I think I was told by GP at 63 that was my last smear, mamogrammes you can request one later in life, but I guess reading this I am not a useful member of society anymore then because of age.
PS My neighbours are frontline workers at the hospital - these folk + hospital staff should be our priorities. They work 12-hour shifts. I must add that at the present time we have 9 hospitalised under surveillance and 3 on oxygen - no reanimations.
I worked for the NHS about 30 years the rest in nursing homes, work hard to keep myself fit,healthy, and maintain the weight, so anyone else want to join me on "Logans Run", we are obviously past our sell by date.
Logan's run! Brilliant film.but they went onto carousel and died when they were 30.a tad too young perhaps?! Gosh if only these oldies would stop living so long.if only we had a new disease that just targeted them! Oh, wait a minute...i wonder how we will all feel when or if we get to 80 plus....
What do you mean "a tad too young", Pansyface, no good for me I don't eat meat.My 2 boys are registered disabled, my youngest who has the worst problems, I am carer for, was really upset March, said what would happen to him when I am gone. I had to fight the system 10 years to finally get a diagnosis. Can we bring back the death penalty for mass murders,paedophiles,rapists.
I don't think anyone is advocating not vaccinating the elderly and, assuming the supply lines hold, enough vaccine has been ordered to vaccinate everyone in the country. I'm just questioning the order in which it's done. It would surely only mean a delay of a week or so to get all the essential care people vaccinated before going back to do the rest of the population.
As for being old and no longer useful, I was told just a year ago that I am too young to have a knee replacement.
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I think the main advantage of the vaccine is to prevent death if Covid is contracted. Maybe it is felt that the elderly are more at risk of dying? I do agree that front line workers are a priority let’s not forget those of us who don’t work in the nhs but deal with the public every day and have had to work throughout the pandemic. Not myself as I am not concerned and am happy to take my turn but others who are worried or at risk. Shop workers and police officers are just two groups who I think need to “jump the queue” and I expect there are plenty of other groups.
According to the Health Foundation, the highest priority (care home residents and staff) group are 350,000. The next priority are front line health and care workers. Given the UK has apparently vaccinated 1.5million and assuming most centres are working to the programme, health care workers should currently be top of the list and in theory, about half should have already had one jab. On the news today, quite a lot of centres are already onto the next group (the over 80s who aren't in care homes) so either some places are freestyling the priorities or - more likely - the roll out is uneven across the country depending how many of which group there are and whether the local hospital has the right fridges to take the first vaccine, or if they have had to wait for the 'normal fridge' one. But right now, it is the health care workers who are top priority as I read it. Teachers and police are different question - they currently come after the over 50s in the general population. And yes, I believe the plan is to get to those who are most likely to become seriously ill first
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As for being old and no longer useful, I was told just a year ago that I am too young to have a knee replacement.
But right now, it is the health care workers who are top priority as I read it.
Teachers and police are different question - they currently come after the over 50s in the general population.
And yes, I believe the plan is to get to those who are most likely to become seriously ill first
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