Covid-19 closer to "home" than I'd anticipated...

[dawnball]

Worldwide, rotoviurs kills tens of thousands

I give up. You're just a troll.

 

[dawnball]

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I don't know if you're self-isolating, but I'll say that it's harder than I expected. Both in terms of logistics and habits. I keep thinking "Oh, I'll run to the store for...." Yesterday there was a snarl-up with my prescriptions being filled, and it was surprisingly difficult to call the pharmacy and wait endlessly on hold instead of just driving the two blocks to sort it out. Plenty of people have costco, target, walmart or a grocery store as their primary pharmacy, and it makes sense to keep new prescriptions the same place. Then you start to say "Well, if I'm going to get prescriptions anyway, I'll get...."

 

[ShirikiUtundu]

I don't know if you're self-isolating, but I'll say that it's harder than I expected. Both in terms of logistics and habits. I keep thinking "Oh, I'll run to the store for...." Yesterday there was a snarl-up with my prescriptions being filled, and it was surprisingly difficult to call the pharmacy and wait endlessly on hold instead of just driving the two blocks to sort it out. Plenty of people have costco, target, walmart or a grocery store as their primary pharmacy, and it makes sense to keep new prescriptions the same place. Then you start to say "Well, if I'm going to get prescriptions anyway, I'll get...."

If people are sick they should stay home. Not be out in public potentially infecting other people. THAT IS LITERALLY THE ENTIRE PROBLEM AND THE WHOLE POINT.
This goes for colds, flu, stomach viruses, as well as COVID-19. The fact that people don't use common sense and half decent hygiene is the reason this is going on right now.

 

[RamblingMad]

I don't know if you're self-isolating, but I'll say that it's harder than I expected. Both in terms of logistics and habits. I keep thinking "Oh, I'll run to the store for...." Yesterday there was a snarl-up with my prescriptions being filled, and it was surprisingly difficult to call the pharmacy and wait endlessly on hold instead of just driving the two blocks to sort it out. Plenty of people have costco, target, walmart or a grocery store as their primary pharmacy, and it makes sense to keep new prescriptions the same place. Then you start to say "Well, if I'm going to get prescriptions anyway, I'll get...."

My United Healthcare plan doesn't cover Walgreens, so I can go to either CVS or Costco with the later less than 10 minutes away. And I've run into inventory issues at CVS. What my DS didn't understand was why the hospital gave me a prescription instead of giving me it filled at the hospital. She didn't understand why they would want me to get a prescription filled at all, especially when I was discharged after midnight. It's really a shortcoming of our healthcare service and insurance providers.

 

[hmsTigger]

Students are not the only people on college campuses. What do you think the average age of faculty across the United States is? How easy do you think it would be to replace those faculty should something horrible happen to them because they were in contact with thousands of students? I think people who are looking at the college closings as being focused solely on students is kind of misplaced

A professor at a mid-Atlantic state university tested positive and now so did many students at the same university.

 

[dawnball]

If people are sick they should stay home. Not be out in public potentially infecting other people. THAT IS LITERALLY THE ENTIRE PROBLEM AND THE WHOLE POINT.
This goes for colds, flu, stomach viruses, as well as COVID-19. The fact that people don't use common sense and half decent hygiene is the reason this is going on right now.

Yes. I completely agree. If you're sick, stay home. And I -am- staying home. It's a simple thing to do. But that doesn't make staying home convenient or easy. Just like not touching our faces and creating social distance, it has a learning curve. Not everyone is going to be perfect the first time. Particularly anxious or sick people, who tend to revert to habit.

Identifying common excuses for breaking quarantine like "I'm not sick enough to be hospitalized, but need a way to get my medications" means providers can say to patients "Go home. Stay home. Pick up your prescription at a pharmacy with a drive through." All the websites that are publishing coronavirus news can say "If you need medication, here are the local pharmacies that have a drive-through." That's useful information, and if everyone hides their mistakes, no one benefits from them.

 

[pryncess527]

I was able to convert all my prescriptions to mail, they shipped out yesterday

 

[dawnball]

I was able to convert all my prescriptions to mail, they shipped out yesterday

Mail is a great answer. Lots of people are going to be getting prescriptions for inhaled steroids or bronchodilators that they shouldn't wait to have mailed. It's a good time to see what pharmacies near you offer delivery, drive-through or minimal-exposure access.

 

[Hikergirl]

My county has it's first confirmed case but no details are being released, not happy about that at all.

 

[bushdianee]

We have 7 cases in our county with 2 in the biocontainment unit. Our school district just announced that schools will be closed next week at least. Our city is is also going to take a big financial hit as the March Madness and College World Series have been cancelled. I have COPD and a history of pulmonary embolisms so I am not going out much. I order my groceries and go pick them up so that I don't have to go in the stores.

