Are you worried yet.

Next door neighbours are booked in for the middle of the week. Dad had his before Christmas but no news on my mum yet.

All our parents are now jabbed. No ill effect at all.

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Oneball said:

Next door neighbours are booked in for the middle of the week. Dad had his before Christmas but no news on my mum yet.

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When they phoned my mother in law, they only wanted her. Father in law said 'huh' and they took him at the same time. If they live together... don't ask, you don't get

C

My mum 90 yes old had first on December 14th and second on Jan 5th on Wirral.

Her mood has definitely cheered up since then. Maybe time to venture into the world again, lockdown rules permitting!

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Good stuff and positive posting to be commended. Jeanette has her orders to attend the London Nightingale 07.30 tomorrow and will be doing at least 3 10hr shifts a week there. At this point she has no idea what her duties will be. In the end it was the least of three evils offered to her under emergency redeployment.

1/ local (Queens) hospital assisting anywhere; place is rife with CV-19.
2/ Mass vaccine centre assisting or giving vaccine; facing hundreds of people a day at close quarters any of whom could be positive/carriers.
3/ Nightingale; patients being transferred in are to free up acute beds in main hospitals, to be transferred in they must have passed a CV-19 test as negative. Whilst it does not prevent it being transferred in it should reduce it. Let's face it most of the patients being transferred in will be elderly/infirm with no home support (what unfortunately are labelled as bed-blockers) and long term recoveries requiring hospitalisation. The patients are not necessarily CV-19 patients at all.

She is guaranteed the vaccine tomorrow. She has the option of staying in a hotel or coming home, parking and refreshments are free. Likely however they will be supplying scrubs only as uniform but that is expected.


Another thing which is slightly worrying is a friend of mine had the vaccine last week and sat for 15 minutes before walking home with no symptoms got home and felt tired (late 60's), had a little sleep in the chair. His wife tried to rouse him and couldn't, called an ambulance and he was put into an induced coma for two days! Diagnosed as anaphylactic reaction to the vaccine. He is home today and recovering but a shocker to us all. He is Ghanaian and has underlaying conditions but totally unexpected all the same.

Anyway, back to the positive stuff please.

midlifecrisis said:

Let's pause with the negativity and celebrate a success.

My mum has had her first vaccination last Thursday and goes back a week Thursday for her second. It's the Pfizer one.

Now, let's look at the numbers to date.

How many people have been infected over the last year with Covid19?

3,357,361 till today.

How many have been vaccinated since it started?

3,559,179 up to and including 15 January.

The last 7 days saw 339,956 positive tests. We're vaccinating a similar number every day and this number will rise as teething problems are ironed out and the more mobile groups being jabbed. My neighbour Audrey is 90 and its been a faff getting her to the vaccination centre, when it comes to me, I can get myself there.

I think that those involved deserve a pat on the back. We'll have this beat soon.

*figures above from gov website

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Well said Martin.....My Father has his next Sunday and they have booked him in for the second one as well.

CatmanV2 said:

When they phoned my mother in law, they only wanted her. Father in law said 'huh' and they took him at the same time. If they live together... don't ask, you don't get

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Because it was right at the beginning and my Dad is 81 and Mum 77. They just assumed she’d follow on soon. But nothing as yet.

Admissions appear to have peaked in the south. From what I recall there’s roughly a 1 week lag between the peak of admissions and a peak of deaths. Means the next couple of weeks will probably the most brutal in the south after which we should start to see the situation improving. Not sure how the midlands and the north will progress.

Was asked to visit a food manufacturer last week, and was in a massive boardroom with just 2 others, the third on a massive 60" telly at the head of the table.
On leaving asked the third where he was... In his office next door!!
Was concerned about the new strain and was keeping himself to himself.
'are you worried yet'
he was!

My other half's 86 year old Mum has had the letter saying she can have the jab in Marlow, but she lives in Rugby!

I took my 82 year old for hers week last Friday. A lot of people needing assistance to get from the car park to the building but when called my mum sprinted off. I think everyone involved is doing a great job and dare I say lifting the nations spirts. My daughter and my sons partner who work on the wards in the NHS have both had theirs as well.

We have heard on our local news this evening that the surgeries here are having trouble getting the over eighties to make appointments. This, they have sussed out, maybe because they have out-sourced the calls to a company and they don't quite sound right to elderly people frightened of cold callers and scammers. My Dad has put the phone down on two calls this week (he told me yesterday) as he thought it was someone trying to sell him something!
I'll have to call their surgery tomorrow to check it out.

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Admissions appear to have peaked in the south. From what I recall there’s roughly a 1 week lag between the peak of admissions and a peak of deaths. Means the next couple of weeks will probably the most brutal in the south after which we should start to see the situation improving. Not sure how the midlands and the north will progress.

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Let’s be honest, we have only seen falls due to the lockdown, and more people being “forced” Into to be sensible. If you stopped the lockdown tomorrow there will be idiots back out on the streets. We have to get it into our heads that reducing unnecessary contact is the main way forward, for the time being. And if we do not have the common sense to realize that ourselves, then that’s why we have to be placed in a lock down situation. One thing that does annoy me is why a large family thinks it’s necessary for them All to go shopping to the supermarket, treating it like a family outing ! That needs to be changed.

Didn't we have a 'Good News' thread somewhere. Rather says a lot about human nature....

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CatmanV2 said:

Didn't we have a 'Good News' thread somewhere. Rather says a lot about human nature....

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Yes, there was as I started one the other week. However it didn't really get very popular and wasn't well used though.

Not sure if it was me or the fact people seem to like bad news more than good.

rockits said:

people seem to like bad news more than good.

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This is what I meant about human nature....

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Sad state of affairs it's true.

rockits said:

Sad state of affairs it's true.

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Not really sad. There are very good reasons, but it is true. IME

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CatmanV2 said:

This is what I meant about human nature....

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It's a survival thing. But only up to a point. After that it's just miserable.

Anyway, I'd still rather live in the UK than anywhere else right now. Knowing that the people who mean most to me will be more resilient means a lot.