Phillipa,I know some one personally,52 no underlying health issues, got Covid March 2020 along with his identical twin brother,both ventilation, Bobbi home after a week. Steve had multiple organ failure, several cardiac arrests, recently sepsis. Brain damaged and in a nursing home now. Am naming names, Julie won't mind,she's actually been on TV chatting to Kate Garroway. They were both DJs had a gig at the Ministry of Sound last month, hoping he will be able to come home, needing to pay for major adaptions to the house
It’s a good article for highlighting the consequences of refusing a vaccine on “personal grounds” with the wide ranging impact that choice has on others. Not sure I would sleep easy if I refused to take the protection freely offered, knowing that my decision could cause someone else’s distress or even death.
Just had my booster and they gave me the flu jab at the same time. I'm quite pleased to have got both out of the way, but slightly nervous about what the next 24 hours will be like! I've never had a flu jab before so no idea what my 'normal' is for that. I felt lousy after my first AZ, and (anecdotally) I've heard of worse side effects for Moderna (which I had) than Pfizer... so we'll see.
All very efficient, as per usual 👍🏼
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
I had Pfizer for my booster, with no side-effects other than a sore arm for a few days. According to the lady who injected me this time, the sore arm is a physical reaction to having fluid injected into the muscle and it would happen even with a placebo injection, if that's how you react (she said some people don't react that way).
For me it was sore arm only for flu vaccines (last year and this year), AstraZeneca (two doses) and the Pfizer booster. I wouldn't want injections in both arms at the same time, but only because it wouldn't leave me a non-sore side to sleep on.
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I’ve been rotten with the Pfizer booster @LG_ …..spent all yesterday in bed, which (thankfully) is unusual for me. Keep drinking the water and have paracetamol to hand 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
Interesting - and hope you feel better soon @chicky ! About to take a prophylactic paracetamol... I had everything - headache, shivers, feeling awful - except a sore arm with my first AZ, @JennyJ, and just a mildly sore shoulder (but only if I pressed it) for the second dose. I've got windows to clean so I might get on and do that sooner rather than later, and fingers crossed I'll be awake for the Bake Off this evening 🤞🏼
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
OH had a reaction to her Pfizer booster last week, elevated heart rate for a few days. Her first two jabs were AZ and she didn't have much reaction to those. I piggy-backed on her booking to get a walk-in jab at the same time and only had minor tenderness around the injection site, same as my last two Pfizer jabs.
No flu jabs available locally, GP surgery not organising any due to national shortage of vaccine apparently.
They certainly call a spade a spade in Australia... I heard Senator Jacqui Lambie, from Tasmania, reported on Twitter this morning, saying what she thought of the Bill being introduced in the Aussie parliament to outlaw discrimination against those refusing (without good cause) the Covid jab. These are some excerpts:
"Having the freedom to choose isn't the same as having freedom to avoid the consequences of that choice."
"This is the point. Nobody has the right to make someone's life less safe. That's not what freedoms mean."
"Being held accountable for your own actions isn't called discrimination. It's called being, you wouldn't believe it, a g**d**n, b****y adult. That's right, it's being an adult. It's putting others before yourself."
Couldn't have put it better myself...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
We’re all different but I had AZx2 followed by Moderna, the booster administered on Friday. The next day I was just a little out of sorts and had a Noel Coward day, flouncing around in my dressing gown. How terribly outré, dahling. Three days on, all the side effects have completely disappeared.
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All very efficient, as per usual 👍🏼
I had everything - headache, shivers, feeling awful - except a sore arm with my first AZ, @JennyJ, and just a mildly sore shoulder (but only if I pressed it) for the second dose. I've got windows to clean so I might get on and do that sooner rather than later, and fingers crossed I'll be awake for the Bake Off this evening 🤞🏼
"Having the freedom to choose isn't the same as having freedom to avoid the consequences of that choice."
"This is the point. Nobody has the right to make someone's life less safe. That's not what freedoms mean."
"Being held accountable for your own actions isn't called discrimination. It's called being, you wouldn't believe it, a g**d**n, b****y adult. That's right, it's being an adult. It's putting others before yourself."
Couldn't have put it better myself...