I am finding it utterly incredulous that people are still being allowed to flit the globe via air or sea ; their apparently implacable desire for foreign holidays posing an increasing risk to everyone else . All travel abroad , unless absolutely necessary should be banned .
Personally I think that all suspected cases should be isolated until this is sorted out once and for all .
I can't believe this was the first post in this thread almost a year ago and we're still in the same situation where no one can understand why international travel is allowed and even more so without strict quarantine.
I remember (only too well) the polio vaccinations in the 50s. So painful that, when children of a certain age were supposed to have a fourth booster, I refused to let the doctor anywhere near me! Today was a walk in the park in comparison.
In the 50’s the polio vaccine was given as a liquid on a sugar cube.
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@Lyn - not for me and my schoolmates it wasn't. It was an injection into the muscle and it hurt. Three injections and for some a fourth because of local flare-ups of the disease. The oral Sabin vaccine wasn't licenced until 1961, I believe, and it relied on a weakened virus rather than the inactivated virus in the original injections.
In the 50’s the polio vaccine was given as a liquid on a sugar cube.
Not in my neck of the woods, it wasn't. Queues of children and blunt needles. Not pleasant at all. The sugar cube dose didn't come in until later but I am mighty glad that we had at least got something to prevent polio from running riot through the population even if it did mean a punctured arm.
Just been watching the news, apparently there is a big debate going on - SHOULD PRISONERS be given a vaccine ?
Of course they should. Deprivation of Liberty is the punishment prescribed by law; not a lack of access to the health treatments that the rest of the population can access and consequent risk to their health.
And what about the people who work in the prisons? If a group of unvaccinated people are closely confined as in a prison then the virus can spread quickly and mutations develop ... and all the people who work there will be vulnerable.
Would you want to work in a prison in those circumstances?
And if there’s an outbreak in the prison all the prison guards etc will have to isolate ... who will do the essential work in the prisons then? and they have families ... and they go to shops etc ... the virus will spread ... this is what happened in Norwich prison this winter contributing to a huge infection spike in that area of the city.
So, from a humane, ethical and pragmatic point of view I have no doubt that of course prisoners should be vaccinated.
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and consequent risk to their health.
this is what happened in Norwich prison this winter contributing to a huge infection spike in that area of the city.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.