Found this on https://www.finder.com.au/ website comparing where to buy RAT’s. Comes to $5.98 per test Inc shipping. Crazy to think some petrol stations were selling for $25 per test
JusChek COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Tests Nasal 1 Pack of 5 Tests $29.99 Shipped @ Rapid Proof
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It's likely places that bought them out and are trying to get rid of them now that States are getting their asses in gear to give them out for free
I've just gotten to the point where I walk around with a test cassette dangling out of each nostril.
At least this price is somewhat reasonable! I can’t believe when I went to woolies to get one after some one sneezed on me and they charged me $12!! Absolute disgrace, I can’t wait for the truckload woolies and coles have in stock to come up to expiry so they can start moving them for $3 a piece
That's the quote I got this morning from one of the wholesalers. $2.9+gst per test for a pack of 25 tests. The price is def coming down.
Wholesalers?
Ya, I'm in the PPE and Medical Supply niche so I get quotes on these all the time.This price only applies to a minimum order quantity of 100,000+ units though but at least its a reference to the price drop in recent days.
@dealmaker: Lol. Wasnt new to me since I registered it back in "2002". And if you look closely there is no "d" in it. Why? I have no idea haha
They are cheaper than that retail in Germany. ALDI at least :)
they charged me $12!! Absolute disgrace
EMOTIONAL DAMAGE!
Comes to $5.98 per test Inc shipping.
5 for $29.99 comes to $5.998, ie. $5.99. Don't forget which site you're on - every cent counts.
Rounding the last 8 brings it to $6.00 not $5.99
You can get 5 RATs free delivered in WA. In comparison this isn’t a bargain if you are in WA of a state which provides free RATs.
by the time you buy a house in WA, this deal works out cheaper.
I could buy a median price house in WA and have enough money left over to buy half a million dollars worth of RATs compared to Sydney.
WA median house price would buy you a rat-infested bedsit in Sydney. (sorry "studio apartment" :)
I applied within ten minutes of the free offer being made available but I still have no idea when those tests will arrive. Lets see how long it takes for the WA government to ship them out!
The web-page clearly said "Delivery of metropolitan location orders will start from 14 March."
I was similar, filled it in very early on. Got an email yesterday saying they will ship them out on the 14th but received tracking information today from Auspost saying it's waiting to be picked up or sorted so must be shipping early.
Thanks, OP!
Appears you can add a second box for $27.99
The kids' school keeps giving tests given by Dan the Man. No one at school is getting covid. No one I know has had covid. We're not testing. We have about 40 tests in the cupboard.
Just for fun the kids did one last night. Time to move this one along! And yes, before school term in Vic, we got told to get some by the childcare centre. The testing site gave us 7 for free.Why dont you donate the tests to vulnerable people or people who visit vulnerable people if you dont need them? There is still parts of the community that still have to isolate or need to test daily so they can get on prophylactic treatments ASAP if they catch covid.
No one at school is getting covid.
We're not testing.
There used to be a time when people got sick and knew it, without a little plastic stick telling them. The word seemed to cope perfectly.
This isn't really something to brag about, not a big deal doing a test but makes a big difference to cases across the millions who do them. More than 250 people died in the past week. Bragging that you're too lazy to spend 5 mins to reduce that is weak as.
For reference of scale 38 died in the Port Arthur massacre, roughly the average number of deaths we're having every day.
No-ones asking you to do anything drastic like lockdown anymore, least you can do is spend 5 minutes to make a reduction in number of hospitalisations and deaths. Just because you're not seeing it with your own eyes doesn't mean it isn't happening.
Just listen to expert recommendations and get on with life, gotta get over your hysteria.
You're right. Without checking, im sure the deaths with covid are the highest they have ever been, yet life IS back to normal as far as I can tell.
The get tested and isolate thing really isn't relevant anymore is it? Otherwise we wouldn't be back to normal. We've done that for years.
With the small mask rules still in, it proves how silly someone still wants to make rules. Me on public transport must wear mask. School aged kid on public transport No mask. Me at workplace or study place in rooms of potentially hundreds of people, no mask. Kid at school in room of 20, must wear mask.
