The equinox was September 21-22, so we have commenced it 12 days on the summer side, when the sun is above the horizon for about 12-and-a-half hours.

If this is considered sufficient daylight to commence the arrangement, why do we continue it until April 3, 12 days on the winter side, when the sun is only up for a bit over 11-and-a-half hours, almost an hour less?

Finishing daylight saving on either March 6 or 13 coincides with similar day length to that when it started.

Who makes these decisions? What is the logic behind the late finish of daylight saving?

We all know how the last three weeks drag and we get up with lights on just to go to work.

No justification for this anomaly has ever been offered. If 11-and-a-half hours is enough, daylight saving should have started three weeks ago.

I often think our system of fines need correcting as a $1000 fine to a working person on a minimum wage could equal two weeks' income, whereas to an A-class citizen it could equal one hour's remuneration.

Have you noticed how empty the COVID-19 free testing sites are?

I visited the site at the Tarcutta/Church Street car park on Saturday. A huge car park, two nurses, and no queue.

In fact, I have not in the past weeks seen a single car there.

There is a good reason for this.

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They will test you and then inform you that you must self-isolate.

What if you simply volunteered yourself for a test - just to rule it out?

It doesn't matter: you must still go home, not go shopping, not buy food, no nothing. Work? Forget work. And stay home, alone, til they decide to send a result.

What if your fridge was empty, and you didn't know any of this? Too bad. Because they won't warn you in advance. That is quite deliberate of course.

Yes, they will tell you this after your test. When it is too late to make other arrangements for how you will live.

But wait, surely there is some offer of help? Support? Food? How to pay bills while you are suddenly not working? No! Nothing!

The person who responsibly decides they should get tested is punished because while waiting for a test, even if not a close contact, not in a hotspot, and simply wanting a test result, you have been tested and so must isolate.

The person who is not responsible, or who thinks it is probably hayfever or something else, they don't suffer any stay at home order. They are free.

If you did a rapid antigen test at home, would you seriously self-isolate pending the result (pretend it takes days)? Of course not.

So why punish people just because they do the test? Only a fool would volunteer for this test.

These rules were drawn up for robots, or people who do not live in the real world, by politicians who have long since lost touch with how people are now suffering, have limited choices, have no way out.

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