Tue Jan 18, 2022, 02:53 PM
live love laugh (8,397 posts)
Did you order your free home Covid tests yet? I just did.
You can order free rapid COVID-19 test kits through the government at the following website www.covidtests.gov.
A total of four test kits can be ordered per household. Feel free to share this information with your family members, relatives and friends. www.covidtests.gov
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live love laugh | Jan 2022 | OP |
marie999 | Jan 2022 | #1 | |
empedocles | Jan 2022 | #2 | |
WhiskeyGrinder | Jan 2022 | #6 | |
W_HAMILTON | Jan 2022 | #14 | |
WhiskeyGrinder | Jan 2022 | #16 | |
W_HAMILTON | Jan 2022 | #17 | |
WhiskeyGrinder | Jan 2022 | #18 | |
W_HAMILTON | Jan 2022 | #20 | |
WhiskeyGrinder | Jan 2022 | #22 | |
W_HAMILTON | Jan 2022 | #23 | |
BlackSkimmer | Jan 2022 | #26 | |
WhiskeyGrinder | Jan 2022 | #28 | |
BlackSkimmer | Jan 2022 | #29 | |
USALiberal | Jan 2022 | #3 | |
live love laugh | Jan 2022 | #5 | |
USALiberal | Jan 2022 | #7 | |
FSogol | Jan 2022 | #4 | |
Emile | Jan 2022 | #8 | |
Patterson | Jan 2022 | #9 | |
WhiskeyGrinder | Jan 2022 | #10 | |
intrepidity | Jan 2022 | #11 | |
mitch96 | Jan 2022 | #12 | |
mia | Jan 2022 | #13 | |
XanaDUer2 | Jan 2022 | #15 | |
Deuce | Jan 2022 | #19 | |
iemanja | Jan 2022 | #21 | |
NightWatcher | Jan 2022 | #24 | |
jeffreyi | Jan 2022 | #25 | |
mercuryblues | Jan 2022 | #27 | |
UTUSN | Jan 2022 | #30 |
Response to live love laugh (Original post)
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 02:56 PM
marie999 (3,334 posts)
1. Yes, ordered them through the USPS. It takes about a minute.
Response to live love laugh (Original post)
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 02:57 PM
empedocles (15,137 posts)
2. Not automaticly sent by gov?
Response to empedocles (Reply #2)
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 02:59 PM
WhiskeyGrinder (17,050 posts)
6. This would definitely make the most sense.
Response to WhiskeyGrinder (Reply #6)
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 04:36 PM
W_HAMILTON (5,014 posts)
14. No, it wouldn't.
They are still limited in supply and I don't want a bunch wasted on the MAGA types that will just burn them or do some other idiotic shit with them.
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Response to W_HAMILTON (Reply #14)
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 05:20 PM
WhiskeyGrinder (17,050 posts)
16. They need to ramp up supply, as promised during the campaign. Waiting until December to invoke
DPA and make more tests was not a great move. And sure, if everyone gets regular tests mailed to their residences, there's some waste. But there's lot more and more regular testing than when you make people jump through hoops to get them.
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Response to WhiskeyGrinder (Reply #16)
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 05:30 PM
W_HAMILTON (5,014 posts)
17. It's not jumping through hoops.
It's going to a damn website.
Or calling a damn number. Stop trying to criticize anything and everything this administration does. |
Response to W_HAMILTON (Reply #17)
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 05:39 PM
WhiskeyGrinder (17,050 posts)
18. Making people request something is, in fact, a hoop. Maybe not a huge one, but it is.
A quarter of U.S. households don't have home internet, which is a bigger hoop.
I'm interested to hear how the phone line does when it's up. Stop trying to criticize anything and everything this administration does. This administration ran on experience and competence. If I see something that can be done better, I'm going to mention it. |
Response to WhiskeyGrinder (Reply #18)
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 05:46 PM
W_HAMILTON (5,014 posts)
20. Your suggestion was not "something that can be done better."
It was your opinion. Just like my opinion of your opinion was that it was unnecessary criticism and promoting wasteful use of an already limited resource.
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Response to W_HAMILTON (Reply #20)
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 06:06 PM
WhiskeyGrinder (17,050 posts)
22. People have had their requests denied already because the system has trouble recognizing
individual apartments in a building. It didn't have to be this way.
promoting wasteful use of an already limited resource. If people order tests and then end up not using them because they don't want to use up a limited resource, that's just as wasteful. If everyone is sent regular tests without having to request them, some people who might not have otherwise tested are likely to do so. |
Response to WhiskeyGrinder (Reply #22)
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 06:09 PM
W_HAMILTON (5,014 posts)
23. You are just trying to find anything you can to complain about.
There were always going to be hiccups implementing something brand new such as this; they will fix these minor issues -- people have already found a workaround, mind you -- and these people will get their tests on time like everyone else.
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Response to WhiskeyGrinder (Reply #16)
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 06:50 PM
BlackSkimmer (46,571 posts)
26. Thank you.
+1000.
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Response to BlackSkimmer (Reply #26)
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 07:24 PM
WhiskeyGrinder (17,050 posts)
28. For screaming into the void?
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Response to WhiskeyGrinder (Reply #28)
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 07:26 PM
BlackSkimmer (46,571 posts)
29. Well yeah.
What else can we do?
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Response to live love laugh (Original post)
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 02:58 PM
USALiberal (10,426 posts)
3. Why not provide a link???
Response to USALiberal (Reply #3)
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 02:59 PM
live love laugh (8,397 posts)
5. Oh crap I thought I did. Sorry. Editing.
Response to live love laugh (Reply #5)
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 03:06 PM
USALiberal (10,426 posts)
7. Thank you so much!!
Response to live love laugh (Original post)
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 02:58 PM
FSogol (42,829 posts)
4. Remember to thank Biden and point that out to people. n/t
Response to live love laugh (Original post)
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 03:08 PM
Emile (6,079 posts)
8. We now have two threads on this. That's okay, get the word out!
Response to live love laugh (Original post)
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 03:10 PM
Patterson (1,352 posts)
9. Are these not free for people on Medicare?
Response to Patterson (Reply #9)
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 03:11 PM
WhiskeyGrinder (17,050 posts)
10. These are free to everyone, regardless of insurance, because they're from the government.
Four per household, though, so don't use em all in once place.
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Response to live love laugh (Original post)
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 03:26 PM
intrepidity (4,519 posts)
11. Been trying for an hour; site won't load for me nt
Response to live love laugh (Original post)
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 03:27 PM
mitch96 (10,467 posts)
12. Thanks!! nt
Response to live love laugh (Original post)
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 04:32 PM
mia (8,055 posts)
13. I did, thanks to you!
I shared your message with my relatives and friends, and they too, are spreading the news.
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Response to live love laugh (Original post)
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 04:36 PM
XanaDUer2 (5,278 posts)
15. Yes nt
Response to live love laugh (Original post)
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 05:49 PM
iemanja (50,111 posts)
21. I did now. It says only four will be sent
I thought it was going to be eight? Maybe I misunderstood.
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Response to live love laugh (Original post)
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 06:18 PM
NightWatcher (39,341 posts)
24. Thanks, just did from your link.
Response to live love laugh (Original post)
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 06:29 PM
jeffreyi (1,624 posts)
25. Thanks.
Ordered mine, and shared w/friends.
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Response to live love laugh (Original post)
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 07:22 PM
mercuryblues (12,475 posts)
27. thanks for reminding me. I just did.
Response to live love laugh (Original post)
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 08:00 PM
UTUSN (64,278 posts)