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2022-01-19 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Lord Garth 2022-01-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Testing, testing: Biden administration launches at home testing website to distribute 500 million free tests but limits families to maximum of four (and they won't be shipped until late January)

Posted by Skidmark 2022-01-19 05:09|| 2022-01-19 05:09|| Front Page Top

#2 So, do these tests report their results directly back to the gummint, or is it up to the user, testee, whatever you want to call them, to self-report?

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-19 07:04|| 2022-01-19 07:04|| Front Page Top

#3 When I tested positive right after Christmas, I called my doctor and got a virtual visit.

I imagine that got reported, somewhere.

Posted by Bobby 2022-01-19 08:27|| 2022-01-19 08:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Biden announces plan to provide Americans with 400 MILLION FREE N95 masks from the federal Strategic National Stockpile to combat Omicron: Will be shipped to pharmacies by end of the week

Posted by Skidmark 2022-01-19 08:38|| 2022-01-19 08:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Will be shipped to pharmacies by end of the week

hopefully not via UP train in L.A.

Posted by Frank G 2022-01-19 08:53|| 2022-01-19 08:53|| Front Page Top

#6 So 1.21 masks per US ~~citizen~~ resident. Expert advice says that ain't gonna cut it.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-19 09:02|| 2022-01-19 09:02|| Front Page Top

#7 #3 Ditto Bobby... along with the curious shingles like rash I developed and am still battling to this day.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2022-01-19 11:22|| 2022-01-19 11:22|| Front Page Top

#8 just learned that these home tests have a high (10% or more) rate of false positive

Posted by Lord Garth 2022-01-19 12:28|| 2022-01-19 12:28|| Front Page Top

#9 Lots of stories about ordering glitches. People's orders being turned down if someone else in a multi family dwelling already ordered, etc.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-19 12:35|| 2022-01-19 12:35|| Front Page Top

#10 They're not "free". The taxpayers money is being taken from other uses and diverted to this use instead.

Posted by Crusader 2022-01-19 13:31|| 2022-01-19 13:31|| Front Page Top

#11 Depleting the Federal stockpile during O's reign caused a lot of heartache two years ago.

Will history repeat itself? Again.

Posted by Bobby 2022-01-19 14:23|| 2022-01-19 14:23|| Front Page Top

#12 "The better to track you with my dear" little white supremacist enemy of the people

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-01-19 19:48|| 2022-01-19 19:48|| Front Page Top

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