VACCINATION IDEA

All front line staff in the trust I work in have started getting them this week too. We also are getting more centres set up to get the rest of the staff sorted as well. I am on the list to be done but very far down the list. Frontline staff first, then vulnerable staff then the rest which is fine by me.

 

There was a guy on question time last night that said to the vaccine minister Nadhim zahawi, why don,t you utilise the good will of the british people?, there are pharmacists all over the country that want to help but government don,t seem to want it, he said that instead of vaccinating 10.000 per day, it could be 20 or 30.000, the government really do have to pull out all the stops with this, they,ve made error after error since the start of this, its time to get it right...

 

as daft as this sounds whats wrong with getting certain diabetic suffers trained up 'cos lets be honest a diabetic sufferer of 50 year of age has probably given more injections ( ok all to him/her self) at 3 a day than the entire gp's surgery staff combined

 

They don't inject a needle into their arm in the same way as a vaccination is given.

 

Shoot em with darts..

 

Strange then that France has over 50% anti vaxxers.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ing-to-anti-vaxxers-with-slow-vaccine-rollout

 

Can't agree more.

 

I'd say it was a very mixed bag of folk.. Not really a left / right politcal bias thing..

 

I thought the plan was to use pharmacists eventually. But in the Pfizer case it wasn't possible but with the Oxford one, that we would see multiple places including stadia and local pharmacies?

 

Maybe its just me, but I think rolling out the vaccine is perhaps a little more important than tackling the climate crisis right now.

 

It is. There were some reports earlier in the week that pharmacists had been "snubbed" but they turned out to be false I think.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...start-offering-oxford-covid-vaccine-next-week

 

Agreed we need to tackle the climate crisis. But perhaps not at the expense of 1,000 deaths a day, locking everyone in their homes, keeping kids out of school and wrecking the economy. Reversing this through vaccination has to be more important right now.

 

Unfortunately, its likely to be tackled for the rich nations, but the poorest are probably going to be left to their own suffering. Vaccinating the entire world would cost "only" around £200bn or so - which between the G20 is only around £10bn each and would seriously restart the global economy.

 

Madhim Zaharia will be lining up all the people who can vaccinate for his wife’s new medical company. Charge government a rate per injection and pay the vaccinators a fraction of it.
Tory you see.

 

I read Morrison’s have offered their car parks for drive thru jabs. Already got a number signed up and offered 70+ more locations.

 

Only going to work if we have a reliable and substantial supply of vaccine. Unfortunately, our capacity to administer it (hospitals, GPs and pharmacies) for outstrips the supply. We definitely have the capacity to do 2M a week but not enough vaccine yet.

Edit, just read more of this thread and realise that your post was meant tongue-in-cheek.

 

You need to get India, China, Brazil and Indonesia done and you’ve covers half the world. Obviously China will do it their own way, India are hoping to vaccinate 200million by March, they have the biggest vaccine manufacturing plants in the world. I think sometimes we in the west assume everyone in the global south are picking rice and eating dirt for a living, forgetting their size and wealth.

 

This exactly. If the Tories can control it, more money to syphon off to their chumocracy.