>we should insist on DIY, home, tests that we don't expose people to, but only require a specimen. We can't afford to trust liars again.
Wouldn't that make it even easier to fake tests? I suppose if your goal is to prevent consumers from being scammed (ie. they think they got a real test but they got a fake negative result) that's fine, but the issue here seems to be consumers wanting a fake test so they can travel.
There was (and still is) an overfocus on travel for controlling covid, especially when it was clear that it was so contagious that anything but total isolation wasn't gonna cut it. For instance, cutting South Africa off the map because they detected Omicron first (which in turn happened largely because they're excellent at infectious decrease tracking, it's not even clear it developed there). Or when the US was blanket restricting travel from countries that had way less covid cases.
Wouldn't that make it even easier to fake tests? I suppose if your goal is to prevent consumers from being scammed (ie. they think they got a real test but they got a fake negative result) that's fine, but the issue here seems to be consumers wanting a fake test so they can travel.