Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[BlueToff]

The places that did Flu vaccines should be doing covid vaccines as well now.

I have family and friends in the NHS who are volunteering to do weekends at vaccination centres.

Seems its a big push to throw everything at getting as many people vaccinated as possible, which is a good thing.

100%, and you can have your flu jab at ASDA.

The quicker the better, and it's no bad thing.

I know we've disagreed on a fair bit in this thread Mooms but anyone saying different to what you said just then is being contrary for the sake of it.

Can't stand this government, but people can't demand they do something and then moan when they do it.

 

[BlueToff]

Just had my first Rona test. Negative. Were getting tested weekly on site now...

Aye but remember mate you might be incubating it so whatever you do, DO NOT GO AND HUG ON A FOOTBALL PITCH

Glad you tested negative

 

[evilwebby]

If there have been 3.5m positive tests out of a population of 66m, what do we seriously reckon the overall "percentage of UK population who have had covid" is now? 30%? 50%? Wouldn't surprise me it it's in those realms tbh and new official case numbers are starting to drop because, well, there's just fewer people left who haven't had it by now.

 

[grandjoeblue]

All in this together

Whats the problem with this? Surely once people are vaccinated holidays can happen?

 

[evilwebby]

Whats the problem with this? Surely once people are vaccinated holidays can happen?

so long as everyone else they come into contact with has also been vaccinated...

 

[davek]

Why is this bad? They will have a pharmacy. Pharmacies do the flu vaccine.

It underlines just where we are after decades of neo-liberalism: overburdening and underfunding local state infrastructure to an extent that we see a supermarket stepping in to provide a jab for people and not local health authorities.

I'd also say that supermarkets are an inappropriate place for the elderly and vulnerable to be visiting in a pandemic to get a vaccine to beat the pandemic - shopping centres being right at the top of the list of environments where transmission is generated.

 

[davek]

He has called it a joke, on numerous occasions. He also just called it the flu as well.

I've no idea what possesses people. What's the point of suggesting this is all "dubious"?

 

[roydo]

It underlines just where we are after decades of neo-liberalism: overburdening and underfunding local state infrastructure to an extent that we see a supermarket stepping in to provide a jab for people and not local health authorities.

I'd also say that supermarkets are an inappropriate place for the elderly and vulnerable to be visiting in a pandemic to get a vaccine to beat the pandemic - shopping centres being right at the top of the list of environments where transmission is generated.

They arnt stepping in.

You have been able to get flu jabs at supermarkets for years. They are just helping out.

 

[grandjoeblue]

so long as everyone else they come into contact with has also been vaccinated...

So you want 100% of people to be vaccinated before any normality resumes?

If so, wake me up in about 2024 when that might have happened.

 

[davek]

They arnt stepping in.

You have been able to get flu jabs at supermarkets for years. They are just helping out.

Flu jabs in normal times are not vaccines in times of a pandemic. Retail is THE environment for the virus transmission, why bring the vulnerable people there?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

It underlines just where we are after decades of neo-liberalism: overburdening and underfunding local state infrastructure to an extent that we see a supermarket stepping in to provide a jab for people and not local health authorities.

I'd also say that supermarkets are an inappropriate place for the elderly and vulnerable to be visiting in a pandemic to get a vaccine to beat the pandemic - shopping centres being right at the top of the list of environments where transmission is generated.

My wife and I had our flu vaccine last year at the local Superdrug. I don't see the problem. It's not like the elderly don't go shopping, or indeed that hospitals and other medical facilities aren't well known hotspots for getting all manner of infections.

 

[davek]

My wife and I had our flu vaccine last year at the local Superdrug. I don't see the problem. It's not like the elderly don't go shopping, or indeed that hospitals and other medical facilities aren't well known hotspots for getting all manner of infections.

I'd have thought by now any usage of the word 'flu' - or experience of it - in relation to this virus would have been avloided by now.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I'd have thought by now any usage of the word 'flu' - or experience of it - in relation to this virus would have been avloided by now.

Do they inject the Covid vaccine up your backside instead then or something?

 

[Neiler]

So by the time they get around to vaccinating the healthy part of the population it'll be time to re-vaccinate the vulnerable?

Pretty much, it will be rolled out annually like the flu jab, everyone should get it preferably in the Autumn, be a few bumps in the road this year unquestionably logistically. I suspect by this Autumn we might have single dose vaccines, so that should help.

 

[roydo]

Flu jabs in normal times are not vaccines in times of a pandemic. Retail is THE environment for the virus transmission, why bring the vulnerable people there?

Supermarkets are not going to have the data to invite folk for a jab. So the elderly/vulnerable will be most likely done via GPs.

And I am not sure retail is THE environment neither.