[NABS-L] Free At-Home COVID Tests from US Postal Service

[Justin Salisbury]

Hi everyone,

If you want to request your free batch of at-home covid tests, you can get them from this link:

https://special.usps.com/testkits

So far, I have not heard of any response from the Biden Administration after President Riccobono began the formal NFB outreach initiative to ask how we could make these tests accessible to the blind. I really hope we can find a way to make these tests accessible soon. In the meantime, if you want to order these inaccessible tests, they may still be useful to you.

I am personally in the process of recovering from COVID-19 right now. I have had symptoms for 7 days, and it has been like a nasty winter cold. I consider myself fortunate to have had access to both the vaccine and booster. Without them, I could have become much sicker. Before I can go back on campus, I need to have two consecutive days of negative rapid antigen tests. Since I cannot perform these tests myself, I have made arrangements with student health services at my university so that they will perform the test on me once I am fully asymptomatic. That is still not ideal, but I share this with everyone in case it is helpful in the process of problem-solving your own returns to campus after you have been infected.

If not for what I have learned from the National Federation of the Blind, the self-advocacy that I had to do with this testing might have been much more difficult. The Federation has taught me that I have the right to live in the world.

I hope everyone takes this virus seriously.

Be well, everyone.

Aloha,

Justin


Justin Mark Hideaki Salisbury
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