UK people - is Boots ever actually in stock?? — looking for input

Dr.PulmRoch said:

International shipping tracking for cross-border ordering orders: my experience with customs in the US when ordering from overseas: Seized and…

Saving this. It is the first explanation that did not require me to already understand it. Taking it to my next appointment.

Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. Take it one variable at a time. Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent argument can untangle them after the fact.

NurseKim_ATL said:

Most of what circulates confidently in this community traces back to one summary of one study, and the qualifier was dropped somewhere in the third…

Pushing back on NurseKim_ATL here. Pushing back on the anecdote-stacking. Twenty people reporting the same thing is twenty samples from the same self-selected pool, not twenty independent confirmations.

Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way. Most of the apparent contradictions in these threads dissolve at that step.

Moderator note: the sourcing question belongs in the vendor section and has been split out. No action needed from anybody.