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Post by ffiscool on May 22, 2021 13:54:40 GMT
Hopefully you’ll get nothing more. I was tired for 2 days after my 2nd and had a cough, but that’s all
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Post by jellybean on May 22, 2021 14:07:23 GMT
I get my 2nd one tonight 6.35pm, fingers crossed I feel better than I did with the first one.
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Post by ariella on May 22, 2021 16:04:53 GMT
Good luck jellybean. I’ve got through the day with mainly tiredness and a small headache. So nice not to have the muscle and joint pain and a severe headache after the second. I’ve sat and cross stitched most of the afternoon, so taken it easy. Now I wonder when the autumn boosters will be organised, along with the flu jab for those of us who have it perhaps?
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Post by jellybean on May 22, 2021 16:12:38 GMT
Thank you. It'll be home and feet up watching a film tonight. Glad the side effects from your 2nd weren't too bad ariella.
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Post by tweetiepiesmom on May 22, 2021 16:48:52 GMT
The number of covid new infections have gone down a lot here - the lowest we've seen since the pandemic started. Things are starting to open up. Movie theaters are open but only for 50% occupancy. Everyone 12 years and older are now able to get the vaccine. The mega sites (like Dodger stadium) to get the shot are closing down. They are setting up mobile vans now to go into the neighborhoods to offer the vaccine to people who couldn't get to one of the sites. They'll be going to neighborhood churches, store parking lots, etc. We're told that almost 60% of the people have had at least one shot. The government (in California) will be opening up everything, no masks required, on June 15 but if cases spike will close some down and again require masks.
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Post by ariella on May 22, 2021 21:33:55 GMT
It feels like we have to wait and see what happens with the Indian variant over in the uk at the moment, plus there has been mention of a new triple variant virologists are studying that has strange genomes, so no idea yet what that might mean - hopefully nothing, but that’s the biggest worry I suppose world-over; that a mutation will become immune to the vaccine. I don’t doubt our scientists are one step ahead and already working at how they will tweak the vaccine when it’s necessary to do so. It’s amazing they even created vaccines so quickly after the arrival of a new pandemic. Numbers have increased but I think that would be expected since everywhere started to open up, much like you have in LA tweetiepiesmom. It’s a waiting game now to see if new cases are just a knock-on effect of more socialising or affected by the new strains in certain areas of the country.
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Post by ffiscool on May 22, 2021 23:29:17 GMT
It’s awful isn’t it when we have to weigh up what causes the rise in cases/deaths, socialising or a new resistant variant.
This weather is really getting to me, I can sort of forget if sitting outside in sun
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Post by ariella on May 23, 2021 8:25:16 GMT
Looks to be drying up by Tuesday ffiscool.
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Post by suesbird on May 23, 2021 8:25:34 GMT
It would be interesting if they published the figures of people who actually died of covid. I have friends who had covid on their death certificate but had cancer or other life ending illnesses. I have a friend who is a science editor on a national newspaper and the numbers are no where near what they are saying. I agree with everything being done and all for it, but I also think it has been to make people take note and be more careful, which I agree with.
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Post by stevex on May 23, 2021 8:52:35 GMT
Yes, when they publish the daily death figures, there is always the small print at the bottom which says "deaths, within 28 days of a positive test, for whatever reason". So that tells you that the figures are not accurate.
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Post by tweetiepiesmom on May 23, 2021 15:39:11 GMT
To your point stevex, most people don't die of covid - they are dying from complications after getting covid such as pneumonia, respiratory failure, stroke, heart failure, etc. The death certificate here doesn't even have covid listed on it as cause of death.
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Post by ffiscool on Jun 14, 2021 17:27:22 GMT
Can and can’t believe we’ve another 4 week delay. I foresee this happening again in July
Weddings aren’t any different. In fact, harder to distance if anyone is dancing etc, toilets.
Why was end of July never the target, given we knew most younger people wouldn’t have been vaccinated until end of July.
Sorry, just really p-d me off. I get it, but so many still allowed to come into UK from red countries, standing in queues at Heathrow, with those from green countries.
Until more are vaccinated in the younger groups the numbers still won’t go down
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Post by ariella on Jun 14, 2021 22:13:41 GMT
Can and can’t believe we’ve another 4 week delay. I foresee this happening again in July Weddings aren’t any different. In fact, harder to distance if anyone is dancing etc, toilets. Why was end of July never the target, given we knew most younger people wouldn’t have been vaccinated until end of July. Sorry, just really p-d me off. I get it, but so many still allowed to come into UK from red countries, standing in queues at Heathrow, with those from green countries. Until more are vaccinated in the younger groups the numbers still won’t go down I agree that we must get the young adults vaccinated as they are the most social and most likely to be getting the Delta variant and passing it on. Two of my three adult children who are still at home have been told in no uncertain terms that their heads will be on the block if they bring Covid home. My hubby and I are not particularly happy son’s gf is coming home from Uni in London this week and won’t isolate at all before mixing. She hasn’t followed any of the restrictions during her time there and I think she’s fortunate not to have had it to be honest. My eldest is fully vaccinated and his partner will have hers as soon as she’s called and my other adult children will get the vaccine also but I worry young people will view it as a ‘get out of jail free card’ and go and do whatever they want, regardless of the current data. When we originally had the ‘roadmap’ out of lockdown, I thought the initial date was for July. People see numbers dropping and seem to throw caution to the wind, but with the risk of new variants all the time, they then don’t want to take measures to keep others safe when the numbers start rising. I think people forget the vaccination offers a level of protection and isn’t a guarantee against getting it and passing it on. I have no idea why people are allowed in from red countries and who is checking on every person meant to be isolating after flying in from them?
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Post by ffiscool on Jun 14, 2021 22:46:53 GMT
Hard one Re your son’s girlfriend. Could she maybe take a test, that hopefully shows negative?
I totally agree, the dates will also make the younger group be so fed up and spend more time mixing. Boris is assuming we’ll all be good until July 19th. But that’s never been the case
I have been really ok with the plan until now, now I just think he’s more wrong, if such a phrase, than ever
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Post by ariella on Jun 15, 2021 11:28:31 GMT
Hard one Re your son’s girlfriend. Could she maybe take a test, that hopefully shows negative? I totally agree, the dates will also make the younger group be so fed up and spend more time mixing. Boris is assuming we’ll all be good until July 19th. But that’s never been the case I have been really ok with the plan until now, now I just think he’s more wrong, if such a phrase, than ever That’s what hubby and I requested of him last night but she isn’t our favourite person, to put it mildly, and hasn’t followed any rules AT ALL so we know she’d refuse. Mind you, her mum doesn’t seem to give two hoots either so it’s a bit of lost cause. That said, they both know she isn’t setting foot here. I can’t stop my son from seeing her but I can stop her coming near the rest of us. I’m hoping the numbers won’t sky-rocket as SAGE have predicted but I have a sneaking suspicion they will and it’ll be young people in the ICU’s. Maybe then they’ll take it all a little more seriously. I have put myself in their shoes so many times over the past year and thought how I would have felt as a young adult rather than just view it as a middle-aged cautious wife and mum with clinically vulnerable people in the house, but even so, I think I would have followed guidelines and wouldn’t have gone to any house parties or congregated in large groups, etc.
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