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Originally Posted by Pierre
No ones pretending anything, it's just irrelevant whether it's there or not.
If the population is vaccinated or has anti-bodies through infection. If people now getting infected are mostly only getting a mild disease they can manage at home.
What good is testing? What meaning does it have? what decisions would be made from it?
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Knowing who has the infection is critical to monitoring it within society. You may think it’s irrelevant, and from your own privileged position where restrictions do not affect you (and therefore meaningfully protect you) it is perhaps irrelevant on a personal level.
However critical to any pandemic response is knowing who has a virus, is at risk of it and how it affects them.
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Given the current political tensions between China & the UK, I wouldn't be so sure that decision is 100% on Public Health grounds
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Probably a bit of both, but the same is absolutely inevitable for other countries if our numbers go through the roof. They’ve seen the consequences of importing large numbers of the delta variant here, despite a reasonably successful vaccination programme, nobody will be in a rush. Even worse if we just throw our hands up and admit failure by not testing. Every plane in would be a dice roll.