Unbelievable (Warning: Non-Alembic Content)

[lbpesq]

So earlier this week I received an email from the government informing me that I could order two new batches of home Covid tests.   For free.  So I ordered the tests.   They arrived this morning.   Two boxes of two tests each.  Arrived on August 20, 2022.   Looked on the back of the box. “Use by August 19, 2022”.   Is anyone actually overseeing this stuff???!!!!


Bill, tgo

[StephenR]

The dates on all the tests provided so have been near the expiration date. Supposedly they work beyond the expiration date. We are going to grab more while they are still free the government announced this week that they will soon no longer pay for testing or vaccinations even for people on Medicare. My wife and I are assuming our Kaiser plans will continue to cover these services, though. I have Kaiser Senior Advantage for a Medicare supplemental plan it sounded like if you are on Medicare and don't have a supplemental plan there will no longer be any Covid related coverage. IMO this is a big mistake especially if they really cut off senior citizens. We have a whole bunch of friends that all either have Covid now or got it within the last 2 weeks. Some of them are pretty sick, others not bad or asymptomatic. Go out and spend money, and act like there is no virus, that seems to be the new policy.

 

[StephenR]

Apparently my wife checked with Kaiser when we got sent tests that were close to expiration and was told they last 3 months beyond the expiration date. YMMV...

[cozmik_cowboy]

I've always thought that most "expiration dates" were actually "go buy more dates" (no, we're not paying for them directly - and we have a stockpile of about 14 or 16 of them - but the pharma companies are not giving to the government); sort of akin to the TV ads for shaving cream that always show the dude applying a 6" thick layer.

As I have often told Her:  If expiration dates were real, no bachelor would ever live to marriage.


Peter (who does, however, think all his guitars have expired, and thus he needs new ones........)