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Good news is, all you need is your name and address to get 4 tests shipped to your home.
Bad news is it's being rolled out by the USPS... which would make perfect sense under normal circumstances..... but under that prick DeJoy, who knows how badly they will fuck up the rollout?
https://special.usps.com/testkits
Koch-funded COVID test? No thank you.
Can't be Koch funded. That piece of shit hasn't paid taxes in 40 years.
Omicron will be gone by the time these tests get delivered.
Make no mistake. It’s funded by us. If you pay taxes you are buying them. COVID has made billions for people. They are very good at turning fear into profit.Quote:
Originally Posted by FORD
It’s making the rounds here. People get a sore throat and then they get over it.Quote:
Originally Posted by twonabomber
All you have to do to avoid taxes is set up a foundation and then you pay yourself through it and avoid taxes and make money the same time. The Rockefeller’s pioneered this and perfected it. Everyone else copied it. You are viewed as a philanthropist when you really are a crook.Quote:
Originally Posted by FORD
Yeah, that's why it's not Koch funded. Obviously this is a taxpayer funded operation, which is why the sign up form is on the USPS website.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nitro Express
With DeJoy in charge, that's very possible..... but at least you'll have the tests when the next variant comes along. :bolt:Quote:
Originally Posted by twonabomber
Okay, Alex Jone$Quote:
Originally Posted by twonabomber
These billion free tests are probably about the same cost as 2% of the US defence budget.
I guess we’re getting free masks too
Oh, you poor victim
Didn’t say I was gonna wear it…
More like .02%...Quote:
Originally Posted by Seshmeister
The government should air drop a bunch of test kits over Afghanistan since we love to throw money away and leave lots of stuff there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nickdfresh
Imagine if all those pointless war trillions went to science?
At the very least the JWST would have been on time and near the budget.
Imagine... Some common sense and simple adjustments that could help rather than continue this madness.
The in-home tests are a great idea and should be made available widely. The previous method of sending all the sick people to centralized locations for testing was a poor choice. Concentrating the sick in areas briefly then redispersing them to the community... that only contributed to further spreading and contributed to mutations. It was stupid, costly, and ineffective.
Masks... mostly ineffective in both preventing transmission and/or protecting the wearer. Better masks distributed to the general public won't cause a measurable reduction in transmission rates. It'll just result in wasted money and further the bullshit hygiene theater and associated psychosis on both sides of this... No country needs to invest spending on disposable, expensive surgical masks to be worn by fools on their chins, while walking alone outdoors or while driving alone in their car.
How about a cultural change... sick, got a fever, coughing, runny nose..? Stay the fuck at home!! Seriously... most companies provide paid sick time, some even kicked up pandemic paid time off... yet I see people obviously ill, dragging it into work for what? Attendance awards? We're in a global pandemic and idiots insist on going to work, traveling all around the globe... WTF? Can we stop and be smart for a couple of days..? How about mandating paid sick time and writing up idiots who show up to work sick..?
We gotta learn to live with this virus... current crap ain't cutting it.
Still watching a lot of Fox News, are you?Quote:
Originally Posted by ZahZoo
No, we have no cable services. I formulated my opinion based on working in the health services industry...Quote:
Originally Posted by Kristy
You watch some derivative of it. Oh, and if you did work, you'd know there no such thing at "paid sick leave" for COVID. It's why so many have died in the name of capitalism
If you take what we wasted in Iraq and Afghanistan and divided it by the taxpayers and gave the amount in a check to each taxpayer it would have been a more productive use of the funds. At least that money would be spent at home and stimulate the economy. It would be one big party.Quote:
Originally Posted by ashstralia
Yup. Sick kids get sent to school because nobody is home to watch them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kristy
Next we will have an environmental disaster because of used mask pollution.
I'm not sure about that I guess because no one is.Quote:
Originally Posted by ZahZoo
The only 'proper' research I saw said they were 10-20% effective, I think there are problems properly measuring stuff like that and if you try and research using real world numbers it's difficult because maybe the kind of people who wear masks are also more careful with other things. It seems like common sense to think that it's better than nothing but it can become a bit crazy.
The rules here towards the end of the year were that in a nightclub if you were standing you had to have a mask on unless you were dancing. The couple of gigs I had around Xmas New Year were cancelled in the end but I was wondering in lead up if we should be trying to get the audience to dance or telling them not to. :)
That alone right there is 100% Fox Spews Right-wing horseshit. Mostly ineffective means to a MAGA like Zoo Boy is that is his a "victim" of some Obama-esque FEMA camp conspiracy where the "elites" are taking over with their "Commie agenda." or whatever-in-the-fuck MAGA paranoia they blindly subscribe to.Quote:
Originally Posted by ZahZoo
Yeah, not like the law requires it or anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nitro Express
Looks like you'll soon be able to get free N-95 masks from the gov't:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/arti...overnment.html
Three per adult, pick up in person at a local pharmacy - no USPS distribution.
Just a quick point on this, I used to mock people doing that and then a few times have found myself doing it. It's not always dumb, I did it because I was travelling 5 or 10 minutes between 2 places in the car both of which I would need to wear a mask at. If say you have headphones it's quicker and easier to just keep the mask on for a bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by ZahZoo
Also lots of older people wear expensive hearing aids these days and lots of them are lost from taking masks on and off.
It's funny the things that annoy you(and I include myself in that) during a pandemic. For a while I became obsessed with people wearing masks over their mouths but not their noses.
We may have read the same proper research... 10-20% effective equates to mostly (80-90%) ineffective in my view. I'm not saying masks don't help... it's just in practical applications today, with a mix of useless, poor, fair to decent masks people are wearing... the limited percentage that are wearing them correctly, if at all pretty much makes the whole effort useless.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seshmeister
Here's the article I had been following from a UK study: https://rs-delve.github.io/reports/2...al-public.html
PS Kristy... I did google "mask effectiveness Fox news"... they sighted the same study I posted above. I got the link from a Covid list serve which the Arkansas Dept of Health had posted the link... But it does appear Fox News is reporting legitimate scientific study material. Maybe I should follow them more...
Oh dear Lord.Quote:
Originally Posted by ZahZoo
When do we get our free hazmat suits from the government?
Maybe your prayers will be answered and you'll finally hook up with Von...Quote:
Originally Posted by Kristy