QTing my answer because it's a good q and the answer is of general interest I think...
https://twitter.com/owlsoflaughter/status/1416292321839157249
Go back to the idea of the budget for risky contacts. If you can trim contacts to the amount you want by blocking one country, that's what you do. You don't block all countries with a similar epidemiological characteristic.
Of course the real reason they are picking one country and not another may be political, or just incompetence. But there is a logic to be imposed on it ex post if you want to impose one.
It takes us back to the endless comments 'LOL if they are stopping me doing X why are they not stopping me doing Y?' in the middle of the lockdown.
I remember one X being 'drinking without a substantial meal in a pub garden' and Y being 'drinking with a substantial meal in a pub garden'.
Pandemic policy is not like the legal system which is meant to reflect moral judgements on activities. The idea was just to make it that fewer people go to pubs and catch covid and it probably had that effect.
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