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Plunging demand for COVID-19 tests may leave US exposed
The Associated Press ^ | February 27, 2021 | By MATTHEW PERRONE

Posted on 02/28/2021 3:56:07 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON - Just five weeks ago, Los Angeles County was conducting more than 350,000 weekly coronavirus tests, including at a massive drive-thru site at Dodger Stadium, as health workers raced to contain the worst COVID-19 hotspot in the U.S.

Now, county officials say testing has nearly collapsed. More than 180 government-supported sites are operating at only a third of their capacity.

“It’s shocking how quickly we’ve gone from moving at 100 miles an hour to about 25,” said Dr. Clemens Hong, who leads the county’s testing operation.

After a year of struggling to boost testing, communities across the country are seeing plummeting demand, shuttering testing sites or even trying to return supplies.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; covid; virus
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1 posted on 02/28/2021 3:56:07 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s shocking how quickly we’ve gone from moving at 100 miles an hour to about 25,”
slo joe has a plan here it is


2 posted on 02/28/2021 3:58:28 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Guess the Covid Panic People are running out of rope to hang themselves with. 80% of the population is done with the scam and it won’t even require 80% getting vaccinated.


3 posted on 02/28/2021 3:58:51 AM PST by No_Mas_Obama
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

they want testing every 2 weeks?

uh...no.

Haven’t test once and do not intend to test every two weeks


4 posted on 02/28/2021 4:02:11 AM PST by EBH (Deer in the headlights get killed)
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To: ronnie raygun
Less tests....less cases. Gee didn't President Trump say there was a correlation...

Remember the more positive tests, the more "herd immunity" is in play. They don't want you to consider "natural immunity"....just their vaccine.

It's called.....rigging the numbers.

5 posted on 02/28/2021 4:02:25 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: No_Mas_Obama

Exactly!


6 posted on 02/28/2021 4:02:45 AM PST by EBH (Deer in the headlights get killed)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

>>Just five weeks ago,

Joseph Stolen is now in the White House. Nobody needs to fill their gastank anymore.


7 posted on 02/28/2021 4:05:40 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: Sacajaweau

We will be shut down into 2022. I see no evidence that offices will be reopening to all workers into next year.

Test, don’t test, vaccinate, don’t vaccinate, wear a mask or two or don’t. You’re own actions won’t change a thing.

The world is frozen with unrational fear and people are still being shamed when they step outdoors into a crowd.


8 posted on 02/28/2021 4:08:32 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: a fool in paradise

My hubby stopped telecommuting in August.

The only folks not back to work around here are the jobless and teachers.


9 posted on 02/28/2021 4:16:52 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: mewzilla

My office still has less than 5% with access to the building and we’ve already closed for 2 weeks “cleaning”/quarantine this year.


10 posted on 02/28/2021 4:19:52 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The “tests” are bogus. There is no test that is accurate. Go to 6 test sites and 3 will say negative and 3 will say positive. A coin toss is as accurate.

There is no test that targets CVOID. None. The tests will trigger on the common cold (often also a corona virus), flu, and other viruses.


11 posted on 02/28/2021 4:20:07 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: a fool in paradise

We’ll be shut out of the offices until at least late Summer 2021 and probably until at least Summer 2022. Corporations are bought into this scare because the bigger the corporation the more political it is and the more the Whitehut drives the scare.


12 posted on 02/28/2021 4:22:40 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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>>Corporations are bought into this scare because the bigger the corporation the more political it is and the more the Whitehut drives the scare.

Gates-Hopkins cabal

Event 201 Pandemic Exercise: Segment 3, Finance Discussion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWRmlumcN_s

The Globalists plotted to shut us down and wargamed all of it in 2019.


13 posted on 02/28/2021 4:27:35 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not as many people are anxious to get a two week “vacation” these days.

Good thing.


14 posted on 02/28/2021 4:28:38 AM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: a fool in paradise

I think a lot of this depends on how much a company thinks it wants/needs the real estate they’ve got.

Not to mention the number of employees.


15 posted on 02/28/2021 4:31:32 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: mewzilla

Just 15 more months to flatten the spine


16 posted on 02/28/2021 4:32:41 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: a fool in paradise

And end the republic.


17 posted on 02/28/2021 4:33:35 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: No_Mas_Obama
....” 80% of the population is done with the scam”......

Which is why testing etc has diminished......In my community they actually advertised openings for the vaccine as they weren't getting the response they thought they would.

18 posted on 02/28/2021 4:36:45 AM PST by caww
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If I’m forced to get the stab, I’d like to opt for the Johnston & Johnston one. It doesn’t involve mRNA and uses dead common cold virus instead. More in line with other vaccines. Also, only one, no booster.


19 posted on 02/28/2021 4:58:21 AM PST by babygene (hMake America Great Again)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Too many people know the truth — this has been a huge ploy by our leftists in government and business to instill fear, to gain control over us.

That fear is now crumbling. The leftists overplayed their hand, and too soon; there’s not a high enough percentage of malleable sheeple yet.

“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing”

“Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power”

- O’Brian to Smith in Orwell’s 1984

If The State is now desperate, they’ll go scorched earth on us to instill deeper fear. Be ready.


20 posted on 02/28/2021 5:05:14 AM PST by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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