Freedom for mates that is:The shortage of rapid antigen tests for consumers is being exacerbated by state and federal governments and large corporates placing mammoth orders for the kits, causing stock to be diverted from online retailers and pharmacies. And plague enslavement for you:Australian Council of Trade Unions secretary Sally McManus told reporters on Monday that unions were witnessing some employers placing workers in harm’s way by “making people go to work when they’re sick”. It is corporations:Woolworths has suspended supplies from a South Australia meatworks that was given state government approval to operate while some staff were Covid positive. Morrison has turned cry freedom into cough your lungs up and hope to live. As the more thoughtful wonder how such a spectacular dill even managed to become PM.

Source: The Guardian January 18, 2022 16:25 UTC