Test Results Webpage

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DC doesn't care if you stay employed as a parent. They've shown that throughout the pandemic.

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Honestly these tests have been available on weekends at libraries and fire stations. FREE. I don't agree with this sentiment. There was no rule that the test HAD to be picked up at YOUR kid's school. That was yet another attempt to make access to tests easier for residents. Compared to the rest of the DMV, we have much better access to free testing. Not going to fault the mayor or city government here. There was plenty of notice and tests could have been picked up at any point over the last weekend.

Well given that Children’s hospital has had to send a letter out and turn away DC school parents, this has obviously been a hardship for many families. Not as “easy” as you would suggest. Maybe you should volunteer to help test kids that show up for school tomorrow. There will be many that show up via public transportation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC doesn't care if you stay employed as a parent. They've shown that throughout the pandemic.

+156

Honestly these tests have been available on weekends at libraries and fire stations. FREE. I don't agree with this sentiment. There was no rule that the test HAD to be picked up at YOUR kid's school. That was yet another attempt to make access to tests easier for residents. Compared to the rest of the DMV, we have much better access to free testing. Not going to fault the mayor or city government here. There was plenty of notice and tests could have been picked up at any point over the last weekend.

Well given that Children’s hospital has had to send a letter out and turn away DC school parents, this has obviously been a hardship for many families. Not as “easy” as you would suggest. Maybe you should volunteer to help test kids that show up for school tomorrow. There will be many that show up via public transportation.

People have always used the hospital as primary care. It is enhanced because of this testing for sure but I don’t think it’s because getting a test has been such a hardship. I think it’s just the first stop for many families. I’ve been teaching for years and it’s been going on since I started.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our school just texted us to say they’re out of tests and don’t come tomorrow until we hear from them so there’s that….

just pick up one at library.

or another school

or a firehouse

Firehouses are not handing out rapid tests tomorrow at 8:30.

Do you all understand what you’re asking others to “simply” do rather than admitting DC is f-ing this up.

I mean the whole notion that parents have to test their kids on Wednesday and upload the results by 4pm? To a site that is currently down to teachers.

I am a single mom that lives very far uptown that commutes in person to Fairfax. I work 9-5:30. I have to leave my house (near Silver Spring) by 8am to get to work on time. What time do you think I should pick up these simple tests from my kid’s school? Where? What time should I test my kid? Should I drop him off at daycare at 7am, get test from school at 8:30, now go to a different school which will get me the test by 8:45, go back to test my kid at daycare, get to work at 10:30, use 2 hours sick leave? Or should I leave work at 2pm and hope and pray they will have tests by the time I get to a random school at 3pm? Or should I just go to 4 pharmacies to get an OTC test and pay $25 that I don’t have in my budget this week?

People that say “just do this” really have no idea how the working class live.

At the very least, the mayor could have given families until 7pm to upload.

We are going to just upload at 7pm ish and hope and pray.

To this PP, I just want to say I am really sorry. I'm sorry for your loss, I'm sorry for the responses you've gotten here, and I'm sorry that your life is so complicated and difficult. This pandemic and our government's response to it has really made life so impossibly hard for parents and kids. I wish I knew you in real life so that I could help you out. For what it's worth, and as 'm sure you've learned by now, the schools are going to accept all manner of proof of a negative test result tomorrow. Best of luck to you.

[Anonymous]

Rapid tests are not 'easy' to get. We have gotten them over the break and it started out smooth. Since this past weekend on, the snowstrom, abridged hours and DoH moving them unannounced form one site to another have made it really challenging. If you don't have a car, limitless availabilty, forget it. It was a nice idea, but please stop bashing people who don't have the resources to thread this needle, and please ask the DC GOV t be more transparent and organized so they don't waste people's time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC doesn't care if you stay employed as a parent. They've shown that throughout the pandemic.

+156

Honestly these tests have been available on weekends at libraries and fire stations. FREE. I don't agree with this sentiment. There was no rule that the test HAD to be picked up at YOUR kid's school. That was yet another attempt to make access to tests easier for residents. Compared to the rest of the DMV, we have much better access to free testing. Not going to fault the mayor or city government here. There was plenty of notice and tests could have been picked up at any point over the last weekend.

Yes but people traveled out of the area and couldn’t do it and now they have to be working and can’t take an hour lunch today to go get it.

