Not to be funny, but this has been a thing for years, like at least a decade years, but probably longer too.
Y’all want to know what’s really fucked up? This is likely someone buying unused strips from the family of recently deceased diabetics, and they’re probably reselling them on Facebook market place, etc.
Fucking hell (assuming it’s real)
It’s real I keep seeing them in the merican south and that was my assumption too.
Theyre on the coasts too unfortunately.
Oh for… no, it’s not. Diabetic test strips are subsidized under medicare, and diabetics are given a great deal more of them than they can reasonably use in a month. Because cash benefits are largely unheard of in the US, those (sealed) strips have become a form of pseudocurrency (the sealed strips can then be resold to medical device suppliers or black-marketed to any number of places) and goes unregulated because even the cops think it’s dumb to prosecute, so it lowkey flourishes provided nobody makes a big enough deal about it. Disabled people get some cash to help out, other disabled people get reduced cost medical supplies, some skeezy chick in a honda accord makes a cut as the middleman.
Could be, that somehow feels less predatory than people who actively need them selling them to cover other expenses. I’ll post the un-edited one if you want to call and ask. I didn’t want to give these vultures any free publicity though.