I ' ve seen stuff like that happen before . The guy brought in an iPhone 7 for liquid armor and it was done properly . Customer was satisfied and leaves . But comes back with scratches around the edges of the screen not glass cracks but all around the front of the phone there was a multitude of scratches guy was ofc furious since he literally bought it from apple an hour ago . We told him we could try to reapply it ofc it did nothing and gave him the head office number . All we could do when a shitty product ruins a top tier phone . <| sep |> I was ! And he was ! Thank you I worked as a waitress and bartender myself all through college and postgrad 7 years so it was a bit of a bone of contention for me . <| sep |> I had an inner struggle , zinc was on sale this month and I wanted to know more about it , especially on lozenge vs tabletsWhat I learned after searching the web for a while 99 % of goddamn studies are made on lozenges , and the data for syrups and tablets is scarce . Lozenges are studied quite a lot , and seems like they do work , at least that was my conclusion They need to have enough of zinc , evenly spread through the day into like 36 tablets for example , daily dose around 7080 mg for 12 weeks is safe , sound and effective Too much zinc can cause GI problems and might taste quite bad , lowering patient adherence The lozenge must not contain things like citric acid working as some part of the lozenges ' properties like stability etc so the zinc doesnt bind to them , and the pH in the mouth should normally be fine for zinc to absorp as Zn 2 ionsBut why lozange and not a tablet ? Lozanges have the following advantage copy pasted There is a local mechanism of action the mouthnose biologically closed electric circuit BCEC which appears to explain the rapid therapeutic response to zinc lozenges . It moves electrons from the nose into the mouth and , in response to the electron flow , it moves positively charged metal ions , such as ionic zinc , from the mouth into the nose . Other BCECs were first documented by Nordenstrm , a member and chairman of the Nobel Assembly in Stockholm , Sweden . Ionic zinc movement from the mouth into the nose has been documented . Positively charged zinc is antirhinoviral .