The Impact of Daily Tests in Germany

 Whether it's your ride on the bus/subway/train system, or actual company work....if you are non-vax....you have to complete a Covid test.

If you used the 'free' test deal at a test center because of your non-vax situation....the government itself is paying around 18 Euro per test.  

If you went to work and the boss handed you a self-test kit because of your non-vax situation...it's probably from a closet of them that he bought a box of 500 kits.  Each kit cost?  They range from 2 Euro to 3.5 Euro each.    

If you attend school or university....you are probably mandated to test at least two to three times a week.  The school is given the funds by the state....but the kits range 2 Euro to 3.5 Euro each.

So in the region I live in....Wiesbaden....you consider around 350k (the city, the suburbs and outlying area)....there's probably 80,000 in this constant test range, and per day....maybe around 400,000 Euro spent.  In ten days....4-million Euro (just for tests).

In Frankfurt, you could triple that.....12-million Euro minimum each ten days.

The statistical average of positives that might hit daily?  Unknown.  No one keeps numbers like this to say 12, or 120, or a thousand out of 80,000 are positive.

What's funny about this.....over the first three months of Covid in Germany....everyone wanted to get tested at their doctor's office (this was before the quickie-tests came out).  Doctors said NO.  You'd call and the nurse would ask five or six questions (do you have A, B, and C).  In the vast number of cases, you failed the questions, and doctors refused to test you for lacking sufficient evidence of Covid.  That standard lasted for about six months, then the quickie tests arrived, and the standard simply went away.

There's no doubt that a ton of state/federal funding is being spent on the tests, and the vast number of end-results are negative, which naturally makes people and politicians happy.  The budget guys? I'm guessing they are pretty negative about the cost factor, and that once a kit is extinguished (done)....it's just thrown into the garbage can.