I've seen your posts re testing and I agree with all of them. A rapid test at the airport and then PCR testing on arrival and a week later is sufficient, but this is the problem right now in Australia and many other places. Who is running the world right now - is it politicians or scientists?? In Australia it is Brendan Murphy.
The need for PCR test, after PCR test, after PCR test makes no sense. The aim to reach level of 0 risk will be one day very costly, yet no one seems to care or understand, least of all politicians.
Australia is now facing a situation where you may soon get to 100k Australians who are literally stranded overseas and can't come home because I'm sure we will continue to have hotel quarantine requirements and small caps for another 18 months or so. I'm not stranded, but want to so badly visit home, and I'm now considering putting up a ridiculous amount of money to fly home, take 4 weeks off work for quarantine and 2 weeks with family and friends. If however I wait, by the middle of next year I will be in a situation where I am stranded because my visa expires late 2022.
My biggest issue is that for the vast majority of Aussies in Australia now, this doesn't register. Australians overseas should be able to fly home at any point with little difficulty, but this just isn't happening.