This has been a really useful thread, sadly disrupted by someone who felt it was acceptable to be rather rude to another poster. Alternative views can certainly be discussed, but politeness costs nothing. Hopefully we can get back on track and share knowledge and experience in a constructive manner.
I phoned my chemist last week to organise a vaccination for Covid. As they were putting a programme into place, the nice lady said she would phone me back with an appointment.
She phoned today to say that there was a new vaccination to be delivered early October and would I like to wait for that? I said I would. Apparently, it covers the news strains of Covid. Pending .....
One thing I did notice when I had mine yesterday, is that I wasn't given a card like last time stating the type of vaccine and when it was administered, though thinking about it I might have not been given a card the time before for that matter
It’s very difficult in our household because I have a prostate biopsy (or darts practice as I call it) in a week’s time and cannot have the vaccination in the run up to that while my wife has a hospital appointment or consultation two or three times a week so arranging her appointments is even more problematic.
The GP has said he’ll send someone out to our house to do the vaccinations. I hope the wait is not too long, but long enough for the current slew of appointments to pass. These are difficult times in Cotto Towers.
To go back to @punkdoc's question, plant based, home and homeopathic remedies have been around for millenia so have a long history of working, even if it's a placebo effect. Some of those "old wive's remedies" are now being researched by Big Pharma to see why and how they work.
The mistrust of Big Pharma and their many and varied drugs is perfectly reasonable if you bother to read the long lists of possible side effects and there are know effects that have wrought havoc in som epoulations - thalidomide, roaccutane (depression and other problems in teenagers), anti depressants and so many more and any drug wrongly prescribed.
Drug companies are primarily there to make profits, not save the human race.
Having said all that, I'm lucky to be healthy so far apart from mechanical failures which have been adressed with prosthetic knees. I'm very grateful for the medical advances made by surgeons and clinicians that have made that possible, just as I admire and am grateful for all the other major medical advances but I despair when I read of out of date or EU banned medicines being shipped to 3rd world countries who can't afford better.
I do always ask about any medicine being prescribed and its possible side effects and what the alternatives may be.
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Some people have asked whether people younger than 65 will be offered the vaccine. The word from on high, is that worry is increasing, is it is likely, that those over 50-55 may be offered it from mid October.
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She phoned today to say that there was a new vaccination to be delivered early October and would I like to wait for that? I said I would. Apparently, it covers the news strains of Covid. Pending .....
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The mistrust of Big Pharma and their many and varied drugs is perfectly reasonable if you bother to read the long lists of possible side effects and there are know effects that have wrought havoc in som epoulations - thalidomide, roaccutane (depression and other problems in teenagers), anti depressants and so many more and any drug wrongly prescribed.
Drug companies are primarily there to make profits, not save the human race.
Having said all that, I'm lucky to be healthy so far apart from mechanical failures which have been adressed with prosthetic knees. I'm very grateful for the medical advances made by surgeons and clinicians that have made that possible, just as I admire and am grateful for all the other major medical advances but I despair when I read of out of date or EU banned medicines being shipped to 3rd world countries who can't afford better.
I do always ask about any medicine being prescribed and its possible side effects and what the alternatives may be.
The word from on high, is that worry is increasing, is it is likely, that those over 50-55 may be offered it from mid October.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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