I’m sick and came to the doctor to get tested for covid, strep, and flu, since those are going around my work. I asked the doctor if I could get paxlovid if the covid test was positive, and he goes “Oh I don’t think you’d need it”

Motherfucker almost everyone who catches covid should be fucking taking it wtf is wrong with you. Oh I’m young and otherwise healthy? Yeah and I’d like to fucking stay that way thank you very much, and I’ll take any reduction in the chance of becoming permanently disabled.

Also of the medical professionals I saw today, they were only wearing surgical masks, not N95s and I can’t comprehend it. Why in the hell would you go into the room of a likely covid case not wearing an N95 are you insane?

I’m so fucking sick of being the only person in this entire town that’s actually worried about catching this disease, even the fucking doctors don’t care anymore. I work in a research facility attached to a hospital and when I go to the food court and shit at best like 1/25 people are wearing masks. In a hospital.

Thank you Mr Joe Brandon for ending the pandemic, you’ve truly cemented your place among history’s greatest killers.

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  • Magician [he/him, they/them]
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    10 months ago

    Nobody can write the Black Book of Capitalism if there are no survivors.

    It's fucking insane to me how people are acting with covid. It's like everybody stopped paying attention because it was too stressful. But I'm hearing people cough at work and I'm one of three people wearing a mask.

    As far as paxlovid, I wouldn't be surprised if there was some extra reporting work required to prescribe paxlovid and the doctors don't want to bother with it. That's what I've noticed with our kinds of prescription or medical issues. Procedures are medications that can really help end up behind paperwork and medical professionals with fried brains.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      10 months ago

      was recently compelled by the state to appear for jury duty. I looked around the windowless, closed-door courtroom and out of around sixty people it was me and one other person wearing a mask, and the other person took it off after five minutes and never put it back on. I had to be in there for six hours

      • barrbaric [he/him]M
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        10 months ago

        IIRC shouting "JURY NULLIFICATION" will get you booted out of selection pretty quick.

        • raven [he/him]M
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          10 months ago

          That is illegal, so don't do this.

    • FumpyAer [any, comrade/them]
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      10 months ago

      The one doctor I can get urgent care with has covid culture war brain rot "just use XYZ supplements to boost your immune system" okay I will but that doesn't mean I will skip paxlovid to play Russian roulette with long covid or me/cfs.

      It was a struggle to get him to prescribe paxlovid to my 68 y/o mother because her case was "too mild."