Meltdown at the pharmacy over Covid vaccine

[Sympthsical]

My partner is a higher up for a pharmacy system, and I just heard this one (he works from home and sometimes has calls on speaker).

A patient went into the pharmacy to pick up a prescription that apparently needed pharmacist consultation. The pharmacist asked if they had gotten the Covid vaccine, and if not, would they like to get one for free today? It's just something they do.

And then the fireworks began. The patient went ballistic on the pharmacist, demanding why she asked ("That's private!" ). Then lit into her for asking out loud. What if his neighbors were there and heard he was unvaccinated? What if anyone he knew had overheard? Apparently he took his mask off while ranting, and the waiting area cleared out fast (the pharmacy is within a hospital). Then security was called.

I didn't hear the ultimate resolution as I had a work call just then.

But sure. Let's behave that way in public in a hospital setting.

What if his neighbors overheard? Hell, I'd call that fair warning for them.

[Ziggysmom]

1. If he wanted to be anonymous all he had to do was say no thanks I'm good?

Morons!

[mitch96]

6. I think the person just wanted to vent some self righteous indignation on the Pharmacist

Got to own the lib's don't cha know....
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[Deminpenn]

35. Really

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[Walleye]

2. I guess he doesn't mind his neighbors seeing him act like a complete asshole

[StarryNite]

5. LOL

[Probatim]

9. And none of them would be surprised by that outburst.

[lunatica]

13. He probably has a reputation to uphold

Assholery.

[usaf-vet]

26. Acting like one? He obviously is a class one a$$hole. Acting has little or nothing to due with it.

[Marcuse]

3. No one could have heard the provider/patient conversation had he not screamed.

[lindysalsagal]

4. We've had the luxury of presuming everyone is sane and rational. It was nice while it lasted.

Covid shot that all to hell. We've got upwards of 25% of americans who aren't rational or reasonable, and no infrastructure other than police to handle it.

We're just screwn.

[Notek]

20. Haha

"All right class...repeat after me"...
'Today we are screwed,
Yesterday we were screwed,
All week we have been screwn'.

[patphil]

7. Making a scene will make it easier for his neighbors to hear; perhaps on the local news channel.

Fear does strange things to people. It causes anger to erupt without warning.

[ZonkerHarris]

8. If they don't believe in the vaccine why are they picking up other prescritions? Drugs are drugs.

Maybe instead of a vaccine we should have called it a free prescription?

[yonder]

12. It'd be interesting to have them try to explain

why one is okay and not the other - and show their work.

[wnylib]

28. Their answer is that the vaccines only

have emergency approval, not full approval. They say they will not be guinea pigs.

And so they would rather die of covid than risk the side effects of an emergency vaccine.

The word "emergency" and its meaning seems not to have registered with them.

[hadEnuf]

32. They already are guinea pigs.

They are the control group.

[wnylib]

37. But they don't know that. In fact,

most of them understand so little about science that they don't know what a control group is.

[roamer65]

10. 🦠🦠🦠🦠

I like this ranting guy.

We should meet.


-Delta

[lunatica]

14. COVID fixes stupid all the time.

[roamer65]

16. 🦠🦠🦠🦠

I do my best.

-Delta

[SunImp]

39. Hopefully covid will get rid of most of these scumbags

We need to vaccine everyone who wants to live asap and ignore all these fools that don't give a shit

[LymphocyteLover]

29. LOL...

[Mrhyde719]

11. Probably wanted to make a video

For his Facebook page to impress his anti-vax buds. Not about privacy at all.

[Escurumbele]

15. "IT'S PRIVATE" my neighbours may hear "I AM UNVACCINATED"...did anyone hear that?

It's private then he/she yells he/she is unvaccinated...very smart.

[rickyhall]

17. Just get vaccinated, you stupid fuck, so people will quit calling you a stupid fuck.

[LymphocyteLover]

31. seems logical enough...

but I'm guessing logical isn't this guy's strong suit

[FakeNoose]

18. The stupid ... it burns

These people are so far off the deep end now, there's no coming back.

I feel bad for the poor pharmacist who asked an innocent question. Oh my God, that a-hole deserves to have the cops called. Let it be shown on the 6 O'clock News. Then everyone will know!

But you know what, nobody cares except him. Everyone else is relatively normal and minding their own business. He belongs in a padded cell.

[Warpy]

19. They KNOW they're being stupid

which only makes it worse for them and endamgers everyone around them.

Next time, "this is my job, asking you if you need a shot to save your life." might be enough, but I've been there and you sometimes have to wait a while before they come up for air. Getting him bounced by security was likely the better option, allowing other people to come back so they could be helped.

They are TERRIFIED to stop out of orthodoxy and TERRIFIED of dying. Sadly, the former fear is often stronger.

At least he'll spend a nonproductive afternoon ranting on right wing sites about how pointy headed hospital libruls interfered with his freedumb. At least he'll be off the street and out of the bars.

[TNNurse]

21. As an old retired hospital nursing supervisor,

I would have enjoyed watching this from the sidelines. Calling security is something I did a lot.

My very favorite was the night our security called the police on two adult sisters arguing in the hall outside their mother's room. I got to sit close by and listen. Each was telling the officer that she was more important to her mother's care. They were sort of respectable looking women. His parting words were, "Ladies, if I have to come back up here tonight, someone is going to jail". I wanted to say they might be women but certainly not ladies, and also I wish I could use that jail threat at times.

[C Moon]

23. Great story!

[TNNurse]

24. I remember it fondly.

[C Moon]

22. Christ. What a nut. Sounds like pressure is building inside. Blood pressure should be checked, too.

But then again, who gives a fuck: let him have a stroke.

[keithbvadu2]

25. He must be ashamed and needs to hide it.

He must be ashamed and needs to hide it.

[Slammer]

27. Deflecting questions

The noncommittal way to answer the question would be to say, "I do not want a free COVID vaccine today."

It's not like a clerk is going to hound you for an exact answer about your vaccinated status in the first place but if the clerk persisted with follow-up questions say, "I prefer to not tell you why I do not want a free COVID vaccine today."

It's like people's brains turned off when the pandemic broke out. People have had to handle questions they'd prefer to not answer since probably about two seconds after questions were first invented.

How it should be handled is not any different from "No, I do not want fries with that."

[The Mouth]

30. Name and shame

Put every last unvaccinated plague rat (excepting those VERY few who can't get vaxxed) on the cover of the newspapers.

'Out' every one of these sociopathic a-holes. In particular the jerks that go off.

Hopefully no food, drink, housing, any benefits whatsoever, any access to any transportation would be the BEGINNING of how to treat people who CHOOSE to not vaccinate. They should all be treated like drunk drivers, or someone walking along with a pistol firing it into buildings and crowds.

[hadEnuf]

34. Just tell them that the vaccine is free and only for Democrats.

They'd be beating down the doors for it.

[The Mouth]

36. What baffles me is that their God and Idol Drumpf got it

and his family...


Sad to say, but if this thing kills Republicans disproportionately we may be seeing evolution in action.

Not the first time a political ideology acted against its long-term best raw power best interest, left or right,.,,,,

[NQAS]

33. They want to be angry

Guns, bitterness, and anger.

What a toll it must take to be filled with such hate, fear, and anger. To be unable to answer a simple question, one that could have bee quietly answered with a "not interested, thank you." It would be a stupid answer, but it would be an answer, without the rage.

Okay, so guns, bitterness, anger, hate, fear, and rage.

To the point where they are unable to participate in a civil society.