these were bans they put in place against particular countries with high incidents of Omicron, like South Africa. As the world found out, Omicron was already everywhere and banning South Africa was futile.

One takeaway, they are allowing people to test at home to address long lines for testing

They are not suggesting that we not to test people on entry

Not having COVID or previously had COVID but no live cells.

As to the threat of delta. That wave appeared to be over in late November. Forget having anything to verify the exact strains in play. Its looking like its impossible to get any data in time to make useful decisions. You have to go strictly on patient history and observed symptoms. And from our data and according to the medical community a patient reporting with delta degenerated rapidly. Youll have to use that to make best guesses at strains noting it as a "guess" for later confirmation. Likewise you need an eagle eye out for any pattern indicating changing symptoms, youd probably be dealing with a new variant

Theyre still reacting to the wrong problem. The problem ***at the moment*** (because the COVID threat can change on a dime it seems) isnt hospitalizations and deaths. The problem is a workforce out sick for indeterminate lengths of time.

The solution is somewhere in the what can we do to prevent everything coming to a standstill due to worker outage. For us its a local and a global problem. If the global supply chain is interrupted, our food is cut off. If the CDC or tge companies themselves determine cruise travel is to risky the economy suffers a blow. If workers at the water companies are out sick what then?

These are the things they should be thinking about. They should absolutely not be thinking about being more lenient with tourism guidelines. eliminate the visa, its unnecessary and its what tourists complain about next to test requirement (which you cant eliminate)

Id be looking all over for new approaches to finding tests that reliably determine if someone is no longer infectious. This guideline of letting people out of quarantine if they're only 25% contagious is suicide. You only need one of those 25 percenters to be infectious to start an avalanche. Put medical heads tigether, the analytical innovators, not the posers, to see if they can propose, based on the pathology, new approaches to testing. Solutions start with ideas.

I'd also be spreading out the workforce. Based on Omicron being highly contagious, its likely everyone will eventually get sick (to varying degrees) but you have a better chance of preventing it happening all at once

if they slash energy bill by 60% when will prices get slashed by 40%? 1m per month electricity, 4m investment. so 600,000 saved every month, withing 6 to 7 months we should see a dramatic drop in prices

This ministry has important work to do, so its almost a good thing that this happened early.

Were they out of commission for the shoot or the editing? If they were out of commission for the shoot, the blame is in the ministry, the event should have been cancelled, because the quality standards they set before they engaged any company would have stated how many cameras they needed. Then they would have had a walk through at least a week before to see how people would be positioned and the best angles fir the cameras. Then at some point in their pre-live checks the day before, morning of and 1hr before the shoot, they would have discovered they didnt have a team capable of delivering quality.

If the outage happened at editing, I dont get it... editing is remote work

this sounds extremely odd. would like to hear both sides. I've never heard a tourism official discouraging a legal tourist from a longer stay

theyd be crazy to do this. 25% infectious after 5 days does not equate to 0 chances of transmission. Especially considering that tourists are the source of new variants

So do the East and the West North West

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The SBDC is splitting hairs here. "*They did it*", "*they hired someone to be the bad guy*", what's the difference?

Companies are underadvised, underfunded and left to rescue themselves. The focus "appears" to be completely on marketing and attracting as much registrants as possible. It would be interesting to find out if there is some revenue being earned per registrant. That would be bad, it would encourage even Saint Michael to pack in the clients irrespective of quality of service or results