One of the constants throughout the Covid pandemic is that the “cure” has almost invariably been worse than the disease. This was obvious from the very earliest days, when the Chinese communist regime resorted to stunning brutality in Wuhan — “disappearing” researchers, punishing doctors who spoke out of line and even welding peoples’ doors shut.
Where the Chinese Communist Party led, Western governments followed, throwing out nearly every tenet of pandemic management plans years in the development, in order to inflict the most appallingly brutal “cures” on their populations. “Cures” which did anything but.
From very early on, some doctors not snout-deep in the public health trough warned that lockdowns would cause an even greater death toll as vital routine medical procedures were postponed. Psychologists warned of a dire explosion in mental health. Both are rapidly coming to pass, or have happened already.
But, for measures which are supposedly designed to protect the sick and elderly, it’s the sick and elderly who’ve suffered worst. In both New York and Victoria, government mandates led directly to a wave of deaths in nursing homes.
The survivors are now being slammed with food shortages — again, thanks entirely to Covid derangement in government and bureaucracy.
Sick Australians risk going hungry as food shortages threaten to spread to hospitals and nursing homes, as more warehouse workers and truck drivers struggle to access rapid Covid tests and are forced into isolation, food distributors warn.
The rapid spread of the Omicron variant has heaped unprecedented pressure on Australia’s food supply.
Well, no it hasn’t: it’s the bloody-minded stupidity and over-reaching arrogance of the Branch Covidians that’s responsible. Forcing people who aren’t even sick to stay home and isolate is catastrophic bureaucratic madness.
Chicken giant Inghams warned on Tuesday of disruption to production and distribution as a “significant” portion of its workforce is forced to isolate after being labelled close contacts, while Coles and Woolworths have warned of grocery shortages.
But Independent Food Distributors Australia chief executive, Richard Forbes, said that was the “tip of the iceberg”.
He said commercial kitchens in already under-pressure nursing homes and hospitals were struggling to access essential ingredients to prepare meals for the elderly and sick and he has called for a national policy on Covid-19 isolation rules.
But even as they admit the lunatic futility of the Covid regime, some critics just can’t bring themselves to admit that there’s a simple solution: just stop testing anyone who isn’t actually feeling sick.
Crucially, Mr Forbes said food distributors need ready access to rapid antigen tests, which are in short supply. The regulator only approved the use of self-tests late last year, despite Australian companies – such as Brisbane-based Ellume, which is sending more than 700,000 RATs to the US each week – being at the forefront of RAT development.
Underscoring the demand for RATs is the lengthy delays from pathology providers, which in some cases are taking up to eight days to inform someone that they’re Covid-positive.
“I would ask both the federal government and all states and territories to please find a solution to this problem for our sector before the lack of RAT kits gets worse than it already is,” Mr Forbes said.
The Australian
There’s a very obvious solution staring us all in the face: just stop getting tested. Unless you’re actually feeling Covid symptoms, there is absolutely no need to take a Covid test. The only thing keeping the Covid hysteria going is endless testing. Once testing stops, the endless daily lists of “cases” (not “sick people”, remember, just “positive test results”) will dry up and the media and politicians will run out of fodder to keep scaring the pants off the gullible.
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