Starting October 1, New Zealand will no longer provide free COVID-19 rapid antigen tests (RATs), shifting to a purchase-only model.
Free tests will remain available until stocks run out before the deadline.
Initially set to end in June, the free provision was extended to ensure sufficient supplies through winter.
Pro-jab health “experts” like Siouxsie Wiles and Michael Baker voiced their concerns to state media that this policy change could “exacerbate inequity”, as low-income individuals may struggle to afford tests, claiming the RATs were important in identifying COVID-19, particularly for high-risk groups who require timely antiviral treatments. The tests are also helpful in distinguishing COVID-19 from other respiratory illnesses and preventing the spread of infections through self-isolation.
They argue that rapid testing is crucial in managing COVID-19’s ongoing risks, from preventing severe illness to protecting others. However, some experts, like Michael Plank from the University of Canterbury, suggest that the resources spent on free tests could be redirected to more impactful areas, such as “targeted vaccination campaigns”.
Pandemic of testing
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the phenomenon referred to as a “pandemic of testing” emerged as widespread testing practices led to inflated case numbers.
With easy access to rapid tests and rigorous testing requirements in workplaces, schools, and travel, even asymptomatic individuals and those with mild symptoms were regularly tested, revealing many cases that would otherwise have not caused any alarm.
Critics say the approach contributed to a heightened sense of alarm, as daily case counts became a key metric for assessing the pandemic’s severity. They argued that the high number of detected cases—many of which were mild or asymptomatic—did not always reflect the true burden on healthcare systems, as the focus on case numbers sometimes overshadowed more relevant indicators such as hospitalizations, severe illness, and deaths.
The overemphasis on testing and case counts created disproportionate fear and led to ongoing economic and social harms that some felt were not always aligned with the actual risks posed by the “virus”.
There are too many stupid moments in the Covidiot Era to highlight.
But two of the most stupid are believing the flu disappeared when ‘covid’ came and home testing sniffles & sore throats – something no one ever did before 2020 – then reporting it to help create a fake pandemic. pic.twitter.com/TloroA9FjK
— Unmasking Mainstream Media (@unmasking_media) August 24, 2023
At the centre of the ‘pandemic’ fraud is the fantasy fiction idea that any of these #COVID tests are accurately detecting the ‘novel #Coronavirus‘ or genuine medical diagnostics. They are neither. It’s a facade. https://t.co/vKPNFrR7TP
— Patrick Henningsen (@21WIRE) November 14, 2020
Image credit: Waldemar
I still never took a covid test. Not even sure if I had it or not. Same with husband and son. All unvaccinated. What happened to the pandemic of the unvaccinated?
Good thing because the swabs were tipped with ethylene oxide a carcinogenic substance delivered right to the doorstep of the brain having what knows long term detrimental effects😒
Good riddance. Never took part in the pandemic charade…..they can keep their props for the hypochondriacs….
My sis pressured me to get jabbed UNLESS I could prove I’d had covid.
Took a test, showed her the documents.
I’d had covid twice.
Then she raved about me surviving “Such a deadly illness.”
She’s had 5(?) jabs last I heard.
With all due respect your sister sounds like a moron.
Sorry to hear that. Condolences.
Snake-oil sales scammers used to face being tared and feathered…if they were lucky.
When will the luck run out here?
Whilst I appreciate people were easily persuaded by government the pandemic was real, that time has now passed. Virtually nobody in this country or around the world will voluntarily take any injection whatsoever. Making it difficult for citizens isn’t going to change that.
The release of man-made bio wepons to make people sick and die is murder. For any government ignoring this plain fact is participation. Ignoring the evidence is not proper governance. It is not justice.
Elon Musk said Civil War is inevitable. When Civil War breaks out it will spread across Europe and the rest of the western civilisation.
The only way forward is to acknowledge the self assembling machines in the so-called vaccine and take steps to bring those responsible to justice. Do it or face justice yourself!
They don’t work anyway
And never did
Like the PCR Test
Because they are looking for something that does not exist
Calling all sheeple🤣😂👍🙌
Rapid Antigen Tests – Making “Viruses” Real Again
https://drsambailey.com/rapid-antigen-tests-making-viruses-real-again/
What is going on in NZ is absolutely diabolical
All scientific evidence gathered from around the world and here categorically and unequivocally points to the unedifying facts that safe proven and effective in all actuality really transpires into the reality of unproven unsafe and completely unnecessary
The Ag Prop train excursion of disseminated propaganda and lies trundles merrily on behind the cover story facade of lies distortion and spin afforded by the Presstitute Great Wurlitzer Mockingbird Media
Who without such would not have been possible
It is all being simmered and kept alive for the next plandemic which through the criminal actions of our illustrious leaders so concerned for our welfare may now see Us being able to be forcibly vaccinated within our own homes
Maybe Sam Bailey, or someone that believes her theory can explain how what happened to my family was not a viral infection.
In June we went to Fiji for a family holiday. 2 days before returning to NZ my youngest daughter became ill, vomitting, fever and lethargic. We took her to the doctor a day before coming home. Doc said it was a virus/viral and prescribed antibiotics and ibruprofen. On the flight home my asthma started playing up, and the day after I quickly went downhill with body aches, fever, chest congestion etc. Flu like. 2 days later my wife came down with the same. We all took about 10 days to clear the infection.
So, how does this fit with terrain theory, and not virus theory?
We all had the same illness, but came down with it at different times and in different places.
Her explanation for measles and chickenpox are not convincing to me either.
Covid was blown out of proportion and fear was used to drive peoples actions. But, I am not swayed by this ‘there are no viruses’ theory.
IMHO it lets the people who experiment with these dangerous methods and pathogens off the hook for the damage they cause.