Yes well, that's fine for those who own and drive cars, great idea only test and worry about them I suppose since they pay Road Taxes, Car Insurances, Vehicle Registration Fees, taxes on oil and petrol, etc, they help keep the 'snout trough' stocked up for the Governments to feed from.
But what aboout we, the elderly, disabled, unemployed and the homeless?
Are we just considered as 'fodder' for the virus?

@Triphid ummm, if you really want a test, you could easily rent a car for the day....about $19 if you return it to the same place.

@AnneWimsey When or IF ever have rented a car in Australia?

@Triphid oh, wait, you just want to bitch....nevermind.......

@AnneWimsey Ding dong, you're wrong.
Not 'bitching,' I much prefer to leave that little 'task' up to experts like yourself ( my opinion here of course).

For example, most of the millions & millions who live in big cities...but that's why there are millions of car rental agencies.....including some, like Enterprise, that will come pick you up.
And most people have drivers' licenses because they are universally accepted as identification.

@AnneWimsey We have provincial ID cards, & we have our medical cards that are also ID.

Ah, Evangelidiot, my new name for him btw, well he has been TRYING to construct a hand-cart from timber so as to carry his supplies this last week or so but can't find anyone who can make actual wooden wheels with iron rims on them for him, he wants to do everything as per would have normal in those times.
He has also struck a 'hinderance' from his Mother and siblings in that he told them of his 'hearing God and speaking with God, etc, etc, and they have threatened him with having him put on a Schedule 8 and admitted to a Mental Hospital for Treatment IF he continues with his " obvious insanity."
So it seems we will all just have to sit back and wait to see what unflods.
However, once someone is placed on a Schedule 8, they can be 'hospitalized' in an Institution for a period anywhere from 6 months to 4 years normally or the Schedule 8 can be extended on the recommendations of 3 Psychiatrists for as long as 15 to 20 years.

@Triphid it doesn't quite work like that mate. A gp can detain for 24 hours, a psychiatrist for 3 days and at the end of thise 3 days it take 3 psychiatrists to detain for another month and then they have to be assessed monthly. To continue detention takes 3 psychiatrist to sign off on it. It's actually extremely difficult to detain someone for more than a month.

@Cyklone Have actually seen or experienced a patient being put on a Schedule 8?

@Triphid I have some experience on this area.

@Cyklone The laws on Schedule 8 may have changed since my time as a Psychiatric Nurse working at Parkside Mental Institution in 1976 and on the lengths of 'hospitalisation there since we admitted a patient we all nicknamed "Big Bertha" who, when being tranferred from the R.A.H. to Parkside managed to single-handedly literally destroy the inside of one those old Ford 'Paddywagons ' completely, put 3 Police Officers in hospital with fractured jaws, fractured cheek bones, 4 fractured ribs and badly bruised and very swollen genitals before someone managed, at great personal risk, to inject her with enough Morphine to knock her out completely.
"Big Bertha" stood at approx. 6'5" weighed in at around 267 kilograms and was built like a brick shithouse.
The reason she was 'restrained' and admitted was that she had been off her medications for well over 2 months and gone 'beserk' thrown her 5' 10," partner ( a Bricklayer and Builder) through a solid wooden front door and had then set about doing her very best to demolish a brick house that they rented from the Housing Commission with nothing more than her bare hands.

@Triphid fun and games. The only way they get long term detention these days is if they've killed someone and used the insanity defence. Then it'a court ordered and they get locked up in James Nash house for a bloody long time.

@Cyklone Oh okay then the rules, etc, have changed but I won't tell that to Evangelidiot though....LOL.

@Triphid why would you want to get rid of all that free entertainment?

A 'No Go' as well I suppose.
Bloody minded Bureaucratic Up-starts those dip-shits are imo.