The fact that international authorities are using a method of disease control that was widely dismissed as ineffective by international scientific authorities in 2019 (indeed never appropriate according to the WHO’s 2019 pandemic guidelines), namely border screening and closures, raises an obvious question:
Why rush to close borders and double-test international travellers in the face of a new variant (which we have no reason to believe is more virulent, and may or may not be more transmissible) when we know that new variants are seeded in many international locations long before they are discovered?
Is this a populist gesture to convey to citizens that authorities are in control, or a piece of gross scientific incompetence?
A Penny For Your Thoughts...
A Penny For Your Thoughts...
A Penny For Your Thoughts...
The fact that international authorities are using a method of disease control that was widely dismissed as ineffective by international scientific authorities in 2019 (indeed never appropriate according to the WHO’s 2019 pandemic guidelines), namely border screening and closures, raises an obvious question:
Why rush to close borders and double-test international travellers in the face of a new variant (which we have no reason to believe is more virulent, and may or may not be more transmissible) when we know that new variants are seeded in many international locations long before they are discovered?
Is this a populist gesture to convey to citizens that authorities are in control, or a piece of gross scientific incompetence?