Anyone had the jab yet?

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I think they are doing a cracking job. I know a lot of people haven't much time for BJ but I reckon one of his strengths is he knows who to appoint where to get a job done. Just my opinion don't want to start an argument.
 

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I think they are doing a cracking job. I know a lot of people haven't much time for BJ but I reckon one of his strengths is he knows who to appoint where to get a job done. Just my opinion don't want to start an argument.

When I first read that I wondered just who doesn’t have time for a BJ.

Then I re-read it.

Oh, and except Dido Harding who is possibly the most ridiculous senior appointment in living memory. And that’s saying something.
 
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I suppose we do not realise how much our negative news surrounds our daily lives.
If you're ever standing in a queue in a newsagents (who will remember that term in twenty years?) look at the
row of tabloids. They're collectively called 'red tops'. Red to represent blood. Stories involving blood being spilled
always leading the news agenda.
If you, like me, vividly remember the blanket TV news coverage of 9/11. You, like me, might've come to a point where you had to say 'enough!'. Simply because it was overwhelming and literally, depressing.
Last summer I reached the same point, with Covid. Its not that I don't care. Its that I care too much.
I figure that if there's something that I really need to know. That news will reach me, somehow.
I think there comes a point where relentless bad news starts to have an increasingly bad effect on our own
wellbeing and its at or before that point, where we need to start to focus on our own wellbeing.
Especially if, like in the case of 9/11, there's nothing we can do for the 3,000 + souls who were murdered that day, in and around New York. That said. Now is a perfect opportunity to reach out, into our own communities, to see if there's any practical way that we can help those struggling to cope.

Been told by my GP's office to expect a jab in late Spring / early summer.
Don't call us. We'll call you. And I have a compromised immune system
which means if I contract one of the strains and end up in hospital,
I probably won't be coming out again. Vertical anyways :(
Forget bucket lists. My 'f**k it' list grows ever longer! :)
 
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My wife and son have both had the vaccine, my wife works for a charity supporting the elderly and my 22 year old son volunteers at a food bank for vulnerable children & adults in poverty. There has been a huge surge in this area since the pandemic began.
 

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My 83 year old Mom has had it along with my daughter and my sons partner. The latter two work in the nhs. My sons partner tested positive a few days after and other than a bit of a cough and a bit lethargic she felt fine and it didn’t pass on to my son. They did their 10 days of isolation and all is good.
 

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Wife had hers 4 weeks ago.
Just a sore arm.
Still has an irritating persistent cough.
No idea for me, if I go to Denmark I may miss the boat....
 

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So having had a discussion with her doc about vaccine suitability (following previous adverse reactions) my Mum went for her Astra z jab today.
Got there and was told it’s the Pfizer or nothing.
She took it.
I’m flabbergasted that
A. They gave someone with a history of reactions.
B. She took it.

Fortunately she feels fine at the moment.
She’s now joined the UK/Pfizer “experiment programme” as she doesn’t get the next till sometime in May.
 
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mate had the astrazeneka vaccine on Friday and was as as rough as badgers 4rse on the Saturday and he's a fit mid 50 year old, apparently the first main dose of the 0xford one is quite gloopy/thick, think fizer may be the other way round with second dose having an effect ?
 

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So having had a discussion with her doc about vaccine suitability (following previous adverse reactions) my Mum went for her Astra z jab today.
Got there and was told it’s the Pfizer or nothing.
She took it.
I’m flabbergasted that
A. They gave someone with a history of reactions.
B. She took it.

Fortunately she feels fine at the moment.
She’s now joined the UK/Pfizer “experiment programme” as she doesn’t get the next till sometime in May.

both my early 80 year old parents had the fizer one a couple of weeks ago and they were and are fine, it is a bit of a p1ss take that they now have to wait 12weeks for the second
 
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