What the $#!% are you doing with the Binx kits?
We’ve got to admit — we’re a little perplexed.
Some NYUers seem to be hoarding Binx kits. Others are activating multiple kits at once. Still others are dropping off their Binx kits and then activating them several days later. And some folks are submitting the tests and not activating them at all.
In life, there are some activities for which there is no wrong way of going about things. Submitting your saliva sample is not one of them.
Just to walk through it one more time...
- Pick up a Binx test (if you need to or have been told to pick up more than one for convenience’s sake, okay, but no hoarding, please).
- Activate the test (there’s a number & bar code on the outside of the kit and on the sample vial). Don’t activate future tests, just the one you're going to use that day.
- Go somewhere private and appropriate and follow the directions for giving us your saliva (there’s something we won’t miss asking you for when COVID is over…) and sealing the kit (and please also fill out and include the little piece of white paper that asks the date and time of your sample).
- Drop it off (at some places you’ll scan the barcode on the outside, and at some you’ll just drop it in a box) the same day you produce the saliva.
It’s that easy, and it works pretty well when done right. So...
- Please don’t hoard kits
- Please activate the kit you’re going to drop off that day, and only that kit
- Please activate the kit before you drop it off, not afterwards
- Please drop off your kit the same day you produce your saliva sample