Attention: Please take a moment to consider our terms and conditions before posting.
Options

Vaccine

1313234363794

Comments

  • N01R4M said:
    I think the issue is that, as a country, we have a long habit of following the "lions led by donkeys" path.

    Yes, our research scientists have been superb, backed by international sharing of knowledge and well-spent tax-payer money.
    Yes, the NHS has performed miracles and in the face of unnecessary difficulties.
    Yes, on the whole the populace has done all it can to support each other and follow the rules.

    So why do we have one of the worst covid-19 death rates in the world?  (That is a rhetorical question, not intending to take this thread off-topic, but for private consideration.)
    no argument here - boris is and always will be a joke 
  • N01R4M said:
    I think the issue is that, as a country, we have a long habit of following the "lions led by donkeys" path.

    Yes, our research scientists have been superb, backed by international sharing of knowledge and well-spent tax-payer money.
    Yes, the NHS has performed miracles and in the face of unnecessary difficulties.
    Yes, on the whole the populace has done all it can to support each other and follow the rules.

    So why do we have one of the worst covid-19 death rates in the world?  (That is a rhetorical question, not intending to take this thread off-topic, but for private consideration.)
    The number for UK deaths is horrendous and definitely needs looking in to. As for it being one of the worst in the world I wonder if the real question is why are the numbers elsewhere lower ?
  • edited March 2021
    Early on we were ill prepared and ill led. Lessons definitely were learned but on the whole too slowly. One of the glaring and most stupid errors was not recognising and making mask wearing 100% mandatory outside the home. It’s crucial and and low hanging fruit. 
  • Early on we were ill prepared and ill led. Lessons definitely were learned but on the whole too slowly. One of the glaring and most stupid errors was not recognising and making mask wearing 100% mandatory outside the home. It’s crucial and and low hanging fruit. 
    agreed - complete common sense surely 
  • edited March 2021
    DOUCHER said:
    no argument here - boris is and always will be a joke 
    Agree also and like the "lions led by donkeys analogy". The government were slow in getting out of the starting traps. Although we are told a global pandemic has long been considered one of the top (if not THE top) potential exposure when the UK has carried out threat assessments, we clearly weren't prepared for it and that has had terrible consequences.

    In spite of all that (and the main reason for my original post above), I think as a nation we still punch above our weight in a number of areas and we shouldn't be ashamed to applaud when we do so. 
  • Are second doses exactly the same as first doses, or are they something like half the amount or a special second dose recipe? 
  • seth plum said:
    Are second doses exactly the same as first doses, or are they something like half the amount or a special second dose recipe? 
    they are the same
  • Sponsored links:


  • Exactly the same.
    I am hoping that by the time I am due my second I may have the option to choose to have a different vaccine as a booster.

  • Just to give you all a bit of perspective.
    This is a TOTAL btw.

    Feeling seriously depressed today 😞
  • @KBslittlesis what is the population of Eire ?
  • @KBslittlesis what is the population of Eire ?
    4.904 million
  • Russian scientists who have developed the country's second vaccine against Covid-19, EpiVacCorona, say the shot is effective against variants of the coronavirus, Reuters news agency reports.

    Russia began mass trials of EpiVacCorona in November last year.

    Three domestically developed Covid-19 vaccines are currently registered in Russia: Sputnik V, EpiVacCorona and CoviVac.

    Separately, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he will get the jab himself on Tuesday.

    Asked which vaccine Putin would receive, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told state news agency RIA Novosti: "One of our three. All are good and reliable."

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-56481031

  • edited March 2021
    Redrobo said:
    Exactly the same.
    I am hoping that by the time I am due my second I may have the option to choose to have a different vaccine as a booster.
    You won’t. Further down the line it might have been trialed that mixing vaccines might even prove beneficial but thats quite a way down the track yet.
  • Greggs or Wetherspoon's need to do something similar!
  • 4.904 million
    Try and look at the positives.
    The UK have about 90M still to do and ROI have 9M still to do :wink:
  • Sponsored links:


  • stonemuse said:
    they are the same
    Correct.  That's why I wasn't worried when they said they'd given me my second dose first and I would get my first dose when I came back in twelve weeks' time.
  • edited March 2021
    Thank <insert deity here> for that.  I was worried I'd have to eat one.

  • I wonder what would tempt the anti vacc people over here? Big Mac?
  • Billy_Mix said:
    Pfizer jab yesterday at a theatre, barely felt a thing, faintest hint of a bruise nothing else since.
     
    Did you have a G&T and one of those really expensive organic ice cream tubs in the interval?
  • @KBslittlesis what is the population of Eire ?
    Do people use ‘Eire’ any more? Haven’t heard/seen it in ages. 
Sign In or Register to comment.

Roland Out Forever!