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Agreed. It's really difficult. I would just love to be able to go to a beer garden with my family and friends this summer. Really need a laugh and some good company (away from the house)! I don't even go to the cinema that much, maybe 2/3 times a year, but this week I have literally been desperate to go to the cinema!
Also...sending virtual hugs to everyone struggling at the moment! Sometimes it's easy to feel like you're the only one feeling down/lonely/anxious but most people are in the same boat, you're not alone, just keep swimming, hopefully the end is in sight and we can have some kind of normality back soon xxx
 

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Agreed. It's really difficult. I would just love to be able to go to a beer garden with my family and friends this summer. Really need a laugh and some good company (away from the house)! I don't even go to the cinema that much, maybe 2/3 times a year, but this week I have literally been desperate to go to the cinema!
I'm so glad we went to at least see TENET at the cinema in the summer! (even though there were only like 50 odd people at the screening!)
 

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I'm so glad we went to at least see TENET at the cinema in the summer! (even though there were only like 50 odd people at the screening!)
Can't wait to go again. I won't even complain about the price of tickets and I'll buy the biggest tango ice blast they have!
 
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I've actually become friends with an 80 year old woman on the walk and she's hilarious and actually brightens my day when I see her. Some others go past and say 'fancy seeing you here?'...'are you following me?' every. single. day :ROFLMAO:
I need to know are you following them? :LOL:
 
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I'm beginning to think some people are getting their first shot earlier than they should. I'm 58 and have asthma, but waiting for mine but 2 lecturers from my place who are at least 15 years younger than me and have not been shielding have posted on FB that they've had theirs. I asked them how and they won't say
 

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I'm beginning to think some people are getting their first shot earlier than they should. I'm 58 and have asthma, but waiting for mine but 2 lecturers from my place who are at least 15 years younger than me and have not been shielding have posted on FB that they've had theirs. I asked them how and they won't say
I've got two acquaintances in their 20s who are 'bin diving' at their local vaccine centre at the end of every day to see if there's any spare vaccine. From what they've said, there's always a group of 30-40 doing the same. Every single day. I can only imagine this is happening everywhere. I suppose a) it's a good thing that there seems to be that amount of enthusiam, but b) it's bloody annoying for those who are just under the cusp of the next group/two groups and who are watching another month of uncertainty at least spreading before them.

I half heard something on the BBC this morning (but to be honest, I was concentrating harder on my coffee) about some parts of the country already being on to Group 6.
 

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Any leftover vaccine, needles and vials should be disposed of as clinical waste and removed by a specialist company under Biological Safety rules. I am horrified if this isn't happening!
 

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If you are in one of the groups that are receiving vaccines, you don't have to wait for a letter to book an appointment for a jab. Fill in the online form, and if you are eligible, you can book a jab there and then, although it might not be at a centre close by. We waited for a text from the G.P. in the end, as the online service had nothing within 45 miles.

 

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Any leftover vaccine, needles and vials should be disposed of as clinical waste and removed by a specialist company under Biological Safety rules. I am horrified if this isn't happening!
Oh, they're waiting to be jabbed properly - not actually bin diving! Because that would be bloody awful.
 
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I am missing the coffee bars and normally I don't use them much. It would be nice to have somewhere to walk to. I had my jab on Friday and I am 68. It was in a branch of Boots next to the doctors surgery that they shut in October. They seem to be using it as a local hub for several G.P. practices. I came home and my letter inviting me to book a jab was waiting for me. I needed to spend Saturday in bed as I was so tired but I am fine now.
 

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I would have thought that teachers would be in a priority group. It makes a mockery of the "no mixing with other households' rule if teachers are going to be in a classroom of 30 kids.
 

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In one of the biggest real-world studies so far of vaccine effectiveness, Israel’s largest healthcare provider is reporting a 94% drop in symptomatic coronavirus cases among 600,000 people who have been fully vaccinated.

The analysis compares Israelis who have received two doses of the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine with an unvaccinated group of the same size, matched for age and medical history. It reports a result similar to Pfizer’s clinical trials, though the research is preliminary and has yet to be peer reviewed.

The study also seeks to assess how well the vaccine can work against serious illness. Here, the researchers say they believe effectiveness, a week after a second dose, ranges from 91% to 99%. They say a more accurate figure will be available as more time passes after participants’ second jab.

Israel has immunised more than a quarter of its population with two doses. While overall infection rates in the country remain stubbornly high, the number of critically ill over-60s has fallen by a third in recent weeks - the age group were among the first to get jabs from mid to late December.


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Once it starts appearing we have a similar situation over here in regards to transmission the government are REALLY going to struggle to keep telling people how they should be living their lives in terms of what they can do
 

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We must be ahead of the curve in my area - my Mum got done on Saturday and she's in the 65 to 69 age group. My friend who is diabetic got done too and he's only 40. I am hoping I get done soon but I am now getting nervous that my asthma won't be 'bad enough' to be done now. I wish I had put myself down as my Mum's carer, to bump myself up the list (we do live together and I do care for her but she's still fairly agile).

I can see it being very hard to keep lockdown up once the weather improves.
 

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Well it looks like millions of asthmatics will be left disappointed, as they have now decided that unless we have been told to shield by letter, admitted as an emergency or have three steroid prescriptions in a month we won’t be included in group 6, since it has been decided we are at no increased risk of dying from COVID. Tbh I am totally pissed off that people who are morbidly obese due to lifestyle choices go ahead of us.
 

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Well it looks like millions of asthmatics will be left disappointed, as they have now decided that unless we have been told to shield by letter, admitted as an emergency or have three steroid prescriptions in a month we won’t be included in group 6, since it has been decided we are at no increased risk of dying from COVID. Tbh I am totally pissed off that people who are morbidly obese due to lifestyle choices go ahead of us.
hmm

wonder if they will push down some of the diabetics as well
 

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Looking at this VERY SHARP drop from mid Jan - What do you think is causing it? Lockdown? Vaccine? Both?

The US for example hasn't REALLY had a lockdown and their case numbers of tumbling as well!
 

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