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First they promised to test 250,000 people a day.
But they knew they'd miss their target.
So then they promised to test 100,000 people a day.
But they knew they'd miss their target.
So then they promised to do 100,000 tests a day.
But they knew they'd miss their target.
First they promised to test 250,000 people a day.
But they knew they'd miss their target.
So then they promised to test 100,000 people a day.
But they knew they'd miss their target.
So then they promised to do 100,000 tests a day.
But they knew they'd miss their target.
So then they promised to have the capacity to do 100,000 tests a day.
But they knew they'd miss their target.
So then they said they had 'deployed' tests to 100,000 people.
And they congratulated themselves on meeting their target.
But they knew they'd miss their target.
So then they said they had 'deployed' tests to 100,000 people.
And they congratulated themselves on meeting their target.
Just 63,667 people were tested yesterday. We're still a long way from the 100k target, a world away from the 250k target, and, most importantly, we're still doing no testing of people in the community with symptoms, and we've not even started doing contact trace & isolation.
Yet the government proclaim 'success' and pat themselves on the back as their sycophants in the media parrot out the party lines without questioning. We are witnessing 1984 levels of public manipulation worthy of any tinpot dictatorship.
Meanwhile, there's barely a whisper about the 50,000 people who have now lost their lives in this crisis - the second highest death toll on earth.
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