mainstays of covid-19 prevention that have been with us since the beginning reminding folks that they still work against omicron. these travel bans, too little, too late, and far too much panic associated with them. we re harming the very people that helped us discover this variant. let s talk more about the travel bans, and i want to put up a list here. on the left you ll see the countries that are under these travel bans in 70 countries around the world. on the right, these are countries that do not have travel bans. you have eight southern african countries, six of them have no identified cases of omicron, zimouche backbone y na mibia. what s the logic of this? not being the person putting the travel bans in place, looking at it from the outside, i see very little logic behind t. i have heard arguments this will slow the importation of