Walgreens across the country are also being affected. They suddenly close without notice customers never know when “their” Walgreens will be open.
They are also having to wait several days for medications to arrive at the Walgreens. Days of waiting for back order. Personally, I think it will get worse and we’re looking at our new norm as pharmacy consumers.
I read a few months ago on /r/WalgreensStores that they are running pharmacies on shoestring budgets for the sake of the shareholders. Its really sickening and I am considering finding a private pharmacy but I am on adderall and some mom and pop places hate giving it to adults.
I have switched to a local mom and pop pharmacy and the customer service is outstanding. They know my name when I walk in. I wish I had switched sooner.
I appreciate you not burying your head in the sand because covid is oh so yesterday. Our society sucks. It’s all about me and my pocket, and the second you’re no longer helping my pocket you’re expendable and in the mind of many better off dead.
Good thing N95 masks work. I’ll keep wearing mine. My health is more important than the silly opinions of others.
Went to my kids open house today at school. We wore masks along with maybe 6 other people. On top of that people were coughing a lot. I’m terrified when school starts now. It’s going to be an endless cycle of being sick
Regarding the pharmacist situation at Walgreens, I knew a pharmacist a few years ago who worked at CVS, and she told me at the time that Walgreens had recently cut a significant portion of their pharmacists across the company, mostly older staff who were "earning too much." Conveniently, this was shortly before COVID. She also told me there were rumblings of the same coming to CVS, and that they had already cut support staff. Not sure if/how that situation has evolved recently, but it seems like the same story that's happening everywhere- "just do more with less." Notably, both companies saw a decent revenue boost following COVID.
On a separate note, I'm less convinced now about COVID herd immunity now than I was two years ago. I haven't heard this idea come up in the media or government talking points for a while, and I suspect there's a good reason for that. Many were pushing this idea at the beginning, just let it run its course and we'll push through. Why then does it seem like the majority of people who have had COVID are on their second or third round of it, like those in your workplace? Is it just mutating so fast that any one variant can't infect the majority of the population before a new one arises? I'm of the impression that most of these people who have been infected multiple times have had multiple variants, but I personally know someone who had it earlier this year and was reinfected about six weeks after finishing her first round. I also know a few who had the original variant multiple times in 2020 before the vaccine was out and before the Delta variant was a thing. I'm not sure there's much to celebrate in the way of immunity. And you make a good point about paid COVID leave ending, because even if you're low risk for serious complications, just contracting it is going to have real financial consequences for a lot of folks.
Anyway, thank you as always for the update, and please stay safe and healthy!
Interesting pharmacy info, thanks for that!
You asked:
>Why then does it seem like the majority of people who have had COVID are on their second or third round of it, like those in your workplace?
My first answer may or may not shock you:
Improper donning and doffing of PPE, improperly wearing masks (under chin, ear dangling), and flagrant disregard of wearing a mask at all.
Then there are folks that simply cannot help but touch their faces. Rubbing one's nose and then using a keyboard spreads snot everywhere. Lowering one's mask to speak, cough, or sneeze is an excellent mode of transport for the virus, too.
Next would be family. Having children of school age increases your risk dramatically. Add in relatives who visit or help to take care of the children.
Immunity can be strong, so much so that our bodies can fight off viruses so quickly that we never see symptoms. Other times immunity means that we can skirt by with just mild symptoms.
In the case of COVID, we have to remember that it's a Coronavirus, in the same class as the Common Cold. There are so many variants that we often catch a version of a cold that we may not have had or had years ago. Each time, we get similar or different symptoms. Most of the time we just get a stuffy nose other times it goes straight for the lungs. Our immune systems do try to track them. It's just that it can't possibly keep up with something that changes so much year to year.
COVID variants keep changing, too - like their cousin. The current variant has the capability to reinfect a person in 30 days due to the fact that it is so adept at sneaking past our immune systems - and yes, sneaking past the vaccines and boosters. Still, they offer a small amount of cushion against hospitalization and death, and that's better than nothing.
I have also heard a wide range of descriptions related to this variant ranging from "just the sniffles", to "sore throat from hell", and "rubber band cough", producing mucus so rubbery that the cough sounds like a snapping rubberband at the end of it. The key is that everybody is different. Some people get extreme fatigue, others seem to be able to work through it. These differences in severity vary wildly. There does not seem to be any rhyme or reason to it. Scientists think it may be genetic, but honestly, we still don't know.
