I don’t see any reason why they imposed entry restrictions for vaccinated travelers in the first place. After omicron was described for the first time in South Africa, in the Netherlands they retested some old samples and found that Omicron had been in the NL at least two weeks before it was described in SA. Within a week every country in Europe had cases. These restrictions always come too late to stop the spread of new variants, and they do impose real costs.
Meanwhile, applying travel restrictions to vaccinated people undermines the narrative that vaccination will get us out of the crisis.
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What an interesting username You have do you by chance have a book I could read ?
[new cases](https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2021-12-16..latest&facet=none&pickerSort=desc&pickerMetric=new_cases_smoothed_per_million&Metric=Confirmed+cases&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=true&Color+by+test+positivity=false&country=GBR~FRA),[testing](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/full-list-cumulative-total-tests-per-thousand?time=2021-12-09..latest&country=FRA~GBR) and [percentage positive](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/positive-rate-daily-smoothed?tab=chart&time=2021-11-23..latest&country=GBR~FRA) of UK and France.
Just in time for ski season.
See you at the Folie Douce.
I don’t see any reason why they imposed entry restrictions for vaccinated travelers in the first place. After omicron was described for the first time in South Africa, in the Netherlands they retested some old samples and found that Omicron had been in the NL at least two weeks before it was described in SA. Within a week every country in Europe had cases. These restrictions always come too late to stop the spread of new variants, and they do impose real costs.
Meanwhile, applying travel restrictions to vaccinated people undermines the narrative that vaccination will get us out of the crisis.