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Profitability is one of the reasons almost 80% of pharmacies still sell cigarettes.

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Haha. Just today we told a doctor we weren’t filling the 100 ivermectin she prescribed for THREE people in one family.Patient said it was for chronic fatigue syndrome (all three in a family, yeah right! And it’s not authorized for CFS anyway). Then the doc said it was for Covid. And it was prescribed like 3 weeks ago and we just haven’t gotten any big shipments of it in (never did order that large quantity because we knew we weren’t going to fill it). Anyway my boss was much more polite about it than I would have been to the doctor.Ida said “we ain’t filling it whether it’s for CFS or Covid. Buh-bye!”

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Sloth libel.

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The Hypocritic Oath for the FarQ is mandatory.

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Yes well. This is the FarQ we are talking about, let me know when they acknowledge that their hypocrisy rather than wallowing in it, THAT will be news.

This? This is news saying grass is growing.

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The Hypodermic Oath also, too.

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"Vaccine" has only two syllables. "Ivermectin" has four. So, obviously, Ivermectin is better.

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That we (U.S.) control.

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Well, this is a recent post and it is about doctors who prescribe inappropriate stuff for Covid-19 and otherwise fudge paperwork in the interest of right wing ideology, so my gripes are relevant here. We have this doctor in Melbourne, Australia, who's under suspicion of, and being investigated for, filling out exemption forms for his patients when they aren't justified, so that the darlings won't have to take the vaccine if they don't feel like it. This doctor (his name is Hobart) has a history of opposition to lockdowns and Covid jabs, and of promoting and prescribing Ivermectin for Covid, so the charges are believable. Pending the results, his clinic has been shut down and he can't practice.Well.From the reaction you'd think he was Joan of Arc, Gandhi and the victims of the Albigensian Crusade combined.Yeah. I know. Don't complain, you bloody pampered kangaroo bum, here in the U.S. we've got Simone Gold and her mates. And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true. You also have a horrifying death rate and a horrifying death cult. I'm disgruntled, though, also, because American death cult members have become quite fond of trumpeting that Australia is in the grip of a repressive dystopian nightmare that makes 1984 look like Kindergarten Playtime and stalwart Aussie freedom is a thing of the past and we've all gone gutless down here and this is what happens when you surrender your guns ... ad fucking infinitum.Most recent instance is something I saw on THE FEDERALIST website. It would be. Not written by a U.S. citizen, mind, but an Australian dickhead named Damon Miles. The headline reads, "Australia's COVID Insanity Shows Why Freedom Is So Fragile," and it appears above a rant worthy of Tucker Carlson. "Americans beware!" Miles finishes. "You will be told that your freedoms are not as important as the security of the few, that you are a conspiracy theorist, and that your unwillingness to submit to tyrannical decrees means you’re happy with people dying. Australians have heard it all before.

"Maintain your culture of freedom. If that’s not fostered, you’ll lose it — just as Australia has."

Christ.

Two figures. Under this draconian tyranny Australia, the whole country, from start to the present, has suffered fewer than two thousand people dead from COVID. Florida, with a smaller population than Australia, one state, has lost about sixty thousand. Case closed.

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Eh, name one law that doesn't hurt anyone.

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Just yell Perkele! at them.

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Oh, FFS. Pharmacists refuse all the time to fill ‘scripts because reasons. Like for Plan B. Or for birth control. Or for certain types of psychotropic medications. They claim they can do this for reasons of conscience or whatever and you can just go someplace else with your ‘script for evil baby-killer medicine.

I love it how the righties get their shorts in a bunch when the medical community actually practices for real medicine that doesn’t happen to agree with whatever they happened to read on the back of a matchbook. But it’s somehow OK when these same pharmacists refuse to fill legit ‘scrips from legit doctors.

My body, my choice.

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Grammy Bee, not Granny.

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Indupitably.

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No, the US isn't the only country where life expectancy is falling.https://amp-theguardian-com...

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