Covid-19 Shortages

I should empty out a few junk drawers, I could solve this coin shortage.

^ how about we all do just that and start a new thread with the tally for how much we collectively put back into circulation when deposited at the bank?
I'm sure I have more than 100 dollars in coins at home... albeit we try to take a large container of them to the bank every year or two for counting/deposit... it's still likely pushing $150 if I had to guestimate.

Everyone knows the coin shortage was a made up thing to save us all from the Covid. It?s way safer handing credit cards back and forth than cash.

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Originally Posted by Sawin

^ how about we all do just that and start a new thread with the tally for how much we collectively put back into circulation when deposited at the bank?
I'm sure I have more than 100 dollars in coins at home... albeit we try to take a large container of them to the bank every year or two for counting/deposit... it's still likely pushing $150 if I had to guestimate.

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I save mine in a plastic Folgers coffee container. At half full with an average mix of coins I usually wind up with somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 to $75. There's always more there than what I think.

Sam's on 470 & Quebec did have canned green beans.

But was also completely wiped (no pun intended . . . or IS there??) clean of TP and paper towels. There were stacks of them on Saturday.

Vitamin C was missing for a while at a couple places I frequent. Same for Loperamide HCI. The Vitamin C is still spotty. Co Q10 is similar. The Loperamide HCI is back but only in 25 count bubble packs at a correspondingly higher price, the 100 count bottles have been unavailable for months.

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Originally Posted by BushMasterBoy

Albuterol is being rationed at military hospitals. It is an inhaler for breathing problems. I saw cheap sliced bread shelf in local Walmart was bare around 1st of month. Mask prices are outrageous, but plentiful now. I figure second wave is coming, since that is the reports from western Europe. Supposedly 75% of Utah ICU beds are occupied with COVID-19. I would recommend stocking up on benadryl, tylenol & iburofen before winter hits with snow. I went through 40 bottles of cough syrup since Feb.

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We have probably 500+ packets of liquid albuterol. The stuff that goes in a nebulizer. Each one is maybe 5 doses.

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Originally Posted by izzy

We have probably 500+ packets of liquid albuterol. The stuff that goes in a nebulizer. Each one is maybe 5 doses.

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I think the sign was talking about the inhalers. I'm sure my cough was getting worse due to fire smoke. I'm on my fourth inhaler this year. I never had a cough like this until COVID-19 infection. I can't imagine having asthma and COVID-19.

The liquid ones are the same stuff just meant for ease of use so you can give it to kids. He used it a bunch when it got really smokey.

My wife and I went to Kaiser for the Extra Strength Flu Vaccine.
None at Southwest. No one knew where there might be some doses.
When we asked at Reception, the Pharmacy, and the Nurse's Station, no one knew if they would be getting any more or when.
Went to Ken Caryl and got two of the few they had left.
They had a small cooler and when she looked in it, she just shook her head and said that was the last of it.
There were still regular vaccine shots left.