(January 13, 2022 at 12:58 pm)brewer Wrote:

(January 13, 2022 at 12:54 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Just got home from the doctor.   Probable sinus infection that most likely started with a mild case of omicron.  She said that doctors are going nuts because omicron presents differently in everybody.  I have been battling my sinuses for two weeks but figured it was my usual semi-annual sinus infection made worse by whatever the wind blew in a couple weeks ago.

Dandy.  Waiting for the pharmacy to let me know my antibiotics are ready to pick up.

At one time our CVS was a week behind in filling non emergency prescriptions and would not answer the phone. With this outbreak I can't imagine it's changed much.

I gave up on CVS years ago. The place I use is not the most convenient since it doesn't have a drive thru...but they are pretty damned efficient. I am hoping that too many people don't find that out.

I had switched from CVS to a major grocery chain who eventually became as bad. Now am with a much smaller grocery/pharmacy chain and they seem to have their shit together.

(January 13, 2022 at 1:00 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:

(January 13, 2022 at 12:58 pm)brewer Wrote: At one time our CVS was a week behind in filling non emergency prescriptions and would not answer the phone. With this outbreak I can't imagine it's changed much.

I gave up on CVS years ago.  The place I use is not the most convenient since it doesn't have a drive thru...but they are pretty damned efficient.  I am hoping that too many people don't find that out.

I had switched from CVS to a major grocery chain who eventually became as bad.  Now am with a much smaller grocery/pharmacy chain and they seem to have their shit together.

We'd love to get away from CVS now, insurance managed care says nope. Up until covid we had no problems.

The U.S. Treasury told Arizona officials on Friday it may claw back some of the state's pandemic aid funds and withhold future disbursements unless the state stops or redesigns education grant programs aimed at schools without mask mandates.

In a letter to Arizona Governor Doug Ducey's office, the Treasury said that two programs, including a $163 million grant program for schools that follow state laws banning public school mask mandates, are "ineligible uses" of State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds.

$10 million Arizona program deemed ineligible offers $7,000 education grants to families of students for alternative instruction if their school requires face coverings.

Commercial and Medicare Advantage insurers are spending an estimated $129.7 million annually on ivermectin prescriptions for COVID-19, even though the antiparasitic drug has not been shown to be effective against the virus, according to a new JAMA study.

Of all the things insurance companies are covering, it’s the horse paste? The thing that can only treat COVID when it’s at a concentration that’s lethal in humans? I know people on Medicare and if they’re covering his horseshit, I never want to hear them say that they can’t cover something that actually works again.

This is bit of a bizarre case

Czech singer dies after getting Covid deliberately

Hana Horka, 57, was unvaccinated and had posted on social media that she was recovering after testing positive, but died two days later.

Her son, Jan Rek, said she got infected on purpose when he and his father had the virus, so she could get a recovery pass to access certain venues.

She had wanted to catch Covid so there would be fewer restrictions on her movement, Mr Rek explained.

Two days before she died, she wrote on social media that she was recovering: "Now there will be theatre, sauna, a concert".

On Sunday morning, the day she died, Ms Horka said she was feeling better and dressed to go for a walk. But then her back started hurting, so she went to lie down in her bedroom.

"In about 10 minutes it was all over," her son said. "She choked to death".

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/cze...ar-AASVU9J

Britain is going to get rid of all mandatory COVID restrictions. My guess is that this is a bone to the Conservatives to stave off calls within Boris Johnson's own party for his resignation.

Honestly, we will have to get to this point eventually. With everyone who wants it getting boosters ever 6 months, we will just to say "take your chances" if we can keep hospitalizations at a reasonable level.

The problem with Johnson's actions, is that the spike is only half-way down, and it is likely too early to do this type of change. If people see the numbers spike again, no-one will feel safe frequenting all those businesses who are calling for full re-opening, when the government has declared "everyone for themselves".

After Djokovic rightly got kicked out of Australia (personally I'd have put him on an uninhabited island, the plague rat), turns out he owns 80% of a company that is trying to cure covid through the power of quantum bullshit. Let's hope the scam artists leave him penniless.

(January 19, 2022 at 6:01 pm)Nomad Wrote: After Djokovic rightly got kicked out of Australia (personally I'd have put him on an uninhabited island, the plague rat), turns out he owns 80% of a company that is trying to cure covid through the power of quantum bullshit.  Let's hope the scam artists leave him penniless.

I looked at the website.  Certainly the text sounds like bullshit, but it is possible that it is a bad publicist.

People do use AI and supercomputers to come up with ideas for new drugs, based on probability of binding to particular molecules or proteins.  It isn't an exact science, and it says nothing about whether it works in the body. Heck, someone just stated that some Canabinoids neutralize the COVID spike protein. That doesn't mean it will ever get to be a drug.

It Djokovic is the main investor, I say he is getting taken.

(January 19, 2022 at 10:46 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: This is bit of a bizarre case

Czech singer dies after getting Covid deliberately

Hana Horka, 57, was unvaccinated and had posted on social media that she was recovering after testing positive, but died two days later.

Her son, Jan Rek, said she got infected on purpose when he and his father had the virus, so she could get a recovery pass to access certain venues.

She had wanted to catch Covid so there would be fewer restrictions on her movement, Mr Rek explained.

Two days before she died, she wrote on social media that she was recovering: "Now there will be theatre, sauna, a concert".

On Sunday morning, the day she died, Ms Horka said she was feeling better and dressed to go for a walk. But then her back started hurting, so she went to lie down in her bedroom.

"In about 10 minutes it was all over," her son said. "She choked to death".

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/cze...ar-AASVU9J

I’d say it’s bizarre. You can only go to certain places if you’re either vaccinated or recently got sick? Isn’t the usual deal vaccination or recent negative test?