Thread by @iMusing

I would have thought milder disease and more rapid transmission is exactly what to expect of a virus variant moving through a highly vaccinated population where basic public health measures are prematurely cancelled.
But apparently these are inherent characteristics of omicron.

insane queues at the WSU Hawkesbury campus testing clinic this morning, which the histograph website claims is open on 28 December. All the road signs, including electronic signs, are advertising free covid testing and results in 12 hours. But everything is closed.

the Vineyard church testing site is shut down. The Hawkesbury showground site is closed until 3 January and has a sign re-directing people to the Hawkesbury hospital clinic, which also has a sign saying closed until 3 January.

Hazzard says his government “focus” is moving to RATs. Nothing on the fact that advice for a positive RAT is to get a PCR test when PCR clinics all over Sydney are closed or overwhelmed. Nothing on RAT affordability and price gouging. Just this giant eugenics experiment.

turns out the worst economic managers in the country, Sydney Liberals, are costing millions of holiday, family, and productivity hours this week, including their garbage contracted providers who publish misinformation on websites and roadside signs.

so the worst economic and public health political leaders in living memory can comprehensively fuck up all the systems, with thousands of people turned away from testing clinics, and STILL deliver over 11,000 positive cases in a single day.

hearing the pigs are now turning up at closed testing clinics to turn away people who have been in the queue for hours. Symptomatic people. Close contacts. Casual workers. Sydney Liberals have produced the same result they always do: destroying lives, which wrecks the economy.

how on earth would this bloke know if a public health decision is a “good move” lmao he has caused the worst pandemic impacts in Australia by a country mile.

https://twitter.com/dom_perrottet/status/1475958955494948869

he has a commerce degree from USyd but maybe they do not teach that economies run on labour, which is provided by people, in return for money, so they can buy things, at businesses.