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I remember early on that they were advertised as just confirming COVID when you were at the height of symptoms. Then we got flooded with using them all the time

• zzzeek 3y ago
  people need to go to parties and have some vague notion that they aren't willfully spreading raging covid to everyone.
• Kaotique 3y ago
  In the end it turned out that common sense has always been right. The more sick you are the easier it is to spread and detect. The tests just detect and confirm the obvious.
• mrguyorama 3y ago
  What happened was that business owners and employers decided covid was over and if you didn't have provable covid your ass better be at the job or you're fired. So many people were heavily pressured to work while sick if they couldn't prove it was covid, and even then there wasn't anything protecting you from being fired if you got covid at a bad time. Remember that the "essential workers" make $35k a year.