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Originally Posted by blueash
I wonder how much you pay for other people's monoclonal antibodies. I wonder how much you pay for ICU care for the unvaccinated. I wonder how much you pay for overbloated military hardware contracts and the medical doctors and other health care "professionals" who bilk private insurance, Medicare and Medicaid for billions. But the hill to die on is allowing people to test themselves for Covid.
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Pretty much. I'd much rather pay the military to keep foreign troops out of my backyard than to satisfy the curiosity of millions by a highly unreliable test. Your point about monoclonal AB and ICU is reasonable, but the rest is a faulty comparison of fraud to a planned government program. Your better question might be "How much are we going to pay for people ordering "free" tests, then reselling them to those that don't feel "eight is enough"?
Actually, thinking about it some more, home testing will probably lead to many more seeking monoclonal antibody infusions. It
might cut down on ICU admissions if it reduced spread, but that's highly theoretical.