Costco has a pharmacy, which by legal definition must have appropriate medical personnel staffing it.
ETA: Dammit, I need to run a bar tab for you, @DukeTrout!
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it is strange though. my provider has their own pharmacies, their own phlebotomists ( not to mention optometrists and dentists. ) and i canāt go to them for this.
meanwhile, if i get hit by a car and rushed to some random hospital itās out of network costs for each pair of gloves the staff uses during my stay
itās odd. and definitely contributing to the slow uptake
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My provider- who is at a large health center- the center was only approved for certain vaccines by the Feds. Others he had to send me to CVS.
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I havenāt stepped foot in a Costco since the pandemic started, although now that the pandemic is over I should go back and get one of those monster pizza slices, butā¦
At our Meijer there is a small room where the pharmacist administers the vaccine.
My primary care doctor would prefer I come to him for all my vaccination needs so he can bill someone but the convenience of Meijer canāt be beat. If Iām in his office when I need a flu shot Iāll let him, but if he thinks Iām making an appointment just for a vaccination, which would also cost me my copay for an office visit, heās nuts.
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I canāt get an appt with my regular provider. I dunno if they are just booked solid or have that much less availability.
So I have an appt at CVS. Which is working out better because I was able to wrangle my spouse in for an appointment too. Heās all for vaccinations but there is a high likelihood he would forget unless I nagged. I hate nagging.
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Do they have the same thing at Walmart?
I wonder whatās the most comprehensive company-town store, where we could just park our RVās in front and never go anywhere else 
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I know. I want one of those so badā¦especially in an electric version.
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Once again, it looks like those of you in the US are going to get a head start on the rest of us . Weāre gradually rolling out boosters here, but theyāre only available to high-risk groups at the moment. Same with this yearās flu vaccine as well, but those of us outside the high risk groups can pay to opt in.
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One of my closest friends got it recently and has been suffering inflammation-related injuries since. She missed a week of work from the actual COVID, (fully vaxxed, 41, otherwise healthy), went back to work and immediately got a foot injury traced back to inflamed tendons or some such and had to miss another week. These after effects are a huge part of what makes me so frustrated at people treating it like itās ājust a bad cold.ā
Maybe for some, but thereās no telling.
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I think Uncle Joe is thinking mostly about Hooterville, and is trying to drum up customers for the Shady Rest Hotel. 
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Iām in a similar situation - I got my second booster toward the end of July because we were going to visit our new grandson in August. I just became eligible for the updated booster, and have an appointment next week. Iām planning on getting the flu shot at the same time if I can.
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What?
Whatās Hooterville?
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Got the booster on Friday. Aside from a sore shoulder, I had no bad side effects. My wife said she felt like she was coming down with something last night and went to bed early. She also has a skin reaction at the injection site that itches.
I have a friend who is flying to Vegas in a week. I suggested he get the booster before he goes, but he says it wonāt be effective for 2 weeks anyway, and heāll already be home. He also skipped the last booster. Heās got this idea that since he hasnāt gotten it so far, he must be immune. Especially because when he flew home from Seattle a month ago, he didnāt even bother wearing a mask on the plane back home.
I almost think he secretly wants to get it for reasons I canāt figure out.
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Thanks for the viddie, but i still donāt get how Biden is supposedly thinking about that place when he says the pandemic is over. 
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I was going to post pictures of some cargo hauled by bikes in Kolkata, India some years ago. But then I recalled most of them were 3-wheeled āfish cartā bikes, so it wouldnāt be fair.
The best was a bike loaded with eggs. Lots of eggs. I think I calculated how many, but I forget now. Lots.
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Dozens and dozens. And dozens!
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Thatās the apartment complex where all the waitstaff from misogynistic crap restaurants live, silly!
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Hooterville is the fictional town where Petticoat Junction and Green Acres took place, I think. Undisclosed state somewhere in rural America.
A quaint fantasy land that was backward and old fashioned even in the late 60s when it was portrayed.
Not sure what it has to do with Biden. 
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