Yikes. I paid $25 for one at walgreens last year!
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I found out that Walgreens will price match their own website, which often has lower prices.
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I got a notification that I āmay have been exposed to someone with Covid in the last 14 daysā from WA state. In that time I have been to: 8 airports, 8 planes, 6 transit systems, 2 hemispheres, 4 states and 2 countries. This notification is not very helpful.
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Iām pretty sure youāve been exposed to more than one person with Covid in the last 14 days. Itās kinda unavoidable at this point.
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Yup! almost absolutely. Although transmission in NZ was pretty low comparitively.
Iāve tested negative on day 4 post-return to country, no symptoms but I am jetlagged from the time change (mostly not being tired at night.)
Just hoping that Iām not harboring anything because I have a shoot on wednesday that the crew are flying in for, and weāre all taking rapid tests before entering the studio.
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got my 2nd booster thursday and still feel like ass. i swear if rite aid gave me covid while i was getting boosted, im gonna go kick some unmasked pharmacist in the crotch.
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I got Covid halfway through my trip to Ireland so missed half the tour which sucked. Ireland was full of it so I do think itās impossible to avoid anymore.
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Yikes, thatās really awful timing. Iām so sorry!
I am now super paranoid that after ducking covid for 2 1/2 years, my husband will get it just in time to miss our childās birth. 
Heās going to be working from home for a couple of weeks ahead of time- unless baby is early- but I have to work in person and my oldest has a sort of before-the-school-year camp thing that week.
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I really hope that doesnāt happen. It also would be awful for anyone in the family to be sick when a new baby arrives. I had a really bad cold and cough when I had my second. I have always wanted to go to Ireland and the tour was expensive so it sucked in many ways.
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I heard that on the news, and i aināt a conspiracy theorist but I was still a little surprised. It seemed believable it was a lab accident and made more so by shady Chinese data
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I also thought it was believable that it was a lab accident. But the wet market does seem convincing if the earliest cases were market vendors and their contacts vs. lab workers and their contacts. I guess the Wuhan lab is where it is because diseases have developed in this region this way before.
Shady Chinese data doesnāt surprise me either way. They donāt come across looking good no matter how exactly it originated. Either way, a pandemic started in their country on their watch.
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Totally believable! And with the previous evidence we had Iād say it was one of the more probable theories. Especially given all the communist party obstruction with the WHO investigation. These seem like pretty solid studies though, although I havenāt read the studies themselves. But Iām willing to flex with the data as it comes 
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And even more importantly, they purposely tried to hide that and obstruct interventions. They were far more worried about their image than their people and other people around the globe, and thatās the part thatās totally unacceptable to me.
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Hard agree. Ironically, them trying so hard to downplay what was happening just made things worse. Maybe if theyād been transparent and collaborative from the start things could have gone a different way.
Then again people move so globally now, it was probably too late by the time they even realized there was a problem.
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Point of data, probably not THAT useful, but an immunosuppressed friend who had covid in early May just tested positive again. He also had covid in late 2020 (very bad that time). Heās had 4 shots. So this is time number three for covid, probably the 3rd variant, and 3 months after last infection.
He has a vaccinated almost-7 year old in summer camp, but no one else has tested positive in the family yet - he had no symptoms, just tested positive on a routine test prior to a doctorās appt.
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Update: he actually made the Dr. Apt because his Apple Watch toldh him he had an elevated heart rate while at rest and he was feeling a bit tight in his chest. Wanted to get his heart checked, but looks like it was covid. The only symptom heās had.
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Again, my dd tested positive again after being exposed on their way back from Europe (she was notified by the thing on her phone.)
She really had no symptoms this time. She was positive in April and had fairly mild symptoms.
There are 5 other people in this house and none of us have ever tested positive or been symptomatic and weāve tested every other day for a week. Weāre all as vaxed as possible, but we havenāt taken any other precautions or isolation at home.
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Weāre seeing wide community spread in my corner of Kansas. My wife and I tested positive for the first time (AFAIK) all pandemic, fully vaxed and boosted but werenāt eligible for a second booster yet. Itās been similar to our vaccination reactions but just on a bigger scale, so itās knocked us back 4-5 days vs 1-2. Definitely grateful itās not worse.
Not clear if we picked up from my public workplace or her community theater hobby, but honestly it couldāve been both the way it seems to be going in our city.
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andā¦ mask mandate back at work.
But not in LA county. big shrug
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