Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So, how’s it going?

  • @[email protected]
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    41 year ago

    Tested positive for covid for the 2nd time yesterday. Definitely not feeling as bad as I did in January, just frustrating as I had a lot organised for the coming week.

    • witless
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      41 year ago

      Oh that sucks, hope you don’t get too much worse. If you can, definitely take the antivirals, they can make a huge difference (just make sure you get a few packs of tic-tacs to goi with them because the main side effect is metallic dog breath for a week)

        • witless
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          41 year ago

          60+ for pakeha, 50+ for Maori / Pacific Islander, or be classed as immuno-compromised, or your previous covid infection was severe.

          I actually thought they’d loosened the criteria up but I guess not :(

            • @[email protected]OPM
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              1 year ago

              That $13 is the cost to produce, it doesn’t include the $1B-$3B USD cost to develop, test, and bring a drug to market, or the sunk cost of drugs that never hit the market.

              Plus companies only have 7 years before the patent expires and other companies can produce it without the R&D cost.

              Also, almost no one is paying sticker price, and pharmac pays some of the lowest prices in the world for drugs.

              I’m not going to argue it isn’t still too much, but quoting the production cost is disingenuous because the cost of drugs is in R&D not the actual cost of prduction.

            • witless
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              11 year ago

              The markup is obscene, for sure. I think it was only last week it was announced the price is going up to US consumers, to around $1400 for a weeks’ supply. I don’t know how the billionaires expect to make money off their slaves if they’re all too busy dropping dead from lack of adequate healthcare.

    • @[email protected]OPM
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      21 year ago

      Definitely not feeling as bad as I did in January

      So far

      Just kidding, hope you are feeling better soon.

    • @Albatr0ss
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      21 year ago

      Hope it doesn’t hit you too hard!