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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First, I don't know why people would go to them anyway when they got clear instructions they can pick up tests at any school. 
Second, there is no such thing as unnecessary testing because for every vaccinated person who tests, if they catch a positive and change their behavior, they are breaking the chain of infection to more vulnerable people. [/quote]

That would only be true if test weren't a limited resource:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/01/covid-test-shortage/621149/[/quote]

The idiot author wants tests reserved for the unvaccinated. They put themselves in a position that makes them vulnerable, there is no reason to expend limited resources on them [/quote]

I agree, that article is asinine. My entire family is vaccinated, booster where eligible except the under 5s. On Christmas Eve we tested 25 family members with rapid tests and one of the was positive (vaccinated 8 YO) so that family didn’t join the gathering. The alternative would have been to to see each other at all or to potentially risk infecting a few parents in their 80s or not gather. None of us had any qualms about using rapid tests that had been purchased when they were in easy supply to test for a gathering. [/quote]

The thing about proposals like this is that sometimes the right thing to do in terms of social health and safety issues is that sometimes the most logical and effective thing to do goes against "common sense" and most especially morality. We often prefer policies that punish the deserving, even if they're objectively less effective social policies. These kinds of proposals are often met with moral outrage. Unfortunately, the people who communicate these proposals often don't do much to prevent this.[/quote]

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