Tests for Covid are irrelevant to what I posted.
That wasn't directed at you. Just citing my CVS experience. My apologies for the confusion.
Where did I say antibody tests are free?
You didn't say it, nor did I ever accuse you of saying it. I simply pointed out how our government subsidized the cost of super-sensitive SARS-2 tests, but failed to subsidize the crucially more important antibody tests. In other words, they encouraged one type of testing while discouraging the other.
I never suggested antibody tests "are recognized as a certificate of immunity by our government". Why are you bringing up another irrelevancy? Another moving of the goalposts?
I never accused you of such. (See: Moving goal posts)
As to "telling people who have survived the virus and who have robust immunity cell counts that they have to get vaccinated", why are you bringing in yet another irrelevancy?
It is EXACTLY what our government has done.
Your original claim to which I responded was that antibody tests are being discouraged. What's with all the goal-post-moving?
They have been discouraged. For well over a year now. Your response was from the FDA which had absolutely positively nothing to do with what I said. Your argument was essentially that the fact that an FDA-approved test exists proves that the government isn't discouraging the tests even though they are picking up the full costs of competing tests, choosing one over the other.
So when you visit your local health department in your car to get a "FREE" parking lot test, and you tell them you want an antibody test instead, what do they say? Do they give you one free of charge right then and there? Or do they tell you 'no'? As someone who has personally requested one, I can testify that the latter response is quite discouraging.
You claimed antibody tests are almost impossible to find, just like machine guns.
Nope. Never said they were almost impossible to find. Never mentioned machine guns either.
My post gave examples of how easily available antibody tests are, not an exhaustive list.
I know they are available. But they aren't subsidized by the government like the overly-sensitive SARS-2 tests are, which means I have to pay the full cost. And they don't mean anything as far as the government is concerned. No one at the CDC is posting stats on how many people are walking around with antibodies against the virus itself. And for months now, they have flat out buried research data showing the robustness of the natural human immune response to SARS-2. Instead, they have been out there lying about how SARS-2 survivors need to mask up, isolate, and get vaccinated just like everyone else, demonstrating that an antibody test holds no value.
And just as a reminder, I have never advocated: mandatory universal testing for Covid; mandatory universal testing for Covid antibodies; mandatory universal vaccination. Your apparent insinuation that I have is a straw man. Follow your own rude invitation.
Never suggested that you did. Never. Not once. Not sure why you are choosing to change the subject by replacing it with a false accusation. (See: Strawman)
