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Vaccination Thread

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Will you have it when offered

  • Yes

    Votes: 50 90.9%

  • No

    Votes: 5 9.1%
  • Total voters
    55
Gonterseed said:
I now have my #2 booked for the 17th Feb. For you injection wimps, I forgot to mention. It's an intra-muscular so you might need some paracetamol for day two and three. I didn't but I'm so old that I'm not sure what is new pain or new...
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How can you be scheduled for the second jab months before others are scheduled for their first jab ?
 
Barch said:
Good, my lad's GF got hers today as well.
Just need to get the police on the priority list now.
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I was chatting to a Sgt Copper yesterday who said her shift (in a small city) was down to her and one other for last night...the rest were down with Covid and she was only just getting over a nasty bout of it that hit her on 24/12. They'd been free of covid for the whole pandemic up until a time that coincided with the discovery of a new more virulent strain and now decimated.
 
Vim_Fuego said:
I was chatting to a Sgt Copper yesterday who said her shift (in a small city) was down to her and one other for last night...the rest were down with Covid and she was only just getting over a nasty bout of it that hit her on 24/12. They'd been free of covid for the whole pandemic up until a time that coincided with the discovery of a new more virulent strain and now decimated.
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That's the problem we're having, not many positives but plenty of Family Isolating or random Track and Tracing, got worse just after Christmas, we currently have about 5% - 10% running absence for COVID alone.
 
busby1971 said:
That's the problem we're having, not many positives but plenty of Family Isolating or random Track and Tracing, got worse just after Christmas, we currently have about 5% - 10% running absence for COVID alone.
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My company forecast up to a 20% sickness rate and set our annual targets with that in mind. It's actually been at around 1% to date as we are all well equipped and able to WFH. This means those targets are getting a good kicking and recruitment has opened up again.
 
Vim_Fuego said:
My company forecast up to a 20% sickness rate and set our annual targets with that in mind. It's actually been at around 1% to date as we are all well equipped and able to WFH. This means those targets are getting a good kicking and recruitment has opened up again.
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Unfortunately, the Organisation I am currently supporting had very little remote working in place so even those who could work from home can't because they don't have the IT to support it.
 
The wife is getting the first jab tomorrow. Then has to wait 12 weeks for jab 2. That is the one of the reasons we have so many vaccinated in the UK, we are vaccinating a lot of people with the first dose, then ignoring the advise of Pfizer etc who says that 12 weeks is too long to leave between doses. I do hope it isn't just one-upmanship from our government and doesn't massively backfire.
 
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busby1971 said:
Unfortunately, the Organisation I am currently supporting had very little remote working in place so even those who could work from home can't because they don't have the IT to support it.
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I wonder what it is about the "IT department" that makes them easy to identify as the low performers across our workplaces. Is it the lack of decent leadership (no idea how to explain to the boss the importance of good IT), the lack of people who are capable of independent thought or are they a department who are inherently risk averse, luddite or simply so stupid that IT is the only place they are capable of working.

It seems that the things I wonder about certainly apply to the NHS Trust I work for....

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busby1971 said:
It’s going to take a good few months for any meaningful data to come out of this vaccine programme, a lower viral load does suggest less transmission and lesser impact, however, it doesn’t mean no transmission and no impact.

For me, as soon as this becomes no more dangerous than the flu we move to normality and live with it, that nice bloke from the gubbernment said all the vulnerable will be done by the middle of Feb so hopefully we should be able to relax a little by half term.
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Try the summer. STEM education for myself suspects that. 190 of my colleagues will be redundant then. Due to the covidoit that said open christmas.
 
Whatever the Government do would be wrong one way or another and would be a u-turn no matter what justification existed, it’s a very changeable situation, that’s the way these things roll. lockdown 2 never really gripped it and the new strain made things worse, it jumped quite quickly afterwards even without the Christmas freebie, which then made things worse than they needed to be.

I think some loosening after half term a bit more by Easter and some normality by summer, helped by the warm weather. There’s no point brining in more rules, it’s people not following the current rules that are causing most of the issues.

The vaccine roll out seems to be going well, most people are getting a bit of a hit, mild COVID with aches and shakes for a couple of days then feeling fine, we’ve had a few people panic but calm so far.
 
Gonterseed said:
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I wonder what it is about the "IT department" that makes them easy to identify as the low performers across our workplaces. Is it the lack of decent leadership (no idea how to explain to the boss the importance of good IT), the lack of people who are capable of independent thought or are they a department who are inherently risk averse, luddite or simply so stupid that IT is the only place they are capable of working.

It seems that the things I wonder about certainly apply to the NHS Trust I work for....

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The IT issue is a cost issue not an IT one, of course if the money flow increased it would then be an IT issue as they wouldn’t have the staff to set up all the Laptops and licences.

Lets remember that summer was looking good, no CFO would be signing off mega IT Capex when the government was advising people to return to the office.

Normally a flexible work culture is funded through the reduction in fixed office space and related overheads, this doesn’t apply at the moment.
 
busby1971 said:
Whatever the Government do would be wrong one way or another and would be a u-turn no matter what justification existed, it’s a very changeable situation, that’s the way these things roll. lockdown 2 never really gripped it and the new strain made things worse, it jumped quite quickly afterwards even without the Christmas freebie, which then made things worse than they needed to be.

I think some loosening after half term a bit more by Easter and some normality by summer, helped by the warm weather. There’s no point brining in more rules, it’s people not following the current rules that are causing most of the issues.

The vaccine roll out seems to be going well, most people are getting a bit of a hit, mild COVID with aches and shakes for a couple of days then feeling fine, we’ve had a few people panic but calm so far.
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It was never a guess. Winter and respiratory diesese go hand in hand. The experts said that 80K deaths from Covid other this winter would be worse case, if things were not controlled. The idiots catching it are the OAPs that totally disregard the fact that their grandchildren have it from school. The number of mixed households I have seen outside of gov guidelines of grandparents with their extended families and OAPs in supermarkets shopping like normal times. Yesterday on the local walk, I saw two cars dropping off two girls to walk together. Could be sisters, but two different households and they didn't socially distance to walk. Madness in the time when the solution is just out there and a few weeks could allow things to happen the way you say. But they will not, as average Brition is as thick as a piece of 4 by 2.
 
Vushtrri said:
PDF doc, a statement from the JCVI regarding the second dose. Oh and there are about 270 vaccines currently in the process of being evaluated..
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Obviously I will be more than happy if the JCVI is correct and Pfizer are wrong. I am sure they have done all the research required, unlike the morons on Facebook who are becoming more and more prevalent.
 
Defenestration said:
Obviously I will be more than happy if the JCVI is correct and Pfizer are wrong. I am sure they have done all the research required, unlike the morons on Facebook who are becoming more and more prevalent.
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Facebook idiots tend to be over 65 and female. Or drive white vans. Or be Essex house wifes + husbands. TOWIE!
 
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