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The reason for the video I made some other videos on this and I made some other videos on this particular article, but this was from the NNT but I found it via ASEAN NOW, aseannow.com, the article is titled: CCSA to Consider Proposal to Suspend Test & Go and Thailand Pass." Quoting directly: "A proposal to suspend the Test & Go scheme and the Thailand Pass registration will be submitted to the Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) after the Songkran holidays to boost the Tourism Industry." Well, yeah it will definitely be a boost, anything would be better than having these programs.

The reason for the video, what concerned me is that word "suspend" rather than "terminate". “Suspend” implies these things can come back and I have got to say, that is about the last thing Thailand needs to have this hanging over the Tourism Industry's head. Quarantine is quarantine. When we first started dealing with it Thailand did a proper quarantine. They kept out, they blocked their own citizens from returning for a certain period of time and then imposed quarantine protocols for those looking to return to Thailand. Now in the past two years I think it is pretty safe to say this was really an overreaction at the end of the day. Now it’s nobody's fault. We didn't know what it was, it just was what it was and we should move on from that. But we know now that was the case. Quarantine is what it is. My big question is what benefits have been garnered from having a Certificate of Entry regime or Test & Go protocols or what benefit has been garnered by the Byzantine bureaucracy associated with the Thailand Pass. I mean the Thailand Pass and its sort of predecessor the Certificate of Entry, these have just been incredibly difficult documents to deal with, the processing of which I mean you can read about it on pretty much anywhere across the internet, the troubles people have had dealing with this. We are a law firm. We were doing especially Certificates of Entry, we were doing a number of those cases, depending on the Embassy, I mean there are all these different factors, it was tough to deal with. Even for seasoned Thai Immigration lawyers we have got here in the office, I mean they were having a really hard time with it and to what end? What benefit was garnered by having all this bureaucracy from a public health standpoint? I mean if anybody can point to me some data on that I would love to see it, I find it really interesting. 

That being said, yeah so it is looking like they are going to suspend these protocols. That is great. I would love to see this just fade into the distant memories of all of our collective consciousness but the notion that it is suspended does kind of creep me out and I would much rather see the word terminate than suspend.