The afternoon's worthies:
- Steven Hamilton and Richard Holden on getting to COVID-boring. Ubiquitous free testing and air filtration in schools are a big part.
- Auckland Uni's Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy at Brookings on NZ's housing reforms.
- A pretty comprehensive comparison of Rapid Antigen Tests against swab PCR tests for Omicron. A lot of them hold up well at moderate viral loads. If Covid shows up in saliva samples a day or two ahead of showing up in either of those, even better to get more access to saliva-based testing. But if the relevant comparison in the NZ real world is a nasal swab PCR test that won't give you results for a couple of days, it is looking hard to fault some of these RATs.
- When the NZ government stole rapid antigen tests from businesses that had been allowed to order some in from abroad, the government's twitter apologists jumped to claim that doing so was right and good to avoid profiteering. Foodstuffs here notes they wanted to distribute them at cost. Twitter's partisan dumbworms have gotten far worse over the past fortnight. Blocking liberally is the only solution.
- Covid isn't done innovating. Don't assume all innovations will be favourable for us.
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