We should be continuing to sequence a sample of covid infections but really given our capacity, we should be sequencing a sample of viral infections of every type. That doesn’t mean it’s going to ach… (View Post)

Indeed. And as we saw, the uk economy is too open to international trade and movements of people to do that effectively. Don’t try. Trust the human immune system, it’s got us pretty far as a species … (View Post)

You need to snap out the mindset that governments should ever again be placing physical restrictions due to fears of covid variants. The whole world wet their knickers at a great unknown in 2020 and … (View Post)

Come on Leon you’re smarter than this. Yes they’re completely pointless. The democratic West can’t and shouldn’t try to hermetically seal itself off. Even if there were a new virus X that justified t… (View Post)

Why are people worried about perhaps a billion cases of covid in China in the next six months causing a Disease X variant, when globally there’s going to be multiples of that case load happening anyw… (View Post)