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re: Line from Urgent Care blocking traffic on College Dr.

Posted on 12/29/21 at 11:19 am to
Posted by danilo
Member since Nov 2008
21394 posts
Posted on 12/29/21 at 11:19 am to
Never knew a cold and sniffles are urgent
Posted by tigerskin
Member since Nov 2004
41409 posts
Posted on 12/29/21 at 11:20 am to
For unvaccinated in college, if they have proof of positive test, they don’t have to test or any restrictions for next 6 months (at some schools) Just saying “I had Covid” doesn’t allow the same
Posted by kywildcatfanone
Wildcat Country!
Member since Oct 2012
122642 posts
Posted on 12/29/21 at 11:23 am to
People love their govt overlords.
Posted by Meauxjeaux
98836 posts including my alters
Member since Jun 2005
41419 posts
Posted on 12/29/21 at 11:25 am to
Hopefully this means extended unemployment benefits are exhausted and all these people going back to work.
Posted by Ryan3232
Valet driver for TD staff
Member since Dec 2008
26233 posts
Posted on 12/29/21 at 11:25 am to
I agree with this thread, but a lot of people need that positive test to miss work if you are too sick to work. For me it’s, “DO NOT come to work if you are sick, but I need doctors note for HR if you are sick.”


With that said, it all sucks.


Posted by redneck
Los Suenos, Costa Rica
Member since Dec 2003
53773 posts
Posted on 12/29/21 at 11:32 am to
I had to get a negative test to go back to work this morning. Nowhere on the northshore had at home tests in stock. Got to an urgent care at 6:15am that opened at 6:30am and 15 people were already in line. Didn’t get my “rapid” results until 9:15
Posted by Demshoes
Up in here
Member since Aug 2015
10310 posts
Posted on 12/29/21 at 11:32 am to
I waited in line for 18 hours. Told the PA that I had a mild cough, sore throat and runny nose. He told me to take advil, over the counter cough medicine and have some warm soup.

Thank God I waited. Would've hated to see the consequences if I handled that on my own. Could've been catastrophic.
Posted by Eighteen
Member since Dec 2006
34918 posts
Posted on 12/29/21 at 11:41 am to
Thank you, media, for driving panic and absurdity in the general populace

“Flatten the curve” was the first message, now the media and current testing/quarantine/osha mandates are driving even more people out into public, using supplies and causing shortages and straining pharmacies and doctors offing
Posted by PureBlood
The Motherland
Member since Oct 2021
4314 posts
Posted on 12/29/21 at 11:44 am to
quote:

4. If symptoms worsen, go to a hospital



I'd avoid doing this... everyone that died from this "deadly pandemic" did so in the hospital. Tells me that they misdiagnosed it.


We'd be without homeless people right now if this thing were as bad as they say it is.
Posted by BorrisMart
La
Member since Jul 2020
8870 posts
Posted on 12/29/21 at 11:46 am to
Chick Fila does this like every day.
Posted by Old Money
LSU
Member since Sep 2012
37511 posts
Posted on 12/29/21 at 11:52 am to
I think the lines are people trying to get out of going to work
Posted by tylercsbn9
Cypress, TX
Member since Feb 2004
65876 posts
Posted on 12/29/21 at 11:54 am to
quote:

All to get a Covid test that could have been achieved with a rapid test at Walgreens and for a diagnosis that will include: 1. Go home 2. Get in bed 3. Take Tylenol/Nyquil 4. If symptoms worsen, go to a hospital No wonder there's a strain on Urgent Cares/ERs. People just go to them in a panic.


Covid paralysis driven by the media.

Some lady on my neighborhood board posted asking what urgent cares were open because he 7 year old tested positive. His symptoms. A slight fever and sore throat. That’s it. That’s why they wanted urgent care.

Just let your kid rest in bed and monitor to see if their basic cold gets worse.
Posted by Klark Kent
Houston via BR
Member since Jan 2008
67152 posts
Posted on 12/29/21 at 11:55 am to
this is pathetic. sheep.

the media won’t stop driving the fear porn until we’re back to lockdowns, mandates, and virtual learning.
Posted by BallHawk
Orlando
Member since Jul 2011
5824 posts
Posted on 12/29/21 at 11:58 am to
Mass hysteria that has been perpetuated by the media. No one denies the seriousness of Covid, but the primary issue is that panic has caused strain on resources that could have been avoided had the narrative been to only get tested if serious symptoms presented.

Every Joe and Jane in society was so freaked out that they had to get tested. It's made the world insane.
Posted by MBclass83
Member since Oct 2010
9546 posts
Posted on 12/29/21 at 12:01 pm to
We are up to performing 500 tests daily and that is using just one of our 3 platforms. They are killing us with that workload. Just stay home!!!
Posted by WaWaWeeWa
Member since Oct 2015
15714 posts
Posted on 12/29/21 at 12:12 pm to
The home tests are low because Brandon decided to buy 500 million that he will ship to every home next month once this wave is over. 99% of those people won’t need the test at that time so they will stick it in a drawer.

Prime example of how centralized government control isn’t the answer to anything

Potatohead Joe is a fricking genius
Posted by Unobtanium
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2009
1647 posts
Posted on 12/29/21 at 12:16 pm to
I, for one, am staying at home, awaiting the winter of illness, death and despair.
Posted by Triple Bogey
19th Green
Member since May 2017
6085 posts
Posted on 12/29/21 at 12:17 pm to
Was out getting lunch and noticed up here in Shreveport that there were 20 people standing outside the Urgent Care off of E 70th I would assume were waiting in line to be tested.
Posted by LSU316
Rice and Easy Baby!!!
Member since Nov 2007
29508 posts
Posted on 12/29/21 at 12:17 pm to
FYI if you have Omicron it responds well to things like Mucinex as well.
Posted by gumbo2176
Member since May 2018
16176 posts
Posted on 12/29/21 at 12:19 pm to
Sounds like the drive-thru at some of the drug stores here in N.O.

I've used the drive-thru to get prescriptions in the past but no so much now. Each car that takes the test is in line a good 15 minutes or more to complete the process.

The last time I got in the drive-thru at the local CVS was 2 weeks ago since they only had 1 van at the window. While waiting, a guy got out of the van and came to my truck to inform me there were 6 of them who were getting ready to take the COVID test so they could catch a flight out of the country.

I backed out, went inside, went straight to the counter and got my RX's.
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