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Biden announces $600m for more free Covid-19 tests in anticipation of surge
(www.theguardian.com)
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Automatically sending them to homes would be extremely wasteful in a country where some half of the populace would never bother using them. Half would go straight in the trash.
I'm going to have to disagree with you. There are a lot of people who don't bother to test themselves because they don't think COVID is a big deal in any way.
Also folks who show symptoms but refuse to take a test because they’d lose money from time off work, since we all decided that safety nets and caring for the populace is stupid and communist so people have to juggle rent and self reporting
I used to test, but now that I know none of my friends or family don't get sick there's no point really. I can tell if I have vivid because I get a mild back soreness for an hour in the morning.
I think you might mean you know your friends and family don't get sick.... If none of your friends or family don't get sick, that means all of them get sick.
4 was plenty for my family to find out we were COVID positive. We ended up buying replacement tests because they weren't free anymore, but the free ones worked as intended.
Considering there's no reason to test when you're not having symptoms and that was the only time we had symptoms, I don't think I would have tested more often.
What’s your definition of “enough”? Of course it’s not enough to allow everyone to be 100% confident they don’t have covid if they come down with the sniffles. But if you have known COVID exposure, it allows you to test at the recommended 5-day mark to see if you have it yourself. That probably would cover around 80% of needs.