Limiting Inbound International Air travel

[rick_iles]

Keep the golf courses closed and the international airports open. That should stop the spread.

Yea, lots of spread at boat launches too......NOT!!!!

[MarkB]

Have they stopped inbound flights from Brazil (or other places that have a major COVID issues, especially variants)?

[GW11]

Stopping flights to reduce the spread of variants is a futile gesture. If the preferred evolutionary path of the virus is blocked by restricting air travel, we'll make our own variants here.

Why aren't people catching on to this?

There was a documented case last year in where they extracted different variants from one person during the course of his infection and treatment, and he eventually died. Every time they tried to treat him, the virus would mutate, eventually following the same evolutionary path to the UK variant. In one person!

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/corona...tudy-1.5298356

Hordes of infected people walking around, coupled with hordes of half vaccinated people also walking around, and we wonder where variants come from.

Again, picture a dog chasing its tail.

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[MarkB]

Stopping flights to reduce the spread of variants is a futile gesture. If the preferred evolutionary path of the virus is blocked by restricting air travel, we'll make our own variants here.

Why aren't people catching on to this?

There was a documented case last year in where they extracted different variants from one person during the course of his infection and treatment, and he eventually died. Every time they tried to treat him, the virus would mutate, eventually following the same evolutionary path to the UK variant. In one person!

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/corona...tudy-1.5298356

Hordes of infected people walking around, coupled with hordes of half vaccinated people also walking around, and we wonder where variants come from.

Again, picture a dog chasing its tail.

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I think there are two "objectives" at play here ... the FIRST is to try and reduce the active COVID cases so we can re-open up our economy, before Turdeau drowns us in too much debt to ever come back from. This would have us close airports to get things under control ... this would also have us place much more stricter measures on factories to reduce the primary transmission that is happening right now (the core root of most transmissions to date, from what I've heard).

On the other hand, the SECOND issue at steak is to adapt human beings to this new virus ... if that is the right way to put it, so we don't have to indefinitely keep dealing with variants and shutting down our economy for decades to come. In essence, flights or no flights ... those mutations will happen, and I don't know how to stop that unless we are able to fully vaccinate the entire world against all living variants of the COVID virus. I don't see that ever happening ... so this thing is going to mutate, whether you shut down airports or not ... and therefore, we need to find ways to predict the mutations that will dominate a "flu cycle" like the current flu shots ... and get people vaccinated before significant numbers reach our country ... otherwise, I don't know what our new normal will look like. And my point is ... closing airports or not doesn't really help this point, but closing airports DOES help my first point (at least short to medium term opening of the economy) ... so why not shut down airports?