Am I first on CC to get this?

[Seevio]

Now that you are under the direct control of Bill Gates I await details of what he is making you do.

The first sign is saying your bike has "clippy" pedals.

 

[winjim]

"Wears the candle?" "Yes, it does doesn't it" as the actor said to the canon.
[NB Review of @Brandane OP's avatar required for appreciation.]

That only works because of the homophone. It doesn't make sense written down.

Anyway, I may or may not have had a Covid vaccine. Nobody knows...

 

[Ajax Bay]

Doctors' surgeries have to order x000s of flu vaccines way earlier in the year and then, depending on the uptake by their patients in the autumn, will likely have spare. No point in wasting them so they use various 'generation of demand' mechanisms to match the supply. This also operates at the various levels/tiers within the NHS so surgeries might get more from a surplus elsewhere.

 

[oldwheels]

Not sure, I was looking away like the brave soldier I am.

Did they warm it up first or did you get it cold? Reason I ask is that cold is usually more painful.

 

[Low Gear Guy]

Was the needle 10mm in diameter to accommodate the microchip?

 

[Brandane]

Did they warm it up first or did you get it cold? Reason I ask is that cold is usually more painful.

Pretty sure it wasn't at -70C, that WOULD be sore!

 

[roadrash]

i get my first flu jab on friday , i will have the covid jab as soon as is possible

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Flu jab this evening. Was invited by text a week ago. MissEd the first appointments for the over 50 youngsters, as last Wed fully booked. I wouldn’t normally have it, but since they offered.

 

[byegad]

Now that you are under the direct control of Bill Gates I await details of what he is making you do.

I think that only happens if you're in a 5g area.

 

[classic33]

I think that only happens if you're in a 5g area.

It's not that long ago since China launched their 6G satellite.

 

[fossyant]

It's not that long ago since China launched their 6G satellite.

Called Covid20 ?

 

[Drago]

Its in the news today that some patients are suffering anaphylactoid events with the Pfizer jab, and theyre now advising thise with severe allergies not to have it.

Giess who's allergic to nuts? Yep, everyone's favourite anti- commie.

 

[Ajax Bay]

The local surgeries got together down here and set up a flu vaccination 'pop-up' centre in the seaside car park (underwhelmed in October) on a Saturday and then 8 days later. Specific appointments (? 5 every 3 minutes?) were assigned by a patient's response by phone to an invitation letter. We were encouraged to arrive in a car on time (not before or after) Volunteers marshalled us in, access dependent on producing the already signed consent form/invite, plenty of 'holding pattern' space in the empty car park, and then called forward (by waving) to one of the 10 booths (10x10 tents), handed over form, bared upper arm, normal three Qs, stab, swab, 'away you go'.
I would be most surprised if this had not been set up as a test run for millions of vaccinations which will be needed across the country.
I estimate that they had the capacity to vaccinate 800 a day.

The advice if an invitee didn't have a car was 'get someone to help who has'. In a contented and generally mutually supportive community (30,000+ with an East Devon seaside town age distribution profile) I'm sure this worked fine. In the centre of conurbations where car ownership is a pain, it'd rather more difficult. I didn't try to turn up on a bike. I'm not sure how they would've handled that. I suspect part of the risk assessment (Covid-19 element) would identify the separation forced by patient in car and stabber (in some PPE) as a sufficient risk control measure.

 

[All uphill]

Doctors' surgeries have to order x000s of flu vaccines way earlier in the year and then, depending on the uptake by their patients in the autumn, will likely have spare. No point in wasting them so they use various 'generation of demand' mechanisms to match the supply. This also operates at the various levels/tiers within the NHS so surgeries might get more from a surplus elsewhere.

And if they have the capacity it may reduce pressure on hospitals later on by reducing admissions for flu.

 

[ColinJ]

Its in the news today that some patients are suffering anaphylactoid events with the Pfizer jab, and theyre now advising thise with severe allergies not to have it.

For those who suffer from allergic reactions, that isn't good news! For other people though...

A lot of people have similar reactions to the flu jab and many others. If people didn't have the flu jab then thousands more would die!

A friend of mine nearly died from blood loss when ibuprofen burned a hole in his stomach. Most people do not have that problem.

I take warfarin and would die like rats used to (before they become immune to it) if my dose were not strictly controlled. I would very likely die without anticoagulants though since I have had 2 near misses already.

All drugs have some risks, but important drugs like this one will have risks orders of magnitude smaller than catching the illness.

The problem is that these rare reactions will be getting spread all over social media now and anti-vaxers will be shouting "See - we told you so!"

I watched an interview with a senior doctor who pointed out that people drop dead all the time - heart attack, stroke, pulmonary embolism etc. Somebody who was suffering undiagnosed heart disease and was going to die of a heart attack anyway will not have been killed by a Covid-19 jab given between now and then, but just wait for people to say that such fatalities were caused by the jab...