My husband had no reaction to the Covid vaccine, which really surprised us because he always has a worse reaction to the flu shot compared to me. Where as with the Covid jab I am finally feeling fairly normal again, a day and a half later. Flu type symptoms for the first night.. then just tired and sore all yesterday. But pretty good now. He got his yesterday afternoon, and is now out doing a long bike ride!
I am extremely grateful our jabs were organized between the school district and the local health center. Our elderly here in Utah are having the same issues with never ending busy signals to call centers, crashed websites, etc. No democratic nations have seemed to sort out a good way to manage it. I thought the NHS would have had a better starting point than the US, but it appears it's a similar disaster.
Just had a chat with mum, apparently my sister and her kids (one currently attending reception class) have been round today, indoors. Mum said it was 'allowed' as they're in her bubble, but I told her it seemed a bit risky...
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
In the beginning, we were told of Covid mainly through cruise ships being quarantine isolated off shore, a few returning to the UK were allowed to disembark passengers who were then bused to an old hospital for two weeks so they could hold regular interviews with the media via mobile phone. All these folk had been closely associated for the length of their cruise, breathing the same air conditioning, eating in the same restaurants etc., etc. Hardly any of them developed the disease. So our illustrious government ( who are privvy to the full details) decided that the worldwide scare was being hyped up out of proportion. If China wanted to close down a few cities then more fool them - these bugs often appear and burn themselves out - let's not jeopardise our fragile economy any further. We'll carry on letting 10,000 lorries cross the Channel every day and 30,000 people land at London Heathrow without any checks whatsoever and let them disappear.
Since then we've had Lockdowns 1 - 3 and several sets of complete madness in between. Then we were told of London Variant Strain, later upgraded to U.K. Variant which nicely gets the government off the hook for misunderstanding the evolving virulence of all outbreaks. Look on the bright side chaps - it's completely swamped the disasterous Brexit humilation - relax, we have our country back and can't you hear.....? The cavalry are coming!
Well, Pfizer et al anyway - the same Americans that were going to buy up Our NHS are galloping like mad to the rescue, producing mRNA vaccine - exactly the same methodology that our own boffins gave up a decade ago as far too expensive, questionable science, very difficult handling and low effectiveness - but don't worry - they've sorted all that out! President Trump has said so on boy scout's honour.
Then - Hurrah - hooray - the first jab was given, with the suggestion that 1 million a week would be rolled out - erm.... 65 million population = well over a year to complete. Without any assurance that the stuff can be produced in such quantities at such short notice - remember that we are talking about the country that can't clear leaves off railwaylines!
My wife's cousin (but more like a sister), a retired lifetime NHS worker caught the bug just before Christmas, rallied at first but succumbed last week.
I am very sorry to hear about your loss @SporophyteBoy. However your broader point gets invalidated if you justify it with inaccurate data. You might choose to go back to your sources.
Just had a chat with mum, apparently my sister and her kids (one currently attending reception class) have been round today, indoors. Mum said it was 'allowed' as they're in her bubble, but I told her it seemed a bit risky...
As I have said on here, and say to my family and friends regularly, just because something is officially ‘allowed’ doesn’t make it wise or something you should seek to do. If a person is at risk because of age or health then it makes sense to stay away.
What I am hearing is that people say they are in a bubble with someone just so they can visit, but they don’t always realise that they will all have to isolate if one person in the bubble has symptoms/is positive/is told to isolate by track and trace. This can have implications if the bubble is the only source of food provision etc. I’m sure your sister means well @Loxley, but this is not the time to take risks.
What is ‘permitted’ are the limits of what we should be doing ... they should not be taken to mean that they are ‘safe’ or that they should be our normal behaviour.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We have even suspended our walks up the farm road as it's been so busy, let alone see anyone, I have dusted off my old "ski" exerciser for the days it's too wet to go to the Allotment.
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Since then we've had Lockdowns 1 - 3 and several sets of complete madness in between. Then we were told of London Variant Strain, later upgraded to U.K. Variant which nicely gets the government off the hook for misunderstanding the evolving virulence of all outbreaks. Look on the bright side chaps - it's completely swamped the disasterous Brexit humilation - relax, we have our country back and can't you hear.....? The cavalry are coming!
Well, Pfizer et al anyway - the same Americans that were going to buy up Our NHS are galloping like mad to the rescue, producing mRNA vaccine - exactly the same methodology that our own boffins gave up a decade ago as far too expensive, questionable science, very difficult handling and low effectiveness - but don't worry - they've sorted all that out! President Trump has said so on boy scout's honour.
Then - Hurrah - hooray - the first jab was given, with the suggestion that 1 million a week would be rolled out - erm.... 65 million population = well over a year to complete. Without any assurance that the stuff can be produced in such quantities at such short notice - remember that we are talking about the country that can't clear leaves off railwaylines!
My wife's cousin (but more like a sister), a retired lifetime NHS worker caught the bug just before Christmas, rallied at first but succumbed last week.
@Dovefromabove Two jags 😉😂
What I am hearing is that people say they are in a bubble with someone just so they can visit, but they don’t always realise that they will all have to isolate if one person in the bubble has symptoms/is positive/is told to isolate by track and trace. This can have implications if the bubble is the only source of food provision etc. I’m sure your sister means well @Loxley, but this is not the time to take risks.
Stay safe everyone.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.