Reply to post: Re: What about the airports?

UK enters almost-lockdown: Brits urged to keep calm and carry on – as long as it doesn't involve leaving the house

sanmigueelbeer

Re: What about the airports?

there's still no testing on arrivals from abroad

Most likely because there is not enough testing kit available.

Have a read of this: The US decided to make its own coronavirus test, but the process was plagued by errors and delays. Here's a timeline of what went wrong.

“The notion of accepting a test developed by someone else I think was a bit alien,” Schaffner said. “There may have been other considerations of which I’m not aware, but I’m sure that pride was one of them: ‘We know how to do this, thank you very much. We’ll develop our own.'”

We have grown accustom on China to produce something really, really fast and really, really plenty. With China in a lock-down themselves, it is left up to ... wait, no one is left. Oh, Duuuhhhhhhhh ...

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