Thailand: 300 tonnes of dry ice to be sprayed on Bangkok and the government predicts a bird flu pandemic in June

In recent weeks, a plan has been announced to spray 300 tonnes of dry ice in Bangkok to combat a problem the city is having with dust particles.

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration plans to use dry ice to create atmospheric openings that can disperse dust particles. Governor Chadchart Sittipunt has also initiated geoengineering efforts collaborating with, for example, the Air Force to use larger aircraft for rainmaking operations.

As Nicholas Creed, a writer based in Thailand, pondered: with all this spraying are they trying to disperse dust particles, which seems to be a seasonal problem, or are they really attempting to start a pandemic, such as a bird flu pandemic which the Thai government is predicting will start in June.

In his ‘Thailand News Roundup’ a couple of weeks ago, Nicholas Creed compiled a few stories which he thought were worthy of attention, “both for the outside world peeking in and for readers based in Thailand.”

His stories included:

Reports that Bangkok’s latest ‘volunteer’ police officers are all Chinese nationals;
biometric readers at airports;
a WHO facility is in the works for more “safe and effective” drugs. This facility will manufacture the antiretroviral drug Efavirenz, a drug prescribed for HIV-infected people;
a bird flu outbreak is ~~predicted~~ scheduled by the Government; and,
Bangkok Metropolitan Administration announces a plan to spray 300 tonnes of dry ice to solve the pollution season’s particle matter crisis.

It is the last of the stories that has intrigued us. Creed quoted from the Bangkok Post:

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is stepping up efforts to solve the dust problem in the capital, which is expected to stay at present high levels until next month.

Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt said on Saturday that during his visit to the Hua Hin Royal Rainmaking Centre on Jan 3, talks were held about creating atmospheric openings to disperse harmful dust particles.

He said the effort is backed by scientific research and will involve a team of specialists from the centre as well as support from PTT Plc, which will contribute 300 tonnes of dry ice for the operation.

Bangkok explores new ways to curb harmful dust particles, Bangkok Post, 5 January 2025

Related: 5 tips for coping with air pollution PM2.5, Bangkok Hospital

“In a completely unrelated tangent, I recall a [Department of Defence] showman talking about how to hypothetically simulate pandemics by spraying chemical agents around. It’s probably nothing …” Creed said. And linked the video clip below of James Giordano explaining how to fake pandemics.

Considering another story he had shared about the Government “predicting” a bird flu outbreak and preparing vaccines in advance “for a potential outbreak in June,” Creed may not have completely gone off on a tangent. Especially considering that the public can never truly know what is actually in the substance being sprayed at any particular time.

James Giordano, PhD, is a Professor in the Departments of Neurology and Biochemistry, Chief of the Neuroethics Studies Programme, and Chair of the Project in Military Medical Ethics of the Pellegrino Centre for Clinical Bioethics, at Georgetown University Medical Centre. He is also J5 Donovan Group Senior Fellow, Biowarfare and Biosecurity, at US Special Operations Command, (“USSOCOM”).

However, Sasha Latypova says Giordano “is not a real scientist, his business is spinning clickbait science propaganda.”

In the video clip, Giordano describes how to fake a pandemic using an example he had recently described in an article published by National Defence Magazine. Retelling the example “very briefly,” he said:

What I do is I [ ] use a drug in very very low concentrations that may not necessarily be traceable … This is highly doable you just have to permeate the edge of a drinking vessel or an atmospheric vessel … and it creates a downstream effect.

What we can do with some of these drugs is we can also use these techniques … to modify certain bugs … a technique that’s become very well-known [is] CRISPR-Cas9 that allows us to literally modify bugs in a variety of different ways. So, I now may be able to take a relatively harmless microbiological agent the bacterium or a virus do some gene editing and make this thing far more morbidly viable, make it far more virulent and in some cases even make it far more lethal … but [what] I want is high morbidity, I want people to complain [about being sick].

He explained to get complaints of morbidity, or disease, the “dispersion methodology” is used. This is when the drug – which he alternately refers to as a genetically modified bug – is used to infect a few people with a highly morbid condition, a central nervous system condition, in each of various locations, e.g. different towns and cities.

These individuals complain … this is a central nervous system condition so they’re complaining of whatever the bug may do. It will produce some cascade of neurological and neuropsychiatric signs and symptoms.

And then … the real bug that I use is the Internet.

[For the infected people] the first signs and symptoms of lethality are X,Y and Z. These people are really sick with this.

But then I say, ‘Others who are also infected will show subsyndromal, prodrome signs of lethality and [those symptoms are] anxiety, sleeplessness, agitation’.

What I’ve now done is: I’ve got every individual who is diagnostically hypochondria and I’ve got every individual who’s worried, flooding the public health system.

The CDC comes back and says, ‘Nonsense that’s not real’. I come back and say, ‘That’s fake news’. And as a consequence of doing that, what I do is I create a schism between the polis [society] and the public health system – I fracture the integrity of trust and reliance upon the population and its government. And, of course, I’ll be able to then incur a ripple effect.

As a real-life example of this psychological process in action, Giordana used his personal experience when in the wake of the 9/11 attacks anthrax‑laced letters terrorised the nation. He said that in his place of work, someone split a bit of sugar on some envelopes in the mail room, it was assumed to be anthrax and there was panic; the Public Safety Works, the Fire Department and emergency medical technicians (“EMTs”) were called before they realised it was sugar. Rather than a short clip as Creed had done, we have embedded Giordano’s full lecture below but to begin where he briefly describes how to fake a pandemic.