Thailand’s Orwellian Nightmare STARTED TODAY

A REAL image from Bangkok this morning as Thailand's ORWELLIAN NIGHTMARE begins

#Bangkok awoke to a relatively quiet morning on Thursday (March 26) after the state of emergency came into effect at midnight.

And there were certainly less people around as many of them are working from home in an attempt to fend off the invisible menace.

The emergency decree, which will stay in place until April 30, if you are lucky, bans certain activities and imposes many restrictions, including the closure of public venues in Bangkok and most provinces.

In scenes straight from George Orwell’s 1984 there are now check-points set up across the country where men in uniform are stopping citizens, checking IDs, noting where they are traveling to and from and asking why they are out on the streets.

People are also being subject to rudimentary medical examinations carried out by unqualified members of a police force who appear to have unlimited stop and detain powers.

Strange days indeed…

 

The Thais themselves seem to have very little idea of what is going on. Corner-shops don’t know if they are deemed ‘essential’ and whether they should be open or not.

Local hairdressers don’t know enough and so sit with their doors open and lights off, just in case.

7/11 staff don’t know anything and stare at you vacantly.

Restaurant owners are unclear whether they are deemed to be bars and if they should be at home or at work

And nobody understands why having a beer, when there is a Coronovirus going around, is any different to having a beer when Influenza, Swine Flu, Bird Flu, SARS or Chicken Pox is in the air.

Why does THIS TIME mean they all have to loose their incomes until the government, who nobody believes in or trust, tells them otherwise?

These are troubling times indeed and it is only DAY ONE. – Winston Smith, Political Correspondent