Covid - news and views
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My OH and I have had three jabs against Covid with no major side effects.We both have annual flu jabs with no major side effects.We both have underlying health conditions and therefore welcome the extra protection that vaccination affords us.We are both still cautious about exposing ourselves to unnecessary risk of Covid infection.
We have not taken to living in a barrel on a pole but just get on with our lives as best we can.We have had very difficult times in our lives before and got through them -eventually.
One day this prolonged nightmare will end but until then we are just "getting on with it" much like our Parents had ro during WW2.
I really find it hard to understand why some people are getting so exercised about the whole thing - Life does not come without problems,it is just the way things are.
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Face masks on planes are interesting….passengers are told that they must be worn at all times apart from when eating or drinking. Easyjet pilot even went as far as saying if you didn’t comply you would have to get off the flight - hadn’t heard that point made so bluntly before. So far so good…..then you realise you’re surrounded by a rowdy bunch of Welsh football fans whose only objective is to drink as much as they could before arriving at their destination. So they spent most of the flight either drinking or pestering the cabin staff for more drinks, all of which is not conducive to wearing a face covering and made worse by their need to shout at each other and laugh loudly at just about anything one of them said. I felt sorry for the young female cabin staff who did their best to keep them amused and contained, made more difficult by the fact that they had a 17th century attitude towards young women. After that experience I fully expected to test positive, but luck was on my side.
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Yes, but I’m just telling it as it is. 😉
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I had some ideas, all he needed to do was ask. 😀
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The domestic test situation is becoming slightly farcical - not only have they decided in their wisdom to make it more difficult to get a pack of LFT by having to obtain a code, but even when you've got that code you're hard pushed to get a pack. We tried 3 pharmacies in town this morning and they were "out of stock" at every one of them!
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But why is why does everything have to be done online?
It isn't instant, whereas collecting from a pharmacy, assuming they have stock, is. I didn't need a code when I last asked for some the assistant just said would you like a 'random', not sure of her actual word, pack.
We've have postal delivery issues, not being slowly resolved, some folk hadn't had delivery for 6 weeks so online wasn't any use! Not everyone has access wanted or not, to online facilities........
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Read an article written by Andrew Neil yesterday this is a short passage from that article.
"In France, vaccine scepticism was initially rampant but the week after President Emmanual Macron announced the vaccine-passport policy a record 3.7 million people booked to get their jabs"
the policy almost bans non-vaccinated from all public places and only allows for essential shopping
seems to me the French did not want to be banned from sipping their onion soup in some swanky restaurant on the banks of the Seine, I wonder which way the moral compass of the anit vaxers is swinging now
he went on to say
"as long as they can be numbered (anti vaxers) in the millions the nation will remain unnecessarily vulnerable to the latest variant, meaning more lockdown more restrictions on our lives, more lost jobs , more failing business, less economic growth"
he also had a very good idea for the covid pass, print it out cut it to the size of your phone case and stick it on, that way you dont have to continually keep flashing up your phone etc.
all seems very sensible to me
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Seems that the "rights" of anti-vaxxers trump the "rights" of other people to are able to continue to live a normal life without restrictions being imposed.
Whilst compulsory vaccination might not be desirable, refusing should come with restrictions on movement then the rest of us wouldn't have restrictions on our movements.
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Haven't had any problems getting packs of tests, the ones we get have 7 tests in them and like AD our pharmacy usually gives us 2 boxes each.
First lit we did order on line but now we can get them in any pharmacy or in town at the NHS testing station.
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Up here it is being suggested we should test every few days, and especially when going out and will be in more crowded situations.
Other than essential shopping, we pretty much stay at home or only are with DD and family who, as SIL is a teacher, test every couple of days, so we have not done regular testing as yet, however we plan to do so before meeting up with more family members over the Christmas period.
I ordered one pack on line to test before going to dentist/optician/hospital, quite surprised they have not been insisting on these tests already. Have now ordered additional packs, so we should be OK for a few weeks.
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No problem here either. I generated a code online and OH took it to the local chemist, who gave her two boxes, as there are two of us. Previously we just had to ask, but they now have a poster up saying you need an authorisation code.
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"Read an article written by Andrew Neil yesterday................"
I too read the article and also one earlier last week on a similar theme.
The previous article author said she was against the idea of a Covid Passport however, was even more opposed to the idea of compulsory vaccination and believed this would, if introduced, make martyrs of those who, for whatever reason, would not have the vaccine.
So if it came to a choice between the two Covid Passports would be preferable, she mentioned the apparent impact this has had in France.
One could argue that being required to be vaccinated, as care home workers are, and soon NHS workers will be, is akin to compulsory vaccination but the author made the point that she saw Covid Passports as similar to a driving licence or a passport-its not something you must have but will require if you choose to drive or travel internationally.
So as we recently found, when going to Cyprus, its a pain in the backside to repeatedly having to show your Covid pass, but rather that than people being forced, and how that would work I have no idea, to be vaccinated.
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Exactly the same comment I get when reporting a Negative Test on line !!
Not sure which will run out first -- the tests or the reams of printer paper I am getting through !!
I just wish they would standardise things
It took me a fair while to work out that a " Rapid Antigen Test " and a " Lateral Flow Test " are one and the same { I Think }0 -
Currently out of stock when I tried to get some this morning. Down to our last couple of tests. Hopefully I'll be able to get some from our pharmacy. Used one this morning after an E Mail yesterday from our vicar that he was +. He was sat in my car along with two other guys on Thursday evening too. Fortunately the test I've just done is -.
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Yup got the same, but have been ordering online every day for almost 2 weeks so plenty in reserve
, only do a test if I have been somewhere a bit dodgey, off to Portsmouth Guildhall Wednesday evening for Royal Marine band concert, may just take a few tests after this event.0
