Vaccine

[witzend]

remember , this is just the beginning of it all.....shudder to think what the outcome will be ...dont think we will ever get rid of the virus..........

The virus isn't going anywhere some thing we got to live with. The vaccine isn't 100% so a lot of people are always going to be catching it I can't see it ever going back to the way it was hopefully they will improve the vaccine over time to give better protection

 

[Trotter]

If I saw you on the pavement I would also step into the road, and that would have happened pre-covid

You wouldn't have stepped, you would have been pushed.

 

[Deleted member 68479]

I'm just hoping that when I have my jab it will be the Oxford/AstraZeneca one. I trust British made far more than any overseas brand

 

[barryd]

I'm just hoping that when I have my jab it will be the Oxford/AstraZeneca one. I trust British made far more than any overseas brand

Ooooh Careful! One of the team is French!!

 

[Deleted member 68479]

Ooooh Careful! One of the team is French!!

As far as I know and have read, the Pfizer vaccine is made in Germany and America, not France. Also, it has to be kept at between -80 & -60 degrees C, whereas the Oxford one can be kept at room temperature which makes it much better for transporting to different vaccination areas. This sounds a lot safer to me because if something goes wrong in any of the freezer lorries while it is being transported and nobody notices, then the whole lot will have to be thrown out, and that would be a heck of a lot of people having to wait longer for their vaccination.

 

[Tbear]

By far the best vaccine is the one you can get. It will offer some protection to the variants that we have now. None are %100 so waiting for one you may never be offered? If you believe in prayer you may like to say one for the vaccine to stop transmission, if it doesn't covid is going to be with us for a long time!

 

[tidewatcher]

I'm just hoping that when I have my jab it will be the Oxford/AstraZeneca one. I trust British made far more than any overseas brand

Love seeing comments based on clear thinking and scientific knowledge rather than some sort of illogical bias. Most vaccines in common use today are made “abroad” since we have little manufacturing capacity hence the rush to set up uk manufacturing.

 

[barryd]

Love seeing comments based on clear thinking and scientific knowledge rather than some sort of illogical bias. Most vaccines in common use today are made “abroad” since we have little manufacturing capacity hence the rush to set up uk manufacturing.

The Oxford Vaccine is initially being manufactured in Germany and the Netherlands I believe.

 

[Mtbcol]

Just to say, have the vaccine friends. I work on the ambulances, and if you can avoid getting C19 PLEASE do so.

 

[mariesnowgoose]

Just to say, have the vaccine friends. I work on the ambulances, and if you can avoid getting C19 PLEASE do so.

Thanks

To be fair I don't think there are many of us in here who would disagree.
Hopefully your comment might help persuade any lurking naysayers.

 

[davef]

I too would prefer the Astra Zeneca Oxford jab to the Pfizer one. Nothing to do with where it was developed or made, but because it is a conventional vaccine whereas the Pfizer is a radically new technology. In fact being over 70, I was offered the Pfizer jab last week and turned it down - not an easy decision - and said I would prefer to wait till when they get the Oxford one in - was told it could be several weeks, they could not say just when. As we live in quite a remote place and barely see anyone at this time of year, I dont think this will be a problem.

 

[blights]

British scientists worked out the sequence for a vaccine that will not prevent you from getting the virus but it will under studies taken already prevent you from getting seriusly ill and needing hospital treatment hopefully by up to 90% this was done in Oxford, it actually gets produced in Germany & The Netherlands so which one you going to choose now ?? My suggestion would be any they offer you as none are made here in the UK Oh decisions decisions which one to choose it must be very difficult for you as you quoted you only want British made rather than British discovered this limits you in theory to none not a wise choice in the situation we are in at present, I do hope you have a long talk with yourself in a dark corner and change your mind and just take the call and take the jab for you and those around you Have a safe year whatever you choose to do , the rest of us I hope see the sensible route to any safety and get the jab as soon as it is offered no matter where it was made. By the way the actual DNA of the virus that helped all scientists around the globe came from Wuhan without which there would be no jab, I know now you have even more of a dilemma because even it was British made it like the virus came from Wuhan .

 

[Tbear]

Just to say, have the vaccine friends. I work on the ambulances, and if you can avoid getting C19 PLEASE do so.

I work in the Anaesthetic room so at near the same risk as you. I am literally just off to buy myself a better quality of mask than the disposable ones we are getting of late. I don't need it if you haven't got C19. Save your life and me £20.

 

[tidewatcher]

British scientists worked out the sequence for a vaccine that will not prevent you from getting the virus but it will under studies taken already prevent you from getting seriusly ill and needing hospital treatment hopefully by up to 90% this was done in Oxford, it actually gets produced in Germany & The Netherlands so which one you going to choose now ?? My suggestion would be any they offer you as none are made here in the UK Oh decisions decisions which one to choose it must be very difficult for you as you quoted you only want British made rather than British discovered this limits you in theory to none not a wise choice in the situation we are in at present, I do hope you have a long talk with yourself in a dark corner and change your mind and just take the call and take the jab for you and those around you Have a safe year whatever you choose to do , the rest of us I hope see the sensible route to any safety and get the jab as soon as it is offered no matter where it was made. By the way the actual DNA of the virus that helped all scientists around the globe came from Wuhan without which there would be no jab, I know now you have even more of a dilemma because even it was British made it like the virus came from Wuhan .

Take the first one offered, this pandemic is unprecedented in modern times and those that have seen its effects are under no illusions. I am walking around with my sleeve rolled up just on the off chance.......

 

[Toffeecat]

Just to repeat. Both me and the missus had the Pfiezer one and have had no side effects. All my colleagues also had the pfiezer one. The only side effects of note are a sore arm, a bit of tiredness from one and one had a mild headache. So far so good.

 

[trevskoda]

hmm....yes civilization will still go on.............spanish flu 50 million did not go on they died..............mothers fthers children...sisters, brothers..etc....
thanks dezi as you say we must keep things in perspective...........its the young ones i worry for,,,,,what kind of world is going to be left behind for them.........take care

One without old farts clogging the beaches and carparks with campervans.

 

[Deleted member 68479]

Of course I don't believe in prayer, there's nothing to pray to. If everybody relied on that, there would be no humans left alive on this planet, which actually would be no bad thing for the planet.

 

[Red Dwarf]

I saw something on the news a day or two ago, a report from a hospital in Derby, I think. The frazzled burnt out intensive care staff were telling their stories, all worked way beyond what would acceptable in normal circumstances. Having done their twelve hour shift of hell they then had to run the gauntlet outside the hospital with the anti-vac/covid denying idiots.
I worked on the ambulances, my other half is a nurse and a number of friends and family work for the nhs. One niece in the west county hasn’t had a full day off in five months. Two ambulance crew I know are dead from covid.
So, please stay home and take the vaccination when it’s offered to you. Remember the two hundred or so nhs staff that have died of covid (because of their contact in the workplace) have wives, husbands, daughters, sons, mums and dads. Tell the children of a dead nurse why you don’t want the vaccine.
I suspect this will be deleted from the thread, but I hope at least a few will see it.

 

[trixie88]

One without old farts clogging the beaches and carparks with campervans.

they probably wont have the money for campervans or holidays trev...........economy iwill fall flat on its face..........take care

 

[Fazerloz]

Of course I don't believe in prayer, there's nothing to pray to. If everybody relied on that, there would be no humans left alive on this planet, which actually would be no bad thing for the planet.

Prove there is nothing to pray to.