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Fyi: The Postal Service is delivering one shipment of 4 COVID tests per residential address. Enter your name, address and email at http://www.usps. com/covidtest
to request a shipment. It is live now.Please let this post. Thanks
and in other news my toilet flushed today.
CovidTests.gov
Hashem sends medicine before the sickness. Not so (current) US government: it waits for a crisis, then starts sending out tests. After that, masks. After that, they’ll start working on speeding up medicines.
CS
consider a diet change if you are having trouble with that
Anyone successful in getting an order confirmation for the free government Covid tests?
Not getting past the last step.
Now you need awareness campaign for people who are “having a flu” to use the tests. Free might help. Maybe give prizes to people who get positive tests, or will this cause them to go out and get it? Get an extra aliya to say gomel?
I got a confirmation as well
@ubiquin, my toilet flushing properly is about as irrelevant as this so called PSA
“Now you need awareness campaign for people who are “having a flu” to use the tests. ”
why? You can call up almost any doctors office and tell them you are sick and want to be tested and they will tell you there is no point, it doesn’t matter. Are you in the position to override the medical professionals (again)? or do you just know something none of the doctors know?
CS
“my toilet flushing properly is about as irrelevant”
don’t be so quick to dismiss things as irrelevant. Sometimes you may be surprised.
toilets should not have trouble flushing. You either need a plumber or need to change your diet .
I wouldn’t just put it off.
#themoreyouknow
My toilet flushes fine and always had, therefore mentioning that it flushes fine is irrelevant, as is this so called PSA is irrelevant.
Syag, I agree that in many circumstances there is no need to test, especially w/ latest variant. I did not test so far. The reason to do home test would be if one heads to a meeting with either many people or an at-risk person and are going to be in close contact there. Then, a positive test – right before the meeting – would prevent risk. Not fully clear what does negative test mean. On one hand, stats say that those home tests are detecting 60-90% of cases. The claim on the other side is that they detect those who are most infectious at that moment, i.e. they detect the most dangerous ones.
There is an article on front page about the Rav who tested positive before his son’s wedding – after symptoms? Now, say the test would be negative – how would the grandfather pasken? Or maybe the father would not have even asked? Maybe they should do N-95 veils for kallot.
CS
Sorry, Not following
OP said “The Postal Service is delivering one shipment of 4 COVID tests per residential address”
where they always doing this?
If not, what is the connection to your toilet always flushing ?
AAQ,
I agree.
I am not clear why a person wouldn’t want to have covid tests available for the situation when they are going to a event, business or county that requires a negative test.Jackk – on the chance you are referring to my comment, I didn’t say that.
syag,
I was referring to CS who seems to think that there is absolutely no reason to have covid tests on hand.
thanks. just making sure
AAQ, your approach regarding who should test, and when, makes sense. But it also highlights a problem with the distribution model. Someone like myself who has limited exposure to people can get by with a few tests per month. This past month I tested three times, twice before visiting with family (everyone tested), and once more when I was feeling Flu-ish. B”H I was negative and am feeling OK now.
But what about people who engage frequently with people who also encounter many others on a daily basis? They should be testing at least once a week. What good is the government sending only 4 tests? It would make more sense for the government to subsidize the tests so they cost the price of a subway ride. Buy as many as you’ll use. And the Feds should reward people for logging the results. How about $1 per result that could go to Tzedakah?
@jackk, whatever floats your boat
CS,
Doing chesed to other people by doing things that I might not personally believe in floats Hashem’s boat and saves us from the Dor Hamabul.
Orange, it is not just 4 tests. Starting Jan 15, insurance is supposed to reimburse everyone for several tests a month. It is a somewhat INSANE idea to make it go through insurance companies instead of government paying CVS directly – so that people are deterred by paperwork and paying upfront. It is a DOUBLE INSANE idea to see the problem growing in December and announce reimbursement from mid-January. I understand that in Europe these tests are all over the place, free or a couple of euros. If money is an issue with such large volumes, maybe make these tests accept batches from families, if this can work.
Same goes with masks – 3M seem to sell 60 N95 masks for under $50. Why are they not all over the place already and were waiting for the website to be built.
Orange,
the main advance is having rapid tests that CDC/FDA was not approving for a long time because they are not as good as PCR. The role of the tests is statistical – it shows with high probability that someone is infectious right then, rather then telling 3 days later that someone has a minute amount of virus with 100% probability.It probably matters a lot for people who are in risky environment but not so much that nobody cares and everyone is getting sick … then, removing those who are sick will stop transmission even if it does not guarantee safety of one individual. There are lots of “interesting” techniques – batch testing, where spit of multiple people is tested in one shot; wastewater monitoring that quickly picks up the virus in population even if they don’t bother to go to doctors. I am not sure all of this is used correctly and timely, but it is getting better. Many colleges test a lot and post numbers publicly. One college near me has 100 times more cases this week comparing with October.
@jackk, To equate a government entity spending tax money like drunken sailors to appease a bunch of hypochondriacs or to distract attention from the fact that the supply chain is broken and we are suffering from hyperinflation to the ness of the mabul is patently absurd that it does not dignify a response.
Why does Hashem send the cure before the illness? The gemora in Shabbos 30 says that one should pray not to get sick because if one waits when being ill, might not be worthy to get cured. Therefore, Hashem sends the medicine before needing to pray for it.
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