Hobbo's Poems
A quirky look at life from a Yorkshire poet and his dog's perspective
The helpful pharmacist
The helpful pharmacist Lateral flow's The way to go, We're wanting you to use them But pick up's gone, It's harder son, We can't have you abuse them! At a time when UK residents are being encouraged to take more lateral flow tests, you can no longer simply pick them up free of charge from any pharmacy. You now have to pre-order them and obtain a barcode.
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Oh that makes total sense! A bit like how I’m supposed to travel to Manchester to update my vaccine status 🤔
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🤣 Jump on that plane and stop whingeing!
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Oh, no, I’m in the UK but Manchester’s still 2 hours away! 😅
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Right. So, it’s still ridiculous! Congrats on your climate thingy BTW and we like your new picture👍
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Thank you 🙏 upping my professional profile…shall I have a go at running the country next? 🤣
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I’m sure you’ll have time to do a better job than the current team! 😂
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No time…but I’ll still do a better job 😅
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You will only need 5 minutes a day to do a better job. I’m sure you’ll squeeze that in. 😂
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Definitely 🤣
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If it’s not one campaign, it’s another.
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Left hand and right hand need to talk to each other.
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They’re posting them out now. I ordered some through the gov.uk site, arrived in yesterday’s post.
The sad thing is, that’s the only way Mrs Bump (an NHS nurse) could obtain any. They only send out packs of 7 so we both ordered some for her.
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At the start of this epidemic our chemist couldn’t give them away quick enough. He had boxes of the things stored at the back of the shop.
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Y, same here. Mrs B said her surgery had boxes of hundreds.
I must admit, I never tested apart from the PCR tests I was forced to have to travel to France last summer. I always just let her get on with it and figured that, if she had it, so did I.
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Pragmatic works for me too!
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Do you wanna hear something really dumb?
I just ordered some last Wed, I think it was. Might have been Tue. Arrived yesterday. The gov site (10 minutes ago) let me order more!
I swear, these people have absolutely no idea how inefficiently govt money is being spent!
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Bonkers! 😂
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Sounds like here. They’re trying to transition from PCR to RAT (the second being tests you can do yourself at home but which you buy where the first are conducted at a testing centre and are free) but all the RAT tests get snapped up and if you’re depending on one to be allowed into your workplace…. tough titties.
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Disgraceful that you have to pay for them!
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Agreed! But our government is all about getting money to private enterprise.
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😂 Don’t we just love our governments.
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I ordered mine on the government site, and had them the next day.
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That is efficient. Must have been a scam! 😂
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I read last night Biden will start offering free at home kits limit 4 per family which is a relief since they are no where to be found at pharmacies where I live
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That’s good then!
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Yes I am relieved because the kits here are like loo last year
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👍
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Lateral tests??
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The self administered covid tests for home use. 🙂
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Oohh. Here they’re “at home tests”, lol. Then we have rapid test and “pcr”. PCR being the most accurate.
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Similar here!
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How does yours work? Ours is a deep nasal swab.
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That’s the one!
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Then whhhyyyy “lateral flow”??
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Dunno. I’m just a dumb poet remember! 😂
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I looked it up. Your rapid test looks like a pregnancy test, with stuff flowing from one side to the other.
I haven’t seen a US rapid test IRL but the ones on tv showed a swab being put on a pad then it being covered with something. I’m gonna msg a friend and find out what hers looked like!
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😂👍Okay!
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