Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

My sister overseas is being offered the Cansino vax. She’s had two random allergic reactions in her late 20s that landed her in hospital, and is nervous about the jab despite being in full support of vaccinations.

To think I’d look back at 2016-2019 and remember them as simpler times.

I was a clot and didn't note my booking references, only screenshotting the appointment times. Called 119, waded through the options and then very polite Northern Irish chap who answered cheerfully gave me the reference numbers. Was worried about being turned away without them. Unlikely I know, but I don't want to risk it.

Sure, we're all very polite, aren't we?

Hauld yer whisht!

My booking references were emailed and texted to me. My girlfriend got neither but had taken a screenshot at the end of the booking.

It was the first thing they asked for when I arrived for the appointment.

Up your hole with a big jam roll, then.

I wrongly assumed I would be sent them too, hence the laziness. I definitely gave them phone number and email address. Got them now anyway.

So Johnson to hold a news conference this evening, so its it back into lockdown or business as usual as the Indian variant isn't as bad as everyone is telling him and he knows best?

The likelihood of a surprise lockdown is near nil I'd say. Maybe something about surge vaccinations or changes in the wait for second doses, as both of those things have been in the news lately.

Here we go.... lockdown extension?

Why? Most vulnerable people a vaccinated, so unlikely to overwhelm the NHS.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/14/india-covid-variant-could-lead-to-third-wave-uk

Oh dear, poor drivers.

Got my online access to my health record added and fucking Christ they have the exact dates of my childhood vaccinations from the 1970’s loaded up on there and my BCG in the 1980’s. When/how did that get digitised?

I thought it would be an interesting read, I’m still waiting for my full history to be loaded up.

I was out of school the day they did the 6 needles and didn't have that or the BCG - will they eventually catch up on me for that? If they do, are colleagues allowed to punch you on the BCG puncture for weeks afterwards the same way schoolmates did?

I think I had my first brief trip after having that, few moments of brief technicolour shifting rainbow windows, one of my best memories of school.

No only forumengers,
all 120,000+ of us.
Form an orderly queue ...

Gutted to be reminded my haematocrit level is 48% so even heavy blood doping wouldn’t make me faster

My first vaccines from 1982 have been digitised but apparently my pre school ones are still on paper...weird!

I think the issue is more that you might be vulnerable to catching tuberculosis rather than getting whacked on the vaccination site!

Not sure what levels are like now days but London was one of the worst Tuberculosis hotspots in Europe not long ago. My grandad died from it in his early 50s.

TV rates vary quite a lot within London. When my kids were babies (10+ years ago) BCG wasn't offered in Barnet but was in Lewisham for example.

58 cases last week.
NOIDS report here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/notifiable-diseases-weekly-reports-for-2021

I lazily draw some parallels between Covid and Tuberculosis. I hope I'm proven wrong.

Tuberculosis is a potentially fatal illness that has had an effective vaccine available for over 100 years and it still kills nearly 1,500,000 people every year.

I suspect the reality of Covid in the future will be along these lines. Treatments available, but only if you can afford it.

Kids don’t get the BCG like they used to since 2005. So if you pretend to be under 16 no one will suspect a thing.