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I'm seeing in 360° paxlovision over here.

Test2treat
National Institutes of Health program. Here's a reddit thread about it

I finished the questionairre thing at 5am and had a reply from an actual person in my email at 10am. I'd gotten a prescription from my doctor moments before by that time though so I had test2treat cancel theirs. Also good to know— i got an offer to participate in a survey about the service for $50 compensation several days after.

Dr.B
This one costs $15 for the consultation and may interface with your insurance, I'm not sure. I'm on medicaid which covers pax so I wasn't concerned about it. It's robo livechat format. There's a low income option a little ways in that requires you to volunteer info like your living, housing, and gas expenses in exchange for waiving the $15 consultation fee.

Dr.B took from 6:30am to 9:30am to not only respond but to totally fill a prescription without asking for a confirmation. There wasn't an opportunity to cancel so i have a second pax script on hold at the pharmacy right now.

Either option you should just make sure you check at least one of the paxlovid-qualifying high-risk conditions. You can google the list but the easiest/least commital ones are probably "former or current smoker " and "depression/anxiety" though i doubt you'd need to provide proof for any of them.

I'm 32 and I don't have any of the high-risk conditions except depression/anxiety which i assume every sane person also has. I assume it was the jn.1 variant. I started paxlovid the first day i tested positive and i tested negative for the first time about five hours after my last paxlovid dose, technically very early on day six. That was a few days ago and I'm still testing negative, no rebound. I've had everything except the latest booster, just hadn't gotten around to it yet.

If you're on medicaid you can probably get 8 free at-home tests per month until at least next september. It may take a couple phone calls because no one knows what's going on, probably on purpose. In my case i had to call my pharmacy who told me to call my medicaid provider who told me to call the pharmacy back and actually instruct them what to do (the pharmacist has the ability to write you a prescription for at-home tests to be billed to insurance). Make sure the tests aren't expired too. Pharmacies will absolutely still try to give out expired tests, past even the "extended" dates.

Hopefully some part of this is helpful to someone.

it's very orange

Weirdly, it smelled strongly of cucumbers when it was fresh. Removed the pore surface, sliced into strips and sautéed it in butter. 10/10 texture, 3/10 taste. Crispy on the outside and meaty on the inside, tender but firmer than button mushrooms. Some pieces tasted fine like a normal mushroom but others had an unwelcome sort of aromatic wood/chemically flavor.

I cooked more than just the two in the picture - it could be that the larger (therefore older) ones had the strong taste, or possibly the type of tree that a few of them came from imparted a flavor.

Probably won't go out of my way for them in the future but if I was backpacking for a night or two and came across some I'd for sure cook em up.

It's a whole lil place in there. You could kick back on an anther and still have plenty of room for company.

I made simple syrup with the flowers and used it for a color-changing Tom Collins. The pigment of the flowers reacts with acid and changes from dark purple/blue to bright pink. It has a nice flavor too though it's pretty subtle.

David Lee Hoffman has spent 50 years building a composting compound where waste – whether grey water from the kitchen or sanitation – is cleaned by worms, plants, and filters, then reused in the personal garden.

Water flows through ponds, moats, and even a boat (which hides a 30-foot column that taps into groundwater), and everything is powered by solar, using a series of 12-volt pumps.

Most of Hoffman’s system isn’t legal, according to his local county (Marin, California), and Hoffman has spent decades fighting the local government.

On the day we arrived at his worm-topia, he’d been told he had just one more day to evacuate the 2-acre sanctuary he calls “The Last Resort.” One of his supporters (he has many helping him raise money for his legal battle) opened the door for us and turned out to be Oscar-nominated director Martin Brest (Scent of a Woman, Meet Joe Black, Midnight Run) who recently penned a letter to the county calling The Last Resort “an environmental laboratory that has perfected systems that—among other invaluable achievements—have turned it into one that uses only 10-20% of the water of comparable properties, even while maintaining an extensive organic vegetable garden.”

For Hoffman, “water is life,” not just because he wants clean water to grow his own food but also to create the teas (the Phoenix collection of rare, artisanal teas) that help support his lifestyle (he opens up his property every Saturday for tea tasting). He doesn’t believe in waste “until it’s wasted” and lives by the principles: “Water is precious, soil is sacred, shit is a resource.”

His bedroom is a shack the size of a bed built from wood salvaged from a pencil factory. He has plans to place it directly on top of a tea fermentation room to capture the waste heat via piping to warm up his bedroom.