I went to one of these a couple weeks ago to get tested after my sister got sick (it was the closest one to me and friends said it's a quick in-and-out). They make you give them a ton of personal info, a picture of your drivers license and insurance cards, and as far as anyone can tell the results are always negative. Some people have been sent "test results" before they've even taken the test.
This company killing people by giving them false negatives. It may also be stealing identities, as they require a pic of your state ID and insurance card. It may also be insurance fraud as healthcare companies get billed for every test and vaccine you get if you have coverage, by federal law.
another article with more details - EDIT: here are some highlights:
The Center for COVID Control operates more than 300 locations across at least 29 states, according to the company's website. The locations pop up on Google maps searches with minimal information about the testing site beyond location and hours. The website claims the company is "partnered with a CDC approved & licensed laboratory" but does not specify which lab.
Minneapolis resident Christina Weber, 31, a full-time server, said she Googled "free COVID testing near me" and saw a Center for COVID Control site pop up on Google Maps. When she drove down to the site to get a test at the end of December, the site was located a block away from the address listed online.
"It was just a pop-up. There was one man running the whole thing, and he was in his scrubs," Weber said Friday. "The area where you waited was the same area where people were testing, and the chairs weren’t spaced out. And some of the guests weren’t wearing masks."
Weber said a man stormed into the site while she was there and started yelling that he hadn’t gotten his results. She said she was instructed to self-administer a test and drop the plastic bag into a tray overflowing with about 50 other bags. She left the site feeling uneasy and decided to get a second test at another location.
[Another patient] said he searched for nearby COVID-19 tests and drove down to the Center for COVID Control site, where he found a pop-up with handwritten signs posted on the outside and two card tables and a chair inside. Zerom said he waited more than half an hour for a test before reading over reviews of the site online.
"Biden said to just simply Google tests near you. But that led me to what I experienced. And it’s not that simple," Zerom said. "I don’t think every test center is created equal."
[A company] website lists another number for the lab. After waiting more than an hour on the phone to reach a lab representative Saturday, the person who answered the phone told a USA TODAY reporter they had the "wrong number" and promptly hung up. The lab did not respond to a request for comment via email.
A test given to a USA TODAY reporter at a Chicago locationSunday – in red transparent vial – was taped with the label "SNT Biotech." According to the company's website, SNT Biotech is "a DBA of Saris and Things, Inc." Saris and Things is a Plainfield, Illinois, company that sells saris, lehengas, anarkalis and sherwanis, according to the website.
help president xi my country is just a bunch of various scams and ponzi schemes in a trenchcoat
Economists predict that by 2030, over 100% of the American economy will be MLMs and NFTs
What if I make a MLM MLM? You know, as a bit and to fund the revolution.
:thinkin-lenin:
this is my MLM MLM MLM, where gay and bisexual men recruit two more queer guys for the protracted people's war
We need what, 10 or 11 layers of recruitment to have more members than the worlds population? You could be onto something here
2^10 is 1024, I think we'd need 31 layers (2,147,483,648 ) but still that's only like 20 more layers so it's def manageable
The early birds *points at me and you * are gonna find their bird table covered in dictatorship of the proletariat but the Johnny and Sally come-latelies get a slice of the pie but they look closer and oh dear… it’s only pastry. Boo boo Johnny and sally, boo hoo
This is one of the most fucked up things I've ever seen. This is criminal af. People are going home thinking they're fine, and then going about their day infecting others. This company alone is responsible for thousands of deaths.
Why isn't there a scam testing place that only gives positive tests so that I can convince my boss that I should work from home?
if customers knew what they were getting into, it'd be fine— I was thinking of a scam place that just always said YOU'RE INFECTED instead of saying NOT INFECTED which would have some bad effects too
if you think youre positive and then self isolate with other positive people, now youre def positive
They’re busy on cracking down domestic terrorist dude. Seem like that event really haunt them, that they invest everything on that
The fact that these scammers were identified is proof of the free market working :ancap-good:
Bring back public executions for whoever thought this was a good idea
wow, a job creator innovates covid testing to the point where it requires no actual testing (in china, btw, when they test you for covid they still have to actually perform a test, how primitive), and all you can do is complain. Capitalism is reducing the number of positive covid cases right before your eyes by always reporting negative tests and you still think communism is so good?
holy fucking shit. if there's anything that should result in public hangings
It was only a matter of time before some capitalist grifter decided to exploit the pandemic to scam people.
matter of time? It already happen since the pandemic began, especially the ppp.
They've been doing it at least since our big wet orange boy immediately started telling his constituents to drink bleach and take hydroxycloroquine. Agreed that it's surprising it's taken this long for this kind of grift for sure tho
remember the guy in like May or June 2020 who had a garage full of hand sanitizer he was trying to price gouge
Forgot about all the other grifts because it feels like they happened a decade ago already:yes-honey-left:
A test given to a USA TODAY reporter at a Chicago locationSunday – in red transparent vial – was taped with the label “SNT Biotech.” According to the company’s website, SNT Biotech is “a DBA of Saris and Things, Inc.” Saris and Things is a Plainfield, Illinois, company that sells saris, lehengas, anarkalis and sherwanis, according to the website.
:amerikkka-clap: :stalin-gun-1: :amerikkka-clap:
This is the kind of thing they execute people for in China. And that's great.
