Comments by "Nigel Johnson" (@nigeljohnson9820) on "European nations tighten COVID rules for Chinese travellers" video.

  1. There are arguements that such restrictions are unnecessary, or will be ineffective. It is reasonable to doubt the first and be wary of the latter. The world can ill afford the Chinese exporting their epidemic and there by reinvigorating the global pandemic. The world has good reason to be sceptical of Chinese data, and should proceed with caution until it has gathered its own data. It needs to confirm that the prevalent Chinese variant of covid is susceptible to the western covid vaccines and is already in circulation in the West. The R number of the reported Chinese variant is very high at around 18, making it incredibly infectious. The reported death toll is low, but there is apocryphal evidence that this may not be the case. Given the very high cost of the global pandemic, both in money and lives lost, the citizens of western states halve a right to expect their respective government's to fully adopt the precautionary principle and maximise infection protection measures, until it is proven they are unnecessary. A cynic might suspect that the Chinese government may have decided, that after the Chinese economy has been damaged so badly by covid, it is time to share their misfortune with the rest of the world, in an exercise to level the economic playing field. One further risk, given the size of China, it is not impossible that a more dangerous strain of covid is lurking in the provinces. The chinese practices of eating wild animals, that resulted in cross animal infection with humans, that gave rise to the original virus has not gone away. The prevalent strain, is highly infectious, it is not a significant risk to life. That does not mean that with so much virus in circulation, the Chinese population is not brewing, a more deadly mutation.
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