I keep reading and seeing about people booking their covid vaccines themselves.
Is it just Scotland that its not down to you? The NHS contact you here via the now famous blue letter through the letterbox telling you when you have your appointment lol.
Not that Iām complaining takes the effort from your hands
Well we definitely donāt have letters through the post. I got a text message telling me to call a number to book an appointment. But in terms of the age qualification, as soon as itās announced that your age group qualifies, you can book an appointment online, or you can wait for a text telling you to book an appointment online or via a phone call.
I havenāt been watching the numbers in the UK at all but I caught them on the news at ten tonight and at 1,600 thatās less than four times the number here with more than ten times the population and with things more open. As Elec as been saying for a while now vaccination is the way out of this.
There were, on average, 16 COVID deaths per day in the UK last week. Itās good but weāre not quite out of the woods yet and Iād imagine weāre not there yet (in terms of herd immunity).
Test events have ramped up this weekend. Next couple of weeks are massive now on feedback from them.
Seems quarantine going for those getting contacted by the NHS as having been in contact with someone proved positive.
If no symptoms have lateral flow tests but carry on as normal.
Guess with vaccinations we are in a stronger position. Just got too hope for the best.
Yes, heard about both of those things. In the Midlands there were 3 cases of the Indian variant last week. The plan was to do an immediate mass testing of the local vicinity in a nearby school. I hope they followed through with that.
The relaxation on self isolation rules feels like taking the stabilizers off a learner push-bike now. I can only hope it works.
Do you think that a few months ago when more people were being tested and therefore our figures were going up that it might be the opposite now? Fewer people electing to be tested, ignoring symptoms and maybe even passing them on?
Not sure. I sort of use the schools as a guideline and thatās been mainly positive.
As long as we donāt try accelerating things, we get more people vaccinated by the day and give ourselves our best chance out hopefully we get the route out.
Iām not at all, especially because the scope of the question is wide. You have people who are vulnerable or have vulnerable loved ones who, vaccine or no vaccine, have been bombarded with the message this is dangerous, weāve all been conditioned to think a certain way about public gathering over the last year. Then of course thereās the worry that this could all go belly up and weāll end up going backwards.
Also itās not ridiculous to be relieved at the signs life is going back to something we can recognise as normal and also be anxious. I saw my daughter for a first visit during school term in over a year on Saturday. As brilliant as that was it was also hard not to be a bit apprehensive about whether now is the right time.
The media love to drum up hysteria, and itās the exact same awful medical science reporting thatās the culprit.
I have been stressing the need to take this seriously from the beginning in this thread.
But we have no gotten to a point where we can ease up.
I think personally, if everyone involved is vaccinated, the risk is very very low of catching COVID anywhere.
Like Iād go to a relativeās house inside no problem.
takes the effort from your hands
