Thailand’s CLOWN SHOW, which calls itself the COVID-19 Task Force, has today decided that restaurants can now remain open and serving food until 11pm.
It appears everybody is so grateful to the wise and powerful (unelected) committee that nobody asked them what has changed.
Thai media is silent on the reason it is now considered safe to eat dinner at 10.55pm instead of 8.55pm which, only yesterday, was thought to be so dangerous to everybody’s health.
Or would even kill someone’s grandmother.
This is something, I think, we should all want to know.
Maybe the follow-up news excited them so much they forgot they are supposed to be journalists and failed to ask any questions at all. Apart from, ‘what time does the bar open?’
Because the genius in charge of the Clown Show, somebody called Taweesilp Wisanuyothin, then declared that these same restaurants should also be permitted to sell booze again soon.
We do not need an explanation for this development.
Only yesterday the ‘alcohol industry’ of Thailand was warning the Thai government that they were getting a little sick and tired of clueless idiots imposing blanket-bans on their products and restricting their trade, without good reason.
Although, to be fair, that is not quite how they worded their statement.
As we know – money talks in Thailand. And the message seems to have been heard, loudly and clearly.
Taweesilp continued, at his daily briefing which was last held a week ago, that live music would also soon be permitted but dancing is still ruled out.
Weddings can go ahead but in this case there must be NO live music and a cap of only 100 guests will be imposed.
Pubs and karaoke bars must remain closed.
Finally he announced that no person can leave home without brushing their hair and teeth in accordance with government guidelines and that walking on cracks in the pavement will lead to heavy fines.
Anybody seen to be enjoying themselves a little too much, during these troubling times, will be rounded up and sent in a minivan to Pattani for re-educating.
Ok, no he didn’t. I just made those last two up. But they don’t seem any less stupid, or for that matter less likely, than their other made-up-as-we-go-along rules and guidelines.
– Albert Jack, Health and Safety Expert
