For the last year, vaccinated Canadians were about as likely to get infected in Canada as anywhere else. I suspect I got Omicron BA.1 last January two months a

For the last year, vaccinated Canadians were about as likely to get infected in Canada as anywhere else. I suspect I got Omicron BA.1 last January two months after my first booster, but didn't have a test kit. The symptoms were mild: sore throat and headache for a couple days. The proffered rationale for border controls was to keep out new variants. The problem is that it takes a few weeks for researchers to identify a new variant by which time it's all over the place. An NY Times article suggests that people with long covid are variant factories in that they give the virus more opportunities to produce variants. That said the Delta variant seems to have been generated at the Kumbh Mela gathering of three million people : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/30/kumbh-mela-how-a-superspreader-festival-seeded-covid-across-india https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/30/kumbh-mela-how...