RE: Surely..18 Feb 2021 09:32
The govt really have some work to do to overcome the next hurdle, which is going to be getting the general public (i.e. people who have not spent months researching the ins and outs of this on the AVCT bb :) ) to buy into the notion that a LFT is the way to differentiate and test between "positive infectious" and "positive non infectious".
They have literally hammered home the "vaccine silver bullet" rhetoric for months, while it seems the only press LFT's have got up to now is heavily skewed to the negative side.
You only have to look at when they started the LFT POC in Liverpool. There were commetns such as :
"They want to test more people with cr*p tests so there are more false positive cases and they can keep us locked down"
Changing the mindset of the majority of the uneducated population (and by uneducated I mean in the Covid testing space) is going to be tough.
I guess one way to do it is say to them, if you take a test you can go to the footy or a nightclub etc etc. but I do think they need to get a clear and detailed message out there ASAP that testing will be just as important as vaccines and why that is the case!