To deal with the latest surge in cases, rapid Covid tests are finally being made widely available in Canada. About a year later than they should have been, but that’s how centrally planned systems function. Bureaucratic turf wars take precedence over satisfying obvious consumer demand.
The primary obstacle to implementing rapid tests in Canada has been the red tape provincial health authorities have put around using the tests — especially a rule that required the tests to be operated by health care professionals such as nurses. Such a rule makes widespread rapid testing effectively impossible, given Canada’s already limited health care resources.
If only Rob Ford was alive and well and now the current Prime Minister of Canada.
rob ford went full john tory, me thinks!
Rob Ford, not to be confused with Doug as you just did , preceded Tory.. Tory promised to complete the privatisation of garbage collection started by Rob and rode Rob’s coat tlails to become mayor.
Still waiting for full privatisation.
Yeah, in the year of our Ford, all is well at 13 o’clock.
Are these the leftover pre-infected ones from China?
Unless you need to prove you don’t have COVID, there is no need to take a rapid test either.
Didn’t you know? You are a plague carrier, until you prove otherwise. FYI,
innocencedisease free cannot be proven. You will need a vaccine passport, but you must remain at home in lockdown.how about we get some rapid antibody tests so we can see who needs the vaccines and who doesn’t? We can also monitor how long the antibodies last before needing a booster, if ever. You want me to believe the science? Show your work.
Amongst other things, this issue highlights how utterly useless the system of Health Units is. They’re nothing more than little private kingdoms for connected Drs to feel important while the suck the system of tax dollars while they do SFA.
I regularly send staff out from the hospital to run testing and vaccine clinics, inspect LTCs, build field hospitals and every other damn thing the Province needs done… all within the responsibility of the Health Units.
Well.. not completely useless… every month they send their Tobacco Enforcement Officers around to make sure no one is smoking on the grounds.
Fk every one of those useless pricks.
These tests should have been available to the PUBLIC AT LARGE right from the get go!
But Noooo…Two-bag Tam and Bonnie Bullshit and all the other healthcare fiends had to keep tight controls on all Covid related information! If they didn’t have total control over it, nobody else was allowed to have it. Whatever it took to protect their little proto-fascist fiefdoms.
I wonder how many deaths could have been prevented if these had been available?
I think that Canada and Canadians could flourish if only we could shrink our government. The government just gets in the way of all progress. Too many gate keepers. And we all know how “hard” working the bureaucrats are …. WTF!
I think this pandemic fiasco has opened the eyes of many to the power and incompetence of government.
You spelled corruption wrong.
March 20th, 2020 was when the rapid tests were approved elsewhere, made by a Canadian company…
but it took 1 year, and almost 2 months for our governments to give the go ahead…
It is frustrating, reading conversations where people clearly believe that there was some truth in anything they have been allowed to see. But, there is nothing I can do. I will believe what I want to believe, and I have no control over what everyone else chooses to believe.
A cryptic comment for sure. What do you believe?
Because it takes a expert to really screw things up.
Are these non-PCR tests? What exactly do they indicate? Sounds to me like a new way to amplify “cases, cases, cases.”
antigen tests are cheap and easy to use….their accuracy is in question. The inventor of this particular test (can’t find his video) said that you could do them at home and if you tested positive…just take a second test to confirm….if the second test is positive, you’re positive so
stay home and isolate, the problem was that most people were asymptomatic so….they continued to circulate and spread the virus.
Everything that has been done and will be done has been to protect the narrative of the superiority of the healthcare system as told by the establishment. It’s supposed to be free and better than the so-called US style healthcare but just ignore the rationing so that the system doesn’t get overwhelmed by the peasants expecting to receive healthcare.
Who cares, they are still lying.
+++++This.
In the remote northern BC mine where I work, the Covid cases dropped to zero after the rapid tests were introduced. Prior to that we had to have PCR tests with results back in 72 hours, now it takes 15 minutes. We always had 10 or so cases every turnaround except very few were ever sick. Now we have zero. I find that interesting.