Coronavirus

Sounds awful, BYM! Have to say, here the supermarkets and hardware/diy places (which is all that's open) are quite vigilant. They all have automatic hand sanitiser dispensers - so you're not handling the dispenser - and paper dispensers with the trolley sanitiser. The buses are reduced to 15% of passenger capacity and masks must be worn. Most if the buses are driving around empty. Still, there was an outbreak among bus drivers locally.

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This week we have had school buses full as well. Although they have been good at mask wearing. It's worse at the school gates with all the parents chatting in big groups and not a mask between them.
Our buses are running around pretty empty during the day as well.
 
We’ve just been to our second vaccinations. At entry we had to queue for a bit to get to the desk where our record cards were examined and our details recovered on the computer. We stood well back from the person in front and waited to be called forward, but the couple behind us got up really close as if in a normal queue, although there was plenty of room to space out. After that, we moved on to the door of the hall where the vaccination stations were set up and waited again to be called in. Once again, the people behind us caught up, came up really close and started trying to chat over us to the volunteer who was controlling the people entering the hall. Everyone was wearing masks, but as everyone there was getting their second dose, hence by definition were elderly or at high risk, and given the nature of our visit, you’d think people would be super-careful.
 
I wonder why they picked on you, Marigold? Like the people who sit next to you on the bus when all the other seats are empty! Nowt so queer as folk. Early last year we went shopping in Stornoway and people weren't keeping their distance and even reaching across you to get something off the shelf. That was the last time we went until yesterday when we had to fetch our cancelled home delivery. Much more organised now, everyone obeying the rules.
 
We are booked in for our first jabs next week. Carol wants 'Sputnik' flavour but I dont think there will be a choice :)
 
Well everyone here has had their first jab. And though we’ve not gone as far as drug fuelled raves, visiting neighbours for a mug of coffee and a long reflective chat about the state of the world (to be honest, gossiping about ones neighbours) has crept back in.
The fact that xxxxx has bought a new tyre for his tractor is obviously of greater importance than world affairs. And I don’t mean that in a sneering way. It really is of greater public interest. The world seems far away.
 
Michael Rosen has written about his time in intensive care with Covid, and his progress towards recovery. What an amazing man.

The link takes you to some of his writing, but if you click the link over the photo in the article, you get to another interview with him.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/13/i-am-not-who-i-was-michael-rosen-on-surviving-covid-extract
 
We seem to attract the people who want to get too close. I think some people are just incapable of not getting close to you. I get it at work, even with work colleagues at times.
Glad you have had your second dose.
A neighbouring farmer ( Sheep) phoned his doctor to say he had blood in his urine and she sent him off for an exam at the NHS hospital two days later which we thought was impressive. They had a look and found a small growth and referred him to a local BUPA hospital to have it removed on Monday. So he had a Covid test Thursday and was told to isolate. The BUPA hospital rang him on Friday to say they had forgotten to tell him to come in for a pre op check, he said "well I will have to go home and get changed as I am delivering a lamb at the moment". To which he got told off for not isolating and the nurse said " I will have to check if the doctor thinks, being with sheep counts as isolation "
The surgeon thought it was quite funny.
 
Just about got my 1st vaccine last night. Having found a parking spot, I then had to follow some vague signs in the shopping centre that led nowhere in particular. Luckily a lady passed me and pointed 4 of us in the right direction. Got there, they hadn't got my name on the list, or the 3 people behind me, we all showed our confirmation e mails, so that had to acknowledge we were in right place, right time. As it was 7.30pm they then said you are lucky we have had some no shows or we would have been out of vaccine. Grand.
So far no reaction of any sort
 
The no shows are probably still wandering around looking for the place!

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They dont mention peeing a lot on the leaflet - that has been the main effect. I would guess we are mostly out of the woods now in terms of any meaningful evaluation of risk. I'm still waiting for the archery club to open the doors to the windswept field with hardly anyone in it again. Come on - corporate correct caution has its sensible limits (err no!)
 
I finally got to book my jabs yesterday. It'll mean a round trip of over 50 miles both times but it could have been worse. The second closest venue that I was offered was in Alton, near Guildford. I live just outside Canterbury, in East Kent! Calais would've been closer...
 
Bit like Ruth, she got offered ones in Faversham Kent we live on the edge of Upminster between there and West Horndon and Faversham is way down the Kent coast, if you look it up you will get an idea of distance, Gravesham was another choice also in Kent. Luckily Forest Gate was nearer on edge of Epping Forest.
Four people I work with got phone calls from their doctors in the afternoon asking if they could get to the surgery for their jabs within the hour, as they had lots to use up as people had been refusing the Oxford one and walking out. Several went all in their 30's along with their wives, Jordan is in her 20's and got a call.
 
The NHS system works (or is supposed to) on an as-the-crow-flies basis. That'll be why Ruth was offered Faversham; it's across the Thames estuary. We often get BBC Essex travel news on the car radio (or at least we used to, back in the days when we used the car...). We get more French radio stations than English ones too...

It's a shame that I didn't get offered a jab in Faversham- that's only 8 miles away. Still, if it's full of folks from Essex, there won't be space!
 
I'm more at risk of injury falling off a step-ladder than I am of blood clots from the vaccine! Unusually for me and injections I'm looking forward to getting my second jab of the AZ
 
That's what we worked out the computer system is geared not to overload an area with bookings and anything in Kent looks local local as it doesn't know the river Thames and Swale is in the way. Our nearest centre is Hornchurch. Or Brentwood centre. If she had waited for the doctor to contact her it would have been a centre in Grays Thurrock. As it was she went to the pharmacy in Forest Gate, straight in, straight out.

To be honest if you start thinking about going across the river, you have to start thinking about trouble on the Dartford Crossing and all that would entail.

Or tripping over a kitten Margaid, glad you are looking forward to the next one.
 
Hey ? I had my jab on Friday. Didn't feel a thing, but hell the next day I felt like I'd been hit by a train. I've had headaches since. ? Better than getting covid. At least I can take a couple of paracetamol.
 
The typhoid vaccine isn't much fun either, from memory. Still, a vaccine's better than the disease...
 
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