Martha MacCallum
@marthamaccallum
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How is it we keep getting caught off-guard: Omnicron, which started in November, and was scary enough to block travel from South Africa, but not ramp up testing here? “No one anticipated this, it came out of nowhere….” Echoes Afghanistan.
Because most of the spread of this virus happens presymptomatically, making test-and-trace an exercise in futility. Come to think of it, pretty much this whole response has been an exercise in futility; otherwise the infections would have stopped a long time ago.
Not one country has eradicated the virus, kept it out and resumed normal life.