Chatting with a friend in Zurich last night they HAVE the RAT, RapidAntigenTesting, needed for concerts, events but not restaurants (Yet?) free this month mooted to cost CHF40 next month if you want to go out ;-) ....AUD60 per person per dinner/theatre visit once Kerry Chant now under siege with Brad Hazzard in latest supreme court case hearing Wednesday 8Sept may...MAY....WILL??? approve the RAT? I'd hazzard a BRAD guess that the 1 million are not used yet or more likely, not analysed into a formal report ready for release? Would I be wrong seeing a link between the "self-administered" RNO nose clip collection method and the RAT once let out of the bag? To enforce (wrongly but that's what's happening) a discriminatory health screening the rhinoswab (noseclip?) at least would not discriminate against children, aged, or people with disabilities me thinks? Unconfirmed - I heard there is a Bill released last week to modify the BioSecurityAct 2015 to circumvent the PERSONAL HealthOrder requirement (which no one has done in Oz best I know) to allow once passed Health Directives to be made to GROUPS, not individuals. To me, that sounds like a retroadjust of the law to catch up on what is already happening & NSW H has done for the last 18months? If passed - the next directive could be all hotspots must self-administer a RAT before leaving their homes, a'la Dan in VIC changing tack from LOCKDOWNS to LOCKUPS?
Based on 1.2millions tests per week in NSW alone - if the Swiss charge ~AUD60 per RAT imagine what will happen if there are no test hubs to be staffed? No daily news conferences to be held at 11am? Everyone accepts the new directives to put the nocesclip in for 15 seconds before you open the front door? NSW Gov departments would save millions transferring it to the user and who will gain and lose?
Above are comments and my personal thoughts, definitely not to constitute investment advice.
RNO Price at posting:
34.5¢ Sentiment: Hold Disclosure: Held