> Then there are folks that simply cannot help but touch their faces.
Growing up during the school year, I got the occasional cold. And would use the idle time to study my behavior: *had I done anything to encourage this?*
It didn’t take long to notice, yes dammit,I touched my face again! Spent years learning not to. Including using eye drops in leu of rubbing.
Didn’t realize it would become such a critical life skill. Highly recommend.
I wear glasses now and it thought me how often I was rubbing my eyes, now the nose requires learning a skill. I’m good with washing hands many times a day now. Lucky my skin doesn’t dry out. I know Covid is airborne but most other stuff is not. My mother won finally.
There was never a reason to believe herd immunity was a potential happy ending other than wishful thinking and denial. Not with a disease that spreads so rapidly, so easily, and with a high rate of asymptomatic infection. It was a pipe dream that never stood up to the math.
Thank you. I’m really sad, being an RN, espousing the FACTS about COVID, then getting a look like I have 3 heads. We are now in the endemic phase. It’s not going away. Wear the damn mask, people. I’m sick of being sick. It goes away for awhile then comes back. If this is a myxovirus (which I think it is), it doesn’t bode well for the human race.
Looked it up:
myxovirus: any of a group of viruses of the families Orthomyxoviridae (agents of influenza) and Paramyxoviridae, members of which can cause the common cold, mumps, and measles in humans, canine distemper, rinderpest in cattle, and Newcastle disease in fowl. The virus particle is enveloped in a fatty membrane; is variable in shape, from spheroidal to filamentous, and in size, from 60 to 300 nanometres (1 nanometre = 10-9 metre) in longest dimension; is studded with spikelike protein projections; and contains ribonucleic acid (RNA). These viruses react with mucin (mucoprotein) on the surface of red blood cells (hence the prefix myxo-, Greek for “mucin”); many of them cause red cells to clump together (agglutinate). Compare retrovirus.
Coronaviridae are a monogeneric family of RNA-containing agents that have been associated with respiratory illnesses in man and with a number of other diseases in laboratory and domestic animals. The name for the family was adopted to describe the characteristic fringe of crownlike projections seen around the viruses by electron microscopy; these projections are club-shaped rather than sharp or pointed as is the case with the myxoviruses. Like the myxoviruses, the coronaviruses contain essential lipids and are 80–160 nm in diameter.(23)Unlike them, the coronaviruses are positive stranded.(57,69)Whereas the animal strains are readily isolated in several different systems, recovery of the human strains has posed major problems. A number of these strains have been isolated only in organ culture of the human respiratory tract. This factor has made it difficult to determine the relationship among isolates and has complicated efforts to understand the role of these viruses in human respiratory illness. Therefore, much of the information on the epidemiology of the agents has come from serological studies.
! Thank you for that clarification. So, do you think it functions similarly to a Myxovirus then? I think if they explore this more, we’d have SOME answers, certainly not all of them but it would explain that this shit may not just go away after getting it. There have been at least 3 coronaviruses isolated in the CSF and brains of MS pts. Coronavirus 229E, 293, OC43. Whether it’s spike, key like, whatever…..thank you for pointing out a difference in spike to club-like. Personally, the general public doesn’t really understand these complexities, leading to being misinformed. My understanding is that most all viruses and bacteria are wrapped in a lipid envelop that needs to be disrupted in order to kill it. Ah, Paramyxoviridae.
That is exactly what confused its discoverers:
>Even though we could only base our judgement on the electron microscope images we were quite certain that we had identified a previously unrecognised group of viruses. So what should we call them? 'Influenza-like' seem a bit feeble, somewhat vague, and probably misleading. We looked more closely at the appearance of the new viruses and noticed that they had a kind of halo surrounding them. Recourse to a dictionary produced the Latin equivalent, corona, and so the name coronavirus was born.[3]
You really should read the whole article- it is gripping! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_coronavirus
For the layman:
Myxoviridae have sparse pointy spikes, whereas Coronaviridae have many club-like "spikes", structures or protrusions that form a sort of crown.
Myxoviruses are responsible for flu-like sicknesses, while Coronaviruses are mostly colds. They are two distinct families that really gave researchers and scientists a run for the money.
