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China isn't unvaccinated. China has a serious problem with the elderly population being under-vaccinated which is the most at-risk group, and their vaccines are less effective, but the vast majority of the entire population will have a vaccine and two boosters minimum.
I know because I was in China at the time, and it was mandatory for the majority of people. My wife and I would lose our jobs as teachers if we didn't get the vaccine and all boosters within specific time periods, and in my city at least, you couldn't work a retail job without a vaccine certificate including boosters. For my wife and I it was quite literally a case of "Everyone lines up to get the vaccine today, and anyone without a certificate will not be allowed on the premises tomorrow."
As long as its a pre-departure test, it means nothing. >

It is >

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The UK is set to announce that passengers coming from China will have to provide a negative Covid test before they travel to Britain.
The UK has become the latest nation to bring in screening for travellers from China after cases surged following Beijing's decision to relax its zero-Covid policy.
It is understood the UK will demand a negative test before travellers can board a flight from mainland China - bringing Britain into line with the approach taken by the US. While the announcement has not yet been formally made, the UK defence secretary confirmed on Friday that the government was reviewing the need for testing for passengers from China.


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I suppose, at least, it would be helpful to identify any potentially dangerous mutations as early as possible.
Does letting it rip through a billion people increase the chances of mutation, or not since it can spread rapidly and without obstacle? >

Think of every infected person as a new chance for the virus to mutate. There's likely to be tonnes of new variants emerge as a result of the huge surge in China. >

Probably closer to every infected cell in every infected person as a new chance, but yeah, not great no matter how you slice it >

Isn’t the likelihood of a mutation extremely small though? I’m not saying it’s unlikely here, just wondering since we went through all of 2020 with only two strains of Covid; Delta was in 2021 >

Ban them at least until they've gone though their wave. >

A negative test is plenty >

Considering many places like hospitals want a test 3 days before you visit shows that the virus can be dormant/undetectable after soon getting it.
People on planes can easily give it to each other and not be picked up by tests.
Luggage and clothing can also contain the virus which may infect them shortly after. >

Have there been any proven covid cases caused by surface transmission? Last I checked, there weren't any documented cases. >

How would you test for that? >

This is just smart.  They infected the world once, and it ruined hundreds of thousands of lives.  Now they’re trying to do it again, even worse.
Shut that shit down.  They shouldn’t even be able to leave China without negative tests! >

And ass swabs? >

Too full of pennies. >

Upright Citizen's Brigade? >

what's the difference with China being open and the rest of the world being open, as it has for months? >

~~China is particularly unvaccinated and has been having active covid outbreaks.~~
Edit: I was wrong, this used to be true, but not anymore ñink