Off Topic Covid 19 restrictions have done one

ERYC will not fund such things, and there is no commercial incentive for private companies to subsidise those that have chosen to live in the housing estates outside Hull.

None of which changes the main point.

 

The other comments were about the amount of traffic on a non working day when we are requested not to be travelling about. The problems of parking in Hull in normal times on working days is a separate issue.

 

I’ve had similar with my Mam & Dad. They’re both currently housebound (all in their Docs records) but were asked to go miles away for their vacc. When I rang the surgery I was told to ignore it & they’d get theirs at home soon.

 

Aye, of course, some would conveniently think that.

 

I certainly just read the original post as a lockdown comment rather than a Nimby one, given the thread it was posted in.

 

Which housing estates are outside Hull? Bransholme, Longville , Gypsyville etc don't pay their rate to ERCC. They didn't exactly choose to live there. No choice if they wanted a council house. City centre ones are somewhat on the low side.

 

Possibly bad news. Hope the workers had parked on nearby streets so their cars are safe.

 

Some would read it correctly as a comment on lockdown traffic on a non working day. I am not exactly known for siding with OLM, am I?

 

Cherry, South Cave, North Cave etc. etc. are all just housing estates. They'd quite likely score higher than Council Estates on the deprivation index due to the lack of facilities.

Anyway, I think the replies have helped make my response, as I expected they would, so it's as well to get back to covid now.

 

My mam had the same. Got a letter, rang the number, was offered a jab at the Ethihad (she lives in suburbs on the other side of Manchester). She accepted, but then started fretting about how to get there (doesn't drive) and where to go when she got there and how far she'd have to walk (bad eyesight, bad legs etc). So she rang her GP surgery who were really helpful and found her an appointment at a surgery less than a mile from home instead. And on the day, the nurse came out to her and injected her while she was still sitting in the back of the taxi, to the bemusement of the driver, so she was out of the house for less than 15 minutes. Bloody fab.

The vaccination centres strike me as one of those ideas that sounded good in theory but isn't very well thought through. Have big centralised facilities and then invite people of an age where many of them have given up driving, afraid of public transport due to COVID, and lockdown means difficulty for family or friends to give them a lift. Would have been much better to put the effort into rolling out to the local surgeries. If you have the central facilities then use them for frontline workers and not old people who worry themselves daft at the idea of venturing into a city centre when their world has shrunk to a couple of miles radius from their house.

 

Housing Estates? JHC

 

Many of them are former farm estates serving the labourers, that have expanded slightly. They really are just poorly served housing estates. I realise some get upset with that definition, but there it is.

 

I notice there’s another thread about being middle aged. Well this thread is a spectacular example of what exiting middle age, becoming an old fart and whingeing on pointlessly looks like.

 

He pointlessly whinged.

 

Oh dear.

 

Writes a member of the old farts club.

 

A sensible approach in my view.

Practices can now offer Covid-19 vaccination to patients who are not within the first four JCVI-identified priority groups if there is a ‘risk’ the stock will be wasted, NHS England has said.

However, stocks should still not be used to deliver second doses.

Practices can also begin ‘opportunistic’ vaccinations of those within the first four cohorts as part of a ‘more flexible approach’ announced today.

It comes as PCNs were yesterday given the green light to begin inviting patients over 70 and the clinically extremely vulnerable for Covid vaccinations.

Announcing the expansion, the Government said practices should continue to offer the vaccine to each priority group in the order set out by the JCVI.

However, NHS England has today set out additional ‘flexibility’ for practices delivering the programme.

The latest general practice bulletin said: ‘In order to support achievement of a vaccination offer to all individuals within JCVI cohorts 1-4 by 15 February 2021, and guided by the principles of minimising wastage, reducing inequality of access, and maximising pace, we are now moving to a more flexible approach across cohorts 1-4.’

https://www.nursinginpractice.com/c...iority-cohorts-if-vaccine-risks-being-wasted/

 

Ever wished you'd have stayed in bed???

So I got up and went to work this morning as normal only to hear four or five our staff have tested positive for Covid.

The decision was made to close the place for the next ten days. Business was just starting to pick up FFS!

At least one, a mate of mine is feeling very ill. He's a very fit 35 year old and I'm sure he'll be OK. I think the others are asymptomatic, possibly me I suppose.

Anyway.... We were sent home and the place is closed for an indefinite period. Gutted.

So anyway, I set off for home, feeling worried and anxious for the future.
I'm having a cigarette, when a voice from behind me "excuse me sir"!

It was a police officer.

"I've just observed you throwing down a cigarette but onto the pavement and I'm afraid I'm going to have to issue you with an eighty pound fine".

Look officer, I'm skint (I really am, I'm spectacularly unsuccessful).

Officer : Well I'm sorry for that, but I have to issue you with this £80 fine.

Kemps : Oh well, it is what it is, have a good day and stay safe, officer.

 

I told you when you said you were going to stop it would, apart from the health benefits, save you money. Seems I was right.