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[quote=BlueFredneck][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Someone in San Francisco area who returned from South Africa on Nov. 22. They were vaccinated but not boosted. Mild symptoms, close contacts have tested negative.[/quote]

All of that is good news. [/quote]

+1, OP.  I [i]think[/i] there is media hype over Omicron for ratings.  I am not discounting it, but I give it a side eye. [/quote]

To be fair, Israel, Japan, and other countries are closing their borders. So it's sort of a feedback loop - country reacts, media covers it, panic ensues, more countries react.

If you're serious about stopping variants at the border, I do like the idea of testing ALL visitors to the US (or quarantining them for 5 days). These specific country travel bans are like Swiss cheese and have the perverse effect of discouraging countries - imagine how well we'd be doing if the PRC government was as open about OG COVID as the SA government has been about Omicron.

Yeah, it will blow a giant hole in the tourism industry. So too will an Omicron boom over January/February. Go big or just don't bother people. [/quote]

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