Thread by @Shoq

𝗨𝗚𝗛! 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻!

Yesterday, after a 4 hrs wait at a retail site for “free rapid covid testing,” they tell me the test is only 75% accurate. My friend Steve, who supervises testing says “BS, whose test was that?” So to find out,

I call the name listed on the the cheesy application website (dcltesting-2.com) and their cheesier “results card.” “Doctor’s Clinical Lab (DCL).”

Nice lady answers, says “we don’t know who they are, or why they use our name, but you’re like the 20th caller

since yesterday.”

So now I am only hold with “centerforcovidcontrol.org” (who directed me to this site) which claimed “275 locations.” I am now caller number 77, with an estimated wait time of 70 minutes. (And you know it will drop the call when I’m down to #2)

My

hunch? These are scammers bilking the treasury for $23-143 per test using substandard tests (no doubt made by a Republican in a Winnebego somewhere out in the desert).

𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗔𝗟 𝗢𝗙 𝗠𝗬 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗬
Be sure your test is done at a reputable testing site. Since every state is doing their own thing, I don’t know if anyone can sort this out. I am going to call a reporter at the @MiamiHerald and see if I can interest them the story.

@MiamiHerald I called the vaunted @MiamiHerald news desk. They took a message and said they will call me back.

Gosh, how responsive for a fucking NEWS DESK!

I’m sure glad it isn’t something more urgent than a possible nationwide covid-testing scam.

@MiamiHerald I called the news desk @MiamiHerald’s 800 number gave. Already been waiting 13 minutes since I left a message. Can you imagine if I was trying to report a BIG breaking story ? Is this the dismal state of all our failing papers today? cc @mathewi @jayrosen_nyu

That is how much we taxpayer sare paying for these “free tests.” I checked.

This is the kind of shit that happens all the time now, since Republicans permanently broke our entire govt and society. Accountability only happens when some idiot like me bothers to even care.

@MiamiHerald @mathewi @jayrosen_nyu Still on hold with CovidControlCenters. Caller #18 now. Estimated hold time, 29minutes. You KNOW they will cut me off the 2nd they pick up. and of course 2 important callers had to be asked to call back while I stay on this hell-call.

@MiamiHerald @mathewi @jayrosen_nyu After holding for 3 hrs & 38 minutes,
apparently their bone-headed staff was reading everyone wrong accuracy results (“75%”). Assuming they told me the truth on phone, the test we took was from PHASE SCIENTIFIC, with sensitivity as shown. A testing expert explains it.