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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing Bureaucrats "hinting" at what I would call Totalitarian Hogwash. So I came upon this notion initially via ASEAN NOW, aseannow.com, in an article titled: Ministry Official hints you will need to be vaxxed to do things in public in Thailand. To be clear, I have done a number videos like this I am not anti-vaccine. I am a really pretty big fan of vaccination. I think vaccination is kind of a modern marvel, a modern miracle. It has helped a lot of folks; it has saved a lot of lives; it is great; it is fine. What I have a problem with is I have never heard of a vaccine become the basis for really Totalitarian control over the minutest of people's lives on a day-to-day basis and we are seeing this stuff trying to be rolled out in these Western countries. It is effectively, I don't know what the right word is, stalled to some extent or at least the broader mandates so-called in the United States but Europe is having real issues with this. I mean quite frankly my first thought when I was going through some of this stuff and then looking at what's going on in Europe I was just "really we don't have enough issues to deal with here? Why add more?" Again I have done cost-benefit analysis, I don't even understand the benefit garnered for the cost. In my mind it is pretty low in terms of benefit to society if you really analyze it.

Getting back to this, so this is ASEAN NOW, Ministry Official hints you will need to be vaxxed to do things in public in Thailand. Quoting directly: "The strongest indication yet from Thai Officialdom about vaccinations sends a strong message to anti-vaxxers or the unvaccinated. Get jabbed or be faced with being unable to do very much in public in Thailand." Quoting further: "Senior Ministry of Health Official Dr. Kiatphoom Wongrajit suggested as much as he announced the latest figures for vaccination in Thailand. He said that those that had not," (and this language is) "he said that those that had not been vaccinated would be sought out by moves originating in universities and medical arenas with provincial Governors also spearheading the drive to get the job done." The minute I read that it was very chilling on one level and then I thought of the scene in the film Old School. If you go back, it is a film with Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn from the early 2000s where these grown men set up a fraternity at a University and the part where they are going around rounding up their pledges and they like tackle one guy in a fountain and knock him over and drag him into a van to take him off to be initiated in this fraternity. I mean when I read the line "would be sought out by moves originating in universities and medical arenas" it is like "what? What does that mean?" Quoting further: "The message will be clear and contain a mild threat (a mild threat!) that if you don't have at least one jab you won't be welcome among the rest of people. Effectively you will be a leper among the healthy!" I mean! I am going to go ahead and there was another article I found in the Pattaya Mail, that is pattayamail.com, the article is titled: Thai Authorities Attracted by Compulsory Vaccination possibilities. By the way, for some of the trolls in the comments Pattaya. I do get it. I have a Midwestern accent. A lot of my Ts turn into Ds. I am not intentionally trying to mispronounce the word "Pattaya" okay. Again, Thai Authorities Attracted by Compulsory Vaccination possibilities, Pattaya Mail, pattayamail.com. Quoting directly: "Slowly but surely Thailand appears to be moving towards mandatory COVID vaccination requirements. Last May, the Buriram Governor required high risk groups to vaccinate or risk jail or fines."  Now we did a video on that. I found that truly chilling and it looked to me like it was major violation of the Nuremberg Code as well. I don't know and I haven't done all of the analysis on that but it is pretty clear to me. Quoting further: "The Justice Ministry quoting Emergency Decree Laws, stated that all prison staff are required to vaccinate or lose their jobs." okay. Quoting further: "This week in National Health Authorities proclaimed that entry by anyone into a public building would soon require vaccination." Now I didn't see this in any kind of proclamation but again I think they are referring back to this article that ASEAN NOW had where they were talking about this "hinting". I haven't seen anything and correct me if I am wrong in the comments. I haven't seen anything any more definitive than just this "hinting". "Anyone into a public building!" Anyone into a public building? Let me get through the quotes and then I will get into this. "The prediction initially seen as fake news on Thai social media was later confirmed by Bangkok's anti fake News Center." Well that is helpful. Quoting further: "At least one Immigration Police Bureau has conducted a survey into how many of its retiree expats have already been jabbed. The notion of non-vaxxers being refused extensions of stay or renewals of annual visas is clearly not off the future agenda." Well I don't think it is clear on any of