Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[davek]

What did we do the other year when we needed to vaccinate 65 million people asap?

If our system has the capacity and functionality to use every single option we have to deliver it, we should use it, no?

That might include pharmacies, who are very much part of the medical system. And do jabs anyrate.

You saying "we should have done that, we should have done this" is all well and good in a discussion group with no consequence. But I would prefer to use every single thing we have at our disposal.

Pharmacies yes, pharmacies in a supermarket is a different kettle of fish.

 

[navidson]

"You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please Davek any of the time”​

John Lydgate

 

[roydo]

Pharmacies yes, pharmacies in a supermarket is a different kettle of fish.

No Dave, they are not.

Cos they are not allowed to be.

 

[davek]

Should be the government doing this, but...

Thanks for saying you'll chip in!

speakout.38degrees.org.uk

 

[davek]

No Dave, they are not.

Cos they are not allowed to be.

Different environment they are in.

 

[xena]

Who as said they're going to use supermarkets ?.
If they're going to be used now id ask why.If its down the line id say yeah brilliant when theirs plenty of vaccine.
Speaking for my self at the moment a supermarket is probably be one off the few places i could catch covid unless wife or son bring it home from work.

 

[summerisle]

Grim again.

 

[navidson]

Grim again.

Numbers probably need massaging a little longer

 

[roydo]

Different environment they are in.

You seriously think they will actually have dozens of folk queuing in the shop? I mean if they do, thats dumb. But its the expertise they will use.

Could use caravans in the car park. Sit in your car till texted. Marquees when the weather warms up. Rear entrances.

All of those strategies have been used near me for jabs, click and collect, GP appointments, meds.

 

[Brennan]

Pharmacies yes, pharmacies in a supermarket is a different kettle of fish.

You've no evidence to support this claim whatsoever.

 

[Goat]

You've no evidence to support this claim whatsoever.

LOL

You think dave works with evidence?

 

[mahermi1]

They're more likely to have the required adrenalin etc than your GP will...

Still, if he's allowed to have the vaccine, will be taking him to a hospital, when it's his turn to take it... final answer.

 

[mahermi1]

Had a flu jab last year at a chemist. They told me I had to wait around for 15 mins afterwards in case I had a reaction. So I guess they know what to do.

Maybe they do because they have experience doing the flu jab, but in case you don't know this isn't for the flu and people have had serious adverse reactions to the covid vaccine, even in a hospital, if they have serious allergies. Safest place in my view to have the jab with a severe allergy and that's even if they allow you to have the vaccine, bit up in the air atm.

 

[Shevin Keedy]

You talked absolute nonsense advising folk what vaccine to take. Now you are saying they shouldnt go to a pharmacy. All down some neo liberal guff that seems to sustain you.

To be fair, if it had not been for decades of neoliberal ideology resulting in (amongst other things) underfunding of the National Heath Service, then it may not have been necessary for supermarkets to provide this service; we may have actually had a healthcare service capable of dealing with such health crises.

However, I do agree that we are where we are and the implementation of high treet pharmacies vaccinating is probably a logical step. The point is that it should not be so.

 

[Methuselah]

Me and her indoors had our Covid Jab today. I was a bit miffed that I didn't get a sweet for not crying. Even though I had the proof of dry eyes, they said the fact that I rolled around on the floor like a Premiership footballer and wailing and gnashing my teeth at the same time, counted against me.