Seems like a deliberate attempt to manufacture consent for the purported end of the pandemic in front of millions of viewers on national TV. I know I’m just stating the obvious, but wouldn’t want to remind people about how thousands of people are still dying from COVID in the US in the most recent weeks or how 800,000 people have officially died from COVID under the Biden administration (which the Biden admin continually tries to attribute to the Trump admin when they’re both complicit).

I mean the overwhelming majority of people (including most leftists) already treat it as over, but ya know.

If you live in the US, the rapid tests are absurdly expensive–like sometimes $10 per test. Which also isn’t great because rapid tests have a not-insignificant false negative rate, and, well, sometimes you just get a shitty test that straight up doesn’t even work (i.e. the control line doesn’t even show up).

I recently used this site in the UK to purchase some FlowFlex tests: https://www.visionpharmacy.com/products/flowflex-antigen-rapid-covid-test-1-test-kit

I believe there’s a flat rate for worldwide shipping is £19.99, which is currently just under $26 USD. So larger purchases make more sense if you can swing it or split the cost of an order with someone else. So if you purchased like 50 tests, that would be like a little under $2.50 per test. Free shipping on orders over £50. I also used the discount code WELCOME10 to get an extra 10% off.

My recent order had an expiration date on the tests of October 2025, so, pretty good! But your mileage may vary.

As for why I suggest FlowFlex specifically, well, when the other two people in my household got COVID at the beginning of the year, on the very first day of both of them having symptoms, FlowFlex immediately showed a positive test for both of them. I’m pretty sure the quick detection was a big reason why I avoided getting infected myself (obviously the bigger reason was because of quarantining, but I digress).

My understanding is that FlowFlex is also one of the better rapid tests out there. An excerpt from their site:

The performance of the Flowflex COVID-19 Antigen Home Test was established in an all-comers clinical study conducted between March 2021 and May 2021 with 172 nasal swabs self-collected or pair-collected by another study participant from 108 individual symptomatic patients (within 7 days of onset) suspected of COVID-19 and 64 asymptomatic patients. All subjects were screened for the presence or absence of COVID-19 symptoms within two weeks of study enrollment. The Flowflex COVID-19 Antigen Home Test was compared to an FDA authorized molecular SARS-CoV-2 test. The Flowflex COVID-19 Antigen Home Test correctly identified 93% of positive specimens and 100% of negative specimens.

Obviously a few years old, so idk how well this holds up against the current dominant variants out there. I am unfortunately having trouble finding the original study, and I know anecdotes only count for so much, but yeah, these are the best rapid tests I’ve used so far.

Very cool that this is happening in big cities, too. Remember to for the Democrats to keep the fascist Republicans out of office! Pay no attention to the fascism already happening under the Democrats!

Also, I’m sure the recent overturning of the Chevron deference couldn’t possibly stifle efforts to fight any potential pandemics (say, H5N1) even further. :yea:

Jeez, that’s grotesque. Seems like the decision to hold an event extremely repugnant like that at a synagogue was also deliberate so then the Zionists could cry antisemitism at the inevitable protests, too.

Oh god, that sounds awful, you have my sympathies. And I’ve always hated all of that “team building” shit, even before the pandemic. And especially now because it usually entails eating out at a restaurant or going to a bar, and I just turn all that shit down now for obvious reasons.

Years ago, I used to get all bazinga about the Steam winter sales, until I realized I was never playing most of those games and wasn’t “saving” money at all.

Oh damn, I didn’t realize you were saying you had the same exact scenario happen to you lol, I thought you were just saying you didn’t buy anything on Black Friday. Did you have your social credit score deducted for this transgression against consumerism?

There was actually another person who also didn’t buy anything, so I think it was received better than it otherwise would have been, lol

I work in a bullshit office job and I had a meeting where someone did an icebreaker by asking what we all bought for Black Friday :agony-limitless:

I proudly said I bought nothing :gigachad:

It’s real fun how Bill Gates is routinely referred to as an expert outside of his lane (intellectual property/stealing from workers), including pandemics, and he’s probably the single person who should have the most blame in the catastrophic pandemic response. He’s the one who convinced Oxford to sell their vaccine for big pharma, after they had the original intent to make it open source for the world.

The fact that this business tyrant who was reviled by many in the public has now rebranded himself as a “good” billionaire really shows he has the best PR that money can buy.

Bill Gates most certainly does, he routinely expresses concern about shit like Africa and their “rapid population growth” and the like, there’s no way he isn’t an ecofascist