads, because it is now safer for them.

All we have seen from Thailand’s provincial governors and city mayors, over the last 6 weeks, is silly posturing by small men throwing their 65 kilograms around.

Meanwhile, as some businesses in Pattaya are slowly opening up again they are finding there is no business to be done. They have few, if any, customers and there are even fewer foreigners remaining in town.

The mayor’s plan, that he shamelessly declared such a huge success, has driven tens of thousands out of town and of the few that were forced to remain thousands of them are picking themselves something to eat along the sois of this once prosperous city.

A once prosperous city that will now take years to recover from the LOCKDOWN MAYOR’S disastrous behavior. – Albert Jack