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Denied Advil Cold and Sinus at Duane Reade

from Second Life (with Alex Steinberg) · #36

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3 min

Tim rants about a CVS/Duane Reade pharmacist refusing to sell him Advil Cold and Sinus because his driver's license expired a week ago, spiraling into a bit about Orwellian meth-tracking systems and his inaccurate Long Island address.

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  • 3:20Tim has a cold and a Duane Reade pharmacist refused to sell him Advil Cold and Sinus because his driver's license expired a week ago.
  • 3:38The store requires entering the license date into their system, supposedly to prevent meth production, though Tim questions the logic of this tracking requirement.
  • 4:11Even if you know a customer for twenty years and they're your neighbor, the computer system won't override the license date requirement to sell the medication.
  • 4:42Tim questions whether there's actually an epidemic of people manufacturing meth from Advil Cold and Sinus that would justify such restrictions.
  • 5:18His license has an inaccurate address from Long Island that he's kept for a decade despite living in Queens, so the tracking system doesn't even work properly.
  • 5:50Tim blames the police state for his inability to get medicated, then jokes about buying artillery on the dark web.
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