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Brighton Sky Blue said:
You won’t be far behind Group 9. Sorry NW, will agree to disagree on this one
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Far enough.

If we're talking mental health issues, having seen people my age and below get seriously ill (but they're not on the death stats), having people dismiss certain ailments such as underlying health conditions as not worth bothering about (great, I'll be justification for a stastic, but not enough to get up the queue), and being just the wrong side of an arbitrary cut-off line, I hardly think a bit of consideration for a couple of extra months is asking too much, really, rather than a desire to cut me, and people like me, off.
 
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Oh and while we're at it. Friend of mine's Dad died from Covid yesterday. Yeah but he's old, yeah but he had underlying conditions.

He also had a fall and caught Covid at the hospital where he was taken.

Now *that's* why measures are put in place in hospitals that mean some people aren't getting appointments for other illnesses as quickly as would be ideal, so that ends up being the exception rather than the rule.

Hospitals are still generally safe places all things considered, and that's a good thing...
 
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Deleted member 5849 said:
Far enough.

If we're talking mental health issues, having seen people my age and below get seriously ill (but they're not on the death stats), having people dismiss certain ailments such as underlying health conditions as not worth bothering about (great, I'll be justification for a stastic, but not enough to get up the queue), and being just the wrong side of an arbitrary cut-off line, I hardly think a bit of consideration for a couple of extra months is asking too much, really, rather than a desire to cut me, and people like me, off.
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As someone of 30 but also overweight I will still be near the back of the vaccine queue, I just don't see until the autumn as necessary based on the rate at which we're getting through the jabs.
 
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robbiekeane said:
I know right. It’s actually really changed my view on personal space and hygiene matters. Kinda gross that we are inhaling each other’s droplets all the time lol
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I was genuinely amazed how close two metres is, really. It's not much beyond normal life when talking to people!
 
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I don’t think it’s too much to ask for people to be sensible about it for a little longer - thinking along the lines of the ‘restrictions’ of the summer last year. There does need to be some progress, though, with hospitality and leisure able to reopen, otherwise like has been said, what’s the point in getting everyone jabbed up?
 
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SBAndy said:
I don’t think it’s too much to ask for people to be sensible about it for a little longer - thinking along the lines of the ‘restrictions’ of the summer last year. There does need to be some progress, though, with hospitality and leisure able to reopen, otherwise like has been said, what’s the point in getting everyone jabbed up?
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Exactly. I'm not asking for total lockdown, I'm just asking for people not to breathe in my face until I've been vaccinated!
 
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Saying on R4 this morning about how Pfizer will be slowing production to ramp up and how we’ll see numbers drop significantly for a bit.

Felt very smug that BSB had already told us that. Going to be important to remember when everyone inevitably freaks out about the drop in rate.
 
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Some uplifting news today. My parents live in a small village in Oxfordshire but the doctors surgery called her up and asked my mum if she wanted to have the vaccine today. She went straight away.

She's only 60, so it is really encouraging they have got that far down the list already.

Pissed my dad off though. He made a spreadsheet with all the vaccine figures and predicted they would get theirs at the end of March!
 
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Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
Some uplifting news today. My parents live in a small village in Oxfordshire but the doctors surgery called her up and asked my mum if she wanted to have the vaccine today. She went straight away.

She's only 60, so it is really encouraging they have got that far down the list already.

Pissed my dad off though. He made a spreadsheet with all the vaccine figures and predicted they would get theirs at the end of March!
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Did she have it at Islip?
 
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shmmeee said:
Saying on R4 this morning about how Pfizer will be slowing production to ramp up and how we’ll see numbers drop significantly for a bit.

Felt very smug that BSB had already told us that. Going to be important to remember when everyone inevitably freaks out about the drop in rate.
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Is that right? I know they're refitting their factories but I thought we'd moved to giving the AZ vaccine at the moment
 
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Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
Some uplifting news today. My parents live in a small village in Oxfordshire but the doctors surgery called her up and asked my mum if she wanted to have the vaccine today. She went straight away.

She's only 60, so it is really encouraging they have got that far down the list already.

Pissed my dad off though. He made a spreadsheet with all the vaccine figures and predicted they would get theirs at the end of March!
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Philosoraptor is your dad?
 
