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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  • grazing7264 [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    10 months ago

    It is not just some magic pill to be thrown around “just in case” to young healthy people anxious about rare complications.

    This deeply underestimates how slowly medical science moves. COVID crosses the blood brain barrier and is found in every major organ in cadavers. It’s like assuming a particular plastic is harmless because it isn’t listed as hazardous. It just means that it hasn’t been tested. Research doesn’t happen if there’s no profit incentive to fund it. At best you get some researcher pulling strings for their pet project.

    There is no shortage of Paxlovid or vaccines, they’re all rotting on the shelves.