so the NSW Premier has reinstated mandatory check-in.
a simple mask wearing rule immediately lowers infection risk and is simply government regulating public and commercial spaces. The QR system, on the other hand, will ping people to test and isolate under threat of $5,000 fines and wreck private christmas gatherings.
I realise spelling out the illogical dishonesty of Liberal Party ideology is redundant these days but anyway. Getting pinged 2-3 days later with a close contact notification is a lot more government right inside peoples lives than wearing a mask in public spaces.
hundreds even thousands of retail and hospo workers will be pinged to self-isolate in the next few days. After dealing with the public who refuse to wear masks this past week - for the government - they will be ordered to cancel their private christmas plans - by the government.
the Sydney Liberals are saying we are free to travel and gather for christmas but not to get “precautionary” [free] PCR tests because testing stations are overwhelmed since they lifted restrictions which are now reinstated in a decision they describe as “precautionary”.
obviously butchering the English language is the least of their sins. But. This insistent claim that words mean whatever they want words to mean is still oppressive clownery.
whatever else they are trying to achieve, the evidence points to a top Coalition government priority - in NSW and federally - of not spending public money where it is most needed.
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