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shmmeee said:
Thats how I understood it from the radio, @Brighton Sky Blue would be best to confirm.
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fernandopartridge said:
Is that right? I know they're refitting their factories but I thought we'd moved to giving the AZ vaccine at the moment
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We are continuing to give both but as that initial December jab programme was done with Pfizer, we have held back a set amount of these as second jabs are now coming due for this first group. We have ordered more of the AZ, but haven’t switched to using it exclusively.
 
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Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
Some uplifting news today. My parents live in a small village in Oxfordshire but the doctors surgery called her up and asked my mum if she wanted to have the vaccine today. She went straight away.

She's only 60, so it is really encouraging they have got that far down the list already.

Pissed my dad off though. He made a spreadsheet with all the vaccine figures and predicted they would get theirs at the end of March!
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Brighton Sky Blue said:
We are continuing to give both but as that initial December jab programme was done with Pfizer, we have held back a set amount of these as second jabs are now coming due for this first group. We have ordered more of the AZ, but haven’t switched to using it exclusively.
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There's a public calculator to use .
Was telling me around mid April ,but hearing anecdotally of mid and lower sixties .
They have been saying there has been a lack of take up from 70-75 age group , which may have led to accelerating the age group below I guess.
 
Brylowes

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Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
Some uplifting news today. My parents live in a small village in Oxfordshire but the doctors surgery called her up and asked my mum if she wanted to have the vaccine today. She went straight away.

She's only 60, so it is really encouraging they have got that far down the list already.

Pissed my dad off though. He made a spreadsheet with all the vaccine figures and predicted they would get theirs at the end of March!
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My mates mum 61 got a call yesterday afternoon at 4.05pm from her surgery telling her if she could make it there by 4.30pm she could receive her jab, she went straight away and on arrival met someone she knew and a handful of others that had received similar calls.
Turns out the doses were left over from the days scheduled appointments where people had cried off, seems they’ve started calling patients from a little further down the list and offering them the opportunity if they can get there at short notice.
This is in Suffolk bye the way.
Gotta be a good thing I would think.
 
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Brylowes said:
My mates mum 61 got a call yesterday afternoon at 4.05pm from her surgery telling her if she could make it there by 4.30pm she could receive her jab, she went straight away and on arrival met someone she knew and a handful of others that had received similar calls.
Turns out the doses were left over from the days scheduled appointments where people had cried off, seems they’ve started calling patients from a little further down the list and offering them the opportunity if they can get there at short notice.
This is in Suffolk bye the way.
Gotta be a good thing I would think.
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Seen loads of GPs on twitter saying similar. It's no coincidence the vaccination programme delivered by the NHS is successful and efficient whereas the privatised test and trace system isn't
 
Brylowes

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fernandopartridge said:
Seen loads of GPs on twitter saying similar. It's no coincidence the vaccination programme delivered by the NHS is successful and efficient whereas the privatised test and trace system isn't
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Early on in the vaccine rollout there were several reports circulating of unused doses being thrown away at the end of the day, which is criminal if true.
Hopefully this is one of the measures put in place to make sure that doesn’t happen anymore .
 
Sbarcher

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My wife was talking to her friend Sharon Peacock (bit of name dropping here!) yesterday. She said she will spend the rest of her working life tweaking vaccines to counter the many mutations that this coronavirus will produce. It will be something we will never properly eliminate but will need to learn to control.
 
chiefdave

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Sky Blue Pete said:
50% of the crowd in Chennai

Do they not give a monkeys or have they got things so much better there?
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They spoke about this on the Talksport commentary in the early hours. Chenai is in Tamil Nadu where they've been relaxing restrictions for weeks now. Technically they could have had a crowd for the 1st test but the change in rules to allow that came too late for them to sort the logistics out.

The population in that region is pretty much identical to the UK but their daily deaths are in single digits and cases have been below a 1,000 all but 2 days this year and have been under 500 for the last few days.
 
Grendel

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Sky Blue Pete said:
It’s only 25 degrees or so

Another world completely - it’s as if nothing has or is happening
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They believe pretty much that herd immunity on the original strain has been achieved in most states
 
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Just found out that a now ex friend (fortunately not a close one) has jumped the vaccine queue using some linked leak. What an absolute c**t. A healthy 36 year old
 
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