but the pandemic is over!

[kindkit]

I heard from my co-worker with COVID. She's feeling a bit better, which is good, especially since she hasn't been able to get either an official test or access to antivirals due to wait times at all clinics. Which are due to many people being sick from the nonexistent pandemic illness, as well as flu and RSV. Meanwhile, HR contacted her to say that she can come back on Wednesday (!) if she feels up to it, and she doesn't have to test at all before returning. (She said she's going to test anyway, and fortunately, she's in a position where she's financially able to stay home if she either tests positive or doesn't feel recovered.)

HR also contacted me, since I'm considered to have been exposed, to tell me that I don't have to test either and can come in as usual if I don't feel sick. (I feel fine so far, but I'm going to test tomorrow morning anyway.)

This is all so messed up.

Comments

[radiantfracture]

I hate the "you don't have to test" rule. it's so ethically vacant.

[sovay]

HR also contacted me, since I'm considered to have been exposed, to tell me that I don't have to test either and can come in as usual if I don't feel sick.

Well, no part of that sentence is logically connected to any other part.

*hugs*

[lilacsigil]

Yeah, Australia recently stopped any quarantine requirements after exposure and even if you've tested positive, as soon as you can get a negative test you can work. (There's a small number of exceptions in aged care and disability care but not in hospitals!) 2022 has had more COVID deaths than the previous two years combined, though at least some of that is that we had a very low death rate in 2020 when lockdowns were in effect.

[silveradept]

It's clear that they're trying to treat this as if it were a cold instead of something far worse. It's over, of course, because the people with the real power said it was, and the rest of us have to do something else instead.