I also want to do my best not to infect others, but I do not see people risking their economic livelihood to do that outside of those with the luxury of working from home.

I guess what I am getting at is the dichotomy of leaders officially acting if people should test and quarantine and all that jazz, while obviously knowing that those who need to go out and work to put food on the table and funds in the retirement account will continue to do so.

Based on the stats, I would bet all I have on one of those snot nosed kids at my kids' daycare having covid right now. But I am sure many or most of the parents need to work for the cash to meet the mortgage payments or whatever their expected quality of life is.

Even if somebody does have to go to work while sick with covid for whatever reason, they can avoid other nonessential contact with people based on their test result.

I do agree there's a lot of hypocrisy and ass-covering going on. Even earlier in the pandemic healthcare workers were discouraged from getting tested so they wouldn't need to stay home from work. I think making tests available prevents at least some unnecessary transmission which is good enough for me.

I think you are correct, making the tests available is probably good. Maybe we should have similar availability for other infections.