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  It's not my logic. It's the logic of the European Center for Disease Control, the agency responsible for this sort of stuff.
  There are lots of new mutations all the time. The question is whether there will be immunity-evading variants. That is unlikely to happen in the coming weeks in China due to less evolutionary pressure on the virus there. Doesn't mean it will never happen.
context: It is EXTREMELY early in this debacle of "Everybody COVID and travel freely ". >
  
  We've had plenty of experience with "Everyone has COVID and travels freely" this year in the West. Nothing new for us. >
  
  The West also has a widely available and effective suite of vaccines, whereas China has the wildly ineffective Sinovac so I do not think these two things are comparable. >
  
  That's true. 
  The spike in China is far less dangerous for us because we've already been through all that's currently wreaking havoc there.
  As the ECDC says:
  
  "Given higher population immunity in the EU/EEA, as well as the prior emergence and subsequent replacement of variants currently circulating in China by other Omicron sub-lineages in the EU/EEA, a surge in cases in China is not expected to impact the COVID-19 epidemiological situation in the EU/EEA," >
  
  Following through with your logic, Omicron was the last variant ever and a billion new infections is somehow magically never going to produce another mutation. If that were true, why do we still have the flu and common cold?