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12-27-2021, 12:59 PM
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2 usual sites have closed due to the cold weather. St. Vincent and Richmond. Those were drive in's ... too damn cold. They are suggesting you go to UBC and pick up a rapid test for yourself if you're just wanting piece of mind.
From Vancouver Coastal Health COVID-19 testing update
VANCOUVER, B.C. – Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) has opened a new COVID-19 testing site located at the Life Sciences Centre, Health Sciences Mall on UBC campus. Services will be available from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. seven days a week, with free parking for those accessing care.
Due to a winter storm warning issued by Environment and Climate Change Canada on Dec. 23, starting Saturday Dec. 25, VCH will temporarily divert people accessing COVID-19 testing services at the St. Vincent's testing site to the new site at UBC. This is a precautionary measure to ensure the safe operations of testing services for both staff and people accessing care during the inclement weather.
To support testing capacity and to prioritize care to those who are sick, VCH continues to strongly encourage only those with symptoms consistent with COVID-19 to access testing services. | 
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12-27-2021, 01:03 PM
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#13927 | | Waxin’ Punks
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My 6 y/o was supposed to get his first dose today. The reminder text came in saying the site is for 12+ y/o’s. I called the toll free gov’t # and asked if it changed because it was all ages when I had booked. The lady said it must’ve changed and couldn’t confirm he’d be able to get the shot as a result. There was no number to call the place either so I ended up booking in January for the south surrey site which originally was 12+ only but is now all ages.
Pretty frustrating but at least I don’t have to drive into Newton anymore 
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12-27-2021, 01:35 PM
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#13928 | | Orgasm Donor & Alatar owned my ass twice!
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Originally Posted by SpeedStars Has anyone else here tried to get tested? I had come in contact with someone who had tested positive but every testing site in Vancouver/Richmond/Burnaby is closed | Word on the street right now is -- if you are not symptomatic, or if you are only showing mild symptoms, you are asked to stay home and self quarantine because the testing sites have hit capacity.
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12-27-2021, 01:44 PM
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#13929 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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So two years into this, we are closing testing sites because it’s “too cold” and now, instead of confirming whether you have Covid or not and letting your employer know, your sore throat now keeps you at home in self-isolation for 7 days without a test result..
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12-27-2021, 03:03 PM
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#13930 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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Originally Posted by Hondaracer So two years into this, we are closing testing sites because it’s “too cold” and now, instead of confirming whether you have Covid or not and letting your employer know, your sore throat now keeps you at home in self-isolation for 7 days without a test result.. | Yep, so if someone wants a paid vacation from work, right now is the time to do it. Can’t get tested, no need to prove it
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12-27-2021, 03:36 PM
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#13931 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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Originally Posted by 320icar Yep, so if someone wants a paid vacation from work, right now is the time to do it. Can’t get tested, no need to prove it | Doesn't work when you're already set-up for WFH. You can still type and use a mouse can't you? Keep plugging that data!  | |
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12-27-2021, 06:57 PM
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#13932 | | Hacked RS to become a mod
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Covid is ripping through the WWE roster right now, including talent and producers. So they decided to follow NFL and stop testing.. They now treat covid like the flu - if you're sick, take time off. Otherwise it doesn't matter if you have covid or not - if you are asymptomatic, you can work.
So that's 2 big companies treating covid like an endemic, thanks to omicron's milder symptoms. If this was delta they'd both be shut down right now.
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12-28-2021, 12:19 AM
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#13933 | | Say! Say! Say!
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My mom just got notification for her third shot. Registered and she's getting it tomorrow afternoon. Yea baby.
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12-28-2021, 07:32 AM
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12-28-2021, 09:33 AM
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#13935 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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Quebec will now be allowing health care workers with positive tests to continue to work. l wonder how that sits with all the unvaxxed employees they let go who were willing to work with proof of a negative test. Alberta is already allowing their unvaxxed health care workers to come back to work.
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12-28-2021, 10:29 AM
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#13936 | | I answer every Emotion with an emoticon
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Health care workers who are double (or triple) vaccinated and contract omicron is a different situation than unvaxxed health care worker who catch omicron. The latter could end up being a patient instead of a worker.
