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With exponential growth of the disease, lack of testing, and poor healthcare infrastructure in the US, that would’ve happened anyway when people needed grocerie

With exponential growth of the disease, lack of testing, and poor healthcare infrastructure in the US, that would’ve happened anyway when people needed groceries. I guess they decided they might as well cash in on some testing stations.

blhack 7y ago
Are they cashing in somehow? Or do you mean cashing in in the sense that they have a massive, existential financial interest in this going away as quickly as possible?
- claudeganon 7y ago
  Details of the arrangement aren’t clear. They’re stock shot up about ten points after the announcement though.
  - jcheng 7y ago
    The stock market as a whole was up 10%.
kevin_thibedeau 7y ago
You go in after hours when the risk of contact is minimal.
- ck2 7y ago
  You really think they are going to bother to be open beyond 9-5 and maybe not even weekends? Also with the air-conditioner on exhaust and the people taking swaps without protective gear, or even with, moving the virus from car to car so efficiently. Look at this crazy photo: first guy is leaning into the car with facemask down. Totally going to happen at half the Walmarts. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/03/12/upshot/12up-healthcovid/merlin_170345880_ab07006f-7c0f-49c4-938d-f6850badf9a9-jumbo.jpg https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/03/12/upshot/12up-healt...
  - m4rtink 7y ago
    How this is done here in Czech Republic is by placing a medical tent or a mobile office container on the grounds near the given hospital handling the testing. Then people who are to be tested and are in quarantine at home (mostly after visiting affected areas in Italy and elsewhere or by being traced to someone infected) make appointments over phone, then arrive by private car at the designated time. They will actually not set foot in the tent, instead a swab sample is taken by a medic in full hazmat suit. The tent houses the medic & sample handling equipment. The people who have been tested then return to quarantine at home and wait for the results. This is also compounded by a dedicated ambulance with team in full protective gear that takes samples from people at home.

blhack 7y ago

Are they cashing in somehow? Or do you mean cashing in in the sense that they have a massive, existential financial interest in this going away as quickly as possible?

claudeganon 7y ago
Details of the arrangement aren’t clear. They’re stock shot up about ten points after the announcement though.
- jcheng 7y ago
  The stock market as a whole was up 10%.

kevin_thibedeau 7y ago

You go in after hours when the risk of contact is minimal.

ck2 7y ago
You really think they are going to bother to be open beyond 9-5 and maybe not even weekends? Also with the air-conditioner on exhaust and the people taking swaps without protective gear, or even with, moving the virus from car to car so efficiently. Look at this crazy photo: first guy is leaning into the car with facemask down. Totally going to happen at half the Walmarts. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/03/12/upshot/12up-healthcovid/merlin_170345880_ab07006f-7c0f-49c4-938d-f6850badf9a9-jumbo.jpg https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/03/12/upshot/12up-healt...
- m4rtink 7y ago
  How this is done here in Czech Republic is by placing a medical tent or a mobile office container on the grounds near the given hospital handling the testing. Then people who are to be tested and are in quarantine at home (mostly after visiting affected areas in Italy and elsewhere or by being traced to someone infected) make appointments over phone, then arrive by private car at the designated time. They will actually not set foot in the tent, instead a swab sample is taken by a medic in full hazmat suit. The tent houses the medic & sample handling equipment. The people who have been tested then return to quarantine at home and wait for the results. This is also compounded by a dedicated ambulance with team in full protective gear that takes samples from people at home.