Covid 19 Part XXXV-956,720 ROI (5,952 deaths) 452,946 NI (3,002 deaths) (08/01) Read OP

So the message in general is.

Stay warm this winter , but open all the windows 😉

Why keep the testing centres open when only a few can get a PCR test? Makes no sense at all.

They have no fear of starting up testing again. They are ignoring the whole thing and that won't change.

I’m going to be honest during the original lockdowns I was staunch mask, staunch isolation and followed everything I was supposed to. When things stopped being mandatory like masks etc I stopped voluntary use except for a few times when the plane demanded I wear one etc.

saying that I’m fully vaccinated and fully up to date with booster. Got I think my last booster a couple of weeks ago as I have epilepsy and that apparently falls under the expedited exemption. Anyway I agree with your point about testing, now in the last month I personally know about 10 people who have got COVID. Most recently 4 were not able to attend my god daughters christening as they had got covid the day of it. I was like why test yourself to stop doing something. Especially when there is no mandatory 7 day isolation etc,

bur Also saying that I bought 2 tests weeks ago as somebody asked me to but then never picked them up and I had them in the house, my mother got really Ill very quickly with shivers cough etc so I tested her in case we had to go to hospital. Luckily it was negative,

so I disagree with you saying no one is getting it. They are and knocks them out for a week but the testing is irrelevant. If you are not knocked out then then you should be able to go on your way.

No it hasn't. You are misrepresenting a study which showed 30% versus Omicron infection as somehow applying to vaccination for all variants, including original and delta variants.

Your statement is false and without foundation.

How does that affect the US though? Covid is already rampant in the US.

Ah that's just nonsense really. Theres zero countries that have herd immunity if you look at the numbers.

Still seems a bit pointless when covid is rampant all over the world. If there is one thing we have learned it is not possible to stop covid variants quickly spreading throughout the world.

They aren't arriving in cars, it's on planes, so asking for negative tests beforehand is not complex and can dramatically reduce the positives. The concern I've read is more about the variants, China is not exactly the most open country about it

Again this is not about "stopping", that's not possible. It's about reducing.

If you can sign a simply policy that gets you planes with 1% positives rather than 50% positives, you'll take the former.

It doesn’t work though. One person getting through with a variant is enough to infect a whole country. A policy that is simple but doesn’t work should not be used. Let’s be honest here, it’s a political move against China, nothing more.

We've already learned that this stuff doesn't work.