Gotta love bureaucracy... don't need to test. Type2's newly diagnosed literally have very poor control, often accompanied by poor blood test results in general. You'd think it would be a priority to try and get better control and that can't be done without measuring. So let's offer nothing to these poor unfortunate people in the way of help for measuring their levels, unless they are on hypo inducing drugs. They are struggling with the shock of diagnosis and don't know what to do next. They receive horrendous dietary advice that is backed by decades of complete failure, which if followed worsens one's health by accumulating complications, but somehow it's expert advice. And not only denied strips, but actively told they shouldn't test and some are berated for wanting to. It makes no sense to me.
I don't know who is responsible for these decisions. It's a shame these officials can't be taught a lesson to make them understand what not testing is like. These officials should be asked to try and drive a car while blind folded. You wouldn't even get them behind the wheel, they'd think you're mad to suggest such a thing. To me that would be the point, because that's what not testing is like, you can't see what your levels are doing because you are effectively blindfolded by an unhelpful and at times deliberately aggressive system.
Hats off to all those who self fund to test, even though they've been told not to.