13 May

Right now about 50% of Australians with cold and flu symptoms aren't lining up for Covid-19 tests. On the one hand they're told not to go to work if they're sick. On the other work is 'opening up' again, so many have to choose between not getting paid, or going to work sick. Can people not see the idiocy of opening up the economy - the country's work - while the country is sick, while at the same telling people not to go to work while they're sick? Public health is a thing - countries get sick, as well as individuals. That's what a pandemic is. Countries need to stop work, to heal, if they're sick.