It's so exciting to hear how many people are receiving their vaccines! 'Normal' is still a way off, but it feels like a glimpse of light at the end of a tunnel. My husband and I are a week out from our second jab.. so have another week before full protection.. BUT we have primary aged children, with no hope of a vaccine for them for a long while yet. So for now nothing changes; still masks, distance, no visiting family, friends, etc. I do feel the temptation to become complacent though, knowing the boys are statistically unlikely to even have symptoms.. with the relief of us adults being vaccinated. I'm tempted to fly across the country to visit my parents with the boys this summer, who we haven't seen since the summer of 2019. I don't feel comfortable with their exposure though, and the thought of new variants terrifying.
Do you have plans of changing your pandemic habits a few weeks after your second dose?
Prof Adrian Martineau, St Mary's, Respiratory expert assures us, these "side effects" are good sign, but you should not worry if you don't experience them.Still awaiting antibody test results pre-vax with interest. Th death toll figures, says after them in small print, they are folk who have tested positive within the past 28 days, have heard from various people, relatives, friends, had Covid on Cert of death, but already had various, (often lung related terminal illnesses) obviously PM's are not being performed on these folk, so that has to be inacurate.I consultant I worked with said most blokes died with Prostate cancer, but it wasn't what killed them.It is "claimed" not one person died of flu this year, but if these people did not have a Covid test, how can anyone possibly know.
Because the rates were so very high it's easier to make a big reduction? I don't actually know what the numbers are..... ..... so I think it's saying about 91 cases per 100k? Just checked. Compared to here in Devon, that's about twice our rate. But the rate of reduction is higher in London, because our cases never got as high as yours.
Or am I missing the point?
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
There's one district here where it's about 7 case per 100k. There are little pockets all over the country where there are no, or almost no cases. Not sure how it is on the Isles of Scilly just now but they've had vanishingly few all the way through. It seems to be about behaviour and local risks. If there are no large employers locally, no hospitals or factories or prisons, the rates tend to be lower on average
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Well sadly our part of London is still very high according to the covid tracker app. The rate here has been consistently high, yet it never gets mentioned on the London news unlike some other areas. I think there's a certain section of the community that doesn't think that the rules apply to them.
I had the Astra Zeneca vaccine and had similar side effects to @Kili and @Fran IOM except that mine began just under 24 hours after the jab and not the same day. Aching joints, headache, very tired, generally feeling rough. I’m another one who never has any reaction to jabs, so I was surprised when this happened.
i, too, would be interested to hear from anyone who has had the second Oxford vaccine.
Yes, has anyone had their second jab, we want to hear. I know mostly Borris haters on here, wondered what opinions were on coming out of lockdown. I have a friend of many years, she doesn't post on here hates gardening . Says her life is ruined, the measures are a total disaster, and she will never see her family again!! Her children all live within 15 minutes drive from her, she could have had walks with them, during this lockdown, could make arrangements to meet up with friends
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..... so I think it's saying about 91 cases per 100k? Just checked. Compared to here in Devon, that's about twice our rate. But the rate of reduction is higher in London, because our cases never got as high as yours.
Or am I missing the point?
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
i, too, would be interested to hear from anyone who has had the second Oxford vaccine.