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  So it’s 2020 all over again.
context: and if they didnt have it at the start of the flight they would by the end.. >
  
  I mean it's gotta be at least 95% right, if 50% of the passengers are infected >
  
  RTPCR should be taken 5 to 7 days after exposure. Surely some of them have false negative results. The positive results are probably those who already have the virus before the flight. >
  
  It's more likely that the Chinese public and government was getting tired of restrictions.
  But I like your positivity there and cross fingers for more lock down. >
  
  No China legit cut off western world, banned every western app like Facebook, IG, and Google, and won’t let their people use anything else, and has strict COVID lockdowns. They can keep their country sealed shut.
  I am NOT in the mood for COVID-22 >
  
  Better get in the mood for Covid-23 >
  
  Covid23andMe >
  
  About 8% of our DNA consists of ancient viral remnants, and another 40% is made of repetitive genetic letters that are thought to be viral in origin, too. >
  
  We are viruses, absorbing other viruses, growing stronger. >
  
  Yeah, let's just casually repeat the start of this shit show again. >
  
  Although before will look like a slow trickle compared to how it will go this time. >
  
  China's infection wave will not lead to a surge in infections outside of China.
  China was the outlier that was still sticking to Zero COVID until a few weeks ago. It's the same thing that happened to Hong Kong in March this year, leading to the world's highest COVID fatality rate in Hong Kong, but having no noticeable effect on other countries. >
  
  You're making the (likely very unsafe) assumption that omicron infecting such a massive population doesn't lead to a new variant that can sweep the globe again.
  If there's no additional significant mutations though, you could well be right. >
  
  Omicron already ripped through the population of Europe, the US and various other countries this year - billions of people - and no significantly different variant with an evolutionary advantage emerged. 
  Epidemiologists think that with Omicron the virus reached a local optimum of evolutionary fitness that it's hard to get out of. >
  
  Virologists are saying they have no idea what variants are coming out of China right now and the Omicron that ripped thru North America isn't even the dominant strain anymore, so why all this discussion on the original omicron?
  Even the new vaccine for omicron is already outdated. >
  
  This is what happens when China doesnt embrace vaccination. >
  
  And refuse to use better Western created ones. SinoVac was/is horrible.
  *Edit. Sinovac is as effective as Western vaccines as long as you get all 3 doses. >
  
  Ah, I see. All I've heard about it is that it isn't as effective and sucks. 
  Appears I and many others are misinformed. Not great with one dose, but perfectly fine as long as you get all 3. But if you only get 1 or 2, Pfizer or Moderna are more effective. Makes sense. 
  Any idea how many people in China get all 3, as oppossed to just the first? >
  
  IIRC, one of the first places hit really hard by covid was Italy. Is there some reason that the Chinese seem to favor going there? >
  
  Decades ago, leather goods and clothing were made in Romania and shipped to Italy to have the Italy label sewn on.  They still do as of a few years ago.
  The US now has "assembled in the US with domestic and foreign parts".  All the parts are produced overseas with only minor work and the final assembly done here.
  Due to tariffs, China has opened steel mills in Vietnam, Philippines, etc. to produce and sell steel under that nationality instead.  European and Indian steel companies have also bought out others worldwide to do similar.
  Very few things are singularly made from scratch at home! >
  
  There's whole black market operations of selling non-Italian olive oil as Italian. Sometimes it's not even 100% olive oil. Shit's wild. >
  
  I read that the most popular market brands always blend olive oil with other seed oils to increase the volume and profits. It is not illegal since everyone does it. >
  
  Yeah, the fake/mislabeled oils I'm talking about aren't just shady Amazon sellers or whatever, this stuff reaches the shelves of high end grocery stores.  The whole industry is a mess. >
  
  Same with San Marzano tomatoes, most are fake. In Italy, if you have money you can get what you want on a label.
  Edit: spelling >
  
  Lol, such trash comments here. No, the European and the Italian laws are very stricts about. It happened that some Spanish oil was sold as Italian because it's a better sales driver. San Marzano and tomatoes always come from Italy. Btw the seasonal workers, that the original comment was about, are much more used for tomatoes and other vegetables not from leathers goods and usually they are not Chinese >
  
  Exactly. This entire thread is just Americans who are assuming that EU/European regulations are as bad as theirs. The EU has plenty of laws on these things and the foreign workers are seasonal workers to help with farming/agriculture because the domestic population aren't willing to fill in all the gaps in those sectors. >
  
  Pretty much correlates with the number of people currently sick with Covid there.
  With no herd immunity and density of the airport-connected cities, it will be a quick bit insanely high spike. >
  
  To be brutally honest some places did ban South Africa the first week or so after the omicron. 
  It’s a bit puzzling that we all forgot so fast how well that worked ~ >
  
  Australia not only banned flights from the whole of Southern Africa when omicron first appeared, we also made it a criminal offence to fly here from India when delta was spreading there.
  Then a few months later when Sydney had a delta outbreak, and it was obvious half the city wasn’t going to bother following a lockdown, the federal government decided maybe delta wasn’t so bad after all and we should just let it spread instead. >
  
  It's like the CCP has decided that if China's economy is going to suffer for their mistakes, then so is the rest of the world.