Covid - news and views
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Fascinating article on the BBC website today about how research is showing if you have the common cold virus then you can't easily catch covid!
Apparently they explained it quite well in simple terms even I could understand. If you think of your cells as houses then some viruses get in and will keep the door open and share but others will shut the door completely. Apparently the common cold virus is one that shuts the door and the covid virus can't enter. And even if covid is there slightly first the common cold will throw it out the house and take up residence instead!
Amazing really how we all work!
see here
If rhinovirus (common cold) and Sars-CoV-2 were released at the same time, only rhinovirus is successful. If rhinovirus had a 24-hour head start then Sars-CoV-2 does not get a look in. And even when Sars-CoV-2 had 24-hours to get started, rhinovirus boots it out.
"Sars-CoV-2 never takes off, it is heavily inhibited by rhinovirus," Dr Pablo Murcia told BBC News.
He added: "This is absolutely exciting because if you have a high prevalence of rhinovirus, it could stop new Sars-CoV-2 infections."0 -
I listened to all 3 parts of a documentary on BBC sounds yesterday called "The Jump". It details how three different viruses, Covid, Bird flu and HIV made the jump from animals to humans.
The last one on HIV was particularly interesting. Scientists have pinned down exactly when, where and how the jump from monkeys to humans was made. They have even discovered the troop of monkeys involved.
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I listened to those too. Very interesting, and scary at the same time. There are some very clever and patient folk who look into this sort of thing.
All seems to come back to humans.......
Also listened to Lessons on a crisis, and the vaccination the world. Radio 4 always on 😉. Sometimes I have to remember to listen properly 😂
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Our Local Authority is distributing Rapid Lateral Flow Tests to anyone for the asking for home use. We picked up a couple today in passing. hopefully won't need them! Also heard today on local news media that some second vaccinations are being cancelled and rebooked. It did suggest that some of the second jabs were being done before the 12 weeks from the first were up. Ours are booked at eleven and half weeks from the first so it will be interesting to see if ours go ahead?
David
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I'm due to have my second one on Thursday, 10 weeks and 4 days after my first one, and OH had her second one 10 weeks to the day after her first one.
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Not yet, WN, but I passed two ( 2 ) boxes of M & S eggs various to aged sister and she will distribute them around her G & GG children over this coming week. But I don't think there will be any left for yours truly, so I'll buy myself another couple of boxes tomorrow and distribute them in my locale ~~ well it's only fair innit
I did send a 'Thank You' card after my first vaccination so I could even buy a bag or two of the thumbnail sized eggs and leave them for the "Workers" couldn't I.
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Retirement 'to do list' : Wake up ~~ Nailed it
Went to an Antiques Auction only to find folks were bidding on ME.
Retired : under New Management ~~ See Spouse for details.
I don't have grey hair -- I have Wisdom Highlights
Some times it takes me all day to get nothing done
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Had a text yesterday. Jabs booked for Saturday.
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Got a text from GP surgery for OH to book 2nd jab on 7th or 9th, when I eventually got through last attempt 46 minutes. Had a joke with receptionist regarding being busy as a result of texting folks, I do know her, only to find delivery has been halted, no reason given, so she was getting lots of earache! There is a long recorded run in message before you get a ringing tone for receptionist with lots of spiel on the virus, new systems etc, said to her their earache could be saved by a temporary tweak to the message, her reply short reply spoke volumes, 'it had been suggested in house'......
My brother suggested going online and checking out a centre situation - hadn't thought of that. Got started but tripped up after entering NHS number, not eligible to use a centre contact GP. Wasn't overly surprised and not an issue.
Fingers crossed they'll have a new supply very soon as that would be 11 weeks since his first.
Good to hear others are getting theirs. The country has done very well on the roll out 👏👏
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B2, our jabs are GP led so we don't know when we get our boosters however our elderly neighbours are just about to get theirs so the local call system is working. We have phone calls, they phone us, no texts. Just sorry there is a break on the roll out for the next group.
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My brother and Sister-in-Law are both in their 70s, both in poor health with many underlying conditions and should get their first Jab today!!!
They live in France. Yet Macron still blames UK, even though he was chief scare mongerer of OAZ. He hasn't covered himself in glory.
Says it all really.
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Got a GP text again yesterday, 2nd jabs now available again, delivery confirmed. Spent an hour in the queue but got OH's booked for 7th. All early appointments gone, not that we wanted one of those 🤣 but 1130 is great.
Fingers crossed for mine but a couple 3 weeks behind himself, and his will be a 10 days early.
Hope the delays in the next group to be called won't be too long
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My sister / brother in law, in same age group as us but living in a France, still have not had a date. We had ours back on the 13th Feb. However, they will get the second jab four weeks after the first, so if they get the first within the next couple of weeks, should still end up fully vaccinated about the same time as us at the beginning of May.
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Hi we have made appointments this morning for both jabs 1st one morning for me and pm for OH on 22nd April and 2nd 9.40 for me and 10am for OH on 17th May and will be having them at the vaccination centre (Salle de Fete) in Villefranche our usual shopping centre, OH said a bit of a long way around to do them but all done at last, we actually saw where to go as it is next to DIY shop Bricorama which we use regularly.
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Only taken me two [ 2 ] months to reply Tinners, but according to the papers they gave me at MY SECOND JABBING TODAY, the second injection should be of the same make as the first !! The reasoning was not included alas but could it be that they are getting the same overall results by going down a very different, non-compatible path ??
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My mother in law had the Pfizer jab first but as her mobility has gone downhill recently we were unable to take her to the surgery for her second jab the other week.
Have been told by Doctor they will check again in a couple of weeks and if she then needs a home visit it will have to be the AZ instead.
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I heard from a friend in France this week about the difficulties over there. Worse for her because she has MS and has been told not to have the jab (I think most with MS can have it in the UK.) She lost her husband during Covid so I expect she feels very vulnerable to the vagaries of the French system.
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I think our motorhome and caravans would struggle for the required temps 😱
OH booked for his 2nd next week. The text included 'if you had the Pfizer jab in January' so same one. Felt for the reception staff, took me 3 attempts and hanging on for 2 hours before I was the caller 😀. I asked to book, sorry 'no' came the response. I assumed all gone but she said before I could ask, 'delivery cancelled'. We exchanged pleasantries, I know her, regarding earache and grief she must be getting, and said a small addition to the delightful ift repeated messages spoken whilst holding would have eased everyone's tension 😉. Apparently the suggestion had been made but fallen on deaf ears!! Next day fresh test saying delivery now confirmed, repeat the process. Good job it wasnt 1st April........
It must be so hard to be alone, anywhere, as your friend in France brue. Especially if the country's system doesn't seem as well organised as ours - well on the vaccine issue anyway 😉.
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Although our local system got off to a slow start aparaently we've done more jabs per capita than many places in the uk. The GP led units don't ask anyone to call, they call us. A friend had to phone the surgery this week regarding another matter and the receptionist said she'd had over 138 phone calls that afternoon mostly from people who just needed to wait to be called but hadn't! So I can understand why some places with different systems are inundated.
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There was a very good documentary on BBC2 last night re the horror of Covid , and yet i read in the news today that 50 flights landed in Spain yesterday from Germany full of German holiday makers, obviously none of the passengers had watched BBC2 last night, and not just Germany, France where 40% of the population are refusing any sort of vaccination and where the President refused to lock down the country because he did not think it necessary and look at the state the country is in now, and dont get me started on Brazil, they are working 24x7 just to bury their dead, and still the President is in denial , shocking
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, and all because he got, and replied to, a text ~-~- so now that's the second jab booked for a week today.
. No jabbing required 
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