I said this several months ago, but ain’t nobody want to hear it, and I was talking about it again today. As usual, I was right.
For authorities reliant on border controls to tame the virus, the path to reopening looks uncertain, experts say, as sluggish vaccine roll-outs, virus mutations, and an ingrained zero-tolerance mentality towards infections threaten to cut off Asia-Pacific economies from the world indefinitely.
The UK seems to be going down this path too, despite what the article claims. We’ll see on that.
Zero Covid and Covid eliminationism was never going to work and was always a pipe dream. Countries that have attempted that have and will trade (real) short-term gains for great long-term harms as they are unable to transition out of that phase.
So much for the “open borders” rhetoric of the so-called liberals. That all went away right quick, didn’t it?