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12-28-2021, 11:52 AM
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#13937 | | I STILL don't get it
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Originally Posted by SpeedStars Has anyone else here tried to get tested? I had come in contact with someone who had tested positive but every testing site in Vancouver/Richmond/Burnaby is closed | Langley is closed as well. I scheduled an appointment for 2:15 yesterday, showed up and was told they were closed due to weather. Didn't receive any notification at all.
Ended up grabbing a rapid test my brother had kicking around, where I tested positive.
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12-28-2021, 12:02 PM
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#13938 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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So I failed my works health assessment this morning by waking up congested and with a sore throat, contacted the manager on duty and basically just said “go get tested”
everywhere I looked had nothing for 3-4 days, I’m in the lineup in north van now the only drive up one I could find still open due to “cold weather”
The conditions of this testing etc. just foinf to have people lying and going to work because it’s less of a hassle than finding a test..
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12-28-2021, 12:20 PM
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#13939 | | In RS I Trust
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I know so many people who are testing positive right now and all of them have next to no or just flu like systems. I've been in contact with a couple of them over the past week and I have felt perfectly fine along with my gf.
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12-28-2021, 12:21 PM
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#13940 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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@hondaracer Bro I was kidding about my ‘free week of vacations’ comment
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12-28-2021, 12:37 PM
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#13941 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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Call me a conspiracy theorist, but when BH said "we're all gonna get it at some point" a few weeks ago, she already knew haha.
But, honestly, with most of the developed world at decent to high population rates, and the # of cases at an all time high, we're not seeing the same doom & gloom, which in my mind is somewhat of a good thing.
At the beginning there were stories from places like Italy where dead bodies were left in homes with family members because their system was just completely overwhelmed. Americans were dying at an alarming rate, and even BC set up triage centers just in case.
Maybe it really is dying down?
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12-28-2021, 12:43 PM
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#13942 | | In RS I Trust
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Originally Posted by inv4zn Call me a conspiracy theorist, but when BH said "we're all gonna get it at some point" a few weeks ago, she already knew haha.
But, honestly, with most of the developed world at decent to high population rates, and the # of cases at an all time high, we're not seeing the same doom & gloom, which in my mind is somewhat of a good thing.
At the beginning there were stories from places like Italy where dead bodies were left in homes with family members because their system was just completely overwhelmed. Americans were dying at an alarming rate, and even BC set up triage centers just in case.
Maybe it really is dying down? | What really makes me wonder is at the beginning in China we were seeing pictures and videos of people dying and their bodies being left at their front doors and in the streets. When he got out of China we never saw anything close to that. It makes me wonder what has really been going on and curious about what the real truth is.
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12-28-2021, 01:11 PM
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#13943 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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So waited almost 2 hours in line then a woman came around handing out rapid tests to people in their vehicles so they could leave..
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12-28-2021, 01:28 PM
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#13944 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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I’d like to get a rapid test for my wife and I just to have at home. In case we do get symptoms we can handle it ourselves and not clog up the system
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12-28-2021, 03:29 PM
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#13945 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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It’s ya boy! 
My 15 minute sore throat has already passed
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12-28-2021, 03:30 PM
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#13946 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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Where do you even get rapid tests? Can you just buy them. Drove by Italian culture center and looks like they are closed today, no vaccines for you. Also went to Pacific center and there was a few dumb asses not wearing masks or the plastic shield  | |
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12-28-2021, 03:53 PM
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#13947 | | I contribute to threads in the offtopic forum
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So I went to UBC to grab the rapid test kit. About a 20min line and a few questions then I was out. The kit has fairly easy to follow instructions. I fortunately tested negative so I guess I've only got a cold from being in the garage the last week or so.
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12-28-2021, 05:31 PM
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#13948 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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Joe rogans Vancouver show canceled because he is not vaxxed. What an idiot. https://www.mediaite.com/news/dont-t...-restrictions/
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12-28-2021, 05:42 PM
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#13949 | | Hacked RS to become a mod
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I thought he had to get vaccinated when UFC first started doing covid shows
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12-28-2021, 06:25 PM
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#13950 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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He's the type of guy to get vaxxed and lie about it to look edgy.
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