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Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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Theresa Green said:
Gov website says don't have a flu and booster together

NHS website says do

Notice in Kingston says don't have booster if you just had flu vaccine

But doesn't mention having flu jab if you just had booster

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In the same week in 1979 or 80, I received two government leaflets.

One said I should grill food, rather than fry it, for health reasons.

The other said I should fry food, rather than grill it, as that was more energy-efficient.
 
SketchyMagpie

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I guess that covid infections are not going to be uniformly spread even when the school environment is pretty much the same across the country. We must have just gotten unlucky, or perhaps people have let their guards down more here than in most places.
 
tek-monkey

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Is the vaccination rate any different here than elsewhere? The kids are getting it from somewhere, the more contact points available to more to spread about.

I know you can still spread it while vaccinated, but it's less likely.
 
staffordjas

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Overheard yesterday that the Grammar school hardly had any staff or pupils in as most off with it.

SketchyMagpie said:
I guess that covid infections are not going to be uniformly spread even when the school environment is pretty much the same across the country. We must have just gotten unlucky, or perhaps people have let their guards down more here than in most places.
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People certainly have let their guards down around this area . Hardly anyone sanitising hands entering shops , distancing seems to be a thing of the past for most , and only a few others wearing masks.

I was pausing outside the Post Office yesterday to put my mask on and stepped back as I saw someone coming out . She looked at me and rolled her eyes as if I was stupid
 
SketchyMagpie

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tek-monkey said:
Is the vaccination rate any different here than elsewhere? The kids are getting it from somewhere, the more contact points available to more to spread about.

I know you can still spread it while vaccinated, but it's less likely.
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According to the local area checker on https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274 81% of our residents have had both doses and 5% more are either waiting on their second dose or have skipped it. So not a bad vaccination rate.
 
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People are doing what they think is best. Regardless of what measures are taken or not taken everybody is going to be exposed at some point. Your only real choice if your not willing to live in an airtight bubble is whether your exposure happens fully vaxinated or unvaxinated.
 
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Gramaisc

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Lucy said:
I don't think you can claim everyone is doing what they think is best. Some people don't care.
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To be fair, most people are doing what they think is best, best for themselves.

What is best for other people is of little or no consequence in the decision-making process.

It's a fairly simple matter to stretch out the rates, with no real inconvenience, with benefits to non-Covid people's treatment programmes, etc.

But, from what I see, most people don't think that is 'best', for themselves.
 
staffordjas

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We realise that we are most likely going to be exposed to it at some time in our lives, if not already unknowingly already had it. But taking the best precautions we can to not get it , or pass it onto others if asymptomatic, whilst going back to going about our lives in some sort of normality.
 
SketchyMagpie

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I'm also having a hard time understanding the daily ONS figures as infection levels against current circumstances seem to be much less predictable than ever before. For about the past two months, the pattern has been that it'll start going down by around 5-6k cases per day, then it'll go into reverse and a week later it'll be going up by 5k-6k per day and then it'll yoyo again. Of course, the anticipated trajectory at this point would have been it just going through the roof whereas it's staying high with this rollercoaster-esque back-and-fourth.

I know that one unpredicted aspect that has impacted the rates in a positive manner before was that people have been taking their own precautions much more than was expected (and this is why the 'herd immunity' theory would never have worked - as soon as people saw the NHS being overwhelmed, they would limit their activities and contact and the virus would not have enough hosts to continue infection rates at a high enough level) so maybe that's a factor.
 
littleme

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staffordjas said:
Overheard yesterday that the Grammar school hardly had any staff or pupils in as most off with it.



People certainly have let their guards down around this area . Hardly anyone sanitising hands entering shops , distancing seems to be a thing of the past for most , and only a few others wearing masks.

I was pausing outside the Post Office yesterday to put my mask on and stepped back as I saw someone coming out . She looked at me and rolled her eyes as if I was stupid
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I'm having the same problem at work, part of my job sonetimes involves authorising goodies on self scan machines, I'm used to people stepping back away from the machine to allow me to get to the screen..... Although customers are really standing their ground (literally) at the moment, I've had to ask several to step back or back away from me, all met by rolling eyes, tuts or 'I'm double jabbed you know'....


I'm flipping fed up if it, especially as they're making me feel that I'm in the wrong.
 
Thehooperman

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littleme said:
I'm having the same problem at work, part of my job sonetimes involves authorising goodies on self scan machines, I'm used to people stepping back away from the machine to allow me to get to the screen..... Although customers are really standing their ground (literally) at the moment, I've had to ask several to step back or back away from me, all met by rolling eyes, tuts or 'I'm double jabbed you know'....


I'm flipping fed up if it, especially as they're making me feel that I'm in the wrong.
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No you are not in the wrong at all.
 
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tek-monkey said:
Is the vaccination rate any different here than elsewhere? The kids are getting it from somewhere, the more contact points available to more to spread about.

I know you can still spread it while vaccinated, but it's less likely.
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I heard an "expert" on radio stoke the other day discussing this. He put most of it down to the fact "Staffordshire has a higher percentage with both jabs & much higher testing than the national average". I've heard this quoted at other places also.
It was on the radio so it must be true, right?
 
SketchyMagpie

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Just seen a study showing that, with the AstraZeneca vaccine, protection wanes so much after 3 months that there's virtually no reduction of transmission as far as the Delta variant is concerned vs an unvaccinated person so perhaps that's also playing a part given that Delta is now the dominant variant.
 
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