It took Amazon 15 days to deliver the test I ordered from them. In the process they also indicated it was delayed and then switched delivery carrier from Amazon to UPS on the last day, without providing the UPS tracking information. This was despite the Amazon driver coming to the house with other stuff the same day anyway. (Amazon stops at the house often, too often probably.)
If they can beat that bar, they're doing fine.
https://analytics.usa.gov/ is the site with the page usage stats for anyone who wants to see the server load. Yesterday a story said that at one point there were more people looking at the COVID Tests page than all other GOV pages combined. In the 7 and 30 day views, it's interesting that USPS is the most used site, followed by the CDC (for 30 days). At 7 days, COVID Tests has already passed the CDC, and it's in the top 10 on the 30 day chart too. That's a lot of people.
I ordered the 4 free tests and had no issues at the
https://www.covidtests.gov link.
It's a joke though, 4? Some households have 10 or more people in the home. I am guessing the less wall off a family is and the more difficult it is for them to get tested, the more people they have in the home. Better than nothing I guess. I'll probably take those 4 tests to FL since it seems getting tested there is tough. It amazes me that a place like FL that relies on tourism doesn't have the best system in the entire world in place for testing. FL should be a model for testing, not sure why they aren't. They just do not put their resources there I guess.
We are lucky, here in IL I can go online enter my information go take a test with less than a 5 minute wait and it's only 15 minutes from my home. I can also choose one of 3 different tests. Try going on Walgreens, CVS etc, they have 3 day waits, plus. Our county facility has from 10 to over 100 openings per day. The county sends the results to email in either an hour or 24 to 48 hours if you do the PCR test. So far between all of us in the home we have used our county 10 times(it is subcontracted) , never more than a 5min wait.
The at home tests are nice and we have done 4 so far (could only get my hands on 4 tests ordered and picked up same day at Walmart). Still, it is so convenient right now for us with the county facility and we know the results are going to be better.
As far as anyone saying the N95 hurt or leave mark and they will take their chances just vaccinated with no masks can only say that if they never had a family member on a ventilator or a friend die on one. They would never take that chance(well maybe they would and do) saying the N95 band hurts I am not wearing it after seeing 2 months of suffering for the person to die anyhow and yeah, from omicron. If they can see that and still not wear an N95 based on comfort, well I don't know what to think about that. The ratio of positive tests to deaths may be lower, BUT 1700 people a day are still dying, the same as under Delta. I guess the population is so numb to it.
Here is a story that makes me so proud. I wake up this morning and go to say goodbye to my 20 year old, he is off to the second day of a new job at his school. He has one of my real 3M N95 masks on that I still have from before Covid. These masks are tight as hell and he has an Afro for the most part so it is really tight. It looks so tight, but dam no air is getting past the sides of this thing.
I say, here is a new style N95 you can wear this mask it is still an N95, it is more comfortable and not as tight. You know what the kid says to me. Well I am not feeling well and I don't want to get anyone sick. This blew my mind. My 20 year old didn't say yeah give me the mask that is more comfortable, it's still an N95. He doesn't say I do not want to get sick. His entire mindset was that he didn't want to get anyone else sick! You can try to teach that, but for the most part that is empathy gained through out a person's life. If every single person in the USA thought this way there is a good chance Covid would already be beat.
I am bragging again. I am so proud of him, a 20 year old son of a Conservative Republican still thinking about others before himself, not his personal rights, not comfort and not if he will get sick, but about others. So my day started out good!
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Looking right now, there's only 150,000 people on the order page right now. "only"
