I’m sick and came to the doctor to get tested for covid, strep, and flu, since those are going around my work. I asked the doctor if I could get paxlovid if the covid test was positive, and he goes “Oh I don’t think you’d need it”
Motherfucker almost everyone who catches covid should be fucking taking it wtf is wrong with you. Oh I’m young and otherwise healthy? Yeah and I’d like to fucking stay that way thank you very much, and I’ll take any reduction in the chance of becoming permanently disabled.
Also of the medical professionals I saw today, they were only wearing surgical masks, not N95s and I can’t comprehend it. Why in the hell would you go into the room of a likely covid case not wearing an N95 are you insane?
I’m so fucking sick of being the only person in this entire town that’s actually worried about catching this disease, even the fucking doctors don’t care anymore. I work in a research facility attached to a hospital and when I go to the food court and shit at best like 1/25 people are wearing masks. In a hospital.
Thank you Mr Joe Brandon for ending the pandemic, you’ve truly cemented your place among history’s greatest killers.
Pretty much all of medicine is a balance between risk and reward. This can actually be an issue sometimes with things like screenings or whatever where we pick up things that aren't actually an issue (even if they're scary) and are unlikely to pose a threat by the end of a person's natural life and then put them through an onslaught of medical intervention that hurts their QOL way more than the actual problem was likely to ever do for them.
That's not to say that screening and treating minor issues is bad or anything, just that we need caution to avoid causing unnecessary harm.
I absolutely agree.
It just becomes exhausting to hear people insist "my doctor wasn't wearing a mask at the appointment, so I know better than him on what drugs to take".
Like, do you trust the medication you're taking enough to take it but not enough to listen to the manufacturers on when and how to use it?