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

traveltech_sara said:

Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent…

Can confirm. Same sequence, different timescale. The detail I would add is minor and it is already implied above.

Dr.NateNeph said:

If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.

That reframing is the part I needed. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.

Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. Worth answering the question that was asked rather than the one behind it. The narrow version usually has an answer; the broad version usually does not, and answering the broad one is how a thread stops being useful.

Dr.RheumBOS said:

Worth answering the question that was asked rather than the one behind it.

This is my experience too, for whatever a second data point is worth.

Moderator note: good thread. Keeping it here rather than moving it, because the question is general enough to be useful. Report rather than reply if it drifts again.