Covid jab queues

[Mr Gus]

Big events !? can't see much of that before June of 2022
Test vaccine receivers are well & truly at the stinking end of the stick, having offered "an arm"
Are they concerned that they lose the results if you take something else nowty, or what?
Today the UK red list has been removed completely, what a "circle jerk" of government onanists.
(looking more like a silent plan back in use of the opinion of herd immunity by exposure, just suppressed in name to media)

After being fine with my last shot of Pfizer this time it's beating me up with aching joints et al ..so I'm hoping not to.have a repeat of Astra zeneca's months of flu to go through again, just given up & gone to bed.
Today sajid is again drip, dripping the tap of slowly given bad news to we proles a lead up to 18th Dec announcements of further restrictions "required" whilst sputtering "Xmas for all, not like last year"..I'm sceptical.

Nothing is designed for omicron variant, it's simply rushing it mob handed like ww2 Russian conscripts who were sent off in groups with one weapon between 3-5 of them & expected to pick it up & carry on charging when the others fell, ..that was desperation not good planning.




Is it another attack of winter covid & failure to cope by the nhs is too good a target to miss in terms of future profitability via private contracts?

[dan_b]

I had booked mine for Friday 10th Dec but forgot. Went on Monday morning to a walk-in (having been .completely unaware of what DePfeffel had spaffed out on Sunday night) and the queue was epic - I waited for an hour until they said there was still at least a 3 hour wait so bailed at that point.

Went to a different walk-in centre the next day at Twickenham Stoop and was queueing for just 10 minutes. Got the jab within another 10 and was sat in my car after that. Amazingly efficient.

So now have double AZ with a Pfizer booster and hopefully some decent immunity.

[Mr Gus]

4 hour queue now hopefully negates a likely 7 hours in an ambulance waiting outside a hospital down the line.

Worthwhile trade off I was genuinely ok with (with a smile still on my face)

Happy to hear you lot had it easier too, logistical nightmare for all involved.

[Tinbum]

As someone who is pretty fit and healthy and had a very mild case of Covid I never expected to be rushed into Resus with complications from it. It's really not worth the risk of not having the vaccinations. I just don't understand those that don't. One of my friends hasn't had a single jab and another has only had the first- I don't comprehend

[Stinsy]

As someone who is pretty fit and healthy and had a very mild case of Covid I never expected to be rushed into Resus with complications from it. It's really not worth the risk of not having the vaccinations. I just don't understand those that don't. One of my friends hasn't had a single jab and another has only had the first- I don't comprehend

I have family members with pre-existing respiratory conditions who are refusing the COVID vaccines. They seem to have been seduced by "conspiracy theories" and a sense that it is them vs "big government" and "evil pharma". Using logic or facts to try and convince them is futile, they are like religious fanatics who "believe" nomatter the evidence.

[Mart]

Just back from my booster. Got there 20 mins early just in case, and got the last space at the back of the carpark, right by the end of the Q. So Q'd through the carpark, three loops up the side of the building, one long Q in front, then inside for you've guessed it, more Q'ing. Jabbed after an hour, but everyone seems to have good spirits and taking it all seriously.

Apparently the booster can help with long Covid, which I may have as I started to feel a bit under the weather at the very start of Oct, but by the time I was laid up with fatique a month later the test was negative, the doc even tested me for Toxoplasmosis (cat-scratch-fever) the first time he's ordered an 'exotic diseases' blood test. By not getting a test when I had early symptons it's now hard to know what I've got, but it's been easing a bit since the start of December, what fun.

If I have Covid, and it might not be, then laying down 23hrs a day, sleeping reading or watching TV, after having had 2 jabs, brings it home just how bad things could have been without the vacinne.

[Mr Gus]

Contextual give & take mart maybe we oversimplify it so it go's over some peoples heads.

I'm still aching & on the generic galpharm cold & flu capsules but its a breeze compared to a heavy cold / full blown flu so zero complaints if this is as harsh as it gets then great outcome.
(I might even try a medicinal walk for a medicinal pint later)

[spread-tee]

As someone who is pretty fit and healthy and had a very mild case of Covid I never expected to be rushed into Resus with complications from it. It's really not worth the risk of not having the vaccinations. I just don't understand those that don't. One of my friends hasn't had a single jab and another has only had the first- I don't comprehend

I have family members with pre-existing respiratory conditions who are refusing the COVID vaccines. They seem to have been seduced by "conspiracy theories" and a sense that it is them vs "big government" and "evil pharma". Using logic or facts to try and convince them is futile, they are like religious fanatics who "believe" nomatter the evidence.

It is weird Stinsy,

Similar to your experience we have a friend who wont get the jab because it is GM RNA based, she is willing to believe all kinds of numptiness on facecloth, but scientific evidence is just ignored. I am still a bit wary of compulsion or covid passports but if we don't get the jab rate up we are going to be fighting this pandemic for a long time I fear. We do after all have a duty of care to each other in a civilised society.

Desp

[Stinsy]

It is weird Stinsy,

Similar to your experience we have a friend who wont get the jab because it is GM RNA based, she is willing to believe all kinds of numptiness on facecloth, but scientific evidence is just ignored. I am still a bit wary of compulsion or covid passports but if we don't get the jab rate up we are going to be fighting this pandemic for a long time I fear. We do after all have a duty of care to each other in a civilised society.

Desp

Yeah. Petty authoritarianism doesn’t float my boat either. But the blank look I got when I explained: mRNA vaccines don’t alter your DNA, told me I was trying to inform someone who didn’t want to be informed.