Poll of the Day > Have you ordered your free at-home COVID tests?

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captpackrat
01/19/22 8:02:40 PM
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https://special.usps.com/testkits

Limit one order of 4 tests per residential address. Orders will ship in late January.

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Jen0125
01/19/22 8:02:56 PM
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yes
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captpackrat
01/19/22 8:05:32 PM
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Most insurance companies will also cover at-home test kits as well, up to 8 tests per month per member (so family of 4 with all members covered, that's 32 tests per month). Depending on your particular plan and pharmacy, the tests may be no-cost, or you have have to pay up front and file for reimbursement. Call the number on the back of your insurance card to find out.

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adjl
01/19/22 8:46:22 PM
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I've been picking some up whenever convenient. Supplies have become considerably more limited now and there's only a handful of pop-up sites where you can grab a batch (of 5), but other sites are handing them out by appointment because they've become the default test for most people (which I think is pretty stupid because they're less reliable than PCR tests and mean the province is basically no longer counting the vast majority of cases because the health authority only processes PCR results, but that's another issue). We've currently got 6 left between the two of us, I believe, since we've burned through several in the past week.

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Lokarin
01/19/22 8:53:13 PM
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4 per residential address? wlel that's biased against poor people

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BEERandWEED
01/19/22 9:37:19 PM
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No. I'm choosing to not buy in to the profiteering.
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EclairReturns
01/19/22 10:24:33 PM
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BEERandWEED posted...
buy


But corona-tests are to be distributed free of charge.

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Jen0125
01/19/22 10:25:27 PM
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EclairReturns posted...
But corona-tests are to be distributed free of charge.

Yeah but the Gov paid for them

Might as well get them anyway because your taxes already paid for it
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MetalGarurumon
01/19/22 10:27:35 PM
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Jen0125 posted...
Might as well get them anyway because your taxes already paid for it
mhm mhm

it's fun to point that out to people bitching about big pharma and how they aren't gonna get their money

like they already did lmao
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BEERandWEED
01/19/22 10:42:28 PM
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EclairReturns posted...
But corona-tests are to be distributed free of charge.
People are making money from them.

Jen0125 posted...
Yeah but the Gov paid for them

Might as well get them anyway because your taxes already paid for it
I have principles and stand against pointless spending.

MetalGarurumon posted...
mhm mhm

it's fun to point that out to people bitching about big pharma and how they aren't gonna get their money

like they already did lmao
It's why they shouldn't be trusted.

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Jen0125
01/19/22 10:46:10 PM
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Well the spending has already been done and for your benefit. You're wasting your own money.
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teddy241
01/19/22 10:51:12 PM
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No. Rapid testing isnt accurate. I went for the saliva lab test.
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Krazy_Kirby
01/19/22 10:57:55 PM
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captpackrat posted...
Most insurance companies will also cover at-home test kits as well, up to 8 tests per month per member (so family of 4 with all members covered, that's 32 tests per month). Depending on your particular plan and pharmacy, the tests may be no-cost, or you have have to pay up front and file for reimbursement. Call the number on the back of your insurance card to find out.


which is ridiculous... why do they need to test twice a week?

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agesboy
01/19/22 10:59:13 PM
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ill go for one if i ever feel slightly covidy

which i kind of did the week after christmas, but i also wasn't in contact with anyone then so lol

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LinkPizza
01/19/22 11:04:29 PM
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No. But I think my mom sent me the link not too long ago

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captpackrat
01/20/22 6:54:41 AM
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Krazy_Kirby posted...
which is ridiculous... why do they need to test twice a week?
This would actually be a great idea, distribute enough tests, easy simple tests, so that people could test themselves on a regular basis. Then people could learn if they're infected within days, rather than wondering around for possibly weeks infecting everyone they meet.

The BinaxNOW test doesn't require jamming a swab into your brain, you just swab the inside of your nostril. So you make it part of your morning routine. Swab your nose and start the test, brush your teeth, take a shower, get dressed, check the results.

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SunWuKung420
01/20/22 8:09:26 AM
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Taxpayer dollars being funneled pointlessly into the greedy hands of profiteers and Americans are unsurprisingly ok with it.

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adjl
01/20/22 9:06:49 AM
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BEERandWEED posted...
People are making money from them.

Do you think people aren't also making money from high Covid rates? That many of the politicians actively opposing masks and vaccines under the pretense that they benefit corporations selling such products don't have stock in companies that service ventilators and sell oxygen so they can directly profit from increased hospitalizations?

People are going to make money off of Covid regardless of how it goes. To that end, you might as well ignore the money angle and focus on saving/improving lives.

BEERandWEED posted...
I have principles and stand against pointless spending.

Principles with no basis in practicality are useless. Principles at the expense of practicality are stupid. Principles at the expense of literal lives are evil.

Krazy_Kirby posted...
which is ridiculous... why do they need to test twice a week?

Generally speaking, if you're infected, you can expect to start testing positive (and therefore being infectious) about 2-3 days after exposure. By testing every 3-4 days, you ensure that the longest you can possibly go being infectious without knowing it is 4 days, which is a lot better than waiting a week for symptoms to show up. You can improve that even further by adjusting your testing schedule to reflect when an exposure might have been possible (e.g. if you went out on Sunday but didn't interact with anyone on Friday, Saturday, or Monday, the best day to test is Wednesday because Sunday was your only possible exposure) or testing right before going somewhere that might result in you infecting somebody.

