Just as Aucklanders get their first taste of government permissions we find out two pieces of information that show us, yet again, that the donkeys in charge couldn’t organise a root in a brothel with a fist full of fifties.
Some Android users are complaining of ‘’disappearing’’ vaccine passes on their smartphone home screens, but the Ministry of Health is offering assurances that a fix is on the way.
The issue is happening after users download the pass to the Google Pay app – where the pass is stored – and save a shortcut to their phone’s home screen, only to have the shortcut vanish days later, meaning they must log into Google Pay every time.
The Ministry of Health has admitted the issue. “Google has advised that by 16 December users should be able to install updates that will fix the problem,” the Ministry’s group manager for national digital services, Michael Dreyer, said.
Their passes are still accessible in the Google Pay app, but that requires people to log in every time. With vaccine passes now required in restaurants, hair salons, clubs and any close-proximity businesses, users and businesses are expecting efficiency.
“It’s just an inconvenience. It’s an additional step to get into Google Pay,” Wellingtonian David Stevens said after facing the issue multiple times, including when he was trying to get into his local golf club on Monday.
“Obviously there’s a little bug somewhere when you create the icon and it’s not interacting with Google Pay.”
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What a bunch of clowns. Oh the hilarity: a vaccine pass designed to stop bugs, well, one in particular, has itself got bugs.
This is not rocket science yet they’ve dropped the ball. Everything this government touches ends up worse than before they inserted themselves into solving the problem.
The next screw-up probably isn’t a screw-up, it is highly likely a design feature to further inconvenience New Zealand’s second class citizens.
Rapid Antigen Testing has been rolled out, allegedly to make testing a bit easier. Other countries rolled them out months ago and made them easily accessible through pharmacies and supermarkets. People buy them and take them home to use. All rather sensible, until you find out what the clown show has organised for us:
But the Government is killing off RATs through bureaucracy. In many countries you can buy RATs at a supermarket and do it yourself. In NZ the Government decided that for now they could only be sold and administered through pharmacies. Now that might have been okay, if you could just turn up to a pharmacy, buy a test, have it done, and leave 15 minutes later. In fact this is what the Government told pharmacies would happen.
But at the last minute, new advice has gone out replacing the old advice. Now people need to book an appointment in advance with a pharmacy to have a RAT, and the pharmacist has to get into full PPE to administer the test. This will make it expensive, cumbersome and a deterrent to getting one. Remember, in many countries you can just buy them in a supermarket. And those who get a RAT are by definition asymptomatic as if you have symptoms you’d get a nasal swab test or saliva test. So requiring pharmacists to get into full PPE for a Rapid Antigen Test is absolutely counter-productive.
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To make matters worse you should try finding somewhere to make one of those appointments. Most pharmacies don’t even have any stock yet RATs are supposed to have started already.
Yet again we have ludicrous compliance requirements that make no sense. Firstly you have to make an appointment and the pharmacy has to supervise you taking the test. It’s like the government doesn’t trust us to do a simple test properly. Then there is the idiocy of making someone put on full PPE to administer a test when the same person could be served in the pharmacy without full PPE if they weren’t getting a RAT done.
The whole shemozzle looks like the government is just making further barriers for the filthy unclean second-class citizens to climb over.
They most certainly don’t trust their citizens to do these tests in the comfort of their own home, instead making them line up to be shamed at a pharmacy where other customers will now know that these people waiting for a test are unclean second-class citizens.
Other countries trust their citizens. Then again those other countries haven’t created two classes of citizens either.
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