The policy for testing Chinese arrivals poses three fundamental questions.

Is this the start of further “lockdown laws”?

The re-introduction of tests for those travelling from China shows that nothing has been learned and authoritarianism is waiting around the corner. Tests are helpful only if they can identify contagious cases, which can be isolated and slow or interrupt transmission. If you have a few cases, that is. Not if you have 100,000 “positives” daily and most of…