Zero hysteria about this whole thing from day one. Hope commonsense can prevail after these years.
Well I don't know what you mean by "normal". If you mean it "feels relatively normal" to the average person, sure.
But there are still plenty of preventative measures that are taking place that weren't in 2019. For example, until just this week there were big caps on events.But the biggest one, is that those who have COVID and those who live with a positive case need to completely isolate, and can't leave their house for any reason. Every day, ~20,000 people and those who have spent 4 hours with them need to isolate for a week, removing them from society, preventing further infections, and allowing us to live like "normal".
In terms of 2019 "normal", that's a very different reality, if every person with COVID has spent 4 hours with 5 people - that's ~700,000 people a week not being able to leave their homes for any reason. That's not "normal" in a 2019 sense, but it's the reason that the rest of us can get on with it and seemingly "live like normal". If they were out in the community, there'd need to be other measures placed across the entirety of society, to slow down and reduce spread. And the rest of society would no longer be living "normally".
So that's why testing is entirely relevant, because it removes many people from society while they are infectious, reducing the number of cases in the community, allowing you to live normally.
I'm not going into the reasons why some of those mask rules can arguably make sense, but I will add that the health recommendation is currently that we do wear masks in most of the places they've just been removed from. So there is some level of hypocrisy in certain areas, but they've kept the areas that are deemed the most essential or impactful on spread. But the removal has been popular amongst many people despite being against health advice (I'd have thought people like you would be happy?)
This is one of the first times that a mask recommendation from health hasn't been heeded by government (at least in Vic), so the experts actually are recommending that you should wear a mask in most indoor settings. I am personally using common sense and wearing a mask when I'm in crowded areas, regardless of what the govt is telling us.
The issue with "common sense" is that it differs from person to person, which can prove problematic in something like a pandemic, which is really designed to kill many of us if we just gave into our primal instincts.
It's very difficult for some people to perceive the impact of restrictions across millions of people - they think a rule is stupid because they only see themselves experiencing it, and see the flaws or hyopcritcal elements only when it comes to their own lives. They can't perceive what something might look like across a population of millions - nor should they be expected to after all, our brains aren't exactly geared to comprehend that level of scale.
For example, 6 million people going back to their individual offices is more impactful on transmission than a single 30,000 person event, but most people have trouble perceiving it that way.Anyway, I don't think it's a big deal wearing a mask or doing a free test, if you do that's cool man. Seems a bit over the top to me though. If you see hospitalisations or deaths in your community, you've gotta be comfortable with the fact that they were quite possibly preventable by doing these small things, and advocating for people not to do them around you, and not doing them yourself, there's a level of responsibility there. If you've thought about that and accepted you're comfortable with that outcome, whatever floats your boat mate. I've been doing plenty of things that I know could be responsible for deaths around me, that I'm at peace with, because I know I'm doing everything I can within reasonable effort to prevent them.
If you're rolling your eyes at what I'm saying here and think I'm being over the top, I'd implore you to think a little more deeply about where your opinions on this are coming from - usually just an emotional respnose to "being told what to do", rather than actually thinking intelligently about the situation, or listening to experts in this field.
It's been a rough time for everyone mate and I get why people have that reaction, but do think deeply about why you're so emotionally opposed to all these tiny things that experts clearly say make a huge difference in saving lives.Even if you think it doesn't do anything for you personally, what's it to you just to do what's recommended, if there's even the slimmest chance that our best epidemiologists are just a little more schooled at this stuff than you are?
Have a good one mate.
Hello all anybody can share experience buying from this site. I.e. is it legitimate? I didn't see any PayPal payment option so hesitated to finalize purchase. Cheers.
Waste of money, If you feel sick past present or future the decent thing to do would be to always stay home regardless so you don’t spread to other people. In relation to covid specific tests, what’s the point? Please anyone that can objectively tell me I’d love to understand. They offer no early treatment, tell you stay home anyway for 7 days and what? They literally have nothing for you, so apart from padding the government's data and uploading your private info it all just feels like a scam.
Hey mate!
