Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Anyway, here's my situation in full detail in case anyone can find anything rag-worthy in there.

I arrived at the urgent care place for my appointment. They asked to see my insurance card. I gave them last year's card since it was the only one I had. They searched the Blue Cross web site and could not find me in the system. They told me I had to pay $200 up front for the test. I'm good for it and maybe I should have sucked it up and paid it, but because I'm moving next month, I'd rather not spend $200 on anything unless it's absolutely necessary.

They asked me to leave.

When I got home, I sent an email to my company's HR department, to see if I indeed, had their insurance. I filled out the paperwork for it in November, so I did not understand why I would not.

Less than an hour later, someone replied to me that I am, indeed, covered, as of Friday and I should have received my new card by now.

I haven't received it yet. The mail is very slow and God only knows where it is. I ordered a book from one of Amazon's affiliates before Thanksgiving and it has yet to arrive.

I let the HR person know and she sent me a temporary PDF card, but I have to get back in line somewhere to get tested.

At this point, I don't know when or where I'll get tested. (It won't be that urgent care place). I don't know when I'll be back at work or how I'm going to explain it, especially since I told them I'd get tested this weekend.

 

Did insurance companies change? The policy or group number or something should be the same. We've had terms on co-pays and crap like that change but even with the old card it would still work since numbers somewhere matched up.

Not worth getting worked up about it now but I would almost bet the urgent care screwed that up. And good thing you didn't pay because it would be a pain in the ass to get it back.

 

It's still Anthem Blue Cross.

 

I still feel fine and my sense of smell is back already. Less confident COVID was the culprit

 

Hmmm. Argument made we can’t afford to give first recipients both doses at the expense of doubling the first batch of recipients.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...cond-dose-coronavirus-vaccine/?outputType=amp

Methinks the new strain is worse than we’re hearing.

 

One of the best ways to encourage the virus to evolve to evade our immune response would be to send a bunch of people into the world with a partial immune response. This feels extremely dangerous, even though we may get away with it.

 

Dumb and dangerous. Produce the damn vaccine and get the doses, plural, into people's arms. Anyone who refuses it, fuckem, give it to the next non-idiot in line.

 

I wouldn't get tested at the place you went to.

COVID tests are supposed to be free regardless of insurance. And if they fucked up your insurance status that easily, I wouldn't go near that place with Bezos' money, let alone my own.

You're better off going to CVS' free treating or another place.

 

Worse, how?

The main thrust of their piece was that we can’t figure out how to get the thing in people’s arms. It’s as if the Trumpists want to sow as much chaos as possible, leading to as much death as possible. It will always baffle me as to why anyone would want to see more people die, rather than fewer, but that’s where we are.

 

This is worrisome.

 

When I was tested in October, I didn't pay anything. When I got the vaccine on Saturday, I didn't pay anything.

The second day reaction from the shot was fine, by the way. I didn't feel great yesterday morning because I had slept so poorly the night before. I went to be last night by 9 and slept like a log. That in itself is so unusual, my wife said when she came to bed, she was actually concerned and checked to see if I was alive.

 

because dead people don't have abortions