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Biden signs $137 million deal with German pharmaceutical company for COVID test strip factory that will take THREE YEARS to build and will start producing 83.3 million tests a month in late 2024 at the earliest
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 12/30/2021 | KATELYN CARALLE

Posted on 12/30/2021 1:14:34 PM PST by Mount Athos

Biden administration struck a deal a German company to build a factory in Wisconsin to increase production of COVID-19 testing kits

MilliporeSigma's new factory will pump out 83.3 million tests per month – but the facility won't be operational for another three years

'Construction is expected to begin the second half of 2022 and initial planning and preparatory work is already underway,' a MilliporeSigma spokesperson said They told DailyMail.com: 'We estimate that the facility will be capable of providing lateral flow membranes in the latter part of 2024'

Fuels speculation the administration thinks testing will still be needed in 2025

Does not fix immediate concerns of testing shortages and hours-long lines to get tested for COVID-19 as the Omicron variant sweeps the nation

Biden caught heat Wednesday with news contracts won't be finished 'until next week' for the 500 million at-home tests that he promised

There are still unanswered questions about how the at-home test distribution will work and how long it will take for the tests to arrive once ordered

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bidenadm; chinavirustest; covidcashcow; dementiajoe; epicfail; toolittletoolate; whosincontrol
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To: Diogenesis

This POTUS honestly could not be MORE STUPID if he tried!! 3 years from now LOL, LOL, LOL!!!


21 posted on 12/30/2021 1:22:20 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Mount Athos

10% for the big guy?


22 posted on 12/30/2021 1:22:48 PM PST by Spok
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To: Mount Athos

A lot is going to depend on the USSC ruling on mandates.


23 posted on 12/30/2021 1:23:13 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Mount Athos

Typical bloat and graft and uselessness.


24 posted on 12/30/2021 1:26:39 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Mount Athos

Profiteering the pandemic.

So much cleaner than war.


25 posted on 12/30/2021 1:28:36 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: Mount Athos

Warped speed


26 posted on 12/30/2021 1:29:13 PM PST by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Mount Athos

Biden likes to report where he’s throwing tax payer dollars so it looks like he’s doing at least something. Better would be treatment funding.


27 posted on 12/30/2021 1:30:01 PM PST by caww ( )
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To: Mount Athos

By then, Trump will be elected to his third term.


28 posted on 12/30/2021 1:30:41 PM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 55 days away from outliving John Hughes)
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To: Mount Athos

......add this to Afghanistan and other fu’s and those of us with a functioning brain know that John Roberts, Kavanaugh,Barrett, Sotomayer and all the rest of them except for Thomas and Alito, with the very existence of the country at stake, and using the bs excuse of “standing”, voted to not even listen to evidence that the 2020 election was fraudulent.


29 posted on 12/30/2021 1:30:51 PM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: Mount Athos

So, they plan on keep the covid crisis going for years to come.


30 posted on 12/30/2021 1:31:07 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Spok

10%-—yup-—Using a US company would make it harder to get the kickback to the Big Guy. He must have worn out his welcome in Ukraine? Dr Jill needs new shoes——


31 posted on 12/30/2021 1:31:23 PM PST by OldWarBaby
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To: Mount Athos; All

This is almost as stupid as letting 200,000 illegals enter our border every month. The Covid thing is a gimmick and should be gone by time the Germans build this meaningless factory. Musk could build this unnecessary building in six months in Nevada.


32 posted on 12/30/2021 1:33:20 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: Mount Athos
So when COVID becomes endemic, when it's everywhere and everyone has it, what is the purpose of testing?
Do you think that might happen before 2024?
My mind flashed back to the Solyndra fiasco where billions were spent and nothing was ever made. End result was a field next to an empty building with millions of dollars' worth of broken glass covering it.
33 posted on 12/30/2021 1:34:24 PM PST by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: DannyTN
"Why couldn't that have been an American company?"

Because an American company is easily investigated. The DOJ can't investigate a German company so kickbacks, bribes and payoffs are not a problem.

It's the same reason all our politicians and their families all have businesses in foreign countries like China. How many people do you know with business dealings in China? Ya probably not many but it's incredible how many family members of senators and congressman know how to set up hugely successful businesses in a communist country yet they could not run a lemonade stand in the US. Of course most of them are morons and the China business is just the CCP buying influence. The commies set up business ownership worth millions in turn for favors. It's like the perfect crime. No one can actually prove anything.

34 posted on 12/30/2021 1:34:40 PM PST by precisionshootist
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To: Mount Athos

I’ll just cite this the next time some collaborator tells me “if we all just comply this can end”.


35 posted on 12/30/2021 1:41:23 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: PGR88

Yes, please pay me upfront for a product I’ll promise to deliver in 3 years. And also, please fund the factory I will need to manufacture the product. Thanks!


36 posted on 12/30/2021 1:43:15 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Mount Athos

I’d bet “Mittens” has a vested interest


37 posted on 12/30/2021 1:43:29 PM PST by nevermorelenore ( If My people will pray ....)
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To: ZOOKER

It’s already become endemic. “Omicron” is just the libtard codeword for “endemic”.


38 posted on 12/30/2021 1:45:08 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Mount Athos

“There’s Uncle Joe, he’s a moving kind o slow”.


39 posted on 12/30/2021 1:47:10 PM PST by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: Mount Athos
Fuels speculation the administration thinks testing will still be needed in 2025 IS INSANE.
40 posted on 12/30/2021 1:47:35 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (81 million votes...and NOT ONE "Build Back Better" hat)
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