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Originally Posted by wwdd1980
wait, so when you say that the US government is not letting it, you actually meant that the US government is not letting you sell the test kits as real test kits?? LOL
btw, supposedly jack ma of alibaba has shipped millions of test kits to US... but you do you.
no i didn't say that, what I said was:
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Originally Posted by rickroll
but this shortage is due to a lack of fda/cdc licensing, there are so few that it's created de facto monopolies so they can limit supply and charge thousands per test
there are so few labs that can legally perform a test that they aren't incentivized to meet demand by importing them
there are only so many people who can pay thousands of dollars per test (what they are charging) so they are fine with minimal production
in the state of washington they've done about 10k tests so far. at 3k per test that's 30 million dollars for the 1 or 2 labs that are authorized to do so.
if i sell 10k tests at $20 each, I'll make maybe 20k USD.
more importantly, if people learn those authorized labs charging 3k per test bought them from me for $10 each then there will be outrage and people will question why is it that we have these monopolies in the first place.
The test kits are 100% identical
if this is still unclear, there are probably some khan academy videos online that can teach you some more basics of supply and demand
but yeah, I'm the problem because I'm not a billionaire who can donate them - seriously man, gfy
next time slap your doctor in the face and ****punt the nurse because they are billing your insuance company and asking for your copay
please don't post here again