@GuerillaOntologist I heard an interesting anecdote about the "having inconvenienced many Western corporate customers" as well. (Pretty reliable, only one degree of separation between me and the source.)
It's from someone who works in an factory in Zhejiang, a province which accounts for a huge chunk of Western exports. There they are still nominally doing covid tests, but actually the testers are putting the swabs not nearly deep enough to actually be useful, just going though the motions.