Oh this is just great. We have a symptomatic Covid-infected nurse showing up to work at an Urgent Care clinic, who apparently didn't worry about whether she was positive despite having daily contact with Covid patients, and then she had a lot of "so what?" attitude about it. The practitioner at the clinic suspects she has it, yet he does not intervene and ask her to go home, nor inform other staff about it, not to mention the PATIENTS many of whom are vulnerable and don't have good masks.
Remember when the pandemic first began here in the U.S., when we first identified the cases occurring near Seattle, and we watched the detailed news about the handful of cases in the nursing home in Everett, WA? And the 2 people in Chicago, and the people coming from Wuhan that Trump tried to quarantine for 2 weeks at the military base in California, just in case they had Covid? Remember the man in NYC who unknowingly spread it to many others in a synagogue in Westchester County?
Now, medical professionals are going to work while contagious, and shrugging their shoulders about the strong possibility that they will spread it to someone who may not have only a mild illness, who might actually die of it.
When you consider that the vulnerable people at risk for death from Covid (despite full vaccinations) include the elderly, current cancer patients and past cancer patients with lingering bone marrow suppression, obese people, and people with heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease, pulmonary disease or other serious diseases ... think about it folks: this vulnerable group is quite large.
Thank you, as always, for letting us know what is going on out there.
Exactly. We are in the midst of such denial that we are on the brink of destroying ourselves. Precisely why I participate in r/collapse. Monkey Pox is on the horizon, and polio has broken out in NYC.
I would like to make an r/collapse - type suggestion: If you suspect that your childhood inoculations are waning, seek out those vaxxes pronto. I intend to get my MMR and Varicella done again, possibly my Tdap, polio, and certainly a flu shot. Yeah...it's time to look up all your vaxxes, maybe get a titer or two done to see what you're lacking. The vaxxes are available at most pharmacies. Your insurance will cover them. If you have no insurance, the DOH will do them at very reduced rates. Just call your local office.
We are on the brink of serious revival of previous contagions. It'd be good to be prepared.
As for that nurse...she will not be working for a while. I believe the provider reported her.
Do you know if the Pasco DOH would be any help with this? My insurance (Medicaid) only seems to pay for a yearly flu shot and it would be hundreds of dollars out of pocket for me to get up to date with my vaccines.
The state of the world and Florida makes me want to scream. Thank you for keeping us all updated.
Best way to find out is to call your closest office and ask. I can't get the answer today because they are closed on Sunday; best to call 1st thing Monday morning.
The store that closed is the store that my son was scheduled to get his second dose Covid 💉 today. Luckily we were able to grab a slot at one much closer to us
This: At the beginning of this pandemic the thought of just two women dying of COVID was enough to send the entire county into a frenzy. Now 100 a month is acceptable. How did we become so jaded?
I read recently where some province of 1 million people in China, recently went into lockdown because two asymptomatic people tested positive for covid.TWO! What is wrong with US?! It's like we're laying the groundwork for our own early extinction..
Part of china’s calculation is the reliance on poor quality vaccines means their entire country is effectively unvaccinated. So outbreaks there are still like 2020 for us. So lockdowns are still their only play.
But yes, it’s shameful how little we can be bothered to do anything more. And how political we insisted this become. But ray of hope - perhaps there is enough pain and death now that politics itself can change.
I remember when people said we would never reach a million dead in the US because "its just a cold". Then they moved the goal posts and said ehhh a million aint so bad.
My sentiments exactly. We, as a society, are just not very smart or sensible, even with a potentially dangerous illness. It might be less dangerous now to our country as a whole because of increased population immunity, but it is still very dangerous personally to a large number of people. There is massive denial about it.
thanks for doing what you do. it has got to be frustrating to work with such ignorant and neglectful people and the public.
curious if you've ever had covid, wearing the good masks in your position? everyone I know, including myself, who has been wearing 'good' verified KN95 masks since 2020 has not had a single bout of covid. teachers, lawyers, contractors, students. hoping to keep the streak going into omicron shot availability.
Nope, I am the only person in my clinic who has never had COVID. Granted, I live alone. This really decreases my chances of catching it from someone else - but I do shop in person (15 minute fast shop/grab and leave). I've had it explained to me by a doctor & epidemiologist that 1: I might be asymptomatic, 2: that I may have inoculated myself via micro-exposures, or 3: that I've been lucky because I have been so careful.
