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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing "Endemic". Is this happening one province at a time? I started thinking about this when reading a recent article from the Nation, that is nationthailand.com, the article is titled: Surin becomes first province to declare Covid-19 endemic from April 1. Quoting further: "The northeast province of Surin has announced that it is downgrading Covid-19 pandemic to endemic status from April 1." Quoting further: "The Surin Information Office said in a Facebook post on Saturday that the province has met all the criteria for turning Covid-19 into an endemic disease. The Provincial Administration also boasted that Surin will be the first province in Thailand to do so."  

Those that have been watching this channel with any kind of like regularity, we have discussed this notion of this thing being considered endemic and then at that point essentially, the implication seems to be that basically the restrictions end because it is endemic. It is no longer classified as pandemic and therefore requiring all of these protocols associated that we have had to deal with lo these past two years. Now on one level I can kind of get a little bit picky on this and say in a way it is sort of the fact that all of this legalism has filtered into what I understood to be Medical Science. That to me seems odd where everything is about definitions. Is it pandemic or endemic and what does that mean and all of that? I mean when you need a lawyer to start deciding what is a pandemic versus what is endemic or to analyze that, that seems a little odd to me but okay let's set that aside. On the positive note, this is obviously good news so hopefully we will start seeing more provinces begin to shift this way and it would seem to me to be one step, a major step on the road to fully putting this behind us.