It's a matter of being proactive and identifying infectious cases as early as possible to limit the number of people they can infect. Obviously, if you're only leaving the house once a week, testing twice a week is kind of pointless (the best schedule would be to test right before leaving for that outing), but for those that are going out regularly, testing twice a week strikes a nice balance between early identification of positive tests and ensuring there are enough tests for everyone.

SunWuKung420 posted...
Taxpayer dollars being funneled pointlessly into the greedy hands of profiteers and Americans are unsurprisingly ok with it.

Remember kids: Being proactive for the sake of limiting the impact of the greatest public health crisis in a century is "pointless."

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pionear
01/20/22 1:28:03 PM
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Got 3:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/6/3/AADtvSAAC0_z.jpg

Used one, results came back negative

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wwinterj25
01/20/22 3:07:17 PM
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I've never felt the need to take a test so no.

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ParanoidObsessive
01/20/22 4:41:00 PM
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wwinterj25 posted...
I've never felt the need to take a test so no.

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SunWuKung420
01/20/22 5:12:26 PM
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adjl posted...
Remember kids: Being proactive for the sake of limiting the impact of the greatest public health crisis in a century is "pointless."
Putting unreliable test kits, that haven't been approved or cleared by the fda, in the hands of the not medically trained doesn't help anyone but the profits of the test makers.

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adjl
01/20/22 6:41:01 PM
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SunWuKung420 posted...
Putting unreliable test kits, that haven't been approved or cleared by the fda, in the hands of the not medically trained doesn't help anyone but the profits of the test makers.

It's picking your nose with a q-tip. It's not exactly something that requires extensive medical education.

The reliability is clearly inferior to what you can get from a PCR test, but the convenience, reduction in staffing requirements, and speed of results do a lot to make up for that. You're going to see far better early detection of Covid cases (and subsequent isolation, ideally) if people are routinely using rapid tests at home than if they aren't, especially if you offer confirmatory PCR tests for anyone that tests positive at home and recommend that symptomatic people get a PCR test regardless (both of which mitigate the potential reliability issues). The fact that it's not as reliable as giving everyone two PCR tests a week does nothing to change that, especially where giving everyone two PCR tests a week isn't remotely feasible in the vast majority of areas.

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captpackrat
01/20/22 6:58:11 PM
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SunWuKung420 posted...
Putting unreliable test kits, that haven't been approved or cleared by the fda, in the hands of the not medically trained doesn't help anyone but the profits of the test makers.
Except that these are FDA approved tests.

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adjl
01/20/22 7:01:28 PM
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captpackrat posted...
Except that these are FDA approved tests.

I believe all available antigen tests still just have emergency authorization, rather than full approval.

Of course, one has to wonder why Sunny's bringing up FDA approval to discredit them here when we all know he'll switch gears to "FDA approval means nothing about a product's efficacy or safety" as soon as they receive full approval.

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SunWuKung420
01/20/22 7:38:24 PM
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captpackrat posted...
Except that these are FDA approved tests.
Nope.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/4/3/AAQhJCAAC1Fv.jpg

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adjl
01/21/22 9:49:25 AM
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adjl posted...
Of course, one has to wonder why Sunny's bringing up FDA approval to discredit them here when we all know he'll switch gears to "FDA approval means nothing about a product's efficacy or safety" as soon as they receive full approval.


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BEERandWEED
01/21/22 10:05:12 AM
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You quoting yourself is very weird.

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adjl
01/21/22 10:08:28 AM
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BEERandWEED posted...
You quoting yourself is very weird.

Why waste time typing an original response when something I've already said suffices perfectly?

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BEERandWEED
01/21/22 10:15:24 AM
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adjl posted...
Why waste time typing an original response when something I've already said suffices perfectly?
It wasn't even a question. Just an ad hominem attack.

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Zeus
01/21/22 2:18:09 PM
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Lokarin posted...
4 per residential address? wlel that's biased against poor people

...what?

EclairReturns posted...
But corona-tests are to be distributed free of charge.

I mean, the government is paying for the tests so there's plenty of profiteering happening. A lot of the companies providing COVID-related medical services are posting record profits

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/11/covid-19-pfizer-reports-massive-revenues-while-hurting-the-chances-of-millions-to-get-vaccinated/

As much I hate to say it, governments should have been relying on wartime provisions to temporarily control the production of emergency medical supplies to actually get the supply out there. Then again, I suspect a lot of these activities are allowed both because of politicians' vested interests in those companies as well as in exchange for political favors (Pfizer did Democrats a HUGE solid by deliberately withholding vaccine news until after election to favor Biden; that's close to a kingmaker move)

adjl posted...
Do you think people aren't also making money from high Covid rates? That many of the politicians actively opposing masks and vaccines under the pretense that they benefit corporations selling such products don't have stock in companies that service ventilators and sell oxygen so they can directly profit from increased hospitalizations?

Oh lawdy...

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adjl
01/21/22 2:22:53 PM
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Zeus posted...
Oh lawdy...

Protip: People will profit from just about anything that happens, regardless of the response to it. That's not any particular degree of conspiracy, that's just the nature of a world in which there are multiple ways to make money from a given problem.

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Solid Snake07
01/21/22 2:40:28 PM
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So I guess households with more than 4 people can go fuck themselves

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