Z, you have 2 other options to clean your sinuses out... You can snort a line of Cayenne powder, which is a helpful way to figure out you're still alive... Or, you can get a Neti Pot... It's like Navage, but $8 or so instead of $100. You can get one at any Natural Health store.
I forgot to mention with the Vitamin C, the virus test... If you swallow enough Vitamin C, like 2-4 grams, your body will keep it if it's fighting a virus. If it's not fighting a virus, it will dump it in the toilet. That's not from me, that's from an Orthomolecular PhD, Andrew Saul.
Regardless, if I had the Moronic variant, I will take that every month for the fun of it. It was so weak, it gets picked on by the other variants at Covid recess because it's so weak.
You live in the %#$#%$#%@ Twilight Zone! Everything you say about that hellhole is insane... Normally I would say "In all due respect to where you live", but there is no pulling punches for your area. Are you sure you don't live in Beirut?
He's getting screwed, it's not possible for the bill to be that high unless he's running a Meth lab. I'm at about 11 cents, and my bill is around $120 for Electric and Natural Gas.