RE: China - 8th Jan29 Dec 2022 13:04
? but one could ask the same anyway about pretty much any plane
arriving from anywhere in UK, or indeed about passengers on any
london bus, any london tube etc? - since very few people are now
routinely testing in UK, & the UK government is no longer mandating
lockdown, WFH, enforcing of social distancing, etc, perfectly possible
that pretty large numbers of infected folks of any/all nationalities are
already just sauntering around in the UK. relatively high vaccination
rates (+ partial immunity from previous waves of infection) mean that
current covid variants are not killing that many folks in the UK, but the
vaccines don’t tend to prevent people from getting and transmitting
covid-19, they just tend to reduce the severity/mortality from infection.
(in other words, the UK is already ‘riddled’ with covid, it’s just
that we are living with it at large in the population already.)
problematic issue imv,, globally, ongoing low
rates of genomic sequencing re new variants.