Nice. These are making travel way more stressful so removing them is the next step in opening up. Even making it a rapid lateral flow/antigen type test instead of a pcr makes it way easier.
It seems to be a global trend. Test (as it’s everywhere) and covid passport (as it does breakthrough infections) requirements seem to be losing sense with omicron, with both being scraped by some countries. While convincing the local population to vaccinate and booster (basically all we have for omicron) seems to be gaining traction, by use of mandates, or covid passports but internally. I guess this is just science and logic these days, protect your population with vaccines as much as you can, and don’t damage the economy by stopping travel. Makes sense with this variant.
I bet snus retailers lobbied hard for this.
There were a ton of exceptions anyway so it never was a huge roadblock to come into Sweden.
I’ve never understood though the logic of not restricting people coming in just because “the virus is already here”. Wouldn’t it still add to infections and superspreaders are still a thing or has that been debunked, so if a few of those make it via plane you suddenly have thousands of cases more. But I am not an expert, so maybe that is not realistic.
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Everyone has it anyways so what’s the point?
Sweden leading the way.
Nice. These are making travel way more stressful so removing them is the next step in opening up. Even making it a rapid lateral flow/antigen type test instead of a pcr makes it way easier.
It seems to be a global trend. Test (as it’s everywhere) and covid passport (as it does breakthrough infections) requirements seem to be losing sense with omicron, with both being scraped by some countries. While convincing the local population to vaccinate and booster (basically all we have for omicron) seems to be gaining traction, by use of mandates, or covid passports but internally. I guess this is just science and logic these days, protect your population with vaccines as much as you can, and don’t damage the economy by stopping travel. Makes sense with this variant.
I bet snus retailers lobbied hard for this.
There were a ton of exceptions anyway so it never was a huge roadblock to come into Sweden.
I’ve never understood though the logic of not restricting people coming in just because “the virus is already here”. Wouldn’t it still add to infections and superspreaders are still a thing or has that been debunked, so if a few of those make it via plane you suddenly have thousands of cases more. But I am not an expert, so maybe that is not realistic.
rofl
Time will tell