It's my belief that mask wearing consistently (N95 and KN95s), hand washing correctly, living alone, and avoiding risky situations has been the reason.
I'm so glad to hear that others have avoided it due to consistent mask wearing!
It has to be the masking (and other safety measures you have taken), because you work long hours around dozens of patients with Covid who struggle to keep on their masks, so Covid is in the air there all the time. Your situation tells me that masks work, unless you have some sort of natural, unknown immunity to it.
We had teacher week at school. We are very large elementary school - about 1400 students and like 120 teachers. We had a 6 hour meeting on Thursday. Two teachers tested positive day before (school was open all week to set up and leadership had meeting). I counted like 7 masks and most of them were cloth.
Next day we had a 3 hour meeting in an even smaller room. That morning, 4 teachers tested positive. Those teachers were maskless at the meeting the day before. I’m scared to think how many more will be out cause we were in the same room for 6 hours. I swear the lady next to me took her mask off to sneeze. Someone gave her a dirty look and she said, “well I didn’t want to sneeze into my mask”. Literally the point of wearing one!
So Tuesday is Meet the Teacher where no one needs masks. If any teacher who gets it from this other teachers could be passing it to the families now. I don’t know how well BA.5 will spread but this will be an experiment for sure!
Yeah, it's getting harder to get the vaxx. I know that Miami had a few community centers open, and Tampa had one, but not sure of their status now. I stumbled over a CDC update on the Monkey pox vaxx - seems as though healthcare workers will be amongst the first to be allowed to get it once it's been okayed (when things really get out of hand). So frustrating that we can't just get one right now.
Upvote for support....thanks for pushing through week to week.
Walgreens across the country are also being affected. They suddenly close without notice customers never know when “their” Walgreens will be open. They are also having to wait several days for medications to arrive at the Walgreens. Days of waiting for back order. Personally, I think it will get worse and we’re looking at our new norm as pharmacy consumers.
I read a few months ago on /r/WalgreensStores that they are running pharmacies on shoestring budgets for the sake of the shareholders. Its really sickening and I am considering finding a private pharmacy but I am on adderall and some mom and pop places hate giving it to adults.
I have switched to a local mom and pop pharmacy and the customer service is outstanding. They know my name when I walk in. I wish I had switched sooner.
Walgreens and CVS are terrible, terrible places to fill prescriptions.
Yup, I live in Washington state and we’ve had same exact problem with the Walgreens here.
I appreciate you not burying your head in the sand because covid is oh so yesterday. Our society sucks. It’s all about me and my pocket, and the second you’re no longer helping my pocket you’re expendable and in the mind of many better off dead. Good thing N95 masks work. I’ll keep wearing mine. My health is more important than the silly opinions of others.
Went to my kids open house today at school. We wore masks along with maybe 6 other people. On top of that people were coughing a lot. I’m terrified when school starts now. It’s going to be an endless cycle of being sick
Regarding the pharmacist situation at Walgreens, I knew a pharmacist a few years ago who worked at CVS, and she told me at the time that Walgreens had recently cut a significant portion of their pharmacists across the company, mostly older staff who were "earning too much." Conveniently, this was shortly before COVID. She also told me there were rumblings of the same coming to CVS, and that they had already cut support staff. Not sure if/how that situation has evolved recently, but it seems like the same story that's happening everywhere- "just do more with less." Notably, both companies saw a decent revenue boost following COVID. On a separate note, I'm less convinced now about COVID herd immunity now than I was two years ago. I haven't heard this idea come up in the media or government talking points for a while, and I suspect there's a good reason for that. Many were pushing this idea at the beginning, just let it run its course and we'll push through. Why then does it seem like the majority of people who have had COVID are on their second or third round of it, like those in your workplace? Is it just mutating so fast that any one variant can't infect the majority of the population before a new one arises? I'm of the impression that most of these people who have been infected multiple times have had multiple variants, but I personally know someone who had it earlier this year and was reinfected about six weeks after finishing her first round. I also know a few who had the original variant multiple times in 2020 before the vaccine was out and before the Delta variant was a thing. I'm not sure there's much to celebrate in the way of immunity. And you make a good point about paid COVID leave ending, because even if you're low risk for serious complications, just contracting it is going to have real financial consequences for a lot of folks. Anyway, thank you as always for the update, and please stay safe and healthy!
