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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    93% of over 65's vaccinated in our area. Looking at the stats, the more well heeled areas have higher uptake.  Is this because of education or access to computers? My mum and aunty Mo don't have internet, but do have family who did the booking for them.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    We got a phone call. Fortunately, I let her get past hello. I don't normally with unidentified callers. It wasn't the disembodied, breathy "Hello......"  then two second gap that you get with scammers .
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    I think we will only know the true death rate by looking at total deaths for the year v an average year, and those stats will not be available for some time.  Certainly some people who died with covid would probably have died in that year anyway. Some will have died due to covid causing mental health problems, and some because things like cancer were not diagnosed or treated in time.  Other causes of death, like flu, will have gone down. Certainly my mum has had less chest infections and asthma exacerbations this year, she hasn't been near enough to anyone to catch anything.  Someone we know, in her 30's got covid, and the xray showed a cancerous nodule on her lung. This has been removed. Without the covid , she had no symptoms before, and it would not have been found.  So while it has stopped her diving, it will have probably saved her life.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I think i only got mine, when I did, because OH pushed. I tend to just wait and see what happens.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    B3 said:
    It something can be killed, it must be alive.

    Does that follow or are you just using two wrong terms? A virus can be seen to be inactivated/broken rather than killed. You're using a circular argument by accepting that viruses can be killed - therefore they must live.
    Interesting though eh?
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    We both did the swing your arm round to get the circulation going before going in. Then hung down at side to relax it before the nurse grabbed a handful of upper arm to stick the needle in.  We were three days apart but followed the same outcome .
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited March 2021
    Well it's a metaphorical language issue too. You can 'kill' the engine  or 'kill' the atmosphere so I think I've 'killed' my argument😏 @steveTu
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    I want to know why bacteriophage viruses look like a visitor from outer space.  

    At least the Corona virus looks 'normal'.. sort of like one of those navy floating war mines.
    Utah, USA.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    The earlier pictures we got in the background behind the BBC newsreaders looked like scotch eggs to me.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    Covid PR people need to adopt the scotch egg visual.. make it appear appealing and familiar.  Who doesn't love a scotch egg?!
    Utah, USA.
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