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As the title of this video suggests, we are talking about 'much vigilance about nothing'. I thought of the title of the book Much Ado About Nothing when I was thinking about making this video. What made me think of making this video was a recent article from the Bangkok Post, bangkokpost.com, the article is titled: PM urges vigilance after Covid-19 surge. Quoting directly, and I honestly didn't even really want to quote much from this article and I'll get into why here in a minute. As usual, I urge those who are watching this video, go check out that article, read it in detail, make up your own mind. That said, quoting directly: "Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin has ordered local authorities to monitor Covid-19 cases after infections spiked during Songkran." Infections of what? A cold? Quoting further: "Deputy Prime Minister's Office spokeswoman Kenika Ounjit said on Friday that the Prime Minister and Public Health Officials had raised concerns about the possibility of a further outbreak." Again a further outbreak of what? I think the one thing we can objectively say about everything that has happened since quarter one of 2020 and all of the hyperbole and quite honestly overreach - this is not confined to Thailand - in other jurisdictions including the United States, I think one thing we can objectively say is at the very least this was a massive over reaction to something that quite honestly never deserved the kind of overreaction that came about. And honestly, if there's any guilty party - if you want to use that terminology - if there's any guilty party to point the so-called dirty end of the stick at with regard to that overreaction, it’s the media who basically seem to have gone out of their way to sensationalize and hype this up out of all proportion resulting in and again I have got serious problems with the way the WHO operated in all of this especially when you understand the way that the management if you want to call it that or the Politburo that runs the thing, how they operate and who the Head of that organization is, I mean that gives you a lot of insight into the thinking. I mean I have done the videos on this before. Tedros who runs the WHO is literally a communist. He was a communist apparatchik operator, whatever you want to call it from Ethiopia, who to the best of my research seems to have completely bungled the cholera outbreak I believe in that particular jurisdiction so they decided to kick him upstairs to head up the WHO. Again I am not saying I'm the end all be all authority on that, it's just basic research that I've done on Google, leads me to that conclusion. Quite honestly I've noticed that over time much of the source material that led me to make those conclusions has been, if not scrubbed from the internet it certainly does not come up when you first do searches on that individual. In fact Wikipedia at one time even had on their entry regarding him that he was a member of the Communist Party over in that country and then now, the last time I checked, that doesn't come up anymore in that entry. Interesting stuff! 

In any event again I think you could call COVID at the very least an overreaction, and then at the same time there seem to be a lot of opportunistic bureaucrats and what do you want to call it, the international nomenclature used it as an opportunity to try and exercise almost dictatorial like powers over the vast populations of the Earth. In short it was terrible and it was apropos of nothing really, when you look back on it. Objectively, I don't think that the numbers warranted it. Then now where they talk numbers, the original numbers especially when you get into back in the United States for example how death certificates were filled out with regard to whether or not someone had this disease, there was a lot of chicanery going on there because you had primary and secondary causes of death and you had doctors adding stuff on. Then when you coupled that with the incentive structure created by the so-called Cares Act which basically saw hospitals and things being remunerated with more money just by basically labeling things as COVID, you start to understand how this hysteria sort of enters into a feedback loop and then created the scenarios that we saw over the course of three years. 

Meanwhile here in Thailand as a practical matter, we essentially saw our economy shut down for 3 years. Now to Thailand's credit, to the Government's credit at the time, they did everything they could to keep the country open in terms of tourism. Now there were tons of hoops that we had to jump through and I did all the videos about that at the time, but Thailand to its credit did stay open. Other jurisdictions here which I find it interesting now in this sort of Tourism cold war that we are seeing in Southeast Asia, everyone seems to forget that places like Vietnam not only shut people out, they started expelling people from the country. Meanwhile Thailand was letting people in - again under certain conditions - and went out of their way to grant discretionary authority to the Immigration apparatus to allow people who basically got stuck in Thailand to remain. So in my opinion, Thailand did about the best job they possibly could under the circumstances, and I think Thailand acted in good faith. I don't necessarily think that's the case when it comes to organizations such as the WHO and some other places out there but I'll leave that for another discussion. Long story short, I think the Prime Minister's office could worry about a lot more important things than being "vigilant" regarding COVID.