Covid-19: RATs send Government skittering
It was a real through-the-looking-glass moment on Wednesday as Ashley Bloomfield hit back at claims that the Ministry of Health was “commandeering” or “requisitioning” supplies of rapid antigen tests – at-home Covid tests – saying that what they were actually doing was “consolidated into Government’s stock”.
The claim came in response to businesses who thought they had tests arriving, only to be told the ministry would be gobbling them up.
Look – I’m all in favour of the State seizing private property for the glory of the people, but why seize shitty tests that are 20% false all the time? –
Why the fuck aren’t we seizing Megalandlord properties or ghost houses or rich peoples money to feed poor kids?
Why must this seizing be of things that embarrass the Government by exposing their glacial bureaucratic incompetence rather than seizing obscene wealth to redistribute?
I’ve seen dead rats swallowed with more grace than this.
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I think this issue has been blown way out of proportion as usual and to use the word confiscated and theft is a step too far.
We dont need RATs at this time as we are still exhausting other tools. RATs are last resort tools for the failed governments around the world who lost control of covid and couldnt stop the deaths. Aotearoa is in a different position. Since those coming back through the border have been pouring in like rats full of omicron it looks like we will be in the same situation. They should be made to bring body bags back with them. The uneducated tory media businessmen and commentators have blown it out of proportion and should listen to the scientists not the Seymores and hoskings.
Wow. You really believe the World Economic Forum/Davos creed “You will own nothing and be happy”, huh.
https://medium.com/yardcouch-com/welcome-to-2030-i-own-nothing-have-no-privacy-and-life-has-never-been-better-b15eca64b694
Frightening.
Yes Ada they didn’t want them initially due to them being unreliable and that was when we were dealing with Delta, Alpha and Beta we now have Omicron. And due to the share numbers that will get Omicron we are left with no choice but to use the RATS. We already know the other nose tests is more expensive and takes longer for labs to process. Businesses need to stop biting the hand that has been feeding them and work for the greater good not themselves. And the nonsense we have heard about the RATS being confiscation is highly emotive and I thought they were talking about our stolen and confiscated Maori land, now that is theft and confiscation.
And golf course. Don’t forget the golf courses.
I wonder where Efeso Collins stands on that.
lols
Yep and the uniformed comments on how awful RATs are is really depressing – including from our host.
Anytime clinical medicine becomes political it becomes impossible to have an adult informed conversation.
RATs have a role. That role has been down played in NZ largely for political reasons. There are about 20 different manufacturers with variable sensitivity and specificity and to make these generic – “RATs are useless” comments is partisan and uninformed. The ball was dropped here.
BCE Agreed.
Let me ask some heretical questions: Do we really need testing in this stage of pandemia? What for? So that we can publish the number of cases? There were no testing in the times of previous epidemias like Hong Kong flu. You became sick, you visited or called your doctor, got advice and treatment, when you became too bad you called the ambulance. Everybody knew that when you got these and these symptoms you had it.
@Alexandra …. Minimising a deadly pandemic? Really? Are you vaxxed?
Dekanova … Djokovic? Did your alleged second test Code number have a lower Code number than the first?
Are you Whispering Kate again?
Please give us your real name, so we can charge you and your fellow conspiracy QANON nutters with manslaughter for peddling your Covid misinformation and fake news?
ACD? Another wannabe Trumper or MAGA hat collector Todd Muller? Trump-loving AOC hater?
Part of the Coalition of Freedumbers and Destiny klingons, or the Dirty Politics Nats like Muller, Collins at it again? Will you lot never learn about the consequences of dirty politics? It seems Luxon is learning from his mentor John Key though, when asked what National would differently, ducked for cover ‘Well the reality is we’ve got a lot of time, so we’ll tell you later’ Only another 434 lies to go to emulate the best PM that National could put up for New Zealand? https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2016/06/04/435-lies-by-john-key/
If you want to spread you minimising virus lies, or attack the left, stick to being in the Taxpayers Union, Harete Hipango’s right-wing nutfest faction, Density Church and their rentacrowd
Here’s the real Alexandra’s actual web presence. Hopefully her web presence will help fight the anti-democratic liars like you. https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/
How can you tell when QANON nutters like ACD are lying?
When their lips are moving, or their fingers typing @Alexandra.
Hello, Bullshit detector, unlike you and many others in this blog I am here under my own proper name.
Other things that you wrote on my address do not qualify for an answer.
My flatmate and myself were sick with the Hongkong flu in London in the second wave of 1969 and we were really sick, it was shitty. We had our little radio on all the time and all we got for encouragement by the gov was to stay at home, use plenty of pillows to prop yourself upright, drink plenty of fluids, the hospitals were overloaded etc. It was hell but we got over it in the end. To use the toilet we literally were crawling to get to the pan. The landlord downstairs was dropping off saucepans of soup outside our door bless his heart. I think it will come to this with Omicron. People will just use their judgment and endure as best they can. Personally I think you are safer being out of hospital, its the last place you want to be. Good luck everyone over the next couple of months. Kia kaha.
@Kate. 50 years later, we all know that The Hong Kong flu and the moon landing were both West vs East conspiracies. Soup was left outside the ‘accommodation’ in both fake news events.
Covid, The Springbok Tour, The Falklands War, and the recent Pittsburg Bridge collapse, were all about political manipulation of a gullible public by politically left-leaning Fake News media outlets.
You need to get back on to your medication. What I experienced during the Hong Kong Flu pandemic was bloody true. Take your meds right now and have a lie down. You may have come and seen but you are deluded all the same.
Verum non dicis, @Veni, vidi etc.
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