Middle East might be gone soon.

I think you’re definitely right. We’ve been in a major cycle of urban growth and development over the last 15 or so years. Just a theory, but I think we’re actually seeing the start of a cycle where people favor suburban and rural areas as work from home provides more freedom in terms of where people can live. This cycle might be painful for urban areas at first but eventually could lead to more affordable housing and independent businesses returning to urban areas as chains follow the money back out to the burbs. Just a thought and will take a while regardless!

There’s a mix of high rent, high operating costs, and shitty people on the streets. Businesses will risk high rent and high operating costs if there’s sufficient volume, but once you add in high crime then it’s game over.

Starbucks closed because they couldn't guarantee the safety of the employees who closed at night

When Out of the Blue closed it was all over

This. I used to bike there from Kendall for lunch, but as a woman, it’s also basically accepting a harassing remark from someone while you lock the bike up. Why deal with that if you can just go somewhere else?

And you're knowledgeable of my partner's health and total lack of risk factors based on one example I gave?

The list of eligible medical conditions covers a lot of ground. If someone is in their 20s, has depression and is physically inactive, it might not seem like they qualify for paxlovid based on your definition, but they absolutely are eligible based on the list of medical conditions: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precautions/people-with-medical-conditions.html

Don't forget, Mary Chung is closing tomorrow.

Paxlovid.com "PAXLOVID has not been approved, but has been authorized for emergency use by FDA under an EUA, for the treatment of mild-to-moderate COVID-19 in adults and pediatric patients (12 years of age and older weighing at least 40 kg) with positive results of direct SARS-CoV-2 viral testing, and who are at high risk for progression to severe COVID-19, including hospitalization or death."

I don't interpret that as authorized "for everyone." Show me where you're getting your info from where anyone can be prescribed Paxlovid?

I hear that you're a cancer patient (and I'm sorry for that) but the argument itself is ableist. In NY you test positive, you call a hotline and get Paxlovid delivered to your house same-day - it's approved for everyone. In California, you test positive and you get Paxlovid from your PCP - it's approved for everyone. I'm not sure where you're located but please consider updating your information before you go around telling people not to avail themselves of perfectly acceptable preventives.

Early intervention lessens the risk of long-COVID. That is also in the literature. It's fine. There is no reason OP's husband should not access treatment.

It's not ableist. Paxlovid is literally only approved for people who have an increased risk of developing severe primary disease NOT for people who are at risk of developing early onset secondary diseases. This is in the actual drug literature and in the FDA emergency approval. I'm saying this as a cancer patient who is at risk of getting severe primary disease. You're not necessarily wrong, but Paxlovid is not yet approved for everyone.

Feel the same way. Neighborhood is losing its character a bit.

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Forgot to mention that too - it also feels like it's a bit more unsafe around the T

I'm also being pestered by people on the streets and I don't like it one bit.

Old people? Sorry, it's for people who were the first to be vaxxed, as in over 50, and have conditions which are considered high risk with COVID, obesity, diabetes, asthma, lung disease etc.

Same here, my partner and I got sick over Christmas and got it prescribed and picked up within hours. We are both in our our early 30s and have some risk factors.

I’m thirty with some health concerns. I went through the state’s portal

Holy shit. You found the cheat code!

Here's the thing, paxlovid is to treat people who have a risk of primary complications with COVID as in they are at risk of getting severely sick from their COVID infection itself not secondary long term complications of having COVID. That may be why you got the push back.

I was asking a question, and I literally said "I'm confused"...

It's incredibly ableist that people are trying to argue this point with you, and the point you're making is backed up by the literature we have so far around COVID effects on the brain - so just know, the stupidest are often loudest. You're doing the right things for your partner and I hope you were able to get Paxlovid.

COVID is showing an increased likelihood of neurological-deficit conditions across the board - including Alzheimer's. That makes OP's partner low risk.

You really need to read the recent literature more to speak as confidently here as you have, because you've clearly not done that.

Yes it does. If you have a genetic predisposition for cancer, dementia and other neurological conditions, you’re at risk of getting long covid and exacerbating the chances that you’ll get the illness earlier.