It's interesting how different people experience different effects. My immune system is a bit iffy at the best of times. Autoimmune arthritis, so achy joints, tiredness and feeling a bit "off" are so commonplace for me that they're normal. If I got those symptoms after having a vaccine I probably wouldn't put two and two together, but certainly the sore arm muscle was the only unusual effect I noticed. Someone with a well-behaved immune system would perhaps be more likely to link symptoms to having a vaccine.
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My OH had the same as @BenCotto … AZ x 2 then Moderna last week. He had a mild headache with the first AZ and 24 hours of being a bit feverish after the Moderna … his under arm glands are still up a bit but that’s all.
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Since Jan 2018, infant vaccination has been obligatory for the usual suspects - small pox, polio, diptheria, tetanus, measles, mumps and rubella. Yellow fever too for tropical bits of France like Guadeloupe. In Belgium, even back in the lmid 90s a child could not attend state or church run or funded schools without having all its vaccines up-to-date.
Vaccine uptake in France is high and, apart from the idiot neighbour with the handicapped daughter, everyone I know has been double jabbed for Covid and the older ones have had, or are scheduled to have, their third jab before Xmas. The booster is also widely available for younger people at risk. No news yet of boosters for Possum's age group.
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Got my +ve PCR back on Sunday evening, following +ve LFT on Friday. I'm about 3 days behind my husband, who had a +LFT on Tuesday. No idea where we got it from, we have been so careful throughout. Could've been a wedding last Saturday (where we were the only people wearing masks). Three days in bed, temp, headaches, shivers, dizziness, but on the mend now. Feel fortunate we haven't suffered more. Both double-jabbed (AZ), and had our boosters booked for last Tuesday, but had to cancel. Now both in isolation for another few days. So many people locally are coming down with it between second jab and booster... definitely not gone away...
@Nanny Beach I didn't know either!! So, thank you @Liriodendron for that info!! Thank you also for the Australian journalist's comments to anti-vaccs - I have noted and will try and remember just one - I don't like to get into a "discussion" but sometimes things need to be said. I know my nursing neighbours are really worried about the coming weeks - a further 8 private bedrooms have been put aside already. There are 9 in our Beziers hospital - 5 of whom are non-vaccinated and the age group from 40 - 80. There has been talk of sanctions for the non-vaccinated being admitted - don't know where they are there.
They had someone on Radio 4 this morning talking about the SA variant/mutation - but they said that they didn't know at this stage whether it was more transmissable.
BUT, I was already of the opinion anyway that the NHS and ambulance services didn't need the resource being taken up by Covid cases that were avoidable with a few simple interventions - so I'm all for re-introducing some interventions anyway.
Do you think though, given that Delta spread worldwide, that the spread of the new variant (should it become the dominant variant) can be any more than slowed?
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Vaccine uptake in France is high and, apart from the idiot neighbour with the handicapped daughter, everyone I know has been double jabbed for Covid and the older ones have had, or are scheduled to have, their third jab before Xmas. The booster is also widely available for younger people at risk. No news yet of boosters for Possum's age group.
Not been posting recently, due to enduring some very unpleasant behaviour from some other posters, but felt duty bound to raise this with people.
Some of this is already proven, some is only my opinion.
New variant, 10 gene mutations.
It is vastly more transmissable, but not known about vaccine sensitivity or lethality.
It is probably already in the UK.
It is my view that people should avoid crowds, avoid public transport if at all possible and I would not be seen dead on a plane.
Go back to a lock down lifestyle until we know more, 2-3 weeks.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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