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.
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.
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
IIRC shouting “JURY NULLIFICATION” will get you booted out of selection pretty quick.
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.”
Some doctors are just ignorant and bought into the"it’s just a cold, bro" bs, or think covid is only dangerous if you’re over 65, because thats the messaging we are getting from the media and health officials.
The only reason you wouldn’t want to take paxlovid is if you are on a medication it can negatively interact with.
Considering there is no cure for long covid, why would anyone not try to decrease their chances of getting it?
If you didn’t end up getting a prescription, you can do an online consult, I went to hidrb.com when I had COVID a few weeks ago and got a script sent to a pharmacy, it was relatively hassle free except for costing $15. Good luck friend!!
Shouting “get proletarianized” as I kickflip off some shithead GP’s head because he told me to “just get some sun” when asking about my fucked up skin.
If you are COVID-positive, acknowledge to your doctor that he doesn’t think you need it but tell him that you want Paxlovid anyway. If your doctor still refuses, Dr. B (https://hidrb.com/covid/paxlovid) prescribes you Paxlovid for $15
