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The tests are “free” in the sense that the government is spending $600 million to fund them. (But in an era of $5 trillion budgets, who can even bother counting any spending that’s not in the billions as significant?)
What that $600 million is actually buying are higher COVID-19 numbers. We already know how this works. The more you test, the more you get. And the more you get, the more you create a sense of crisis.
Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR), is announcing an investment of $600 million across 12 domestic COVID-19 test manufacturers and the reopening of COVIDTests.gov to deliver COVID-19 tests for free to households across the country.
The tests are free, the consequences may not be.
Creating 200 million tests and distributing many of them for free across the country, will ensure a much higher test rate, a much higher positive result rate and justifies potential further shutdowns. All of this is a potential ‘test’ for the election when the tests will really be crucial for declaring a public health emergency and changing election rules once again.
Algorithmic Analyst says
They stuck one of those things up my nose when I went to the ER, until I involuntarily flinched. Fortunately I must have passed 🙂
Jeff Bargholz says
I had one of those nose swabs. I don’t remember where or why but I remember it pissed me off. And I had to tell the asshole not to shove it up all the way or I would start punching. I don’t even remember if it was a chick or a guy. It’s weird that my memory is so faulty. I hope I’m not going Biden.
I won’t take one of those covid tests. Not even if I were dying.
And I don’t think I ever contracted it, unless I was asymptomatic.. Not to brag but I can remember at least back to 1997 and I haven’t had a cold a single time since then. I have a strong immune system, I guess.
Algorithmic Analyst says
I just take vit C (calcium ascorbate which is non-acid) quinine and zinc if I feel like I am getting a sore throat and it goes away almost immediately. I tried ivermectin (horse medicine 🙂 with no problems, but I don’t think it is needed, ordinary quinine is better. Which you can get in the store, tonic water for example.
Jeff Bargholz says
Quinine. Good advice, thanks! 🙂 I’ll ask my Dr for a prescription, just in case.
Didn’t Burton take quinine?
I used to take sulfa tablets in Indonesia when I thought I would get the trots. It worked. I guess. I never got the trots like the other Westerners did.
I never got sick at all, for some weird reason. Everybody else I knew did, even my wife, who is a native Indo.
A fellow teacher who was a chick from Australia got so sick she passed out at the Singapore Embassy. We were all worried about her because we hadn’t heard from her. She recovered, though. But she got dengue fever or something equally bad.
She’s a nice person and I felt really bad for her.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Oh, yeah, Quinine was the magic drug when Burton was in East Africa during the 1850s. Funny, they still hadn’t figured out that malaria was caused by mosquitos.
NAVY ET1 says
The only people keeping the virus alive is Democrats, and that’s out of political necessity.
Mickows says
When you mock efforts to track the spread of COVID, as you have consistently mocked efforts to vaccinate the population, keep this in mind: 90% of COVID fatalities are unvaccinated people.
Jeff Bargholz says
Bullshit. The majority of covid infections are in people who’ve been vaccinated multiple times, and they don’t die Not even Old Joke Bidumb or his whore wife died. Even the hopelessly corrupt CDC admitted that 98% of people who’ve died didn’t die from covid but from co- morbidities.
My mother is 77 and she shook covid off like a flea.
What is it with you left-wing scum? Why are you so insistent on lying? Even when it won’t advance your slimy agenda?
CowboyUp says
Covid supposedly went around our shop a few times this year, but if I got it, I didn’t notice. If people around me are sick and I get low energy, am irritable, and/or sleep more than 8 hours, I figure I have something, and my immune system is kicking the crap out of it. I rarely get sick enough for it to put me in bed.
I still see some people wearing masks, including lone drivers. I try to be charitable and assume they have real bad allergies, but most are probably weak minded and brainwashed.
Jeff Bargholz says
Most of them are retards.
CowboyUp says
What is the image from? I can usually tell, Greenfield watched many of the same movies I have, but that one eludes me.
Daniel Greenfield says
I believe it’s from The Disorderly Orderly with Jerry Lewis. But I could be wrong.