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ALERT: "Thailand Pass System Reactivated for Travellers"?

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Yes, I am making this is an ALERT. It is seemingly a bit more innocuous than usually our alerts are but that said, after having gone through the whole COVID fiasco and come out the other side of that, I kind of think this is warranted under the circumstances. Let's dig in here. 

I thought of making this video after reading a recent article from the Thai Examiner, that is thaiexaminer.com, the article is titled: Thailand Pass and health screening introduced for 45 countries after Clade (I don’t even know what that means) 1b Monkeypox confirmed. First of all, any time they start throwing out the alphanumeric codes for this stuff, my hackles go up and my BS-Ometer if you will starts going off. I have got to be honest and I am going to preface this, I was going to say this later but let me just preface this video by saying Thailand please, please Thailand, and the Public Officials working for her, keep your heads about you. The WHO has proven if nothing else in the last five years, that they seem to have their own agenda; they seem to be somewhat power mad if I might say so. Because I mean the last time we saw this Monkeypox thing come up, we made the video on it where Tedros just overrode his own Board and unilaterally declared it a problem. I don't know procedurally what has happened in this situation but can Thailand disengage from this WHO system because just because some unelected bureaucrats half a world away, have decided that something is the way it is, why should that impact Thailand directly without at least its own mechanism for determining this kind of thing. It seems like this is just occurring automatically. That said, going back again Thai Examiner, thaiexaminer.com, the article is titled: Thailand Pass and health screening introduced for 45 countries after Clade (whatever) 1b Monkeypox confirmed. Quoting directly: "Thailand enforces the Thailand Pass system and health screening for travellers from 45 nations after confirming a case of the deadly Clade (I don't know how you pronounce that) but Clade 1b Monkeypox. A 66-year-old European tested positive after arriving in Bangkok, prompting airport screening and quarantine measures." First of all, why not just quarantine measures for the person that had it? Why is this thing, again all of this stuff having to do with this “Public Health” feels a lot like old school Communist collective punishment. Quoting further: "Thailand has introduced its Thailand Pass registration system and screening for visitors from 45 countries in response to a confirmed case..." again one confirmed case of something. "…Clade 1b Monkeypox, which was confirmed this week." 

Okay, a couple of things here. For those who are unaware, who were not here pre or during all of the COVID madness, what is Thailand Pass? Well Thailand Pass was once called the Certificate of Entry system. Then they sort of upgraded it into a more digitized system and we saw Thailand Pass. It's required, it's effectively a Visa if you will, or a Visa screening process, or Immigration's pre-screening process, however you want to look at it, for travel documentation to get into Thailand notwithstanding possible Visa Exemption status. So even amongst the list of countries, and I urge those who are watching this video, go check out Thai Examiner for more information on which countries are on that list, but even the countries that are listed may be allowed Visa exempt status i.e. they may be able to get on a plane just come to Thailand use their passport to come into the country without the need for a Visa. Now you effectively do need to deal with Immigration processing because you're going to have to deal with the Thailand Pass first. As I sort of discussed in prior videos with regard to the Thailand Pass and the Certificate of Entry, it reminded me a lot of what is called the Electronic System for Travel Authorization or ESTA which is used in the United States which notwithstanding when they signed Visa Waiver programs with other countries, they then later imposed ESTA which is effectively a Visa before you can even go, is effectively what it turns out to be. Thailand Pass in a very meaningful way, is effectively the same thing. Notwithstanding standard Visa rules or exceptions, if it's deemed that a country of origin requires Thailand Pass to get into Thailand, then you are going to have to deal with this process regardless of what the underlying visa process might have otherwise been. Quoting further: "On Thursday, Ministry of Public Health officials informed the Minister, Somsak Thepsutin, that an RT-PCR test on a 66-year-old European had confirmed the more deadly variety of the disease." Oh neat, an RT-PCR test. You mean that same thing that they now say doesn't really work as a diagnostic tool. Again, why are we repeating all the same madness that drove this country quite honestly into the ground for a number of years, and now we're just doing it again and we are not even doing it over something that's ostensibly as serious as it once was, as the other threat once was? Quoting further: "The traveller arrived on August 14th and reported symptoms to a Bangkok Hospital on August 15th." Quoting further: "Thailand Pass system reactivated for travellers for 45 designated countries amid new Monkeypox concerns." Again, I urge those watching this video go check out that article in detail for the list of countries. Quoting further: "As part of the new measures, the Thailand Pass system has already been activated for 45 countries. These are countries and areas where screening protocols are already in place for Yellow Fever. In short, all passengers travelling to Thailand must first register using the Thailand Pass." Now for those who have been overwhelmed by all of this, we have assisted a number of clients in the past in dealing with both Certificates of Entry as well as the Thailand Pass System. So if you're overwhelmed and you need assistance, please feel free to contact us for that. 

That said, again this is more just a general statement, me yelling into the abyss if you will, but Thailand please I pray, do not go down this road of madness that we were once down. It decimated, literally decimated our tourism sector which had a huge negative impact on the economy. As we have discussed in other videos, there's serious talk right now about economic problems arising for exports. I'm at the point now where I'm seriously questioning the good faith of folks that are working in Government because it seems like they want to create the narrative that we are in some sort of financial catastrophe so that they can then justify the creation of ultra-Keynesian stimulus which is basically imposed via a total surveillance, totalitarian tokenized system. So long story short, I'm very concerned about all of this because it looks to me like they think that they have seen a game plan if you will, or a play book that has worked in the past and they may try to impose it moving forward in the future. I again reiterate, the Head of the WHO, Mr. Tedros is a literal Communist; we have talked about this in these videos before. Meanwhile I've been doing my own bit of research and there seems to be serious evidence to suggest this so-called Monkeypox is actually simply a reaction to the prior administered vaccine. Now I'm not sure if that's the case, but if that is the case, then what are we doing in posing quarantines and stuff? It's not going to do any good. 

So at the end of the day this is where we're at. We will certainly keep you updated on this channel as this situation evolves but by God I hope it doesn't go back to the madness and the darkness that we had to go through for a number of years here in the Kingdom of Thailand