Boosters available to book online now for anyone in England it seems.
Boosters available to book online now for anyone in England it seems.
Is anyone here who had the first two not going to get one?
These cunts have to continue getting them for the remainder of their days now or risk having their worlds fall apart
Well, I only had my second four months ago and I don't believe the protection from that will have waned enough for me to need another one now to avoid serious illness and I don't fancy a day or two feeling like shit, so I might just leave it until I'm forced to get one to get on a plane, which will only be a matter of time anyway.
Side effects are for losers. Or for those with functioning immune systems, I forget. Anyway, I've had three and barely had more than a sore arm. I'm not sure why you would have two and then not another if it's being rolled out gratis and has zero impact on your life other than making it easier.
I'm getting a booster on the twentieth with either Moderna or Pfizer.
First one made me feel pretty rough for 24 hours, but was clearly worth the pay off. Not sure this one is.
You could say the same about the flu jab and how many of us bothered going out of our way to get that? I know I never did despite thinking almost every year that I would.Originally Posted by niko_cee
I'll get it at some point, don't think I'm at 6 months yet though. I'll probably just get it whenever my Mrs books hers for.
Don't need to be now, they changed it to 3 IIRC.
I don't in anyway think I particularly need this, and there is obviously a fair amount of moral hazard in just jabbing those who don't really need it whilst those who do the world over go without, but those decisions are not within my power, so if this makes my life easier, then fine. I don't get the flu jab and probably won't unless it also becomes in some way mandatory [at least in practical terms].
Sounds like we're in the same boat, I'll just likely leave it until it will make my life easier rather than do it now on the off chance the nonsense stops.
I was planning on getting mine in February ahead of travelling. My parents are already covered.
Isn’t the booster better than the 2 doses, and therefore worth having?
Apparently my cousin had a bad reaction to the booster and ended up in A&E overnight, but he also suffered a life altering brain injury last Christmas so that probably played a part.
I'm a twit
It is, but how much am I at risk anyway being in my early 40s and already having had two jabs, the last of which was only about 4 months ago.
My Mum's just got hers - were I in a risk group I'd absolutely be doing the same ASAP.
I don’t get my booster until May now, unless they pull in the gaps between.
Hold up. Do you need to have the booster prior to travel?
Between here and March, I'm taking no chances.I could see America going that route.
Not yet, but it's inevitable you will.
For as long as my first two doses maintain my "fully vaccinated" status for the purpose of doing things (travelling outside the country, attending certain events) then probably not, no. No particular reason. I haven't gone anti-vax or anything like that. I just can't be fucking arsed. I can't be bothered getting jabbed in the arm every six months ad infinitum. Same reason I don't get my flu jab when it's offered every year I suppose, I just don't care about it enough.
I suspect there will be many millions in the same boat as you, which will accelerate the booster being needed to class as fully vaccinated.
I’ve been thinking about this the last few days in terms of the government wants everyone to be jabbed but don’t want to make it law that you have to be jabbed. The answer is surely as simple as you make anyone who isn’t jabbed life as difficult as possible. You want to go for a meal where’s you Covid vaccination? You want to get on that train where’s your Covid vaccination? You want to go in any shop that is non-essential where is your vaccination?
In the news today there seem to be small utterances of further restrictions pre Christmas and potentially more after Christmas it’s around what 10% of the adult population who haven’t been jabbed? Fine make their lives hell. Because what you can’t keep doing is shutting down the economy indefinitely because a small proportion of your population won’t have a vaccine. Or really extreme as it may sound you don’t have the jab that’s fine but you can’t use the NHS for free if you wind up in hospital with Covid expect the bill if you live or die.
Because for me at this point I’m sick to death of having done the right thing to have no benefit from it and if the government say there is going to be another lockdown between now and me having a third jab I genuinely would wonder if I would have it.
I think, once the boosters are dished out, that's it. We'll have to crack on.
But we won’t. There will still be too many people unvaccinated. The thing with the NHS is a red-herring it’s not Covid it’s the fucking waiting lists. I had a referral from my GP last week got a letter yesterday current waiting list is 38 weeks. It’s not necessarily Covid that’s the issue it’s all the other shit that hasn’t been done in the last 21 months.
