Vaccination priority groups

[Caw1]

Had my first Pfizer one nearly 4 wks ago now O.H had his 5 weeks ago but we’ve no option to book the second one yet...
We had our notification via an sms message... this took you to a web site for our surgery and option of two venues to receive said vaccination....
Just worrying slightly that there’s not been any mention of second vaccinations and there seem to be an awful lot of people who are going to need it over the coming weeks....
Cross fingers and hope... if heard nothing by wk 8 will be on the blower to the surgery I think to see how the land lies...
not sure if it’s because we had the Pfizer one and there are less available or what really....
It’s interesting to hear how each region seems to be running it.
Caroline

[Jebber]

I’m not going to be worrying about my second jab for a long time yet, I’m in group 3 and still waiting for my first. It’s hit and miss when those of us who are housebound get included.

[Kiltpin]

Text on the 10th, inviting me for jab on 14th at 10:10. 
As I was telling OH, interrupted by phone call (land line), inviting her for jab on 14th at 10:10. Both at Jubilee Centre (6 miles away).
On the day we arrive at Centre far too early. But it makes no difference, book in, jab, jab, take a card each, out the back door, no loitering please maintain social distance. It was like a machine gun.   

Back in car and off home. Put kettle on and look at clock - it was 10:10! 

Roll on the next one! 

Regards 

Chas

[suey]

Big argument ensuing on our village Facebook page just now.  Someone has started a petition to have all teachers and school staff vaccinated ahead of all other groups. 
The OP actually had the gall to say that old people should stay at home and allow the young people to live and get on with their lives.  If old people stayed home they wouldn’t need the jab. 
You can imagine the uproar that has caused. I suspect his post will be gone by morning.

[groom]

Big argument ensuing on our village Facebook page just now.  Someone has started a petition to have all teachers and school staff vaccinated ahead of all other groups. 
The OP actually had the gall to say that old people should stay at home and allow the young people to live and get on with their lives.  If old people stayed home they wouldn’t need the jab. 
You can imagine the uproar that has caused. I suspect his post will be gone by morning.

Actually I quite support that idea, the fact that teachers and all key and frontline workers should have been done earlier. I would willingly have waited a bit longer if it meant schools could go back safely, police and firefighters wouldn't be at risk etc. Most older people, even though they have had their inoculations, are still quite happy to stay home as much as possible.

Whichever way it was done though, it wouldn't please everyone. We just have to trust that those who have decided the order have got it right.

[Kiltpin]

The trouble is EVERYBODY is a special case. Bus drivers have had high mortality. Same with dustbin men. What about all the Tesco/Sainsbury/Morrison/Asda/Aldi/Lidl/Co-op/ Local corner shop workers? Some of them come into contact with hundreds if not thousands every day. 

SAGE has said that teachers are not a greater risk than the general population. 


Regards 

Chas

[groom]

However, if teachers and other school workers were vaccinated it might stop whole groups of children having to be sent home to self isolate every time a member of staff tested positive.

[Pheno]

But for the most part that's where the people who haven't yet been vaccinated are.

So the question is: keep the current people home longer or send groups of schoolchildren home?

As said previously it appears that teachers are no more likely to test positive than other people in their age range so no real argument for them to be vaccinated as a priority.

Pheno

[John915]

Good afternoon,

Big argument ensuing on our village Facebook page just now.  Someone has started a petition to have all teachers and school staff vaccinated ahead of all other groups. 
The OP actually had the gall to say that old people should stay at home and allow the young people to live and get on with their lives.  If old people stayed home they wouldn’t need the jab. 
You can imagine the uproar that has caused. I suspect his post will be gone by morning.

Actually I quite support that idea, the fact that teachers and all key and frontline workers should have been done earlier. I would willingly have waited a bit longer if it meant schools could go back safely, police and firefighters wouldn't be at risk etc. Most older people, even though they have had their inoculations, are still quite happy to stay home as much as possible.

Whichever way it was done though, it wouldn't please everyone. We just have to trust that those who have decided the order have got it right.

I agree with you Jan, OH disagrees with my opinion but I have said from the beginning that the 20 to 50 yr olds should have been first. That would encompass a large proportion of the workforce including drs, nurses, carers, bin men, drivers of all kinds. We need the workers back in the factories, offices, farms etc. Not least to lessen the burden on the nations coffers.

 Families can help protect their own elderly by doing the shopping etc. Plus all the volunteers who did this during the lockdowns, and there are many of them still, doing an invaluable task.

I'm just glad that i'm not the one who has to make these decisions of what is basically, life or death. Whichever way they go or went there are those who will say they were wrong.

Dammed if they do, dammed if they don't.

John915