Vaccine

We have now reached the point in the last 9 months of the epidemic that 70,000 EXCESS deaths have occurred in the UK.

This quote being the opening line in an article in ‘The Actuary’

“UK deaths for this year have exceeded 2019 levels by more than 70,000, despite a slight decrease in recent weeks, the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) has found.”

UK 'excess' deaths top 70,000 for 2020

UK deaths for this year have exceeded 2019 levels by more than 70,000, despite a slight decrease in recent weeks, the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) has found.
www.theactuary.com www.theactuary.com

Why is this notable?

Because this is now a bigger loss of life than ALL of the UK civilian deaths during the Second World War.

Davy
 
Posts 22,23&24. This tread was supposed to be a light hearted, cheer you up for Christmas type of thing.
While I can commiserate with any loss you, your family or someone you heard about’s suffering, please post it elsewhere.
As the OP of this thread, I feel entitled to ask you to keep it cheerful.
It’s for that reason, it wasn’t posted in the Covid thread originally.

Hopefully the lurgy wasn’t in Santa’s sack for you, your family or someone you’d heard about..
 
I'll take vaccine when i get the chance but i will be in the last group and get it by age then and any issues or probs with vaccine will be showing up by then - and that depends on whether the grim reaper comes knocking before hand
 
Another week and a bit until the m-i-l is fully vaccinated with the second injection.

Small blessings. Will be a day to celebrate I think (y)

Think I might be in the sixth group in line for it, but who knows?
It will happen when to happens.

Meanwhile I'll carry on festive chomping and stay cheerful...

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Fortunately my van is up my drive which gives options without causing problems - so if either of us had symtoms we could isolate from each other - but that is worst case scenario that i have available
 
Trotter said:
It's annoying to hear people saying they don't believe in the Covid vaccine because they're not sure whats in it. I have complete trust in it because it's made by Pfizer - the same company who makes Viagra. If they can raise the dead, I'm quite sure they can save the living.

Not a Trotter original, wish it was. No it came from today's Metro newspaper. A freebie on the bus. Bus pass used, so it was nicked and at no cost to me. Cheapskate ?
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Nice one resurrection the best
 
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Had a text on my UK mobile yesterday advising vaccination starting next week and to wait till called! From Portuguese gov! How do they know I am here and my number, not registered with doctors here. Wonder whether it was related to Dave's stay in hospital...on discharge, they put that he was 85yrs ( not 65!), They took my number then but we used EHIC and insurance :unsure::unsure:
Edit.. registered on Portuguese network so guess that is answer!

@Trotter don't think it's the phizer one, so Dave will wait for return to UK:ROFLMAO:
 
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mariesnowgoose said:
Another week and a bit until the m-i-l is fully vaccinated with the second injection.

Small blessings. Will be a day to celebrate I think (y)

Think I might be in the sixth group in line for it, but who knows?
It will happen when to happens.
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'Take this with a pinch of salt', but here's a online calculator.
Vaccine Queue Calculator for the UK (omnicalculator.com)

p.s. It seems that anyone told to shield should get a jab Feb to early March
 
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Harrytherid said:
I am hoping for the Oxford one to soon be ready as being a jingoist I would rather have a British one than a Belgian one, especially as we are no longer a part of Europe, though classed as Europeans.
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So you want one made in Germany and Netherlands by a company run by a Swede and Frenchman?
 
REC said:
Had a text on my UK mobile yesterday advising vaccination starting next week and to wait till called! From Portuguese gov! How do they know I am here and my number, not registered with doctors here. Wonder whether it was related to Dave's stay in hospital...on discharge, they put that he was 85yrs ( not 65!), They took my number then but we used EHIC and insurance :unsure::unsure:
Edit.. registered on Portuguese network so guess that is answer!

@Trotter don't think it's the phizer one, so Dave will wait for return to UK:ROFLMAO:
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I'm pretty sure it must be the Phizer one Ruth... the EU took their time to approve it and have only just started rolling it out. As far as I know, the Moderna one has only been approved in the US so far. The Oxford one should get approval in the UK this week with the roll-out starting next week. I did hear that each EU state had only been given 10,000 doses as of the end of last week, so error or not, I'd hold my arm out like a shot 😊

Back when we lived in America, close friends of ours had been given a strong tip to invest in Phizer... she had friends 'in the know'. I don't know if my friends did invest but a year or so later, Viagra was announced and the shares shot up... along with other things :oops: Wish to goodness we'd had the courage/money to buy some shares back then!
 
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