🦀Karstanization🦀Mar 2

Hey folks! Have any of you ever successfully gotten a 6-month covid booster? If so, where/how? Walgreens let me make an appointment but when I showed up they told me I'm only allowed to have it once a year. Which is funny because a year ago a pharmacist at the exact same locations that I could get it every 6 months.

I'm going to a large conference here in a couple of weeks and I'd like to have an additional booster.

Show threadtrying bear 🕊😺🕊🐼Mar 4
@Karstan https://synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/800951.html
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A post and a conversation elsewhere made me realize I stay on top of COVID-related news a lot more than a lot of people do and therefore this probably isn't common knowledge: there is a small but growing body of evidence that nasal barrier/antiviral agent sprays are a useful component of a defense-i

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Show threadtrying bear 🕊😺🕊🐼Mar 4
@Karstan i realize this is a weird image, as the author also posts about things not covid-related, and also i didn't anticipate that it would show up. but it really is all about using antihistamines to boost immunity should you not be able to mask.
Show thread🦀Karstanization🦀Mar 4
@bearofroses I don't see anything about antihistamines in this. Good info about nasal antivirals/nasal rinses though!
Show threadtrying bear 🕊😺🕊🐼Mar 4
@Karstan oh shoot, it must have been in a different piece of writing. i ended up using generic flonase, diphenhydramine, and prilosec for the part of a day last sept when i had to unmask to eat. (i met 2 mutuals in person, still recovering from the social stress.)
Show thread🦀Karstanization🦀
@bearofroses I already take prescription strength Prilosec for my eoe. So I guess that's something
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