Thread by @thrasherxy

JUST. GIVE. THE. FUCKING. TESTS. AWAY. EVERYWHERE. YOU. CAN. WITHOUT. PAPERWORK. YES. I. LITERALLY. MEAN. GIVE. THEM. AWAY. FOR. FREE. AT. SCHOOLS. IN. THE. MAIL. AT. VAX. SITES. WITHOUT. INSURANCE. OR. FORMS. OR. WEBSITES. JUST. PUT. TESTS. IN. HANDS. AND. UP. NOSES. FOR. FREE!

https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1480639293756522502

I believe it includes Medicaid and ACA plans.

Still 30 million—THIRTY MILLION—have no insurance at all, not even Medicaid!

STOP FUCKING AROUND AND JUST GIVE OUT THE TESTS. MASKS, TOO!

https://twitter.com/weldonberger/status/1480698491324166145?s=20

SURPRISE!!!!!!!!!! "Study: Risk of severe COVID-19 imperils millions of uninsured"

A viral underclass made at every turn!

cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspecti…

I WANT MY BINAX WITH SOME LOX
I WANT MY BINAX WITH A FOX
I WANT MY BINAX WITH A COW
GIMME, GIMME BINAX—NOW!

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 @omweekes

https://twitter.com/omweekes/status/1480698390157533185?s=20

You wanna charge insurers @JoeBiden @WhiteHouse? Tally up the cost—say it's 100 million—then go around to the insurers like a debt collector.

"Hey, Aetna! What percent of the country you cover? 3.4%? Your bill is $3.4 mil. Blue Shield? 11% That'll be $11 mil."

THE END

This is NOT difficult, but we are stuck in damn colonizer mind.

ANY public health person knows when you do public campaigns "over there," everything gotta be free at point of service. It's simple! We did it with vaccines which was, for its challenges, pretty successful.

You can't charge. YOU CANT'CHARGE at point of service.

The US is having a hard time seeing "us over here" as like the colonized we gift charity public health to "over there." And our rulers LOATHE the idea of our populace getting used to getting anything "for free."

At least they are not singing their normal song, "Means testing...wider than a mile."

Still. They KNOW the more burdens they put up, the less tests will even get requested. Housing assistance funds were almost entirely unused! NOT FOR LACK OF NEED—but bc the forms were too complicated, the onus was on renters and landlords didn't want the funds!

Does anyone honestly believe INSURANCE COMPANIES are going to make it easy to reimbursed?

Long live @pocojump's Uncle Harold! Long live @WHarkavy! May they haunt the dreams of insurers and means testers as reliably as The Ghost of Christmas Future visits Ebenezer Scrooge every year!

https://twitter.com/pocojump/status/1480702723733573633?s=20

GIVE. THEM. AWAY. AS. FREELY. AS. THE. REAGAN. ADMINISTRATION. GAVE. OUT. ARMS. TO. IRAN. IRAQ. AND. THE. TALIBAN.

https://twitter.com/thrasherxy/status/1480697819694522369?s=20

The White House is being more fair to SARS-CoV-2 than the DNC ever was to Bernie Sanders! 😂😂😂😂

https://twitter.com/joseph_morris/status/1480704889059622914?s=20

GIVE. THOSE. TESTS. AWAY. AND. GET. THEM. UP. NOSES. AS. FREELY. AS. KENDALL. ROY. GIVES. AWAY. COKE. AND. GETS. IT. UP. NOSES. TO. CONVINCE. HIMSELF. HE. HAS. FRIENDS!

This level of paperwork is thing short of genocidal!

Bureaucracy > saving lives

https://twitter.com/overturnH8/status/1480711824681046016?s=20

Hey @WhiteHouse, when a QT from someone like me with [checks notes] 6.196 million fewer followers than you is getting more likes and RTs than your original tweet, you might wanna reasses the popularity of your proposal

More of this, please!

https://twitter.com/JohnMFlores/status/1480719067023564806?s=20

Welcome new followers. I do cuss and rail against the administration’s abysmal handling of the pandemic a lot. But, I also tweet abt HIV/AIDS, Betty White, American Studies, med anthro, media analysis, Philip Glass, queer stuff, the movie Clue— and I wrote a book out this summer!

https://twitter.com/thrasherxy/status/1262848245212086277

Hey @POTUS @SpeakerPelosi, they're doing it in your town. Though you're paternalistic in what is almost a colony, learn from the District. We ALL need this, YESTERDAY!

https://twitter.com/KvnJAdms/status/1480726972569374728?s=20

DON’T. JUST. RECOMMEND. THEM. GIVE. AWAY. THE. FUCKING. MASKS.

https://twitter.com/bylenasun/status/1480737187473858568

FUCKING. PAY. FOR. TESTS. UNCLE. SAM. PAY. FOR. MASKS. PAY. PEOPLE. TO. STAY. THE. FUCK. AT. HOME.

https://twitter.com/joshuapotash/status/1480707212528001025

This is like standing on a boat, watching someone drowning, and weighing whether or not to throw them a life jacket—for months.

https://twitter.com/davidalim/status/1480974855818334208

Still angry they are trying to get people to use home tests via insurance reimbursements for fuck’s sake! A home test should be used intimately and often w/o barriers! Do you know how many millions of HIV infections are stopped by condom use?!?!

Giving condoms away has been a huge part of this!! You want people to easily & freely use condoms—as many as they need—any time & anywhere they have sex! When you get condoms in dorms, prisons, bathrooms, bars do you need to pay and call Blur Shied for 80 cents? No! They’re FREE!

And for reference, condoms cost 3 cents to make and sell for about a dollar. Home Covid tests cost about 80 cents but sell for $10-$100. The gov could just give something away that cost to make what a condom sells for, to the same end — to stop the spread of infectious disease!

New one day record on this bird app for me—am glad because my anger resonated with other people's anger. We should be MORE angry at how all of this is unfolding, how we are expected to pay with our time and our lives for grotesque government neglect!!

Wait, insured Americans have to get reimbursed, but ppl on Medicare (who may be elderly, poor, disabled, homeless or all) have to order them from a “forthcoming” website? Can ppl w insurance also order the home tests?

JUST. GIVE. THE. FUCKING. TESTS. AWAY!

https://twitter.com/wjz/status/1481317576252796931

An utter disdain for people who are illiterate or computer illiterate. Most people on Medicaid are elderly, most people affected by Covid the worst are elderly—maybe don’t make them navigate a website when you can just give them away!

https://twitter.com/restructures/status/1479881564368551943

They brag this is the wealthiest country of all time and the economy is booming—well, stop fucking around here then. Everyone in. No one out. Everyone gets the same thing. No sending the insured on this goose chase, making the uninsured jump through that hoop

*Medicare

Imagine waging a condom use campaign and saying “Alright, who has insurance. Tony? OK pay me now, when you get home, go blueshield.com. Al, you got no insurance? No condoms, wait to have sex until you can can order some at healthcare.gov.” No one would use them!

If you want someone to wrap their genitalia with latex…if you want someone to shove something up their nose…if you want people to widely use intimate tools at home to address infectious disease, you must give it away!”