this. Let me clarify that to begin with. I think there is a lot of rumour out there. I think there is a lot of frankly and have I said this before, there is a lot of hysteria out there. There are a lot of concerned people but they get themselves whipped up into a furor and we kind of lose frankly the plot. We don't see what is really going on. You kind of get lost in the fog if you will of the narrative. Quoting further: "In Thailand, opposition to compulsory vaccination is very diverse. Some argue it is an infringement of Human rights," (I would be the first on that train to argue that. I think compelling anyone to put anything in their body is pretty creepy, let's start there and I think it should at least be rebuttably a presumption that it is a violation and anyone trying to compel someone needs to overcome a pretty high threshold to prove that it is. I would even go further and say in most cases 99.9% of the time that threshold should not be overcome. To me, yes if there is a major cost-benefit analysis, or a massively dire situation; yeah I know they keep calling this an Emergency Decree, we are in this 20 months. We know what this is. We were very worried about it at the beginning and they threw around a lot of numbers but all things considered it is clearly a manageable issue. Quoting further: "Others claim the vaccines are dangerous to health." (I am not going to get into all that. I don't know you know, I am a lay person when it comes to that so I am not even going to go there. This is more a legal video) "whilst conspiracy theorists believe the whole thing is a trick by insurance and medical professionals to make a fortune out of false pandemic claims." Okay "Social media are literally agog with claims and assumptions." Well I don't want to particularly be agog with claims and assumptions here. I just want to dig in and look at this for what it is. 

Long story short, again I have done the videos on this. It looks to me like it is a very high possibility that traffic deaths may kill more than this thing and we are not advocating massive changes to our lifestyle with respect to traffic deaths. Meanwhile, human rights are important. We have discussed the Nuremberg Code. These things exist for a reason. Humanity unfortunately and in some cases inadvertently, can get itself whipped up into a situation that is not a particularly pretty sight what humans can do to one another and compelling people and telling people “well if you don't follow this command you basically no longer have a life”. As quoting from one of these "you are a leper", I mean that is very scary stuff, very scary, by any legal analysis. Basic human rights that is scary, scary stuff. Again, I haven't seen any kind of proclamation, "entry by anyone into a public building would soon require vaccination proof", I haven't seen that. The other thing is I mean if they are saying that this applies to everyone, this is by definition Totalitarianism. Because what about people that genuinely have health concerns? Look at those people. So what? They are done? We are just done having them in our society? And I mean whatever happened to religion in the sense that yes there are people who have different religious beliefs. Again whether or not I personally agree or disagree with them that is not really the issue. It used to be tolerance was the order of the day and people tolerated that different people had different views on things. I mean I have got to be honest, this is just wrong and for folks, these bureaucrats in the Government to be just spouting this off hand oh, why? Why are you doing this? And honestly to what end? I just don't get it. And look, right, wrong, indifferent. I came to Thailand frankly when I first came here, this was the freest place I had ever been in my life, in a very real sense. I love where I am from. I came from the United States. It is a great country, it has many freedoms. Thais had such a Live and let Live attitude, it was just inherent self-evident kind of freedom. Everybody just let everybody get on with it. All of this is just such an upending of all of those Notions; of the notion of Live and let Live. Okay this person feels this way or thinks this way about something, I am just going to let them get on with it. Again we have seen the "existential threat" of this or lack thereof. If this was a different situation, maybe the analysis would be different but all things considered, I just find this to be so antithetical to general Thai thinking. I just don't understand why this even is being whispered about. It just makes no sense me. Then as I said I kind of alluded to, other countries have been trying this stuff, Austria for example now the Dutch and there is real blow back. I mean people are in the streets. There is major upheaval in Western Europe. I mean I am not saying that that could come here. In fact I don't want it to come here. I like Thailand peaceful. I like it the way that it is but I mean do we want to court that? Do we want to invite that? I think we really need to at least be talking about this a lot more before we just have this :hinting” with the notion that we are just going to raise the curtain on a total change in how we live.