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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Just in time for them to start charging the uninsured.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

I'm in mortal and financial danger!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

The at home test kits are like $25 for 2 and I just kinda went for it because at the time I had nothing left at home and I needed something immediate. Spent 50 on two boxes for 4 tests total. Got like 12 from work the other day for free so that kinda sucks. Also really has me wondering just how much money we spent on test kits alone at work to swab my unit 3 times after an exposure event. Would've cost close to 1700 from the store for just like 40 people. Fucking highway robbery

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Covid is less dangerous overall than it was earlier in the pandemic because our bodies have become used to fighting the virus off and nearly everyone has some degree of immunity from receiving shots or getting sick. A new shot is meant to shore up existing defenses.

cool.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Literally disinformation but okay

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

this contradicts articles I was reading on here like a week ago, if I'm wrong sorry but the last source I saw was opposed to the idea I quoted, the article about the abandonment of disabled people for the sake of normalcy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah I've just been reading about how the big problem with COVID is how our quickly our immunity against it wanes, literally the opposite of what WaPo is saying here. But they wouldn't lie just to keep pushing the idea of the "end of the pandemic" would they?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

edit: nevermind. I can't find the article and don't wanna be spreading something I can't back up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

wapo exists to spread disinformation

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do you have a source to back up this claim or?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

This doesn't say it's getting less dangerous overall so why was me balking at that claim literally disinformation

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh, I was calling WaPo misinformation lol. Just a misunderstanding

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Oh! Okay that makes total sense now hahaha

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Oh cool. From someone who is currently in the thick of it, this thing is kicking my ass so hard. Again.

Mild, hell no. Less dangerous, absolutely not.

My entire face hurts...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

what exactly do I need to ask my local pharmacy to see if they have this new one?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The new vaccines target the KP.2 variant because most recent covid cases are caused by that strain or closely related ones.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

so is the vaccine called a kp.2 vaccine?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

If you ask for the 2024-2025 COVID vaccine, they'll know exactly what you're talking about.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah if you just ask for “the new KP2 vaccine” they’ll know what you’re talking about

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

FDA is moving so slowly on these I'm skeptical of how effective it will be on the current strains going around

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Allegedly the novovax wouldve been available earlier but lack of lobbying the FDA did them no favors unlike Pfizer and Moderna