Covid tests available at library
A limited supply of free Covid-19 rapid antigen test kits will be available Wednesday, Jan. 12, at four Fairfax County libraries, including George Mason Regional Library in Annandale. The library opens at 8 a.m.
Only 300 tests will be available at each branch. The last time the libraries offered Covid test kits, they were snapped up quickly. Because of the limited supply, the kits are restricted to no more than four per household.
You do not need proof of residency or a library card.
Anyone exhibiting Covid symptoms must request kits via the library’s contactless curbside pickup service.
The BinaxNOW Covid-19 antigen card home test kits are provided by the Virginia Department of Health.
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I stopped by at 9:30 a.m., and the line was long and wrapped around the back of the building at the George Mason location.
Yeah they were completely out of them early, if you were planning on going in the next few days, don’t bother.
Stand in a line:
-with highly contagious sick people pumped full of ineffective vaccines
-participating in mask theater with ineffective masks
-to get tested to see if you’re sick.
Here’s an idea… if you’re sick, stay home. If you’re not sick, don’t stand in a line with sick people, because then you’ll get sick.
Another idea… ask yourself if you will change your behavior as a result of a positive test. Many loyal party subjects are hunkered down. If you rarely leave your house and telework and won’t change your behavior as a result of the test, don’t stand in line with sick people and get sick and bring it home to your family who may be more mobile than you. Just stay where you are.
Same goes for standing in a sidewalk bubble to get a nasal swab. You do realize that everyone in the line is probably sick, and they stand in the plastic bubble and breathe with their respiratory virus… and then you go stand in the bubble 2 seconds later to get tested. And health experts encourage this. Blows my mind.
The vaccines available in the U.S. are effective.
While not all masks are created equal, most are effective. Learn the differences between cloth, paper/surgical, and close-fitting respirators like N95s, and how to wear and use them correctly.
As the novel coronavirus mutates, recommendations and policies will change, too; that doesn’t mean that what we did before was all wrong. It means that nature is not static. It never was.
Testing is important to track infections, prevent the spread, and learn more about new variants. No one is perfectly “hunkered down;” unless you’re ready to remove yourself from society completely, you have a civic responsibility to get tested if you suspect you may have covid.
Getting a swab test only takes a few seconds–it takes a lot longer than that to catch the virus. Not everyone in line to get a swab test is sick or contagious, anyway. They may be there because their loved ones or close contacts have tested positive or ended up definitively sick, and they need to rule themselves out.
Not everyone buying a test kit is sick, either. Many of those folks are planning ahead and playing it safe so they will know better when they need to stay home. Asymptomatic people who don’t seem or feel sick can still spread the virus. Responsible people in that category who do test positive will stay home for a while, as well.
If your test kit shows you’re positive, stay home and call your PCP (they can weigh the need for a PCR test). Call or text those who’ve been in close contact with you, too; they have a need and a right to know.
Pseudo-logic and ignorance are blowing your mind, not the facts and reason you don’t possess.