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Originally Posted by nffc
So what would your proposed plan be to deal with the infections half way around the world then?
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Why do I need a proposed plan to point out the current one is entirely ineffective?
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Originally Posted by Kursk
Can we 'safely' assume that what these travellers might bring is a variation of the known virus or do we need to be watching too for something entirely new?; who knows how many more of these novel viruses are being incubated? Coronavirus has killed 7m worldwide and hammered our economies: we're not out of the woods yet.
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There’s no real reason to expect that to come from China bar xenophobia. Or perhaps a sentimental “what if” nod to what could have been in 2019.
Hospitalisations are up in the USA, deaths in Japan. Or they might just be about to jump onto the Tube for some New Year celebrations. If variants are a concern it’s the perpetual rolling of the dice that’s the issue, not China.
As ianch99 points out at the top of the page countries that aren’t routinely testing therefore aren’t sequencing. Sure, there are other methods (wastewater testing) but by the time they show up community transmission will be well underway. Unless there was a single outlier symptom to tell people to look out for, invite testing and implement contact tracing it’s already unstoppable.