Covid Booster

[Bazile]

Why are there long queues in many parts of the country of people waiting to get the covid booster

My GP practice sent me a text message to book my booster and flu vaccines .
Then they sent me a reminder

Does it depend on where you live or your age ?

[Bobbisox1]

People have heeded the call from the government to get their booster hence the long queues we are seeing

[ichkeria]

Whether you have to queue or not depends perhaps where you live and now you go about it

[Teapots1]

I think also a big percentage of younger people want it because they know if they want to get into any sort of night time venue clubs and bars over Christmas / new year they will be stuffed without proof. Don't you think? That's if there open?

[Khandro]

untitled: // "As we don't know what on earth these things we are allowing to be pumped into our bodies can do & for how long, I've had the first two but decline having any more. "

erm that's a bit silly khandro lol //

That's easy to say, but you didn't have a stroke after your second jab, & you were not in hospital after it, & you haven't had an unprecedented (but mild) headache for 5 months since.
Another new strain has been found in France yesterday - so yet another jab?

Actually the stats they pump out every day cover contractions, hospitalisation & deaths, but you never are told how many people have suffered serious side effects - an uncomfortable truth perhaps?

[New Judge]

//...but some people got quite shirty at the prospect of having to wait.//

I'd get shirty too if I had to wait having made an appointment. It's scarcely my fault that the NHS cannot run a ssip up in a brewery.

[Untitled]

"you didn't have a stroke after your second jab"

how do you know they were related? old men have strokes unfortunately it does happen.

[ichkeria]

I think the experience of most shows the difference in efficiency between local and national operations.
The national NHS booking system is probably inevitably a bit hit or miss.
However, in our area at least, booking and carrying out of vaccinations has been excellent.

[Untitled]

"I'd get shirty too if I had to wait having made an appointment. It's scarcely my fault that the NHS cannot run a ssip up in a brewery."

i'd say it's probably for the best if everyone is a bit more understanding than that given the global emergency but you do you

[bobbinwales]

There are published figures on vaccine side effect cases.. are they called yellow cards or something. But its nothing like the number of covid infections or deaths so unless doctor advises you your at risk from a jab the risks are tiny no worse than a paracetamol or crossing the road

[New Judge]

//i'd say it's probably for the best if everyone is a bit more understanding than that..//

Not at all. One of the main reasons why the NHS cannot cope and society is expected to close down to protect it the moment it comes under pressure, is because it is extremely badly organised and managed. It has perpetuated these shortcomings throughout the pandemic and shows no signs whatsoever of improvement. The fact that it is so badly run that it cannot even manage to keep the simple appointments it makes for its patients is no reason for anybody to be understanding, "global emergency" or not. Appointments were broken because the timed clinics which were organised were opened up to allcomers and there's no reason why the people who had appointments should be inconvenienced. Incredible as it may seem, some people have things to do, people to see, places to go (some of their appointments just as important at keeping the country running as is providing Covid jabs). They don't have the time to roam all over the country to keep appointments that are summarily broken.

[Khandro]

untitled: //"you didn't have a stroke after your second jab"
how do you know they were related? old men have strokes unfortunately it does happen.//

But this old man, (thanks to a good health plan) has periodic full health checks, - blood pressure OK, cholesterol OK, not overweight, very fit (golf &/or cycling every day throughout the year) very good diet, etc. yet fainted & fell to the floor for the first time in my life a few days after 2nd jab, then had a mini-stroke 4 weeks later.

I don't think you would need to be an outstanding physician to see some form of connection there. Take on more? You go if you want to, but as for me, no way José!