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As the title of this video suggests, we are asking the question: "why does the data keep changing?" The reason for this video comes from me reading a recent article in the Bangkok Post, that is bangkokpost.com, the article is titled: Ministry to revise COVID-19 fatalities. Quoting directly: "The Public Health Ministry will revise how it records COVID-19 fatalities after finding that up to 30% of people who died with the infection did so due to underlying causes. Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said the Ministry will conduct revisions to more accurately determine the cause of fatalities in relation to COVID-19 infections."

So 30%? I mean that is a third and we have done the numbers in prior videos on this channel. It is my understanding it is like a quarter of a percentage of people at least here in Thailand based on data we compiled in the past, died with this. So to revise it downward by another third, it begs the question “would we have instituted a lot of these economically, and there is no other word for "devastating" protocols especially in the tourism sector had this data existed in this form at the time that these policies were promulgated?” I don't think we would have. 

Now what is done is done. I am not making this video to cast blame because I was around at the beginning of this. I wasn't overly concerned at the very beginning because we didn't know what it was but as I said, as time has gone on it seems nonsensical to continue these protocols when a) you can't prove there is any benefit. I haven't seen, again I am willing to stand here corrected. I am happy to correct myself, I have done it many times on this channel. If you have documentation or data that can show that there has been a substantial benefit to all of these protocols which have effectively decimated Thailand's economy especially with respect to the Tourism Sector, I am happy to hear it but I haven't seen anything to that effect. So it kind of begs the question at this point a) what are we doing? In hindsight what were we doing? If we were wrong, I have said this before, maybe okay we overreacted. We made the decisions we made, let's move on. There is no blame to be had. We didn't know what this was at the beginning so I do get why people, it could have been terrible. I do get that. I am not a person that is just trying to run around casting aspersions.  

The point I am trying to make is now that we kind of know that really this was not the existential threat that we were worried that it was at the beginning, it is time to get back to "real" normal, not "new" normal, real normal; get our economy back on track; get tourism up and going; get tourists back into Thailand; Expats back with folks here in Thailand, reunite, sometimes families even. Let's move it on, let's move it on.