GV27:

 

The Pullman issue will be something simple like a surface that was low-risk when the facility had a handful of infections with the less-infectious original variants that is suddenly a high risk surface when you have more people with a more infectious variant walking around. It was possibly always going to happen and may yet happen in other MIQ facilities. 

 

Two things bother me: The dumb luck that the more infectious variant managed to get out but apparently hasn't caused a long chain of transmission despite these people visiting numerous crowded places for long periods of time in multiple districts seems incredibly lucky on our part. Secondly, the fact that if it is out there and there is a longer incubation period, then we may be seeing people returning negative tests now who may yet start showing symptoms. But I guess we'll know more about how likely that is today.

 

Or maybe just lucky because the people who had it didn't do anything that spreads it. If they had gone to a wedding or a church or worked in a building with close desks and bad air con.

Contrary to what scares people you don't catch it by being in a shop that someone was in for 20 minutes who you were never close to. 

Plus certain groups of people don't do social settings as others do. 2 older people who don't go dancing and drinking in crowded bars or have big family groups or do concerts etc.