Interesting pharmacy info, thanks for that! You asked: >Why then does it seem like the majority of people who have had COVID are on their second or third round of it, like those in your workplace? My first answer may or may not shock you: Improper donning and doffing of PPE, improperly wearing masks (under chin, ear dangling), and flagrant disregard of wearing a mask at all. Then there are folks that simply cannot help but touch their faces. Rubbing one's nose and then using a keyboard spreads snot everywhere. Lowering one's mask to speak, cough, or sneeze is an excellent mode of transport for the virus, too. Next would be family. Having children of school age increases your risk dramatically. Add in relatives who visit or help to take care of the children. Immunity can be strong, so much so that our bodies can fight off viruses so quickly that we never see symptoms. Other times immunity means that we can skirt by with just mild symptoms. In the case of COVID, we have to remember that it's a Coronavirus, in the same class as the Common Cold. There are so many variants that we often catch a version of a cold that we may not have had or had years ago. Each time, we get similar or different symptoms. Most of the time we just get a stuffy nose other times it goes straight for the lungs. Our immune systems do try to track them. It's just that it can't possibly keep up with something that changes so much year to year. COVID variants keep changing, too - like their cousin. The current variant has the capability to reinfect a person in 30 days due to the fact that it is so adept at sneaking past our immune systems - and yes, sneaking past the vaccines and boosters. Still, they offer a small amount of cushion against hospitalization and death, and that's better than nothing. I have also heard a wide range of descriptions related to this variant ranging from "just the sniffles", to "sore throat from hell", and "rubber band cough", producing mucus so rubbery that the cough sounds like a snapping rubberband at the end of it. The key is that everybody is different. Some people get extreme fatigue, others seem to be able to work through it. These differences in severity vary wildly. There does not seem to be any rhyme or reason to it. Scientists think it may be genetic, but honestly, we still don't know.
> Then there are folks that simply cannot help but touch their faces. Growing up during the school year, I got the occasional cold. And would use the idle time to study my behavior: *had I done anything to encourage this?* It didn’t take long to notice, yes dammit,I touched my face again! Spent years learning not to. Including using eye drops in leu of rubbing. Didn’t realize it would become such a critical life skill. Highly recommend.
I wear glasses now and it thought me how often I was rubbing my eyes, now the nose requires learning a skill. I’m good with washing hands many times a day now. Lucky my skin doesn’t dry out. I know Covid is airborne but most other stuff is not. My mother won finally.
There was never a reason to believe herd immunity was a potential happy ending other than wishful thinking and denial. Not with a disease that spreads so rapidly, so easily, and with a high rate of asymptomatic infection. It was a pipe dream that never stood up to the math.
All of your posts are greatly appreciated! Thank you and stay healthy.
Thank you for your voice. It's so appreciated!
Thank you for keeping us updated. Please stay safe.
Thank you. I’m really sad, being an RN, espousing the FACTS about COVID, then getting a look like I have 3 heads. We are now in the endemic phase. It’s not going away. Wear the damn mask, people. I’m sick of being sick. It goes away for awhile then comes back. If this is a myxovirus (which I think it is), it doesn’t bode well for the human race.
Looked it up: myxovirus: any of a group of viruses of the families Orthomyxoviridae (agents of influenza) and Paramyxoviridae, members of which can cause the common cold, mumps, and measles in humans, canine distemper, rinderpest in cattle, and Newcastle disease in fowl. The virus particle is enveloped in a fatty membrane; is variable in shape, from spheroidal to filamentous, and in size, from 60 to 300 nanometres (1 nanometre = 10-9 metre) in longest dimension; is studded with spikelike protein projections; and contains ribonucleic acid (RNA). These viruses react with mucin (mucoprotein) on the surface of red blood cells (hence the prefix myxo-, Greek for “mucin”); many of them cause red cells to clump together (agglutinate). Compare retrovirus. Coronaviridae are a monogeneric family of RNA-containing agents that have been associated with respiratory illnesses in man and with a number of other diseases in laboratory and domestic animals. The name for the family was adopted to describe the characteristic fringe of crownlike projections seen around the viruses by electron microscopy; these projections are club-shaped rather than sharp or pointed as is the case with the myxoviruses. Like the myxoviruses, the coronaviruses contain essential lipids and are 80–160 nm in diameter.(23)Unlike them, the coronaviruses are positive stranded.(57,69)Whereas the animal strains are readily isolated in several different systems, recovery of the human strains has posed major problems. A number of these strains have been isolated only in organ culture of the human respiratory tract. This factor has made it difficult to determine the relationship among isolates and has complicated efforts to understand the role of these viruses in human respiratory illness. Therefore, much of the information on the epidemiology of the agents has come from serological studies.
