Wonderful place, except for the heat :-). I've visited there (for the temples) on a few occasions.
Its quite easy to get a test done at home. (Mentioned of lister metropolis because they had come home for some other sample collection and mentioned of this) . You can check aggregator apps as well that provide this list.
https://www.metropolisindia.com/parameter/trichy/covid-19-rt...
Sorry, but I dont find this a good argument in favor of a car-culture at all.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-07-07/op-ed-drive...
> For each walk-up site, we looked at how many people live within a mile radius and could conceivably walk to the site. You don’t need to look at a map to know that too many people and places are left behind. If you don’t have a car but live in South Los Angeles, chances are you can find a nearby walk-up test site. But if you’re carless in East L.A., there is not a single walk-up option in your community. The entire San Fernando Valley — with a population of almost 2 million — received its first and only walk-up site, in Arleta, in late June.
https://www.businessinsider.com/new-yorkers-without-a-car-ar...
> After trekking nearly two hours on public transit to get to the testing site in Flatbush, a neighborhood in New York's Brooklyn borough, the 30-year-old taproom manager was surprised to discover a line of cars snaking around the address instead of a line of people. McGrath, who does not own a car, approached a state trooper at the testing site to confirm his suspicions that a vehicle was required to be tested.
> "I walk up to one of the state troopers and he says, 'You can't walk in, you have to have a car,'" McGrath told Business Insider, adding that it appeared as though he was not the first New Yorker to arrive at the testing site on foot.
I cited specific examples of people having trouble getting tested without a car.
The drive through testing really does offload a lot of stress that would otherwise be placed on physicians and pharmacies. The logistics are a huge win. Locally we’ve had unoccupied parking structures used to house the tests. Even without that you basically just need a parking lot, a couple tents, and a restroom.
If you’re so sick you can’t drive you can have DoorDash or any other delivery service send you an at home test. If you’re too sick for that, you probably should call for medical services and not an antigen test.
I’m in Georgia, which has not offered any support for people during the pandemic beyond what the Federal government provided, and it’s pretty easy to get a test due to the efforts of private companies. If you don’t have a car you can often walk up provided there is a sidewalk. We also have testing available in every chain pharmacy and in dedicated facilities that have sprung up in unoccupied mall space or buildings used by bank branches and fast food establishments that are vacant.
I'm in my condo right now, I could go to a 7-11, come back and have my result all within 10 minutes for $3. But yeah car culture in America is great
Net-net, COVID-testing privacy isn't a laudable consequence of the US's car culture, at least not everywhere in the US.
Though there the testers/nurse puts the swab in the nose.