Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Spadge Vernacular]

I get the Stanley Johnson but he is in the 80+ at-risk group. There probably has been some favoritism in getting to his second jab but thought I'd add a bit of balance.

 

[Tubey]

I get the Stanley Johnson but he is in the 80+ at-risk group. There probably has been some favoritism in getting to his second jab but thought I'd add a bit of balance.

He turned 80 last year and doesn't seem to have a pre-existing condition, yet he was apparently first in line.

We all know why, they know we know why, and they're laughing in our faces.

 

[roydo]

I get the Stanley Johnson but he is in the 80+ at-risk group. There probably has been some favoritism in getting to his second jab but thought I'd add a bit of balance.

I hope its cos France said he needed it to go there, and he never comes back.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Madness

 

[Blues Harp]

I get the Stanley Johnson but he is in the 80+ at-risk group. There probably has been some favoritism in getting to his second jab but thought I'd add a bit of balance.

He fathered bozo (I think) so on that basis alone he should go to the back of the queue
lol lol

 

[BlueToff]

Sorry yeah, you can of course make it a scenic nine hour drive, perhaps if you went via the west coast? Which is also a great deal more sparsely-populated, you're right.

Anyways... back on topic. As I've said before New Zealand does of course have a lot of obvious geographic advantages in a pandemic, we're isolated, we have an ability to close borders easily & effectively, a smaller population, and economically we're perhaps not as reliant on a near-neighbour as much as the UK is on Europe, for instance.

However, we also have a few economic disadvantages which we've had suffer for, chiefly a heavy reliance on tourism (which pre-COVID was our #1 earner). Clearly our government though has taken the pandemic more seriously than Johnson's government in the UK. From the outset the direction was clear - Ardern has always said her goal was to keep COVID out of the country. The messaging has been entirely consistent since March last year. Which compares to the slip-shod mixed-messaging coming from those in power in the UK.

I mean, it still amazes me that for me as a foreiger to travel to the United Kingdom tomorrow, all I need to do is complete a Passenger Locator form and I could walk on to the plane. A British national (or any other foreigner, for that matter) can't enter New Zealand. Even New Zealand citizens wanting to fly back to New Zealand from the UK need 1) a negative COVID test, and 2) a voucher confirming accommodation for two weeks in a managed quarantine hotel facility (the quarantine is managed by the Army).

100% agree mate

What's it looking like for the vaccine over there?

 

[BlueToff]

Madness

Ah, sweet bureaucracy strikes again

 

[roydo]

Ah, sweet bureaucracy strikes again

My GP surgery were more than happy to jab anyone when the sell by date was close for their batches.

My Mum was booked in, but weirdly my Dad wasnt. She mentioned it, they looked at his records and he was jabbed 15 minutes later cos some folk hadnt turned up.

 

[Tubey]

Ah, sweet bureaucracy strikes again

We'll have the same issue i think. In some ways you have to have sympathy with it as every vaccine will be tracked on NHS ID numbers. So having the odd 30 year old immunised would raise questions, and if it were allowed, would mean the system was ripe for abuse.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

My GP surgery were more than happy to jab anyone when the sell by date was close for their batches.

My Mum was booked in, but weirdly my Dad wasnt. She mentioned it, they looked at his records and he was jabbed 15 minutes later cos some folk hadnt turned up.

The worry is the delays in the post will see a lot of people miss appointments.

My nan has mates in their mid to late 80's who haven't heard anything about a vaccine appointment yet.

 

[Tubey]

The worry is the delays in the post will see a lot of people miss appointments.

My nan has mates in their mid to late 80's who haven't heard anything about a vaccine appointment yet.

I have an elderly relative in their 90s with extreme health conditions - nothing.

I'm not surprised though; she lives in the north.

 

[Toffee in Jandals]

100% agree mate

What's it looking like for the vaccine over there?

Timeframe for roll-out is from mid-March I believe. The Aussies are getting theirs sooner, from mid/late February.

 

[anxiouswarrior]

Seems like the North West is top of the death stats even when the media is spreading the message about london and the south east , its not a competition but jesus wept get the info correct, so much for the garbage of the Bullingdon and his tory spivs and their so called levelling up agenda

 

[roydo]

The worry is the delays in the post will see a lot of people miss appointments.

My nan has mates in their mid to late 80's who haven't heard anything about a vaccine appointment yet.

I have an elderly relative in their 90s with extreme health conditions - nothing.

I'm not surprised though; she lives in the north.

The surgeries will have the appointment letters ready to go, the minute they know when they will get their vax supply. Trust me, Mrs R used to arrange flu jabs every year. This is, atm, the same target group.

And folk miss jab appointments all the time. For usually really mundane reasons.

 

[COYBL25]

The worry is the delays in the post will see a lot of people miss appointments.

My nan has mates in their mid to late 80's who haven't heard anything about a vaccine appointment yet.

Same with both of my parents, who are fit and well.

They’re still doing the vulnerable and over 80’s with underlying health conditions.