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  • madpenguinmadpenguin Posts: 2,543
    Saw my daughter today for the first time since Christmas (social distancing etc all done!).
    As a practice nurse she is at the forefront of vaccinations and reckons she does 200 in a day.
    Working full time and at weekends at the moment and doing her other clinics at the surgery as well. She looked exhausted.
    She says each jab takes about twice as long as a flu jab as there is more paperwork involved as this is a new vaccine so as much information is needed as possible and also to make sure people know about having their second dose.
    She had her own jab last week (AstraZeneca) and she had to leave work early as she was unwell (flu type symptoms) but was fine the next day. It just showed that the vaccine was doing its job!!
    Gave her a nice bottle of wine so she can relax tonight!
    “Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited January 2021
    MIL had her jab today 😎 🍾 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • We have just had our first dose jab.  Quite surprising as we are not in the , high risk group, we were called at 3pm , could we come at 4:10pm I think they were filling slots, but it was  the  Oxford AZ vaccine so it wasn't to avoid wastage.  
    AB Still learning

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I don't understand why farmers get emotional about their stock getting killed away from an abattoir. If I were a sheep, I think I might prefer the fox/ dog method. 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited January 2021
    I promise you that you wouldn’t. 

    If you’ve never seen animals terrified to death by someone’s family pet, their bodies mauled with great lumps of flesh hanging off them, their bellies ripped open with their innards hanging out, and then immobilised with broken limbs, ears gnawed off and left to abort their lambs and lie there while crows peck their eyes out before they die,  then you probably can’t imagine the difference between that and a well-managed abattoir.  

    I’ve taken my own stock to a local abattoir .., i can promise you they were well treated, un-stressed and died painlessly. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Unless you're unfortunate enough to be driven for miles in a lorry to a halaal butcher
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Even properly done Halal slaughter is preferable to this 
    https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/18960838.anger-sheep-killed-mauled-dogs/ 😡 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I'm not looking😕
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Halal slaughter differs very little from the way our grandfathers did the job ... details here https://www.heritagesouthholland.co.uk/article/butcher-tobias-w-parsons-delivery-cart-1920s/


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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