The saga of the rapid at-home tests is proof that sometimes, the role of the free press is to bully public officials until they serve the public interest.
 We got an exhibition of the virtue of bullying the president over the last month. The need for widely available and easily accessible rapid testing was clear way farther back than that, but the issue only really came to a head in the estimation of the mainstream press amid the rise of the Omicron variant in December. (While the variant's rapid spread has rendered test-and-trace programs less effective, it's useful to know if you have COVID before sitting down with your grandma for Christmas dinner.) Where, reporters at the White House and beyond began to ask, were all the tests? In one such incident, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki responded in part by almost mockingly asking a member of the press corps whether the United States federal government should send rapid tests to every household. The reasoning seemed to be that it would be prohibitively expensive, even if the United Kingdom was already doing it at the time. (The Brits have since run into their own problems, and not just their weirdo garden-party scandals.) The response across pretty much the entire organized press was that yes, that is what should be happening. These snowball-proof pairs will keep your mitts safe from anything the elements throw at 'em. You ever wonder what a dark-sided version of The Incredibles, following a family of four remarkable individuals who turn horribly, horribly wrong, would look like? Well, scout no further than Season Four of Ozark, which dropped the first half of its two-part final season on Netflix on Friday. After three seasons of questionable decision-making, the latest installment of the long-underrated crime drama sees its leading family, the Byrdes, achieve their final form. Read our spoiler-free review here. $600 off Equinox+'s SoulCycle bike, $700 off NordicTrack, $400 off Schwinn, and more. Leave it to Byredo to invent the first diffuser we actually want to use. NBC's "To Catch a Predator" arrived in Murphy, Texas, to conduct a sting operation. The only honest thing that followed was the gunshot. |
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