Either I'm a genius, or we've been misled about the PCR test load increase by the "tourism testing". It seems to have been exaggerated for political reasons against QLD. Now the rules are changing, I think the pathology problem will remain. /1
The queues may now shorten slightly, but the pathology labs will remain a bottleneck. They group doses together and if all are negative, they derive a fast result of all negative. But if enough postive samples are in the mix, this optimisation falls apart. /2
Case James Genius: I'm the only person in the whole system who thought of grouping tests for processing by tourism versus the various other reasons for the test. Tourists will be nearly all negative, and will therefore remain efficient. I hope they didn't miss this opportunity./3
Case Misled: They've grouped processing by tourism, and it's not loading the system nearly as much as we've been led to believe. We've been fooled by the QLD-bashing politics. /4
Or maybe there's a third case: The tourists are not returning nearly all negative. If that's what's going on, then Queensland is in for a rough ride with lots of imported cases in January! /5
Today we have another emergency meeting of the National Cabinet to discuss this topic. As usual with Scott Morrison, this is too little too late. This should have been discussed at the previous meeting - the one that failed to have any tangible outcome. /6 end. #ScottyDoesNothing
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