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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 10:08:28 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

   I went to the clinic to see if I could get a covid booster shot before traveling this weekend, but they're all out and they don't have the latest XBB1.5 strain yet either, only last year's bivalent one (ancestral + omicron I think?).

   I would have to pay out of pocket, as the government program only covers risk groups now. I didn't ask what it would cost as I can't get it anyway. They suggested to check one of the hospitals, they might have stock (old bivalent).

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 10:08:27 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     If it's 1000-something HKD I'd do it, if it's 3000+ HKD maybe not.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 10:08:27 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     (1000 HKD is on the order of 100-ish USD or 100-ish EUR in international reserve currency)
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 10:09:45 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     (the HKD is pegged at 1 USD = 7.8 HKD but a power of ten is close enough for head math)
   • Thomas (tfb@functional.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 10:18:32 UTC Thomas

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     @clacke My head-math is each 100 HKD is 12€, which is also pretty easy to keep in mind. But as a semi-regular buyer of tea from HK, I need a better heuristic than 10-to-1 (-;

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