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As the title of this video suggests, we are posing the question "When did we stop having rights when we travel?" This isn't going to be a video where I really cite anyone, it is just kind of an opinion piece.

I was just sitting around thinking about it. I was looking at some of the guidelines now on travel in to the United States and I just started thinking, when did we just all stop having any rights when we travel? No medical privacy rights; no rights to what you can decide to wear or where you can decide to go; where you can decide to sit if you don't want to be in a detention center for a prolonged period of time when you go somewhere. The United States isn't so much an issue for this but other countries including Thailand, have all these quarantine protocols. I mean when did this happen? Obviously it occurred since roughly February, March of 2020 but I mean at what point are we all going to sit down and kind of take a look at this again and decide "hey! or at least assess what is important, what is not important?" I fail to see especially in this Omicron situation where this rises to the level that we had back a year and a half ago, I just fail to see it. I understood when this started, for a short period of time there was going to be a situation where we needed to maybe be a little bit more on our guard, a little bit more circumspect and take some precautions, but I mean at this point what are we doing this for? Okay, leave that aside, but where did our rights go? And before everybody says: "Well Thailand is different from the US", I get all that. I am talking about there was a time when there were basic notions of human rights when traveling internationally that you can't just do some of the things that quite frankly they are doing now. As I have said in another video, being "stabbed in the head" any time you want to go travel. That has been kind of regularized, this notion that you have to get a medical exam basically, a PCR test, anytime you want to cross an international border, where did that come from?

I really am worried that people are just not really taking these things in perspective and looking back and saying "Hey, what may have been necessary in the first six weeks of this whole thing is it really necessary now? Was it necessary to begin with? and, should we do a cost benefit analysis of our freedoms versus the so-called precautionary benefits that come from this? I don't know what the answer is but I definitely think we should be asking the question more and more.