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

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.

Okay, why is India requiring travellers from 5 Asian countries produce a negative result before entering India? Is there something you know that they don't?

It's not to keep it out. The aim is to avoid any unnecessary surge. It's about reducing. Indian hospitals currently only have a few thousand Covid cases in a country with 1.4 bn people. They don't want 10's of thousands of Covid positive Asians suddenly arriving in the country if they can avoid it.

Cool. The hospitals are under pressure presently. Maybe that will ease up. Maybe it won't. If it doesn't and if flu/covid cases keep rising and putting even more pressure on them, then they may ask for some measures to curb the numbers (e.g. more mask wearing)

It's nothing to do with politics, the past, there's no "gotcha's". It's simple, basic science.

How many people aged 18 to 49 with no underlying health issues are in hospital with COVID?

I see they are opening up boosters to this group...