I arrived at 10am with my sick daughter. She has a fever, sore throat, body ache and headache. Sick now for 2 days.I have to wait hours to see a fucking doctor because the clinic is overwhelmed with healthy people needing covid tests for travel or work. WTF?!? People who are actually sick can’t get help because healthy people are being forced to test just to live their fucking lives.
Edited to add: this gets even more ridiculous. The clinic doesn’t bill insurance for rapid tests. You have to pay out of pocket for a rapid covid test $150, and $175 for a rapid flu/covid test. And they don’t stock the plain old rapid flu test so you have no choice but to either get the bogus discontinued PCR test or pay to get the rapid test. They don’t tell you this until you wait 2+ Hours to see a dr. What a fucking racket!
I was just thinking about how far weve come from this--there was a time being seen by a dr would include an actual examination. Now diagnosis consists of: testing. And even worse, the hyper focus on mainly just cv1984 testing.
Now we have to say, ^all you just said^ to get them to do what used to be normal . These drs are horrible robots wth medical degree license to what? test? f**cking tools they are
God help us.
Covid has basically "cured" every damn virus known and collected them all into a catchall. Someone sneezes? Covid. Someone coughs? Covid. Tickle in the back of the throat? COVID. Literally every fucking thing is covid. My oldest son (28) woke up today feeling bad and throwing up. He's come to the conclusion that he's got a bit of food poisoning. But most people his age would have high tailed it to the first testing center to get that be all end all covid test. And for what?? It's not like they're gonna get therapeutics. I offered him my HCQ but he's convinced it's food poisoning and said he didn't want to take my last HCQs