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

[Capelle, Michael]

We should just be glad we have the testing to do at home, I ordered my kit
yesterday.

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From: NABS-L <nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Justin Salisbury via
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Cc: Justin Salisbury <PRESIDENT at alumni.ecu.edu>
Subject: [NABS-L] Free At-Home COVID Tests from US Postal Service

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
he/him/his

Second Vice President
National Association of Blind Students
A proud division of the National Federation of the Blind
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