Opinion: Joe Biden’s free COVID tests are late in coming and exclusionary to the most needful

The Sacramento Bee ^ | January 21, 2022 | by Robin Epley

[Vaduz]

Money laundering machine still working.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Emptying warehouse of expiring tests?

[Pikachu_Dad]

Emptying warehouse of expiring tests?

[InGodsTruth]

Typical leftwing Sac Bee crap. First sentence tells you why it makes no sense: it says the tests will ‘mitigate’ covid. Really? How does a TEST mitigate anything: Make better, make less painful, make less severe, lessen the gravity of, lessen severity. A test doesn’t mitigate anything.

I got an email yesterday letting me know I could go to the govt website and order my free tests. And in small print, it says how the govt will be facilitated in tracking me, etc. and that’s when I deleted the email.

[Grampa Dave]

Insanity re the these home tests?:

Amazon is having a special on a 90 pack of 2 tests :

iHealth COVID-19 Antigen Rapid Test, 90 Packs of 2...
$1,782.00

So, besides your 2 free tests/month, for only $1782.00, you can order a 90 day supply to test yourself:

2x daily, or share a daily test with your favorite home buddy! These tests will probably work with your canine or feline pets.

[Qiviut]

[Revel]

The common cold will often test positive. The tests are actually a fraud. But they do make things look much worse than they are. This allows the government to justify controlling everyone with mandates, and passports.

[ridesthemiles]

IF you order them online-—all the info they require will be added to more databases.

[Don_Ret_USAF]

if you are on Medicare or Tricare, Tricare for life the insurance will not cover the cost of the test. Active duty personal are covered. Those free kits are paid for by your insurance.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

...renters across the nation are already reporting system denials because the system doesn’t recognize differing apartment numbers at each address.

My God, that is the grossest incompetence since giving $80 billion of arms to the Taliban and abandoning Americans in Afghanistan. The POST OFFICE cannot deal with different apartment unit numbers? Utter insanity!

Even worse, what good are these tests? If you prove positive the CDC says "isolate at home with your windows open. If you feel really bad, go to the hospital." What will a test tell you that you don't already know?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Utterly ridiculous, isn't it? CDC says "if you are sick, Quarantine and Isolation at home." You need a test to tell you THAT?

This stupid BS beggars disbelief!

I did a bunch of errands today (this is CA) and everywhere young, scared-to-death millennials are telling this old guy "Pull your mask up. Higher! it has to be over your nose. I'll have to ask you to leave if you don't pull your mask up."

Two years of this crap have created the most neurotic American generation ever.

[Marko413]

I havent taken a single test and have no intention if I can help it. I’ve heard from friends how you can take several in a row and half will say positive and half will say negative. How can you out any trust in that?