It's less to do with the unvaccinated I think and more to do with politicians needing to perpetuate the illusion of being in control.
I mean, they could expand NHS capacity any time they liked.
Could they? Haven't we had about 8 trillion unfilled doctor vacancies for about 10 years now?
I mean, we could start offering comparable pay to the Yanks, but it's not that simple considering the funding differences.
I mean in terms of immediate ability to bed up covid patients (which is what allegedly causes restrictions).
To be fair look how much money has been pissed away and continues to be pissed away on Covid. They could fund the NHS they have just chosen not to.
But surely the beds are only an issue because of the staff shortages. Otherwise the Nightingale Centres would have been, well... not a complete waste of money.
The problem is that the NHS is a bit of a monetary black hole. Would throwing money at it fix the problems? Maybe. Or maybe they just employ another four levels of management.
The whole NHS needs an overhaul. An ernest one, not a cost cutting one.
I like the theory that there will always be loads more unvaccinated people than the government claims because official population projections are balls. The supermarkets have been saying for years that the population is well over seventy million, so when the government claims that ninety per cent of people etc. actually no we are well short.
That’s true. But no politician ever wants to take the time to fix things within government. That’s too long term all they care about is the next opinion polls.
I'll have less grotesque fat cunts telling me I need to get vaccinated for a disease I've already had lol.
It's worth pointing out that the unvaccinated thing is a red herring too, in that it still spreads like wildfire if you've been vaxxed. Sure you're much less likely to be hospitalised or die from it if you've been double jabbed and/or boosted, but in a population the sixe of ours (more if Lewis and the supermarkets are correct) it takes an incredibly small percentage of people who get it badly to produce (in absolute terms) a significant number of hospitalisations. So unless the vaccines get better, the virus fucks off to the pub, or sense is finally seen, we'll be doing this for a while longer yet.
10/10 if that's intentional.
What's this about supermarkets and the population?
There was a thing years ago about supermarket[s] claiming that, based on the amount of food they were selling (and something to do with sewage), there were about ten million people unaccounted for in official statistics. The government and other losers called it a conspiracy theory and it went away, but it came up again recently when that European settled status scheme found that the 'three million' Europeans living here was actually twice that. If there is something to that then they will also be the sort of people less liable to be vaccinated (ethnics, younger people), so we are stuffed in the medium-term.
The Supreme Leader of Western Australia needs to calm the fuck down.
Western Australia imposes stricter COVID-19 border rules on Queensland amid outbreak
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/western-...6QkFKJYtNOMbE0
Government scientists predicting 75000 deaths by April
They have been spot on with with all their predictions for the past 24 months.
We are doomed. DOOMED!!
Lockdown ahoy.
Could that not just be explained by people being greedy bastards?
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I assume some products are fairly consistent on a per person basis. Or maybe they use twice the toilet paper to wipe their arses.
What about Taz's boiz who don't use it?
I'm a twit
These model predictions are consistently batshit. I gave no idea why they are given any reporting time.
Even the low end estimate of 25,000 seems a bit steep. We'd need over 200 deaths a day on average to get there.
Yeah, since the jabs took effect in March, we've had 25,000 deaths. We're not pulling that in whatever wave's coming up.
Are we paying for those directly? You're looking at over £100 if so.Fully vaccinated people in England who are close contacts of Covid cases will be told to take daily lateral flow tests for seven days from Tuesday.
Those who test positive, develop symptoms, or are unvaccinated should self-isolate for 10 days.
But people will not need to isolate if the tests remain negative and they have had at least two vaccine doses.
It means people in close contact with suspected or confirmed Omicron variant cases no longer need to self-isolate.
NHS lateral flow tests - which are available in boxes of seven - are free from pharmacies or via online order.
Plus that will have been a lot of easy targets. The ones that are left are less likely to get fucked sideways by it
It's in your quoteNHS lateral flow tests - which are available in boxes of seven - are free from pharmacies or via online order.
Jesus.
I'm a mess after the end of the F1 race.
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