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I’ll preface this by saying that this is a rant/melt lol.
I am now symptomatic (fever etc.) and my doctor told me to get a PCR test done because it’s very likely that I have COVID. OK, it is what it is.
We all know about Victoria’s (or Australia’s) rapid antigen test shortages. As expected, I could not find anything.
So, I decided to comply with my doctor’s recommendations and get a PCR test done. I wake up in the morning, go there about 7:20am. Long line, but I expected that. I ended up waiting for 6 hours until about 1:20pm while having a fever etc., which was way longer than expected. As long as I get tested, then I have achieved the outcome that I was seeking, right?
After all that waiting, I was in the first 15-ish cars in the line. I then noticed that the queue was moving quicker than before. Was it because people were getting tested quicker? No. It was because they decided to shut down the site! I asked why and they said that this was ‘due to flooding’ of the site (OK, I’ll admit that was a bit flooded and not the best conditions for the workers, but I think it was a bit of an exaggerated response for the amount it flooded). I asked what the alternative was, and they said that I needed to go to another site near my area. That place probably has a longer wait time because that suburb is even more populated than mine!
Wtf I feel so annoyed now. I waited there for 6 hours It’s also the first time I ever went to get tested for COVID and it went like this.
I’m not mad at the workers, but I’m disappointed at the general fallout of increased COVID numbers here in Australia. I find it very chaotic (at least in the Eastern side of the country) when I really expected it all to go smoothly.
Did anyone else experience the same thing in Victoria or other parts of the country?
I am now symptomatic (fever etc.) and my doctor told me to get a PCR test done because it’s very likely that I have COVID. OK, it is what it is.
We all know about Victoria’s (or Australia’s) rapid antigen test shortages. As expected, I could not find anything.
So, I decided to comply with my doctor’s recommendations and get a PCR test done. I wake up in the morning, go there about 7:20am. Long line, but I expected that. I ended up waiting for 6 hours until about 1:20pm while having a fever etc., which was way longer than expected. As long as I get tested, then I have achieved the outcome that I was seeking, right?
After all that waiting, I was in the first 15-ish cars in the line. I then noticed that the queue was moving quicker than before. Was it because people were getting tested quicker? No. It was because they decided to shut down the site! I asked why and they said that this was ‘due to flooding’ of the site (OK, I’ll admit that was a bit flooded and not the best conditions for the workers, but I think it was a bit of an exaggerated response for the amount it flooded). I asked what the alternative was, and they said that I needed to go to another site near my area. That place probably has a longer wait time because that suburb is even more populated than mine!
Wtf I feel so annoyed now. I waited there for 6 hours It’s also the first time I ever went to get tested for COVID and it went like this.
I’m not mad at the workers, but I’m disappointed at the general fallout of increased COVID numbers here in Australia. I find it very chaotic (at least in the Eastern side of the country) when I really expected it all to go smoothly.
Did anyone else experience the same thing in Victoria or other parts of the country?