Originally Posted by
Excargodog
Absolutely. Having said that, the stupid thing was to give the order in the first place. It’s an age group that experiences negligible mortality and morbidity from the disease who are still going to get and spread omicron anyway.
Not getting it IS a get out of jail free card for those not wanting to visit Eastern Europe though.
I know why they did it, was told by flag officer buddies: to avoid disruption associated with having to quarantine/lockdown infected members. That was valid with covid 1.0.