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!
Unless you have a based doctor, hospitals and urgent care are useless right now. I went through this for my 16 yo daughter as well who continually was running 104 fevers weeks after she had covid (ended up being mono, but it took a lot on MY part to get her the help she needed.) Be ready to ask specifically for the following that used to be standard protocol if you suspect a bacterial infection: "Doctor... I need you to run a CBC, listen to lungs, look in the ears, check her sinuses, check her throat (and whatever else you want them to look at). All they really wanted to do was do a CV test and I refused as I knew it would test positive as she already had it 4 weeks prior. This had NOTHING to do with covid, and I knew it. I left there with nothing, and started her on my own round of antibiotics I had on hand. She got better a couple of days later, saw her own based doctor (he was the one who sent us to the ER on a Sunday in the first place to get those tests done.. he was livid BTW, and says 'the whole world has gone crazy with covid'.) We finally found the mono, but it was after I had to concede and start her on my own medication. Such a bunch of BS!
I see I'm not the only one who keeps a few rounds of antibiotics stashed!
I'm not endorsing this particular site - this is merely to put this out there. Fish Antibiotics. No prescription needed. They are the SAME drugs as humans use, made in the same facilities, same markings, and dosages. Preppers swear by these. You can also find other stuff like z-paks with a little searching. They may have other languages on the boxes (like Thai) but will also have English. Internet searches will pull up a ton of stuff.
One example site.
Do your own research though. I'm not a doctor and only putting this here for educational purposes.