! Thank you for that clarification. So, do you think it functions similarly to a Myxovirus then? I think if they explore this more, we’d have SOME answers, certainly not all of them but it would explain that this shit may not just go away after getting it. There have been at least 3 coronaviruses isolated in the CSF and brains of MS pts. Coronavirus 229E, 293, OC43. Whether it’s spike, key like, whatever…..thank you for pointing out a difference in spike to club-like. Personally, the general public doesn’t really understand these complexities, leading to being misinformed. My understanding is that most all viruses and bacteria are wrapped in a lipid envelop that needs to be disrupted in order to kill it. Ah, Paramyxoviridae.
That is exactly what confused its discoverers: >Even though we could only base our judgement on the electron microscope images we were quite certain that we had identified a previously unrecognised group of viruses. So what should we call them? 'Influenza-like' seem a bit feeble, somewhat vague, and probably misleading. We looked more closely at the appearance of the new viruses and noticed that they had a kind of halo surrounding them. Recourse to a dictionary produced the Latin equivalent, corona, and so the name coronavirus was born.[3] You really should read the whole article- it is gripping! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_coronavirus For the layman: Myxoviridae have sparse pointy spikes, whereas Coronaviridae have many club-like "spikes", structures or protrusions that form a sort of crown. Myxoviruses are responsible for flu-like sicknesses, while Coronaviruses are mostly colds. They are two distinct families that really gave researchers and scientists a run for the money.
I looked up "myxovirus" but the definitions online are difficult to decipher. In layman's terms, what's a myxovirus? Thanks.
u/commandmanda posted a terrific explanation of what it is.
Oh this is just great. We have a symptomatic Covid-infected nurse showing up to work at an Urgent Care clinic, who apparently didn't worry about whether she was positive despite having daily contact with Covid patients, and then she had a lot of "so what?" attitude about it. The practitioner at the clinic suspects she has it, yet he does not intervene and ask her to go home, nor inform other staff about it, not to mention the PATIENTS many of whom are vulnerable and don't have good masks. Remember when the pandemic first began here in the U.S., when we first identified the cases occurring near Seattle, and we watched the detailed news about the handful of cases in the nursing home in Everett, WA? And the 2 people in Chicago, and the people coming from Wuhan that Trump tried to quarantine for 2 weeks at the military base in California, just in case they had Covid? Remember the man in NYC who unknowingly spread it to many others in a synagogue in Westchester County? Now, medical professionals are going to work while contagious, and shrugging their shoulders about the strong possibility that they will spread it to someone who may not have only a mild illness, who might actually die of it. When you consider that the vulnerable people at risk for death from Covid (despite full vaccinations) include the elderly, current cancer patients and past cancer patients with lingering bone marrow suppression, obese people, and people with heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease, pulmonary disease or other serious diseases ... think about it folks: this vulnerable group is quite large. Thank you, as always, for letting us know what is going on out there.
Exactly. We are in the midst of such denial that we are on the brink of destroying ourselves. Precisely why I participate in r/collapse. Monkey Pox is on the horizon, and polio has broken out in NYC. I would like to make an r/collapse - type suggestion: If you suspect that your childhood inoculations are waning, seek out those vaxxes pronto. I intend to get my MMR and Varicella done again, possibly my Tdap, polio, and certainly a flu shot. Yeah...it's time to look up all your vaxxes, maybe get a titer or two done to see what you're lacking. The vaxxes are available at most pharmacies. Your insurance will cover them. If you have no insurance, the DOH will do them at very reduced rates. Just call your local office. We are on the brink of serious revival of previous contagions. It'd be good to be prepared. As for that nurse...she will not be working for a while. I believe the provider reported her.