This is not directed to the widow. And people’s response to her show why DCUM is toxic garbage.

[Anonymous]

The webpage worked perfectly for us. I just wish the school/DCPS would send an email acknowledging that they received the result.

[Anonymous]

I just uploaded results. Chrome on MacOS didn't work, so I redid the whole process from my phone (IOS 14.8) and it worked fine.

The web site wanted to know if it was a rapid antigen or PCR test, but beyond that it didn't ask whether I picked up the test at the last minute at a school or if I'd nabbed one last week and the many test distribution sites, or if I'd borrowed one from a friend, or bought one online, or had one done at an urgent care, or bought one at CVS previously or recently, or if I'd used one a friend had previously shared.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our school just texted us to say they’re out of tests and don’t come tomorrow until we hear from them so there’s that….

just pick up one at library.

The closest library near me that has rapids is about 3 miles away, I still have streets not plowed, and they are usually out of tests in 1-2 hours after they open. But go ahead and display more “just” privilege.

Oh and I am at work during the 12-2 time slots the library has them. Was already going to be late for work picking it up at 8:30. I will try another DCPS site that’s not too far from my commute to work in VA.

I get that this site is all about complaining but you can go to any other DCPS school between 8:30-4 tomorrow. There must be a school within three miles of your house. Or ask a neighbor with a DCPS kid if you can have the second test in their kit. I don’t love DCPS but they have a wide range of times and options for getting a test.

DCPS was handing them out until 5 today. Ask a neighbor if they have an extra test as they come in packs of two. Get your kid tested at school Wednesday morning. Drive around to some cvs’ and Walmarts and upload the results a little later in the evening. Or just don’t send your kid Wednesday to school. This really isn’t on DCPS.
Wide range for rapid tests available? Please show me outside of my kid’s school where I can get a rapid test after 4pm as I work a day job? Most libraries have run out by 2pm.

DCPS was handing them out until 5 today. Ask a neighbor if they have an extra test as they come in packs of two. Get your kid tested at school Wednesday morning. Drive around to some cvs’ and Walmarts and upload the results a little later in the evening. Or just don’t send your kid Wednesday to school. This really isn’t on DCPS.
Wide range for rapid tests available? Please show me outside of my kid’s school where I can get a rapid test after 4pm as I work a day job? Most libraries have run out by 2pm

I left for work today at 7:30. DCPS didn’t start handing them out until 2 otherwise I would have tried to go in late and get them this morning. Also, they didn’t announce they were handing out until 5 until I was already at work today.

Handing tests out 2-5pm and then 8:30-4 the next day shows they do not care about the working class. Period.

I am one of the "just" privileged who could run around town to find a test, and I agree fully with this poster. For the life of me I can't understand why DCPS isn't offering evening hours at certain schools for test pickup for people who work during their test pickup times. DCPS is offering the tests and requiring and they should have a wide range of times for pickup.

[Anonymous]

It feels like there is this massive assumption that everyone works from home at a job that doesn’t require much actual work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It feels like there is this massive assumption that everyone works from home at a job that doesn’t require much actual work.

Yes, this.

[Anonymous]

That was easy. All the doomsayers got some egg on their face.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That was easy. All the doomsayers got some egg on their face.

I wish more people would post on Twitter that they were successful. All I see is gloom and doom. When a DOH person asked one of them if she needed help, she just ignored him.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That was easy. All the doomsayers got some egg on their face.

I wish more people would post on Twitter that they were successful. All I see is gloom and doom. When a DOH person asked one of them if she needed help, she just ignored him.

Twitter is a cesspool. Why anyone pays attention to it is beyond me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That was easy. All the doomsayers got some egg on their face.

Same here using my old iPhone 7 with 15.2.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That was easy. All the doomsayers got some egg on their face.

I wish more people would post on Twitter that they were successful. All I see is gloom and doom. When a DOH person asked one of them if she needed help, she just ignored him.

Twitter is a cesspool. Why anyone pays attention to it is beyond me.

I would also say ignore it but it seems like the Council (particularly R. White) pays attention to them. And then we get these emergency legislation ideas to close schools for arbitrary reasons. That why I pay attention to DCPS twitter. Trust me, I hate it. I think they might even be worse than DCUM in terms of complaining.