American workers, sports players, are forced to pee in a fucking cup to get tested for drugs.

[shockey80]

We can do that, but we can't test people for a virus that is killing us. BULLSHIT!!!

[ck4829]

1. The sanctity of minimum wage jobs must not be tainted by drugs! PEE IN THIS CUP!

I remember Barbara Ehrenreich in Nickel and Dimed describing the way employers talked about drug tests and drugs on the job like it had a almost-religious aspect to it... that drugs were of Satan and the urine cup was your offering to prove you were pure, or something to that effect.

[House of Roberts]

2. Different tests require different reagents,

to test for different conditions. Right now, the reagents for the virus are in galactic back order all over the world.

[shockey80]

3. We could be testing a lot more people.

That is a fact.

[House of Roberts]

5. Based on what metric?

Availability? Price? Trump extorting faint praise from blue state politicians?

[ck4829]

4. Is the scarcity real or one that results from a failure in logistics

I mean, I've never heard of a drug test backorder.

[House of Roberts]

6. I'm sure all governors would like more tests.

All I've heard this morning on the subject is shortage of reagents.

Then there is the worry the Feds will interdict the shipment before it reaches its destination. We are, after all, contending with thieves running our government.

[yardwork]

7. Exactly.

[jmg257]

8. Figure the whole world needs the reagents for C-19 testing...not sure about drugs,

which every PD in the country has reagents for.

Just more National Security stuff we leave to China to provide.

Asshole country.

[malaise]

9. Great post

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