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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAmerican workers, sports players, are forced to pee in a fucking cup to get tested for drugs.
We can do that, but we can't test people for a virus that is killing us. BULLSHIT!!!
ck4829
(35,042 posts)I remember Barbara Ehrenreich in Nickel and Dimed describing the way employers talked about drug tests and drugs on the job like it had a almost-religious aspect to it... that drugs were of Satan and the urine cup was your offering to prove you were pure, or something to that effect.
House of Roberts
(5,168 posts)to test for different conditions. Right now, the reagents for the virus are in galactic back order all over the world.
shockey80
(4,379 posts)That is a fact.
House of Roberts
(5,168 posts)Availability? Price? Trump extorting faint praise from blue state politicians?
ck4829
(35,042 posts)I mean, I've never heard of a drug test backorder.
House of Roberts
(5,168 posts)All I've heard this morning on the subject is shortage of reagents.
Then there is the worry the Feds will interdict the shipment before it reaches its destination. We are, after all, contending with thieves running our government.
yardwork
(61,588 posts)jmg257
(11,996 posts)which every PD in the country has reagents for.
Just more National Security stuff we leave to China to provide.
Asshole country.
malaise
(268,887 posts)Rec