It’s a strange thing, but even though I know it doesn’t hurt at all, everytime I have to have a blood test (liver function etc., yes lads you’ve got it to come) I bet I would break one of their blood pressure machines.
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I have a weird thing with needles where the feeling doesn’t bother me but I can’t watch it go in and I can’t watch bloody being drawn. I also (and this sounds insane) always feel like I can hear my bloody being pulled out of me so I won’t ever given blood. Freak me out.
Would have no issues with COVID vaccine though ignoring the inevitable day or two of feeling bloody awful after it.
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As with in the summer, the figures appear higher on Tuesdays and Wednesdays as its catching up data from weekends (which is also why Sunday and Monday's are lower)
Just read something interesting about the idea out there that the Covid vaccine has been "rushed" and therefore possibly unsafe. And what I read makes sense in retrospect. The idea of a "rush" to create a vaccine against Covid-19 gives the false impression that it's been ushered through shoddily. But scientists have been working on corona virus vaccines for about 2 decades. So part of the "rush" was for these scientists to drop working on a given corona virus type and start working on the current one that causes covid-19 (since things like SARS and MERS are all corona virus types). And it also pointed out that the vaccine that Pfizer developed went thru phase 3 of clinical testing (huge sample sizes, using a double-blind procedure), which is the usual and safe process for screening a vaccine.
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Ye I get that , but still way to high.
I'm pretty sure I passed out when I had TB at high school (guess I'd have been 15?).
I also pass out every time I have to have a blood test -which because of an issue with my heart a few years ago I was having quite a lot of.
Thing is, I'm not particularly scared of needles, it's more the feeling.
Plus my veins - and this is the nurses who say this - apparently don't show very well in my arms, so they always have to have about three goes.
FFS, I nearly fainted doing the anit-body finger-prick test in September because the first one didn't draw enough blood
But tbf Dave, this virus doesn't really impact all that many people in terms of genuine illness.
As long as the vaccines (plural) do their job and give protection, then that's fine. If NHS workers and vulnerable groups get the Pfizer one, for example, and then people my age with no underlying issues have to get one which is slightly less effective, but more easily accessible, then where's the harm.
Plus, even if it's 75% (which is the low end of their scale as it goes to 90% when dosed differently), that's still more protection than the flu jab offers, which is surely the most widely administered vaccine every year.
We're the first country to be rolling out the vaccine, one way or the other. I'm not saying that that is the government or Britain being great or whatever, but it's happening. that's a positive. 400,000 people (obviously assuming no waste which isn't gonna happen but anyway) could well be vaccinated in this country in just over a weeks' time. How is that a bad thing?
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From subway this morning. People defo lost it.
Bonkers. It's brass monkeys out there, and that lady is out with bare ankles. She'll catch her death.
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She was wearing two surgical masks on top of each other too..its just so weird, kills all the joy for life for all of us. i'm more empath than furious, mind.
You marry a nurse and surgical masks and rubber gloves become a regular prop in nocturnal activities.
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