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JonH comes home


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Jan wrote:
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Booster vaccinations have been available for 50-60 year-olds in London as of late October. (That's your age group, no? Or are you younger?)

I don't quite understand why there's been a big difference in availability in different areas - friends who are 60+ who live in Herts. still haven't had it (although it's due very soon).

But, yes, I know youngsters (my cousin's daughter) who has now caught it (despite being double jabbed) and has really been quite ill, still off work a month later (she is rather overweight, it doesn't help). And my in-laws carer (also double jabbed). And various other people. Most not seriously. But not great.....

 Hi CD, its been the 6 month gap that is required; my wife had her second jab in late May and so has got a text today saying she can book, mine was in early June so I should be able to get one early December, hopefully. Those initial second jabs followed a gap from the first jab of course, which was, what March, and those ones where later for us slightly, but that is the knock on. Yep, I am 56, so slap bang in the middle, and would have had it in October if I could have had it then!  

 You can book before the 6 months is up - I think once it's 5 months since second jab. I have one booked for early Dec (no need to wait for text/other message).



-- Edited by Jan on Tuesday 16th of November 2021 12:51:53 PM

 we tried that but it wouldnt let us in our area, but when we got the text the system became available...different rules/processes in different areas? 



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It's not really their fault but it doesn't help that each area has a slightly different system. People obviously talk to each other around the country, newspapers print things from various parts of the country, and it gets people confused, and cross, that the system is different in different places.

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Oh how strange - sorry I had no idea different areas worked differently!

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Oh how strange - sorry I had no idea different areas worked differently!

 Well - Inspired by this exchange, I went online and in fact was able to get my booking, yippee! It certainly hadnt worked but all is good now and I managed to get Dec 4th all sorted. 

 

Thanks Jan 



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Oh how strange - sorry I had no idea different areas worked differently!

 Well - Inspired by this exchange, I went online and in fact was able to get my booking, yippee! It certainly hadnt worked but all is good now and I managed to get Dec 4th all sorted. 

 

Thanks Jan 

Excellent!!



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Jan wrote:
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Oh how strange - sorry I had no idea different areas worked differently!

 Well - Inspired by this exchange, I went online and in fact was able to get my booking, yippee! It certainly hadnt worked but all is good now and I managed to get Dec 4th all sorted. 

 

Thanks Jan 

Excellent!!

 A shot  in the arm wink



-- Edited by Strongbow on Wednesday 17th of November 2021 01:51:53 AM

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Strongbow wrote:
Jan wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Jan wrote:

Oh how strange - sorry I had no idea different areas worked differently!

 Well - Inspired by this exchange, I went online and in fact was able to get my booking, yippee! It certainly hadnt worked but all is good now and I managed to get Dec 4th all sorted. 

 

Thanks Jan 

Excellent!!

 A shot  in the arm wink



-- Edited by Strongbow on Wednesday 17th of November 2021 01:51:53 AM

 Definitely a boost!



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I was talking to Bulgarian colleagues this week and what a mess their vaccination programme is.
They only have 33% with at least one vaccination and they have the highest covid death rate in the EU.
They don't trust the government or the politicians and are now being forced to get vaccinated if they wish to go out in public for a meal etc


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I was talking to Bulgarian colleagues this week and what a mess their vaccination programme is.
They only have 33% with at least one vaccination and they have the highest covid death rate in the EU.
They don't trust the government or the politicians and are now being forced to get vaccinated if they wish to go out in public for a meal etc

 My Bulgarian colleague reports exactly the same, the distrust goes back to Communist times and beyond. Its not just Bulgaria but many of the ex iron curtain nations have similar attitudes 



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No skiing in Austria due to lockdown, but after several phone calls following a holiday cancellation email, I am in Spain.
Mask wearing was compulsory on the plane (well, apart from the guy who made his two packs of Pringles last the entire flight).

Seems they are more sensible in Spain, as mask wearing is compulsory in public spaces and outside where social distancing is not possible; also its warm, so able to spend more time outside. I am hoping the UK will see sense and adopt this policy too, as Covid numbers seem to be rising and we maybe heading for a winter crisis.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274

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Elegant Point wrote:

No skiing in Austria due to lockdown, but after several phone calls following a holiday cancellation email, I am in Spain.
Mask wearing was compulsory on the plane (well, apart from the guy who made his two packs of Pringles last the entire flight).

Seems they are more sensible in Spain, as mask wearing is compulsory in public spaces and outside where social distancing is not possible; also its warm, so able to spend more time outside. I am hoping the UK will see sense and adopt this policy too, as Covid numbers seem to be rising and we maybe heading for a winter crisis.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274

Glad you noticed wink

Oh, you're talking about Covid restrictions. I thought you were just talking about people in general biggrinbiggrin



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Wear ruddy masks!

 And proper ones, not flappy single cloth ones under your nose. 

Be sensible everybody please, says he on repeat  Play your part.

Compulsory in Scotland in enclosed public spaces, as in Spain, mask wearing is increasingly being ignored, requiring rather irritated reminders from the Scottish Goverment who are at least sensible enough to have such, to my mind, so flamin obvious rules in place. Can make such a huge difference to the new case figures. But for now the Scottish new case figures have edged back up to around the UK rate and that stubbornly remains far too high, at close to 40,000 a day ( around 400 per 100K a week ).



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Bob in Spain wrote:
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Seems they are more sensible in Spain, as mask wearing is compulsory in public spaces and outside where social distancing is not possible; also its warm, so able to spend more time outside. I am hoping the UK will see sense and adopt this policy too, as Covid numbers seem to be rising and we maybe heading for a winter crisis.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274

Glad you noticed wink

Oh, you're talking about Covid restrictions. I thought you were just talking about people in general biggrinbiggrin

 In general probably applies too - maybe its the sunshine?  Definitely  with respect to Corona, even the gardeners watering outside at 7.30am are wearing masks. Pretty strict about enforcing mask wearing by the hotel guests too. Moving forward, will be interesting to compare countries that enforce mask wearing (eg Spain and Scotland) with England 



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I know I am probably preaching to the converted on here, but this chart shows the correlation between the percentage of the population vaccinated and the number of deaths per million in the last 14 days.

The UK is not on the chart as it is an EU Commission chart for the 27 countries of the EU, but that is irrelevant in terms of the message it gets across.

twitter.com/EU_Commission/status/1463119478099693571

The effect of the vaccinations is as clear as it can be. Get vaccinated.

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Flights to S Africa suspended due to concerns over a new variant named Omicron. The new variant has ~50 mutations, 32 of which are found in the spike protein. These mutations may make the virus more transmissible than the delta variant and make the current vaccines less effective against the virus

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59418127

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