Surprise: Many Pop-Up Chinese Coronavirus Sites Are Fake

Do any state, local, county, or federal authorities ever consider checking these places?

Pop-up Covid testing sites could be rife for nefarious activities, experts warn

Sandra Jaramillo needed a negative Covid-19 test to return to work but was coming up empty on finding a same-day test due to overwhelming demand.

Jaramillo was experiencing headaches and a fever, and with limited options, she decided to stop at a pop-up testing site set up in the parking lot of a church near her home in San Antonio.

Under a small tent, she was told to give her driver’s license number, date of birth and email address before she was handed a swab to administer the test on herself.

That was more than a week ago, Jaramillo said, now panicked that her personal information may have been be compromised.

No one ever answers the number listed on the information sheet she was given, and the voice mailbox is full.

“At this point, it’s making me feel like I am being scammed,” Jaramillo, 32, said. “It’s been terrible. It feels like there is no choice and nowhere to turn [for a test].”

Not sure about your area, but, here in Wake County people can set an appointment to get tested, which “allows the county to prioritize residents who are symptomatic, have been exposed to COVID-19 or are at higher risk.” There are also multiple avenues via the NC Dept of Health and Human Services. The idea is to stop the needless tests because people are scared. People who really do not need a test. I’ve had two tests this whole time. One was because I was flying to see the parents, did not want to possibly expose them. They other because I felt sick (though no elevation in temperature at all), came out negative. Just a cold

Pop-up testing sites have cropped up on street corners, in parking lots and on shopping properties across the country, but health and legal experts say many of these are unregulated and could be rife for nefarious activities like identity theft.

In the last few weeks, legislators and attorneys general in several states including Illinois, Maryland, California, Texas and Pennsylvania have said they will be investigating and introducing regulatory legislation overseeing these operations.

If I see a setup like that, I’m suspicious, especially if asking for all that information, which was never necessary at the Wake County sites in this manner, and, they had profession setups and credentials. At government buildings. Anyhow, the article goes through many examples, and that authorities are trying to go after them and warn people. It was just a matter of time before this happened, what with the media and Democrat driven hysteria. Oh, and most is happening in Democratic Party run cities, which love them some shady criminal activity.

Meanwhile

Omicron spike in most vaccinated German state heralds nationwide surge

The northern German maritime state of Bremen has the country’s highest COVID-19 vaccination rate by far, but it has become the hardest-hit by the rapid spread of the Omicron variant, reporting the highest infection rate of any region in Germany. (snip)

Close to 84% of the population in Bremen, the smallest of Germany’s 16 federal states with fewer than 700,000 people, are double-vaccinated, compared with a national figure of around 72%. Some 44% have received a booster shot, compared with 42% nationally.

On the plus side, hospitalizations are pretty low. And the notion of Wuhan flu becoming endemic is becoming more likely

(The Conversation) On the other hand, pandemic viruses may also gradually settle into a relatively stable rate of occurrence, maintaining a constant pool of infected hosts capable of spreading the virus to others. These viruses are said to be “endemic.”

Examples of endemic viruses in the United States include those that cause the common cold and the seasonal flu that appear year after year. Much like these, the virus that causes COVID-19 likely won’t die out, and most experts now expect it to become endemic.

Time to stop freaking out. We should all just relax, take appropriate measures (wash your hands, keep your distance, at least for the time being, try and avoid touching your face, avoid contact, like shaking hands. Just be cautious), and learn to live with it.