Businesses warn of bare shelves after Government seizes Covid tests
The Government is seizing private supplies of rapid antigen tests to beef up its own stocks, according to multiple businesses.
Some are warning this will lead to supply chaos and empty shelves, as businesses will no longer be able to offer tests to staff. Others are now complaining they’re having to explain to staff why tests they’d been promised might not arrive.
1 – Government fucked up RATs & seizing them from private business is embarrassing
2 – Those screaming for RATs ignore they are unreliable and hopelessly false 20% of the time
3 – I’m all for Government seizing private property for the greater good, but this nonsense was avoidable.
4 – Both sides are wrong and I wish a plague on both houses
5 – hilariously one is coming.
Hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders are about to get very fucking sick! We need leadership from both National and Labour instead of bullshit politicking!
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If there is one consistent theme of Covid and this government, they never ever ever plan ahead.
xray vision – you can see right through these pollies eh. But set your machine closer and finer so you actually get to see the organs and achievements of the government. They may seem slow in acting but they are attempting to plan ahead. You may never ever give them proper praise for anything they do. Hyperbole again.
We in Auckland were locked down for 4 months because forward planning to the inevitable Delta outbreak that finally arrived extended only to March 2020’s adhoc plan and it didn’t work. Hence 4 months. You may recall testing was swamped at various stages back then. No alternatives to the PCR test were deemed necessary.
For the far more contagious Omicron we’ve now ordered x million RAT. That is not planning. They are reacting. Big difference!
Slightly fewer ICU beds per 100,000 than in March 2020, and even then there were disgracefully too few. That is not planning, that is incompetence.
And despite that, antiviral medication that can reduce hospital admissions by 89% and ordered last year are still unapproved for use. No urgency, no real plan. No idea.
It’s not hyperbole when they literally make it up as they go, is it?
Let’s be honest there are 2 things at play here:
1). The government doesn’t have enough tests for it’s employees (i.e. public servants such as doctors, police etc)
2). RAT tests sold via private business are untraceable in most respects therefore like what is happening in Australia atm is people are taking the test and ignoring the result because they need to continue to work to put food on the table and pay the mortgage.
We’re all going to catch it and 99% (if it’s the son of megatron strain) are going to be fine. There seems to be smug attitude that somehow we are going to somehow defeat Omnishambles. We aren’t – get over it.
Inflation, supply chain shortages and (likely) recession will have a much more damaging effect on this country in the next 12 months.
Exactly right Frank. For the vast majority of us, an infection will be like a moderate head cold.
Also I think the two week isolation period is ludicrous (it’s 5 days in the UK). If my wife then catches it we’re essentially stuck indoors for a month.
So when I catch it, no way will I volunteer to be tested. I will just fly under radar and carry on pretty much as normal. A classic example of over zealous rules back firing.
Isn’t the government buying up of the RATS capitalism at work as we are already seeing those with the deepest pockets buying up anything they can buy making them more millions.
RATs have been the last resort test for all the the failed governments around the world where Covid and Omicron is raging out of control. Science indicates that Aotearoa does not need to use RATs, which is not reliable test, until Omicron has taken hold. Pity that the Tories and media don’t listen to the scientists and experts rather than YouTube or Qnon/Hosking. I heard Bloomfield say they haven’t commandeered the tests. Its all a Tory dirty politics beat-up.
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