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COVID 19 and vaccines

Discussion in 'Sunderland' started by Vincemac, Feb 15, 2021.

  1. Iptv

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    I’m still waiting for my invitation I can book my first jab at smoggy stadium

    everyday this week but when it’s says ive to book my 2nd it’s says nowt available & I can’t book my first
     
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  2. DH4

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    Your GP will contact you to do it locally if you wait. You do not need to travel to these large vaccination centres if you don't want to or can't drive etc. You cannot book 2nd jab until you have had the first.
     
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  3. Comfy

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    Please don’t think I’m complaining mate as everyone has a choice, was just wondering if people take it into consideration when not accepting it. Like you say they may be other issues that come into play but if you don’t go abroad then it’s not a problem for you. I’m hoping people will start travelling Britain now as it has some beautiful places up and down the country and it’ll help the economy which we desperately need
     
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  4. G Force Ghost

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    Not all the vulnerable who receive it will be immune. It won’t work for everyone. There’ll also still be U50s at risk too. We all have family members who will still be at risk.

    Vaccinations are currently the only way out of this. Covid won’t just be disappearing. We can hope it mutates in time to something less deadly, but current mutations haven’t gone down that route yet.

    I’d prefer everyone to their bit for society and get the jab when offered. I’m at a loss why someone would refuse?

    Without other vaccinations down the years many of us on here wouldn’t be around today.
     
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  5. Ozzymac

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    Nothing on the news sites over here so probably crap
     
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    WWW-DAILYTELEGRAPH.COM.AU1.
     
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  7. MrRAWhite

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    I just got an appointment for 1st jab which I had a couple of weeks back.. Nothing about 2nd one.
     
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  8. Ozzymac

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    followed that link and still can't find it mate :)

    It's behind a paywall but found the header from 2 days ago...

    "Anti-vaxxers ‘kill off’ doctor to spread COVID lies
    ICU specialist Dr Rachel Heap lives in anti-vax heartland of the Byron Shire and after her COVID-19 vaccination last week, anti-vaxxers started spreading lies about her imminent death."

    A bit of research shows that she is an Intensive Care Doctor that believes in vaccination. Byron Bay is hippy central and full of anti vaxxers so i'd say the fact that the doctor herself has commented means that she's probably not in a coma
     
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  9. gelders pie

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    I just googled Byron bay anti vaxxers and it brought that up - Saturday Telegraph ?
     
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  10. rowley

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    These anti vaxers are the same types who believe in any mental conspiracy or mad cap theory that suits the current time.

    Vaccinations are the only way out. And it won't take just one. This virus might linger for years, and probably for a few seasons as a serious threat, according to the less demented experts.

    Not much in favour of anything like this being compulsory, and I'm not on the vaccine. But I can see a lot of things being possibly denied to those who choose not to have one.Travel, Pubs and Restaurants, possibly even work.

    Pressure from all these areas to demand proof of having had a vaccine might be listened to. It doesn't take a government to impose a rule, it might just creep in by " need".
     
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  11. Nig

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    I didn't think you were complaining mate.
    Im not an anti vaxer although I know people who are. They are mainly decent people.
    I have no problem with them, everyone is different with differing views.
    As I say it's personal choice and I excersise my right to choose.
    I wear a mask and keep my distance in respect to others, for me personally I don't give a shìt.
    You see People on social media calling others out for not wearing masks, distancing, etc . Then the same hypocritical pricks are out doing the same.

    Me dad had to go back into hospital today after only 4 days unfortunately.
    An old friend was passing me dads house and we got chatting, he was telling me when the first lockdown started last year they were away in their caravan in Yorkshire.
    They packed up and heading home through towns he said people were shouting abuse, fook off pikeys. Covid spreaders, flicking v's, spitting at them etc etc.

    Go to the pub ?
    Fook that mate, I'll be arrested :D
     
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  12. Essayyeffcee

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    Just had my first jab today, wasn't too bad and felt it inside my arm afterwards. My shift partner's sister is a physiotherapist and she told him to massage the arm to move the vaccine down and I did that and really can't feel it in that part of my arm anymore - who knows it might have worked! Getting a bit of a headache and took some tablets and hopefully that's all the after affects I get
     
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  13. Tongester55

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    Me and the wife booked ours on the computer and booked the 1st (which we have both had) AND the 2nd at the same time, both in May.
    However, her 2 older sisters booked their 1st ones when they received a letter from the doctors. They couldn't book the 2nd one and have to wait until they get another letter from the doctors.
     
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  14. NC Sanddancer

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    In North Carolina. Going for my first dose tomorrow. Much more organized in the UK. Some of the states are good including NC, I will be able to book second dose at my appointment . My daughter is in Texas and it’s a total lottery !!
     
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  15. The Doodler

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    We used what is possibly our best national asset: the National Health Service*. People trust doctors and the medical profession and believe they have no political agenda.



    * As a media tool! ...as well as giving them the resources to let them get on with it. I'd also recognise in this the support from our professional British Army, particularly with the impressively early and rapid mass roll-out. It was another asset and national resource we could draw upon.
     
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  16. clockstander

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    Same here, but the 3 months deadline is close for me, less than 2 weeks away, so if I don't hear from my GP this week I am going to give them a ring, I think that is the procedure. <ok>
     
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    Our doctors, (the wifes and mine,separate practices), phoned a day or two before the appointments, (different centers in Sunderland north and south), a bit Ad hoc maybe, but seems to be working ok so far..
     
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  18. Makemstine Roger

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    hope all goes well for you mate, look forward to your comments on the Oxford game
     
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  19. Sunderpitt

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    It is similar to one nutter who wondered around the corridors of a hospital in the early hours of the morning making a short video, unsurprisingly not many people were about. His commentary was stating this as evidence that hospitals were not busy with Covid19 admissions... it was all a fake news etc.

    You do wonder what mental illness these people have, hopefully they do not breed and the gene dies out.
     
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  20. NC Sanddancer

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    Yes over here it is definitely political. NC is a Republican state but thank the lord we have a Democrat as our governor!! Love the NHS, worked for it up until I had my first kid and then left the UK. Trained at the old Sunderland Royal Infirmary. Loved it.
     
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