Covid - news and views
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Hi Easy, yes it should be if you are in a position to have a jab but, as you suggest, it may not be and there will be various reasons, many of which may never occur to us who have had the jab because we had no reason not to.
If I lived on my own I may well not have had the jab. Not concerned regarding my personal safety although both OH and I are vulnerable and have underlying conditions. Well able to avoid contact to protect others. I suppose that I had the jab partly to protect OH and to protect myself on her behalf. Also for her sake in the future when she wishes to return to normality. If I was on my own and anticipating mingling in society that would also have induced me to have the vaccine.
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yes +1.
I don't understand this giving out of badges or stickers. I assume there is a cost in making them (even at a penny a sticker it will mount up) and I'm puzzled as to what is their purpose? To encourage others to take the vaccine? To show one's pride in having taken it? It doesn't get you any more travel access, or you can by pass any social distancing or even not wear a mask, or any other covid rules?
Like others I believe that if you can then you should, or even must, take the vaccine. The fact that you are helping yourself and perhaps others is all the reward you really need.
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Not least because France is still tightening COVID restrictions. Pas de Calais will be placed under tighter curfew in the coming week. The Phase 1 region specific lockdowns allowed many Parisians to travel to the Vendee etc, carrying infection with them, and incurring the displeasure of the local populace!
Steve
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I don't wish to get political but couldnt agree more. We've built up huge debts trying to get through this. Now when things start up again the budget won't be gathering in huge revenues, and then there's front line pay 🤐🤐 and we are offered stickers and sweets............
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If I had given it a thought, stickergate, I would have presumed that stickers, not offered sweets so now feeling marginalised, were part of the attempt to be as positive as possible about the vaccine.
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But a would sticker it more positive? I don't know, maybe, doesn't for me but each to their own. I'm just puzzled by it.
‘Ok we’re going to give you a vaccine that will highly probably stop you becoming very ill or worse and we’ll give you a sticker’
‘actually you had me at stop me becoming very ill’
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+1👍🏻. Folk seem to be well on board, we are just not dumb enough to fight the lifesaver👏🏻👏🏻
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Same with us. Just want the second now, soon hopefully.
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Was that your distemper jab?🐕🦺
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"But a would sticker it more positive? I don't know, maybe, doesn't for me but each to their own. I'm just puzzled by it."
Oh!!! for goodness sake, so many people obviously in the depths of depression
, its just a sticker, i was given 2, nice lady stuck one on my coat and i have 1 on my hat, still wearing them, did you never get stickers in your comic as a kid and proudly wear them to school?. If i get 2 more when i have my second jab then i will have 4, maybe stick them on the pooches collar 
The lady in the paper shop asks me every morning if i am having a good day today i said
"yes, the sun is up and i am stood up, what more could i ask for" maybe another sticker
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Erm-the lifesaver is the vaccination. It has nothing whatsoever to do with Rangers fans in Scotland🤷🏻♂️🙄. Surprisingly enough when I praised the intelligence of folk(we) taking up the vaccination I didn’t include every single person everywhere ET☹️.
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Interesting comment?
when it is still essential to keep social distancing ,and as "advised by the experts" the vacine is too new to say for sure that it stops transmission or catching the virus , although they do say if infected the symptoms should not be so severe
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Idiots are idiots; be they of the Football Suporter, the Shopping Centre, the Package Holiday Airport, the 100 mile each way drive for exercise, or any other category that drives people to gather in breach of social distancing, safe conduct etc.
Our next door neighbours on the first floor think themselves superior to everyone and above the law. She has an 'important role with the Red Cross' so has arranged for last year's fad, the dog, to be collected from inside her Apartment; the baby, also last year's fad, is collected by the Nanny [aka Childminder, aka the local Councillor] from inside the flat and taken to a childminding gathering organised via the neighbour's WhatsApp Group etc etc. More comings and goings than before the pandemic, and we wonder why the infection rate for a small region is so high.
The Booster jag in Fife needs to incorporate a stupidity and selfishness antidote if we are to lose our ranking as 4th or 5th highest daily infection cases in Scotland.
Rant over ...
Steve
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As i understand it, at the moment the passport being talked about the most is an EU wide passport where countries outside the EU will be invited to participate, and if the EU is as good at rolling out this passport as they are the vaccination programme, dont hold your breath as to when it will be available, hence countries such as Greece, Portugal, Spain are already talking about providing their own in conjunction with the UK, and why wouldnt they
so much for a joined up EU community.But surely the passport is not the holy grail, the vaccine does not stop you becoming infected, it does not stop you infecting others, so the passport is only proof of having had the vaccination which might protect you from the worst of the virus.
So, the scenario, ...when you have had a lovely time in France and you are about to return to the UK where the requirement to enter is still a negative covid-19 test within 72 hours, you dutifully have the test but prove positive, yes you stand a much greater chance of being asymptomatic now you have been vaccinated, where exactly do you go, every possibility you will have to self isolate for 7 - 14 days and provide a negative test,
do you stay on site and politely inform the owner you are covid-19 positive, with all the implications that go hand in hand with your declaration.
if you are holed up on an aires do you now have to find a site for 7 - 14 days again politely informing the owner you are covid-19 positive, sure they are going to be very happy to have you NOT!!!
Must admit i am one of those who says "it will never happen to me"
and how is the vaccination roll out going
UK total doses 21.8M 32.5 pct of population
France total doses 5.0m 7.4 pct of population
Spain total doses 4.2m 9.1 pct of population
Croatia total doses 242,000 5.9 pct of population
yes there is some concern over the total number of deaths in the UK and total number of infections, but there is strong evidence to suggest, that as we are a nation of fatties and covid likes fatties we came off the worst
So is a passport the answer to all our prayers ???
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But surely the passport is not the holy grail, the vaccine does not stop you becoming infected, it does not stop you infecting others, so the passport is only proof of having had the vaccination which might protect you from the worst of the virus.
Nicely put Rufs. It also does not stop you from catching and possibly returning with a more virulent vaccine resistant variant. Mind you if the opportunity presents later in the year we will go.
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