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Re: Coronavirus
Pop the France travel ban the other way round (and for a second negating the probability they already have an Omicron infection in their country which is just a few days behind ours).
How many people here would be suggesting we ban non-essential travel to and from France when
- there is a high incidence of a new highly infectious strain of the pandemic into which the facts of how it is different is not fully yet known
- the country's CMO and PM were on the TV the night before - and on previous occasions - talking up how serious the situation really is
- the country reached a record number of infections despite a high vaccination level (both 2nd and 3rd doses)
Would we be wanting this in our country? I suspect a fair amount of those who support restrictions would indeed be supporting such travel restrictions.
I don't agree with doing so, because the last month has shown you can't really stop it with travel restrictions, and it doesn't slow it down much either (in fact, it's not exactly clear which restrictions would work any more, you have to look at the countries who have gone further into lockdowns), now we have vaccines that's a game changer anyway - most people with Covid recover, it is mainly those with other issues who are badly affected, a fair amount don't even get symptoms, if that HK study is an indication it absolutely will lead to milder disease. Protect the vulnerable, get vaccinated, it will eventually pass. A high transmissible virus will presumably pass quicker, if it's allowed to. Not saying doing nothing is really viable until we know what that will mean, but, getting otherwise healthy people infected would mean you'd need some serious game changer in a new variant to reverse that immunity.
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