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If they were free the suppliers wouldnt be able to keep up, as with everything else if its free it gets abused, the queues in NSW for testing are blocked with people who dont even have symptoms if the health dude on tv can be believed.
But hey as long as the media say something it has to be true, especially the Guardian, reporting on the Libs. Lol
What an idiotic comment
The vaccine is free tell me about the abuse.....remember toilet paper wasnt free
Blocked with people who were close contacts so they shifted the goal posts you mean
 
I don't understand why they could not have completed the deal then talked to the French before going public, or was the politics more important selling it domestically?
From memory, he stopped in on the way back from the meeting with the US and UK and jad dinner with Macron, where the intent was disclosed.
 
What an idiotic comment
The vaccine is free tell me about the abuse.....remember toilet paper wasnt free
Blocked with people who were close contacts so they shifted the goal posts you mean
Dont display your ignorance, you have been around the traps, you know if something is free people hoard it.
Or are you saying that wouldnt happen?
The chief medical officer pleaded with people who werent showing syptoms, or a close contact, or having been to designated hot spot, to stop lining up for a test.
 
Dont display your ignorance, you have been around the traps, you know if something is free people hoard it.
Or are you saying that wouldnt happen?
The chief medical officer pleaded with people who werent showing syptoms, or a close contact, or having been to designated hot spot, to stop lining up for a test.
Ok Ill let yours shine


Reckon will be the same here
 
People would grab as much as they could and sell them at a later date. Realistically what's the point anyway. I'm pretty certain the government is letting it rip. There are so many people that have Omicron and going out on New Years Eve that it's ridiculous.

The strategy is let it wash through. I think south Africa cases went straight up, then straight down. Obviously the government can either let this linger slowly over two years or be done with it in months.
 
Dont display your ignorance, you have been around the traps, you know if something is free people hoard it.
Or are you saying that wouldnt happen?
The chief medical officer pleaded with people who werent showing syptoms, or a close contact, or having been to designated hot spot, to stop lining up for a test.
22000 +ve yesterday and they turned how many away in NSW
Where were the 22000 previously.......spreading it
 
People would grab as much as they could and sell them at a later date. Realistically what's the point anyway. I'm pretty certain the government is letting it rip. There are so many people that have Omicron and going out on New Years Eve that it's ridiculous.

The strategy is let it wash through. I think south Africa cases went straight up, then straight down. Obviously the government can either let this linger slowly over two years or be done with it in months.
The point was always the vunerable and hospitals
Hopefully they know what their doing
 
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sorry 21k
 
22000 +ve yesterday and they turned how many away in NSW
Where were the 22000 previously.......spreading it


From the article:
The NSW government over the past week has blamed the testing chaos on pathology staff being exhausted, people getting swabbed unnecessarily and the Queensland government.
 
Hopefully they know what their doing
I'd say "Does anyone"?

The hospitals have had two years to prepare. This thing is well and truly out of the bag. I'm struggling with keeping up just across people I know that are catching it.
So one way or the other- we are going to find out.
 

From the article:
The NSW government over the past week has blamed the testing chaos on pathology staff being exhausted, people getting swabbed unnecessarily and the Queensland government.
Hang on captain this is the mob who were running round maskless a week before xmas with the knowledge of how easily spread omicron was for the sake of the economy
Now their not going out because of sickness and fear
 
I'd say "Does anyone"?

The hospitals have had two years to prepare. This thing is well and truly out of the bag. I'm struggling with keeping up just across people I know that are catching it.
So one way or the other- we are going to find out.
According to SP peeps are just getting tested for no reason lol
 
According to SP peeps are just getting tested for no reason lol
Unlike you I'm not saying anything, I'm repeating what the the chief medical officer said, at least get you crap straight. ?

The only comment I made of my own back, was that if rapid antigen tests were handed out free the authorities wouldn't e able to keep up supply, as people would hoard them for personal use at a later date.
I said it is like anything that is free it gets abused, just do a before and after BMI on yourself, when you do FIFO and the SPQ food at the mess is free. :roflmao:


From the article, to assist the mentally impaired member. ?


The nation’s Pharmacy Guild opposed completely free access to COVID-19 rapid antigen tests, lobbying the federal government to subsidise the cost for low-income households but make others pay to stop chemists being overrun.

Pharmacy Guild of Australia national president Trent Twomey has backed the government’s new self-testing plan, which provides free tests in high-risk settings such as aged care and for close contacts but leaves others buying them from a retailer.

He had proposed a “hybrid” model to the government and warned a free-for-all on tests would leave the system swamped by healthy people wanting to stock up.

“Otherwise we will have the ‘worried well’ taking publicly funded tests away from those who need them,” he said
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According to SP peeps are just getting tested for no reason lol
I think the fear of it that's been constant in the media is what's driving it. We were told over and over get tested.

One of the huge problems for me during this whole ordeal has been the messaging. Especially the health advice. It's been way to mixed and politicised.

A lot of young people just don't care and are going out anyway.
 
Pssss A little secret

The changes to testing is simply because they have no capacity

The changes to isolation are because they are running out of essential workers

Nothing to do with the spread of covid
 
Pssss A little secret

The changes to testing is simply because they have no capacity

The changes to isolation are because they are running out of essential workers

Nothing to do with the spread of covid
I think that's partially true.
But there has been an almighty push in nsw to just let this thing go. Everyone I'm talking to has at least 5+minimum people they know with it.

Just the timing of certain decisions looks like we are going to run through this pretty fast.
 
I think that's partially true.
But there has been an almighty push in nsw to just let this thing go. Everyone I'm talking to has at least 5+minimum people they know with it.

Just the timing of certain decisions looks like we are going to run through this pretty fast.
The timing is all about the optics for politicians not health
 
The timing is all about the optics for politicians not health
The way I look at it is that they can't afford to keep this covid 'isolation' strategy to keep going. Two years and billions of dollars down in revenue. Election year as well for fed.

That's why I stated a few weeks back they would probably let it rip
 
The way I look at it is that they can't afford to keep this covid 'isolation' strategy to keep going. Two years and billions of dollars down in revenue. Election year as well for fed.

That's why I stated a few weeks back they would probably let it rip

The people I know with O said from the start, they are not worried about Covid they are worried about being isolated for NYE

"No way am I getting tested unless they track me down through contact details and I have to" was the message from their friends

All intend to party hard tonight
 
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