Quote Originally Posted by brotherjim View Post
I’m sure that with a lot of the changed messaging that the difference between the advice in say April compared to now is around the availability of masks rather than their effectiveness.

Similar story with getting tested. In the first few months you had to meet strict certain criteria to get a test, that was solely because test kits were In very limited supply. Now they encourage people to go have a test at the smallest sign of any flu/cold like symptom. Reason we now have plenty of kits in stock.
Very good points brother Jim !

Back in February and March, you simply can’t buy masks in Sydney , so the Health Officials couldn’t have suggested the general public to wear masks in order to avoid more panic !

Same with the testing , back in March, at one stage I had some very minor symptoms so I went to the St Vincent tried to get tested , the people there asked a lot of questions including the rules that as soon as I got the test I have to head straight back home and stay there for 14 days quarantine, basically he had succeeded in talking me out of it as I couldn’t be bothered in the end . I think that had to do with the limited resources they got at the time so didn’t want to waste any kit on people who didn’t really need to be tested ? And now, they want to test as many as they can !