Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

Beezerk said:
Lucky you, I've about given up trying. I even woke up at 5.30 this morning to get on it quick...no availability anywhere...9am availability but usual story, find a time then it goes before you can confirm. Just had two hours trying on my laptop, zero luck. I don't understand why they are drip feeding appointment times on the website rather than showing everything. There's also a glitch where it flashes up some arrows to move the availability date but they disappear after a split second so it can't be used ?
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Problem is that not all sites are on the National DB, if your having issues I would give your surgery a bell for advise. Many GPS and chemists are on a separate system only available through the GP.
 
very impressed with the vaccination. Text and booking very quick and efficient - only got it yetsreday, booked and had it within 24 hours. I got a coffee in middle of town, walked 2 minutes to the Vacc centre. Entered, 30 seconds to confirm who i am - pointed down stairs - pointed to desk 6. Hello doctor. 30 seconds for details and take off coat. Still standing - "little scratch coming". Done. walk out. I left friends at Town hall at 12.52 with a hot coffee - and was back with them and a still hot coffee at 1pm (the time the jab was booked for)!
 
PNWokingham said:
very impressed with the vaccination. Text and booking very quick and efficient - only got it yetsreday, booked and had it within 24 hours. I got a coffee in middle of town, walked 2 minutes to the Vacc centre. Entered, 30 seconds to confirm who i am - pointed down stairs - pointed to desk 6. Hello doctor. 30 seconds for details and take off coat. Still standing - "little scratch coming". Done. walk out. I left friends at Town hall at 12.52 with a hot coffee - and was back with them and a still hot coffee at 1pm (the time the jab was booked for)!
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So when did you meet the big prick then, and who was it? ??
 
GB72 said:
The issue is that some people, me included, are particularly nervous about contracting it, mentally I had seen the finishing line and it has been moved further away and so I feel down about it. I am in a group that, whilst not medically defined as at risk, I am 48 and overweight and so am unlikely to breeze through it if I get it. I have explained that it is not necessarily rational nor a matter of blame or complaint and just a post about how I feel about it. Very easy to say what's the issue once you have already been vaccinated and be totally blasé but for those who are still worried and stressed about it, moving things a month down the line can impact on how people feel mentally and you can be down about these things without looking for fault.
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I hope you won't hold it against me, but people like me could be part of the problem. I got jabbed 20th Jan so I am due the second jab soon. Govt and NHS did well in getting many of us vaccinated so soon, but I'm due a second before many can get their first. Jan and Feb went way ahead of target numbers, but that rate could not continue once we hit this overlap period. Trying to remember my maths studies from a very long time ago about how to produce a model of this scenario. Certainly no fault of govt or NHS in my view.
 
Voyager EMH said:
I hope you won't hold it against me, but people like me could be part of the problem. I got jabbed 20th Jan so I am due the second jab soon. Govt and NHS did well in getting many of us vaccinated so soon, but I'm due a second before many can get their first. Jan and Feb went way ahead of target numbers, but that rate could not continue once we hit this overlap period. Trying to remember my maths studies from a very long time ago about how to produce a model of this scenario. Certainly no fault of govt or NHS in my view.
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Nope not holding it against anyone.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
I spoke to my cousin about this. He was a programmer and his niche towards the end of his time as a contractor was to test systems. He poured scorn on this one, 'I would have failed it on day one'. When you get offered a time no one else should be able to see it. You should get 2 mins to book it. The 'no appt' message should come up at the beginning of the process, not when you have gone through every stage. Traminator suggested he went through this for a day and then it calmed down. Hopefully that will happen for us soon as well.
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Yet to meet one programmer that liked another programmers work :LOL:
 
PNWokingham said:
very impressed with the vaccination. Text and booking very quick and efficient - only got it yetsreday, booked and had it within 24 hours. I got a coffee in middle of town, walked 2 minutes to the Vacc centre. Entered, 30 seconds to confirm who i am - pointed down stairs - pointed to desk 6. Hello doctor. 30 seconds for details and take off coat. Still standing - "little scratch coming". Done. walk out. I left friends at Town hall at 12.52 with a hot coffee - and was back with them and a still hot coffee at 1pm (the time the jab was booked for)!
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No 15 mins observation post-vac?. That'll be Astra Zeneca, then?
 
Beezerk said:
Are you told which vaccine you are receiving?
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You should be given a card with the name and batch number. The vacc place may have a notice up at the door, like a specials board, telling you. Mine did. There was a 15 min post-vac observation period for both vacs to begin with,. but it has been removed for AZ because there have been no acute anaphylaxis cases. I think Pfizer still has it, but the risk of anaphylaxis is very small.
 
Ethan said:
You should be given a card with the name and batch number. The vacc place may have a notice up at the door, like a specials board, telling you. Mine did. There was a 15 min post-vac observation period for both vacs to begin with,. but it has been removed for AZ because there have been no acute anaphylaxis cases. I think Pfizer still has it, but the risk of anaphylaxis is very small.
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AZ still had a post-vac observation period at Epsom racecourse as of last Friday.
 
Voyager EMH said:
I hope you won't hold it against me, but people like me could be part of the problem. I got jabbed 20th Jan so I am due the second jab soon. Govt and NHS did well in getting many of us vaccinated so soon, but I'm due a second before many can get their first. Jan and Feb went way ahead of target numbers, but that rate could not continue once we hit this overlap period. Trying to remember my maths studies from a very long time ago about how to produce a model of this scenario. Certainly no fault of govt or NHS in my view.
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In Scotland we get a letter showing us the date, time and place to go for our vaccinations, easier to keep track, for future vaccinations .
 
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