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It is funny how the West was not authoritarian enough for any top down effective action - but proved to be authoritarian enough to prevent us from buying antige
by zby 6y ago
It is funny how the West was not authoritarian enough for any top down effective action - but proved to be authoritarian enough to prevent us from buying antigen tests (https://zby.medium.com/it-is-9-months-now-why-we-have-no-mass-testing-for-sars-cov-2-yet-27b5f409c7d2 https://zby.medium.com/it-is-9-months-now-why-we-have-no-mas...) and build our own bottom up response.
What is left for us is buying the antigen tests on black market and building our 'safe bubbles': https://zby.medium.com/safe-bubbles-5bf43b09f7c5 https://zby.medium.com/safe-bubbles-5bf43b09f7c5
- sampo 6y agoSlovakia just antigen-tested half of their population this past weekend. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/01/half-slovakia-population-covid-tested-covid-one-day https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/01/half-slovakia-...
- zby 6y agoYes - I watch it closely! I hope it will be a success - and then everybody will copy it :) The cost is really minimal. But in the meantime - black or grey market. It used to be possible to buy the tests from online pharmacies - but now I hear from my friends that they start checking if you really are a medical professional.
- zby 6y agoThere are some caveats though - it seems that they have 1% of positive tests - but I cannot find any information if the try to confirm the positives with another test (PCR ideally). The specs on the test quotes 0.3% of false positives - this too close to that 1% of total positives.