Coronavirus (2021) thread

[twosips]

Nothing surprising. We're in lockdown, always correlates, mate.

The point is many genuinely said it might not even be possible to get on top of this new variant at all, which is thankfully bollocks. Plus the 2nd lockdown didn't get us below 1 if its since July.

 

[A J Styles]

Weren't some of the tories rebelling against the last Lockdown so surely if they carry this on for months they are going to fight back. Same with the general public, we've done everything asked so far, if they keep moving the goalposts then there will anger from everywhere.

 

[Healdplace]

The best thing about the letter and booking it via the NHS is you get to book your second jab at the same time.

I have not yet read the letter in detail as it only just arrived. Can you still book the second one then even if you have already had the jab before the letter?

Do you have to go to the same venue as there might be more local options in 3 months?

 

[Healdplace]

That's now below the number the WHO recognise as no longer being a pandemic I believe.

Our positivity rating has been for a few days now too. But I doubt that means this time we will rush back to normality. It would be very easy to mess up the spring and summer for the sake of a few weeks in winter.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

I have not yet read the letter in detail as it only just arrived. Can you still book the second one then even if you have already had the jab before the letter?

Do you have to go to the same venue as there might be more local options in 3 months?

Not sure, you could try it and see what it allows - I think it did ask if I was booking a 1st or 2nd jab but might have remembered wrongly. You can cancel and change things later and have a different site for the 2nd than the 1st.

 

[paulchapo]

Our positivity rating has been for a few days now too. But I doubt that means this time we will rush back to normality. It would be very easy to mess up the spring and summer for the sake of a few weeks in winter.

I totally agree and I'm sure everybody else does. It is the supposed shifting of the goalposts being mooted that has caused consternation on here today.

 

[Healdplace]

Not sure, you could try it and see what it allows - I think it did ask if I was booking a 1st or 2nd jab but might have remembered wrongly. You can cancel and change things later and have a different site for the 2nd than the 1st.

The letter is dated 8 days ago I just noticed so I expect it was sent by tortoise.

Good job there is no pandemic on and older people with little other means of contact not in urgent need.

The result of my two yearly bowel cancer test was sent second class, dated 3 days AFTER the above letter and got here in the same post.

Another good thing that Scotland did was insist all invites there be put into distinctive Blue envelopes so the Royal Mail could identify them and expedite. Sometimes little things like that can make a big difference.

 

[Bluemoon dan]

Utter woman, always taking pops at us too. Tidy in her day, I must check out the daughter.

While we're on the subject that brain dead scouse ex hockey player has been quiet lately.

Just had to have a look myself. You know, for research purposes, well worth it. Completely forgot that Karen Brady had been married to that Paul Peschisolido till I saw the daughters surname!

 

[paulchapo]

Just had to have a look myself. You know, for research purposes, well worth it. Completely forgot that Karen Brady had been married to that Paul Peschisolido till I saw the daughters surname!

Yes the Canadian footballer I think, not a bad striker.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I think it is a good strategy to target carers of the most vulnerable as the ability for the NHS to send carers out to assist has been compromised by Covid.

Indeed with the need for the most vulnerable to shield pretty much the only way they are likely to catch it is via those family who look after them round the clock.

I was a full time carer for many years to my mum who was fully bed bound after a massive stroke so needed 24/7 care. That's why I got a free flu jab 20 years ago when too young to otherwise qualify. If she was still alive I would certainly have been expecting for her to get priority given her vulnerability and I would have had to take her there if they could not come to her and risk catching it when out too so it would have been wrong not to do both at once just for an extra dose.

I am sure common sense is being applied on personal circumstances that local GPs will know about, of course. and this is a factor in making decisions over prioritising. And who to vaccinate alongside the most vulnerable.

I agree, but I would never have dreamt of trying to push in. There are loads more needy than me. I’m not going to refuse it, of course, as it has been offered.

My grandma is waiting on a home visit vaccination to guarantee it is the AZ version due to anaphylaxis risks.