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!
Chicken soup, especially the broth. Salt water gargles. Spray nose and throat with colloidal silver. Oregano oil in capsules. Large doses of Vit C and D. NAC, Quercetin, Ivermectin if you have those. A couple spoonfuls of ice cream or sherbet soothe the throat, making it easier to swallow pills or get some liquids down. A hot steamy shower can help release the phlegm that gets stuck in the throat or nasal passages. After the fever breaks, good to walk around, get some fresh air, but not too much. Usually after the fever breaks, it comes back again, but for a shorter time. Feed a cold, starve a fever, when there's a fever the body's prioritizes fighting the illness and bypasses digestion.