[Ptmckiou]

You can now order your free home COVID tests kits from the government’s website. COVIDtests.gov - Free at-home COVID-19 tests

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by Ptmckiou

You can now order your free home COVID tests kits from the government’s website. COVIDtests.gov - Free at-home COVID-19 tests

Yes, "free". I wonder how much I am paying for other people's tests?

[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.

[rustyp]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

Yes, "free". I wonder how much I am paying for other people's tests?

Government estimate $4 billion for 500 million kits.

Equals $8 per kit

Or a different perspective for TV'rs :
1 priority round of golf (not counting the $750 membership fee) = 5.875 kits.

[golfing eagles]

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.

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.

[Bay Kid]

Originally Posted by Ptmckiou

You can now order your free home COVID tests kits from the government’s website. COVIDtests.gov - Free at-home COVID-19 tests

We would be better off if we sent them to the border where it is really needed.

[billethkid]

Who will be responsible for reporting free in home new cases/hospitalizations/deaths"???

(Yes, tongue in cheek.....)

[Jerseygirl08]

Originally Posted by billethkid

Who will be responsible for reporting free in home new cases/hospitalizations/deaths"???

(Yes, tongue in cheek.....)

Bille, hopefully nobody will be responsible for counting since it's all skewed anyway. I wonder if people know that, for example, if an 85 yr. old diabetic with CHF, hypertension, and failing kidneys goes into the hospital in kidney failure, and they die, and they are testing positive for covid . . . it's counted as a COVID death. Covid doesn't cause kidneys to fail. A lifetime of diabetes, high blood pressure, and insulin around the clock (not to mention the pill Metformin) is likely what caused this patient to die. But, he/she will become a COVID statistic. Also, most people do not know that if you are in the hospital with covid - each day you are testing (positive), is another covid case going into the statistical bucket. I'm always surprised at how much credence people are giving these numbers. CNN announces a huge increase in numbers and everybody runs to the nearest Urgent Care; they line up all the way around a block to be tested. Why? Why are patients so eager to get tested? Will anything change with the way they care for themselves? In this environment, they should isolate/guarantine either way. Turns out that if patient's are getting a positive test result, they run to the hospital as soon they get a temp. Don't know why but the last place I'd head to is the ER. Unless I couldn't breathe or something critical.

[jimjamuser]

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.

THAT was a CLASSIC. I LOVE it. Hilarious. Better than nighttime comedians!!!!!!!! "a hill to die on!"

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

THAT was a CLASSIC. I LOVE it. Hilarious. Better than nighttime comedians!!!!!!!! "a hill to die on!"

Yep, "classic". Dumb, but classic.

[Bay Kid]

Somebody is going to make lots of money off this FREE stuff.