Nearly half of Biden’s 500M free COVID
tests still unclaimed
Posted By: Ribicon, 2/27/2022 4:29:39 PM
Washington—Nearly half of the 500 million free COVID-19 tests the Biden administration recently made available to the public still have not been claimed as virus cases plummet and people feel less urgency to test. Wild demand swings have been a subplot in the pandemic, from vaccines to hand sanitizer, along with tests. On the first day of the White House test giveaway in January, COVIDtests.gov received over 45 million orders. Now officials say fewer than 100,000 orders a day are coming in for the packages of four free rapid tests per household, delivered by the U.S. Postal Service.(Snip)The White House says Americans have placed 68 million orders
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Rep. Vicky Hartzler’s account locked
for tweet criticizing transgender athletes
in women’s sports 3 replies
for tweet criticizing transgender athletes
in women’s sports 3 replies
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California weighs punishing doctors for
challenging 'contemporary scientific consensus'
on COVID 23 replies
challenging 'contemporary scientific consensus'
on COVID 23 replies
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way for Putin invasion 21 replies
Trump ‘installed’ as POTUS to clear
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Is Zelensky Ukraine's George Washington?
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Over the last 30 years, many Ukrainians have asked when their nation will finally get its George Washington, a leader who can rally the people and lead it to victory.
I’ve usually told Ukrainian interlocutors that Washington wasn’t born a great man; he became one because of the trials of the Revolutionary War, when he demonstrated his ability to lead and to symbolize the American struggle. A Ukrainian Washington might emerge in a similar manner, and now perhaps he has.
Ukrainians’ question may have been answered by an unlikely candidate for the hero role: Volodymyr Zelensky, a comedian-turned-president, who many analysts — including me — considered would be disastrous for the country.
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The objective was to hand a fortune in taxpayer money to manufacturer, and to let the stock market players in the US Congress make some side money. This was a resounding success, so why worry about the tests? Throw them in the trash, or better let, let them expire and buy even more tests just in case.