Posted on 01/06/2022 2:36:53 PM PST by rktman
Welcome to shortage economies and the corruption they incentivize. With vaccine/test mandates coming down from Panem — er, Washington DC — demand for COVID-19 tests to allow for public engagement has gone through the roof. Politico points out that this has created a “Hunger Games” situation in which organizations have to find ways to outdo each other to survive.
The biggest loser will likely be K-12 schools, Politico points out:
An avalanche of student Covid-19 test kits covered a FedEx drop box in Chicago. Long lines and delayed deliveries slowed school testing sites in California. And families scrambled across U.S. cities to find scarce rapid tests.
The White House and government leaders say classrooms must stay open during a record surge in Omicron-driven cases — but short supplies, logistical challenges and workforce problems threaten to trip up the country’s patchwork efforts to test schoolchildren for the virus as they return to class.
“This is reminiscent of October 2020, when we only had so many antigen tests to go around and it was literally the Hunger Games. States were really competing to try to get the supply that they needed,” said Leah Perkinson, the pandemic manager for the Rockefeller Foundation, which has collaborated with the Education Department and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to expand the country’s school testing programs.
“There are supply constraints and folks aren’t able to do what they want to do, or continue to do what they’re doing. And that’s frustrating,” she said.
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Why the heck are people getting tested unless they’re deathly ill? You’re infectious before you’re symptomatic.
The people desperate for tests or going out of their way to get tested also correlates highly with Dementia Joe voters (the non-dead type). That’s pretty much all we need to know.
So why subsidize their psychosis? Let’s avoid the testing and encourage others to do likewise.
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