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MY CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH COVID-19

From today you can order four free at-home COVID-19 tests.  They say orders will ship in 7-10 days.  Go to   THIS SITE .  It takes about a full minute and is the first no hassle order I've ever made on a computer.  Unfortunately, my request was denied because someone else, who I know, already made this request.  It is only 4 kits/household, period.   The White House also will take from the Strategic National Stockpile  400 million masks to provide them free .  A limit of 3/person for distribution at local pharmacies and community health centers late next week.  Why not make all 750 million available?   That would be only 2/person.  Supposedly,  these masks can only be used once .  On the other hand, I twice bought boxes of these N95 masks and paid only about a buck for each mask.  Not a particularly big deal as announced, but a good PR device to get the nation into safer masks. According to the  New York Times  this morning: Since early last week, new cases in Connecticut, Maryland