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!
Here in the UK the rapid acting tests you either order online or get from a local pharmacy and do it at home and then record the result through the NHS app if you need it for something. Only since they ramped up the fear mongering from Omicron a lot of the sheeple went out and cleared out the tests so now there is a severe shortage of them. My dad is naturally immune and is on his 3rd vaccine and he still insists on taking a test every day.
The hospitals here are pretty rammed at the moment because most of the doctors surgeries are refusing to see patients or are seeing them at extremely reduced rates so many people are just turning up at Accident & Emergency because they couldn't access treatment through their GP. I think a lot of the GP's are happy for this to continue because they have life a lot easier now than before.