 

[lovin'fl]

If people are sick they should stay home. Not be out in public potentially infecting other people. THAT IS LITERALLY THE ENTIRE PROBLEM AND THE WHOLE POINT.
This goes for colds, flu, stomach viruses, as well as COVID-19. The fact that people don't use common sense and half decent hygiene is the reason this is going on right now.

Still wouldn't be enough since some folks have little to no symptoms so they don't know they have it in order to stay home. As well as the fact that the DR won't test you unless you A) just traveled internationally or B) exposed to someone who's tested positive. Maybe they'll test you if you are around someone who was recently in a hot zone country. But I don't know that.

 

[BuckeyeBama]

Still wouldn't be enough since some folks have little to no symptoms so they don't know they have it in order to stay home. As well as the fact that the DR won't test you unless you A) just traveled internationally or B) exposed to someone who's tested positive. Maybe they'll test you if you are around someone who was recently in a hot zone country. But I don't know that.

If I thought I had this I would lie and say that I just returned home from a trip to Italy. Let them sue me for lying.

 

[dez1978]

Yes. I completely agree. If you're sick, stay home. And I -am- staying home. It's a simple thing to do. But that doesn't make staying home convenient or easy. Just like not touching our faces and creating social distance, it has a learning curve. Not everyone is going to be perfect the first time. Particularly anxious or sick people, who tend to revert to habit.

Identifying common excuses for breaking quarantine like "I'm not sick enough to be hospitalized, but need a way to get my medications" means providers can say to patients "Go home. Stay home. Pick up your prescription at a pharmacy with a drive through." All the websites that are publishing coronavirus news can say "If you need medication, here are the local pharmacies that have a drive-through." That's useful information, and if everyone hides their mistakes, no one benefits from them.

Not everyplace has a pharmacy drive thru. Our town does not. Our options are a CVS, that's really an older pharmacy converted to a CVS so no drive thru, and no non medicine items like regular CVS, a local hometown pharmacy, no drive thru, and Walmart, also no drive thru. I'd have to drive 1.5 hrs round trip to get to a drive thru pharmacy. We live in the country, so no delivery. So how am I supposed to get meds if I am sick?

 

[dawnball]

Not everyplace has a pharmacy drive thru. Our town does not. Our options are a CVS, that's really an older pharmacy converted to a CVS so no drive thru, and no non medicine items like regular CVS, a local hometown pharmacy, no drive thru, and Walmart, also no drive thru. I'd have to drive 1.5 hrs round trip to get to a drive thru pharmacy. We live in the country, so no delivery. So how am I supposed to get meds if I am sick?

Start thinking about that now.

A well family member? Perhaps a neighbor or friend. Call your pharmacy and see if they can do a curb-side pickup. Even if they can't now - they might be able to once you need prescriptions.

If you have to go in, try not to hand anything over (use contactless payment or self-service cards, not cash, for example). Wear a mask - even a bandana over your mouth and nose is better than nothing. Hand sanitizer before and after signing for your prescriptions. There are very few prescription medications that help with covid-19, so shouldn't be a recurrent thing.

It's a good time to figure out what services you might have for food delivery (or drive-up pickup) too. We adjusted our disaster supplies, supplementing them with comfort foods, the foods we tend to eat when we're sick, and favorite foods for morale. Ideally, any household with sick people should only have the healthiest/least likely to be contagious leaving - and they should leave as little as possible.

 

[Micca]

My thermometer battery is low. I'm going to get a new one today before there's a run on those.

We didn't have a thermometer in the house so figured we'd pick one up, the last one! (at the grocery store.)

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

We didn't have a thermometer in the house so figured we'd pick one up, the last one! (at the grocery store.)

We have 2 new ones as a result of Aaron and I having the flu in early Feb--Aaron didn't want to share lol (totally understandable at the time).

We were very low on ibuprofen and got some last night at Walmart--last container though you could still get Advil and Motrin.

 

[wenrob]

We didn't have a thermometer in the house so figured we'd pick one up, the last one! (at the grocery store.)

When all this started happening I knew DD wouldn’t be able find one so I got the last one at Target here. Also grabbed her Tylenol and cold meds. So glad I did.

 

[Micca]

We were very low on ibuprofen and got some last night at Walmart--last container though you could still get Advil and Motrin.

Well we bought two 500 count bottles of Ibuprofen at Costco a few months ago. Let me know if you need some, I think we have about 990 remaining

 

[pryncess527]

We live in the country, so no delivery. So how am I supposed to get meds if I am sick?

This may not apply to your specific situation, but more generally for what it’s worth my ability to get a prescription delivered was not because of a pharmacy willing to do it. It was because my insurance company contracts with a national prescription drug service that delivers prescriptions through the mail. As long as the United States Postal Service delivers, these people would. It is in contingent on my insurance company working with them though. I found the info on my insurance website

 

[TLSnell1981]

I have a large package of paper napkins in the back of my car. DH hid them while we went to have lunch. He was afraid someone would mistake them for toilet paper and break into my vehicle.