Originally Posted by
allturnleft
restricted by the lack of vaccine
The average vaccine takes 10-15 years to develop and test for effectivity, reactions and long term affects. Are you willing to use one after a 10th or less of that testing time?
Perhaps quick testing will be the way to go but right now the testing either isn’t sophisticated enough or the virus is undetectable for a period of time, lots coming back inconclusive. If it’s undetectable when you fly that doesn’t mean you don’t develop symptoms by the time or after you land and test positive. Also wouldn’t testing be better carried out by the airport operator at the flyers cost?
Theres also a lack of medical evidence to support the hypothesis that having had it makes you 1) immune and/or 2) not infectious while your body fights the virus. But we would need good quick antibody testing for that in order to find out if you even have any immunity.
If catching it does give you future immunity then you have populations with some level of community immunity and others with none so perhaps some will close to tourism for a number of years or they will accept that SARS2 becomes like any other infectious virus and you have yearly epidemics to manage like the flu, meningitis etc
I wouldn’t want to be a senior health/epidemiology advisor in any country right now as the scrutiny and decisions making will be immense. But looking at it all from the outside it’s extremely interesting what happens next.