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Kudos to President Emeritus Biden. (The real president is Senator Joe Manchin, according to Charlamagne Tha God, pictured above).
Yesterday Pres. Biden announced 500 million
Yea! Are we feeling safer yet?
Imagine the excitement for a typical family of 4 – a few weeks after the new year – when their 5 (approximately) test kits finally arrive.
(Mother) "Let's put these in a safe place, until we need them. Should they go in the freezer? I read somewhere that vaccines need to be kept below zero, or they go bad.”
(Daughter) “No, Mommmm . . . I need to test myself, like right NOW. I might have been exposed the virus when I was out at a party with Gina and Tonesha the other night. People were all coughing and everything.”
(Mother) “What? You said you were just going out to starbucks! Okay . . .but just one. We need to save the rest.”
(Father) “They're requiring a test result to come into the office, now that the tests are free, and done at home. I need to submit one every 2 weeks.”
(Son) “Ha ha . . . you fools. These tests don't prove anything, anyway. We'd be better off selling them for pocket money to the unvaxxed deniers. Since we're fully vaxxed, we're not at any significant risk of complications or death from Omicron, Delta, or that new “Larry” Covid 19 mutation.”
Dear readers – which of these scenarios most likely represents what is likely to happen when your test kits are delivered by the USPS? All 4 of them?
I hate to be a skeptic (actually, I love it!) but I'm with Junior on this one. These tests won't do A DAMN THING to stop the spread of Covid 19. It's like visiting the doctor and having him tell you to take an aspirin, or perhaps “prescription strength tylenol” (at $39 at your pharmacy for for a pack of 20. Your health insurance may, or may not cover this, after deductibles and copays. Read the fine print for details).
What if you DO test positive? Are you immediately obliged to stay home from work or school? Report yourself to your health care provider, or some government agency? Then show up in person to get a “real test” in case it was a false positive? There's going to be millions of false positives. Will we need a federal hotline to handle calls from those people? Can we redeploy the obamacare navigators to handle these inquiries, or will developing a new web portal be needed? Hope it doesn't crash because of too much web traffic overload!
Again, I ask in all innocence - are we feeling safer yet?
If test kits are going to solve anything, then send them to hospitals, nursing homes, etc where essential healthcare workers are DEFINITELY being exposed, every day.
Just don't send them to every Mr. and Mrs. Joe SicksPak, whether they're in WV, or San Francisco, or “da hood”.
I have a feeling Charlamagne Tha God would agree with me on this, since he nailed the question about who the real president is, in that debate with soon to be jettisoned veep Kamala Harris.