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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

On a positive note we got jabbed this morning... Probably travelled the furthest away from home this year to facilitate... Nearly all the volunteers and oppos were from the BAME community...

Sadly tarnished by news of another family member 'lost' to covid... 52 years of age... No [to the best of our knowledge] underlying health issues...
 
MegaSteve said:
On a positive note we got jabbed this morning... Probably travelled the furthest away from home this year to facilitate... Nearly all the volunteers and oppos were from the BAME community...

Sadly tarnished by news of another family member 'lost' to covid... 52 years of age... No [to the best of our knowledge] underlying health issues...
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Good for you, on your way to getting past this curse.

Sorry to hear about your family member. The effects of Covid are often mistakenly considered by many to be isolated to older people.
 
Ethan said:
Good for you, on your way to getting past this curse.

Sorry to hear about your family member. The effects of Covid are often mistakenly considered by many to be isolated to older people.
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Would that be a problem if we open everything up.
The hospitals will still be full but just with younger people.
 
Not sure but I am guessing my wife may not now be called in early for her jab. looking at the news today, it looks like there has been a bit of an update on what is classed as serious enough asthma to warrant an early jab and simply having a steroid inhaler is now not enough. To be fair I was in 2 minds about it anyway. I was over the moon that my wife would get the jab and be protected but knowing that none of her conditions are serious and so she may be one who slipped through a crack to move up the list did not sit totally well with me.
 
My Wife and I had the Pfizer jab and had no side effects other than a slightly painful arm for a day, people I know who had the Oxford one all seem to have suffered some side effects. I did read that the second Pfizer tends to give more side effects though.
 
Missed having the Municipality Lockdown lifted by one case. We have tiered lockdowns here xxx per 100,000. 0-500, everything is open. 500-1000, town boundaries are closed but all businesses, bars restaurants etc are open. Above 1000, only essential businesses and essential shops are open. Above 2000, you are only allowed out to go to the shop. There's also an 8pm curfew, which allows you to pick up take aways.

Trend is very much going the right way. Currently 102 cases, equating to 1005 per 100,000.
 
The reports of very low BAME uptake for the jab in Care and Medical services is rather concerning. I guess it would create all kinds of protests if a no jab no job rule was used but it does make you think what kind of personal justification they use, it surely can't be they don't have information available.
 
clubchamp98 said:
No it isn’t.
As we protect the older people surley any more hospitalised as we open pubs ,shops etc will be from a younger age group I would imagine.
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OK, well I am not OK with a situation where large numbers of middle aged people, with jobs and dependent families, are allowed to get ill to the extent of hospitalisation, with the PTSD and long Covid that goes with it, so Wetherspoons can open.
 
SocketRocket said:
My Wife and I had the Pfizer jab and had no side effects other than a slightly painful arm for a day, people I know who had the Oxford one all seem to have suffered some side effects. I did read that the second Pfizer tends to give more side effects though.
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Same here, and again a mate had the Oxford and got a reaction.
I read somewhere that the oxford accident uses a very mild form of the virus: the Pfizer one doesn't. mRNA or something like that.
No doubt Ethan will enlighten us ?
 
SocketRocket said:
The reports of very low BAME uptake for the jab in Care and Medical services is rather concerning. I guess it would create all kinds of protests if a no jab no job rule was used but it does make you think what kind of personal justification they use, it surely can't be they don't have information available.
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I think no jab no job will certainly happen in some job roles. How can you continue in a care home with all the traumas that sector went through, is going through, and not be vaccinated? Surely residents, will ask, those who choose the homes will ask and so on. Once people start moving out, homes lose fees the owners will have no choice. The job is untenable imo.

The same could well apply in any healthcare role, yes NHS, and potentially a whole host of jobs.

Do you think protests would garner much public support? I can't see it.
 
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