Totally get why you feel like that. And to be honest, if you're not well off financially, it isn't fair - they should be cheap or free, and it's not fair that those who have good paying jobs or come from wealthy families are able to protect ourselves and our loved ones more than those who don't have as much. That's not fair.
I will mention that if you are a close contact or symptomatic, in many states you can usually get a free one from a PCR testing centre.But here's a few reasons why they're not a waste. I'm not going to talk about the financial element, obviously if buying these means you can't afford food, that's a different level of risk profile. I'm just going to talk about the tests themselves.
For a start, asymptomatic/pre-symptomatic infectiousness occurs a lot - that's a fact, so monitoring for symptoms only isn't necessarily foolproof.
When I'm going into an area with a) lots of people that I could potentially infect (festival, crowded bar, etc), or somewhere with a vulnerable person (hospital, or hanging out with someone vulnerable) I'll take one, as the impacts of the situation where I did happen to have it and spreading it are much greater than my average day to day living.Additionally, I think if I just feel a bit rundown/tired, without a positive test I'd be unlikely to isolate, as I wouldn't necessarily call myself "sick". But this can be one of the first displayed symptoms of COVID. I don't think most people would isolate in that circumstance either. I agree that people probably should take this pandemic as a lesson not to come to work with the flu though haha, we'll be better for it if that catches on.
Early treatment: there actually is early treatment available for those who are vulnerable. They are the ones who are most likely to die from this. This is important to note particularly for my next few points.
If you find out you have covid earlier, you are able to infect less people, as you might not go out to that bar as you were planning to a day before you develop symptoms. Even if you are not at risk, or think that you don't know anyone who is at risk, I'm sure someone around you has a Mum or friend who is vulnerable. Having earlier knowledge of being positive means you can inform your close and casual contacts - who may mean they'll have to isolate, or if a casual contact just change their risk profile (eg. not visit their at risk mother, or go out to a crowded bar). They may even do a test themselves, and find out they're positive much earlier than they would have - preventing their close contacts from infecting others too.
Plus seriously at-risk people can get early treatment sooner, all because you informed those around them sooner.
Every chain of transmission you manage to stop is potentially a life saved, particularly when you consider that cases can compound and a single transmission can potentially end up as thousands of cases eventually.I sense there's an implication in your comment that you may think Omicron is as bad as the flu? This is not true, and is not the stance of experts. We are at minimum getting 250 deaths every single week, and that is when things are going "well". A bad flu year is around 1000 in a whole year. That's a substantial number of deaths.
You can play a really important part in reducing those deaths, and at minimal cost to your lifestyle (unless you are positive obviously). Getting tested so you can remove yourself from contact with others is one of the best things you can do. And it's not some bloke off in another state who you're protecting primarily, it's first and foremost the people who are closest around your circles, as they are the ones your and your community's behaviour affects the most in terms of infection.
Even if you don't want to upload your RAT test to the government website (yes, I know it's technically legally required but better you don't avoid testing imo), most of the reason for knowing your positive status is actually things you can do on the ground that I've mentioned - and it's things that directly help your friends, family, and wider community.
It's also a good chance to actually take a test without having the government record it automatically - if that's something that concerned you about PCRs. Obviously if you want government benefits for isolating though you'd need to upload it.I know I've appreciated it a lot when my mates have let me know they're positive as quickly as possible, I've been able to avoid those in my life who are vulnerable after they've informed me of this. Personally, I've been in two situations where having friends take asymptomatic tests have shown up a positive result and had me avoid having considerable exposure, and then exposing my at-risk parents. Most of my friends probably wouldn't know that my parents are at-risk - and I'm sure there are people in your life who have conditions or vulnerable relatives that you're not aware of.
Hope that helps mate.
I got an up sell after ordering two packets for a $20 pack. If this is shown when you only order one pack the price per test would be $5.
In addition they also have a bonus pack before ordering for $27.99. ($5.80 a test)
In Victoria, you can get these free at the PCR test places - just say you have symptoms and they give you two tests.
Why pay for them at all when they are free?? The PCR testing sites don't even have queues any more.