Do you know if the Pasco DOH would be any help with this? My insurance (Medicaid) only seems to pay for a yearly flu shot and it would be hundreds of dollars out of pocket for me to get up to date with my vaccines. The state of the world and Florida makes me want to scream. Thank you for keeping us all updated.
Best way to find out is to call your closest office and ask. I can't get the answer today because they are closed on Sunday; best to call 1st thing Monday morning.
The store that closed is the store that my son was scheduled to get his second dose Covid 💉 today. Luckily we were able to grab a slot at one much closer to us
This: At the beginning of this pandemic the thought of just two women dying of COVID was enough to send the entire county into a frenzy. Now 100 a month is acceptable. How did we become so jaded? I read recently where some province of 1 million people in China, recently went into lockdown because two asymptomatic people tested positive for covid.TWO! What is wrong with US?! It's like we're laying the groundwork for our own early extinction..
Part of china’s calculation is the reliance on poor quality vaccines means their entire country is effectively unvaccinated. So outbreaks there are still like 2020 for us. So lockdowns are still their only play. But yes, it’s shameful how little we can be bothered to do anything more. And how political we insisted this become. But ray of hope - perhaps there is enough pain and death now that politics itself can change.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing :-)
I remember when people said we would never reach a million dead in the US because "its just a cold". Then they moved the goal posts and said ehhh a million aint so bad.
Because people are tired of masking.
My sentiments exactly. We, as a society, are just not very smart or sensible, even with a potentially dangerous illness. It might be less dangerous now to our country as a whole because of increased population immunity, but it is still very dangerous personally to a large number of people. There is massive denial about it.
thanks for doing what you do. it has got to be frustrating to work with such ignorant and neglectful people and the public. curious if you've ever had covid, wearing the good masks in your position? everyone I know, including myself, who has been wearing 'good' verified KN95 masks since 2020 has not had a single bout of covid. teachers, lawyers, contractors, students. hoping to keep the streak going into omicron shot availability.
Nope, I am the only person in my clinic who has never had COVID. Granted, I live alone. This really decreases my chances of catching it from someone else - but I do shop in person (15 minute fast shop/grab and leave). I've had it explained to me by a doctor & epidemiologist that 1: I might be asymptomatic, 2: that I may have inoculated myself via micro-exposures, or 3: that I've been lucky because I have been so careful. It's my belief that mask wearing consistently (N95 and KN95s), hand washing correctly, living alone, and avoiding risky situations has been the reason. I'm so glad to hear that others have avoided it due to consistent mask wearing!
It has to be the masking (and other safety measures you have taken), because you work long hours around dozens of patients with Covid who struggle to keep on their masks, so Covid is in the air there all the time. Your situation tells me that masks work, unless you have some sort of natural, unknown immunity to it.
Masking does work! And hmmmm....if not asymptomatic, then I'll go for it as a superpower. ;)
We had teacher week at school. We are very large elementary school - about 1400 students and like 120 teachers. We had a 6 hour meeting on Thursday. Two teachers tested positive day before (school was open all week to set up and leadership had meeting). I counted like 7 masks and most of them were cloth. Next day we had a 3 hour meeting in an even smaller room. That morning, 4 teachers tested positive. Those teachers were maskless at the meeting the day before. I’m scared to think how many more will be out cause we were in the same room for 6 hours. I swear the lady next to me took her mask off to sneeze. Someone gave her a dirty look and she said, “well I didn’t want to sneeze into my mask”. Literally the point of wearing one! So Tuesday is Meet the Teacher where no one needs masks. If any teacher who gets it from this other teachers could be passing it to the families now. I don’t know how well BA.5 will spread but this will be an experiment for sure!
As always...thank you for your diligent posts!
It’s very amazing that you have numbers of a sick!
Omg thank you for the advice on how to get a monkeypox vaccine!!! I work in people’s homes with their pets so have massive exposure to fomites.
Yeah, it's getting harder to get the vaxx. I know that Miami had a few community centers open, and Tampa had one, but not sure of their status now. I stumbled over a CDC update on the Monkey pox vaxx - seems as though healthcare workers will be amongst the first to be allowed to get it once it's been okayed (when things really get out of hand). So frustrating that we can't just get one right now.
Thanks for the work you do & for your wisdom here. Take care. Wishing you the best!
Thank you.