During the pandemic, Australia had been until recently one of the luckier of the western countries. We still had the virus, but compared to the US and UK we were keeping our numbers low with a few half assed lockdowns, contact tracing and a relatively compliant mask culture.
Well, I hope you liked all that not getting sick while it lasted because daddy US and UK said the virus is over, so rather than keep playing it safe we've now stopped enforcing most of our restrictions. Within days the virus has spread like wildfire, the government has announced they can no longer do contact tracing because there are too many cases. Rapid antigen tests are sold out everywhere, you can't get them. Hospitals are now struggling and lines for testing are so long that they're turning people away.
So yeah, Australia is no longer managing to contain the spread as well as they were.
Anyway, I started getting COVID symptoms yesterday, and today lost my sense of taste. I tried to get tested today and was told they're full. My boss wants me in tomorrow. Not quite sure what to do.
Edit: Going to call in sick and try to get tested again tomorrow. I feel bad for the nurses, it must be hell dealing with this surge. Also, I'm up to date with my vaccine so even if I do have COVID I'll probably be fine.
Get it in writing/don't go in.
"I have COVID and am contagious. I don't have a positive test only because they are sold out everywhere, but I'm 100% sure I have COVID. Considering I'm contagious and sick... I can not come into work... I need to confirm that you want me to come into work... I'm uncomfortable coming to work...etc
Can't you tell your boss you probably have covid?
Comedy option: Go to work and infect your boss.
Yeah I think I'll have to tell them. Although... Comedy option is tempting... :sicko-blur:
my :LIB: mum keeps talking about how the govt WANTS everyone to catch omicron for natural immunity
and how this is totally a good thing bc it's supposedly less severe
:deeper-sadness:
Even if it's less severe, which it may well be, there are so many more cases that deaths and hospitalizations are still going up fast, even if there are fewer hospitalizations per thousand cases.
the govt WANTS everyone to catch omicron for natural immunity
Finance capitalists literally celebrate omicron because it makes the line go up, apparently
Either a $200 fine for every day you don’t get vaccinated, or have the military literally go door to door and hold you down and put it in your arm. I no longer give a flying fuck about who or why or how they don’t trust the vaccine, thankfully it works whether you trust it or not, brace your arm asshole.
Individualist countries call for individualist solutions.
Arm everyone with a vax dart gun and a human tracking kit. Provide bounties on the unvaxxed.
Im imagining tanks that shoot a hail of needles like a shot gun blast.
RATs are still weeks away and at this point I'm hoping I just dont get symptoms. Everything's ass backwards as ever. Morrison et al are gaslighting the fuck out of us rn.
Stay safe out there owl
Yeah I hope its just the flu but a test would really put my mind at ease
Fingers crossed for you.
If youre vaxed you should at least avoid the worst of it, but its still a bum deal. Not looking forward to winter
Australia is not ready for their health system to collapse, and its about to collapse
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-05/covid-19-staff-shortages-hit-all-industries-across-nsw/100740638
Lol. Lmao
I hope you only have mild symptoms. Do not go into work, try and get yourself to quarantine.
