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  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?
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,"