A real interaction between a pharmacy cashier and a customer that I overheard with my very own ears in Crooksville, OH, last week.
Granted, I didn’t have high expectations for the combination pharmacy-hardware store, but WOW.
What shocking covid-related things have you encountered lately?
My pulmonary doctors entire office will not wear masks.
A fucking pulmonary doctor and his entire staff do not mask.
Yeah… I’m not immunocompromised but I am high risk due to my lung problems… a recent visit I went in, wearing a mask. I asked the gal at the desk if they had masks, and she sort of pointed to a table nearby and said if I had someone with me they were welcome to a mask from over there.
I told her ‘no maam, for yall. I have emphysema and I am at high risk of hospitalization or worse if I were to get a Covid infection.’
She told me the staff was vaccinated, and that we could be seated and the dr would see me shortly.
I left. I’m looking for a new pulmonologist but seeing as I’m from a small town in hillbilly Texas my options are few. I may actually be stuck w this doctor.
In the before-times no staff anywhere, at least that I knew, would ever have refused to wear a mask for a patient request. It is absurd how blatantly politicized this genuinely unprecedented virus is to where all social norms are essentially evaporating to a collective trauma around… a few weeks of very lenient stay-home policies in some places, I guess. We’re so cooked lol
She told me the staff was vaccinated, and that we could be seated and the dr would see me shortly.
This shit right here is why I still view provax libs as just as bad as antivax chuds, just 2 different ways to ignore science and continue the spread
Owner of auto shop the other day: “yeah after i got covid the third time my doctor told me i don’t gotta worry about it anymore”
I also haven’t seen a masked pharmacist at either of the pharmacies I’ve been to around here in two years.
I wonder if the doctor actually said that or got sick of dealing with his dumbass patient and went “Fuck it. Go get murked by a preventable illness.”
I got my new vaccine in a small, unventilated room from a pharmacist who only wore a mask after I asked her to. The people ahead of me in line weren’t wearing masks, either.
How much did it cost? They’re $180 here without insurance. The health department gives them out free to the uninsured, but they don’t have the new boosters yet.
dude seriously. my insurance covers covid tests but Walgreens just refuses to charge the insurance company
So frustrating. I went through three pharmacies before i found one that was able to 1. understand/believe that some insurance still covers them, 2. could figure out how to do it, and 3. had tests that weren’t a year past the already-extended expiration.
the combination pharmacy-hardware store
There’s allegory about America in there somewhere but I just can’t find it.
The store likely grew out of a general store/trading post, eventually specializing in whatever they sold the most of as grocery, department, and convenience stores became more widespread. Actually not that uncommon in the US since a lot of medications don’t require any special kind of storage and can just sit on a shelf.
Maybe they are regional things? I’ve lived in the US and I don’t recall seeing any drug & hardware stores even though I might have seen some. Google was pretty bad and after I carefully spoonfed it - combination drugstore/hardware stores - my results were only for Alaska and the Northwest.
edit: you sure the map didn’t just freak out on you? I’m seeing google giving results for Texas and Ohio.