Coronavirus outbreak

[vickster]

I haven't been offered one.

Call your surgery or pharmacy
Or book online eg Boots

 

[Rezillo]

Our rural practice took over the car park of a local agricultural college for a day in December and offered a over-50s drive-though flu jab service. It was all very well-organised and marshalled; they were treating it as practice for covid vaccination. I wasn't contacted directly but they swamped local media, facebook etc. so there was no escaping it. As it turned out, I would have been texted and emailed had it not been years since I updated my details with the surgery.

 

[Johnno260]

Someone mentioned flu rates being down, I have seen nothing on noro virus either, so the distancing etc must be having an impact.

I’m just fed up with anti insert latest fad morons, family member of mine has been told to get lost after comparing mask users to nazis, he obliterated the red line.

 

[gbb]

...........
My weekly visit to a supermarket tonight...they're selling fireworks. FFS, a non socially distanced queue to by bl**dy fireworks.
Alcohol aisles were chocker.
Queues at the tills, social distancing is collapsing, it's almost non existent now.
I mentioned it to the till op, she said it was far worse earlier today, and as we spoke, a family were itching right up to me, impatience.
I'm gonna start shopping somewhere a bit upmarket where hopefully people use their heads......

And tonight, I shopped at Sainsburys. What a difference, quiet, orderly, tidy. A pleasure to shop in there.
Asda has a good range and more choice....but a significant section of its clientele is going downhill. It's a free for all in there.
For the bit extra, I'll be frequenting JS a bit more often.

 

[midlife]

I haven't been offered one.

By coincidence my free flu jab offer came through the post today (over 50)..Had one at work ages ago though.

 

[midlife]

The Guardian says that there were a total of 9 days that the numbers exceeded 1,000. https://www.theguardian.com/politic...n-parliament-vote-new-lockdown-latest-updates at 16:22

Thanks, faulty memory. Mind you I think there are going to be more than 9 days this time around

 

[Chromatic]

I haven't been offered one.

Nor have I.

 

[DaveReading]

Thanks, faulty memory. Mind you I think there are going to be more than 9 days this time around

There is now reckoned to be a doubling of daily infections/hospitalisations/deaths every 15-20 days.

By the end of this month having "only" 1,000 deaths per day will be a distant memory.

 

[delb0y]

Nor have I.

I have :-)

 

[Chromatic]

I have :-)

I'm older than you too, maybe my doctors don't want me to survive.

Have you had it yet?

 

[delb0y]

Yep, couple of weeks ago. All easy peasy at the new Kingsway Medical centre, where, it turns out, there are no dedicated parking facilities for cyclists. I guess they assume we are all so healthy we won't need to visit the docs.

 

[oldworld]

Back in March the government went to great effort and equipped a number of new Nightingale hospitals but these were largely unused.

With the new strain of the virus causing the NHS to be busier than ever before and getting close to being overwhelmed isn't it time to open them?

I suspect they don't have the staff to do so and the whole Nightingale hospital building was just a PR stunt.

On the other hand perhaps the government just forgot they'd need extra staff to run them and the existing hospitals.

 

[MrGrumpy]

You could probably answer yes to all of those statements

 

[mjr]

The needless harm to public health continues: "The first lockdown led to a reduction in activity even though there was glorious weather last spring. So with a winter lockdown we’ve got almost the perfect storm for a dramatic reduction in physical activity. Alongside that is the impact it will have on people’s physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. We can’t underplay how damaging this lockdown could be for national health.”

Former Olympian warns of 'perfect storm' of winter lockdown inactivity | Sport | The Guardian – https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2...m-over-fitness-in-winter-lockdown-says-expert

 

[IaninSheffield]

I suspect they don't have the staff to do so and the whole Nightingale hospital building was just a PR stunt.

On the other hand perhaps the government just forgot they'd need extra staff to run them and the existing hospitals.

Perhaps, perhaps not. However, whether the planned increases would have been adequate to cope with current circumstances (not least staffing the Nightingales AND providing the vaccination programme) is far from clear. Layered on top of that is staff absence with Covid or having been required to self-isolate - must be a nightmare for local staff to manage!

Perhaps we can call on colleagues from EU neighbours ... 😢.
Still, at least the nurses pay rise might help with recruitement and retention. Oh.