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As the article mentions, in many countries - especially in Europe - Covid tests are ubiquitious and cheap (or even free). Here in Austria you can just walk int
by spacechild1 5y ago
As the article mentions, in many countries - especially in Europe - Covid tests are ubiquitious and cheap (or even free).
Here in Austria you can just walk into a pharmacy and get tested for Covid (either rapid antigen test or PCR test). The test result automatically shows up in the "Grüner Pass" app (https://gruenerpass.gv.at/ https://gruenerpass.gv.at/) - or can be downloaded from a link. All of this is free of cost.
- 988747 5y agoTests are not free, it's just taxpayers paying for them.
- dTal 5y agoIf you want to bend the meaning of "free" to mean "consumes no resources", then nothing ever is "free". But of course, that's not how we generally use the word.
- brandon272 5y agoWhen someone says that these tests are "free" with respect to availability to the public, they mean that they are free to the citizen/consumer at the point of sale. There is no out of pocket expense to get tested.
- tinus_hn 5y agoSo how does that work with lockdowns? Are these free?
- spacechild1 5y agoI am well aware of that. My point was rather: if you want people to get tested for Covid, it helps to make it readily available and cheap.