Coronavirus.

cj1 said:

Looking at the vaccination rate the last week or so it's just a few stragglers getting their first jabs now (who want them). Also if you haven't done so already second jabs can now be brought forward and with the lifting of restrictions its probably not a bad idea.

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My OH is 40 and will only be able to get her second jab on the 20th, I feel an awful lot of people don't yet have 2, certainly those under 30.

tek-monkey said:

My OH is 40 and will only be able to get her second jab on the 20th, I feel an awful lot of people don't yet have 2, certainly those under 30.

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The upside is that the 20th is not long away, gas she been given any social advice given that the pregnant? Many of my younger colleagues are refusing the jab as they want more children in the near future, just wondered if you have to sign any declaration or take extra precautions?

It doesn't affect fertility as far as the studies show though... Menstrual cycle yes, as many vaccines do, but it doesn't make you infertile...

cj1 said:

Bluetooth contact tracing can be disabled in the app if you so wish

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Thought the app wouldn't work unless Bluetooth was turned on?

On the app home page bottom option "manage contact tracing" then toggle switch to off. The app then won't tract you but you can still scan on to places.

tek-monkey said:

My OH is 40 and will only be able to get her second jab on the 20th, I feel an awful lot of people don't yet have 2, certainly those under 30.

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can she not bring her appointment forward? I know people in there 20s getting there second jab now after bringing there second appointment forward a month. There are loads of spare appointments now as for the first time there are now more jabs than volunteer arms.

Despite me badgering him ..Sons not bringing his 2nd jab forward as he doesn't want to have time off work and appointments anywhere near where he lives are hard to come by (took him 2hrs each way for 1st jab with traffic) , and has his 2nd jab booked for same venue when he's off on holiday in August.

Just hoping he manages to get it done as last Novembers holiday he spent the fortnight ill with covid .....

This next weeks holiday off work , when he should have been going away with his mates, he's now been contacted by track & trace as being in close vicinity of positive person so now got to isolate ( Since tested negative himself, so luckily not taking others in his workforce out as well)

So hoping in his next weeks holiday he doesn't have any reasons to have his 2nd jab cancelled!


We were walking last night and gave someone a wide berth as we passed. She thanked us for caring , but said "Thanks, but you needn't have bothered . I'm past bothering about all that now that things are back to normal, it's more or less over " . I told her her certainly wasn't over , and son was having to isolate because of positive cases by him. She was shocked , but can't see it making any difference to people like that. That's why the bloody rates are sky rocketing!!!

When I went food shopping while I still had use of the car on Monday , no-one except for me as I entered each store was sanitising hand and trolleys, and many including shop staff not wearing masks.

cj1 said:

can she not bring her appointment forward? I know people in there 20s getting there second jab now after bringing there second appointment forward a month. There are loads of spare appointments now as for the first time there are now more jabs than volunteer arms.

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That is bringing it forward, it was August 18th.

Only pregnancy advice was she had to get Pfizer, not AZ. Doc had no other concerns, a controlled dose of vaccine is better than exposure to the virus.

How do you bring forward your second jab? Just cancel and rebook?

Yes, but they allow you to check availability before cancelling so you can keep your appointment if better dates not available.

Phew! That's the bit I was bit nervous about, cheers.

August 5th changed to July 15th for jab #2, sorted.

Hubby was talking to someone on his walk this morning. She said she worked giving vaccinations at Kingston Centre , but was worried as they had plenty of vaccines available but the uptake from the youngsters is very low .

When they first opened up it was packed, so it depends on your definition of very low.

I know plenty of people who'd love to bring their second jab forward as they're doing 3 - 4 weeks in the rest of the world not 8.
Mines at 8 weeks next week but OH still stuck at 12 weeks with no earlier availability being shown.

Thanks for the info. I've managed to move ours to next week at the Kingston centre.

cj1 said:

Yes, but they allow you to check availability before cancelling so you can keep your appointment if better dates not available.

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Thanks for that info @cj1 .

Son's just brought his forwards by 3 weeks to the 5th August (8 wks) since I've told him that.

Good job they stopped naming Variants of Concern after where they came from, right?

Phew.

“If you are going to train a virus to escape vaccine-induced immunity, you would do exactly what they're doing,” Jemma Geoghegan, an evolutionary virologist at the University of Otago, told Newsroom.

“You're basically providing a training ground for the virus to overcome those selection pressures. You're allowing the virus to continue to spread.

With this moderately immune population and with the Delta variant that has an R0 that's estimated to be probably five or six, you need a threshold to be much, much, much higher than they currently have.”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/he...covid19-uks-awful-experiment-will-threaten-nz