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Coronavirus (Non-Politics)

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So Mrs RHB gets a phone call from our surgery yesterday afternoon - 9.25 Wednesday, Pfizer jab, Highlands medical centre, be there or be square. Cue choices, what arm shall it be? what clothes shall I wear etc. Got a phone call early this morning from the surgery, there had been a power failure at the centre over night and all the vaccines are ruined, stand down. Miserable Mrs RHB!
 
Rootshallbloke said:
So Mrs RHB gets a phone call from our surgery yesterday afternoon - 9.25 Wednesday, Pfizer jab, Highlands medical centre, be there or be square. Cue choices, what arm shall it be? what clothes shall I wear etc. Got a phone call early this morning from the surgery, there had been a power failure at the centre over night and all the vaccines are ruined, stand down. Miserable Mrs RHB!
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What a nightmare about the vaccines. Hopefully they can get new supply quickly (and avoid the power cut happening again)
 
Tangled up in Blue said:
Significantly,none of the media accounts I saw yesterday or today, chose to mention the freebie trip to Barbados at Xmas/NY for him and his family paid for by a British "newspaper".This is almost certainly where he contracted the bout of pneunomia which killed him.Long distance holidays clearly aren't recommended for anyone of his advanced age.

It was mentioned that he'd tested positive for the virus last week ,however.

Sitll I'm sure his family enjoyed their trip to the Windies.

(Before anyone starts, I'm not trying to belittlle his wonderful fund raising eforts for the NHS last year).
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You certainly did not. But you are having a dig at him and his
family. You even sneer at the freebie holiday. If it was the Guardian and to Cuba would that be OK.

He obviously only made 100 because he didn't slump on the sofa and was prepared to take a risk. At least he didn't die in a care home alone.

One of my friends had their fathers funeral last Friday and Two friends are planning their parents funeral at the moment. There must be 1000's around the world that like them, wish they could have gone to Barbados at Christmas.

God bless Captain Tom. The majority appreciate what you did.
 
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rigsby said:
Your certainly not. But you are having a dig at him and his
family. You even sneer at the freebie holiday. If it was the Guardian and to Cuba would that be OK.

He obviously only made 100 because he didn't slump on the sofa and was prepared to take a risk. At least he didn't die in a care home alone.

One of my friends had their fathers funeral last Friday and Two friends are planning their parents funeral at the moment. There must be 1000's around the world that like them, wish they could have gone to Barbados at Christmas.

God bless Captain Tom. The majority appreciate what you did.
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No, if anything I'm having a pop at the manipulation of the British media,Britain's need for a hero and the continuing importance of WW2 in Britian's collective memory.

Incidentally, I was interested to read in my copy of El Pais this morning, that he'd been a long term resident of the Costa del Sol in retirement and only returned to the UK because of his wife's dementia.(He'd been a widower since 2007apparently).
 
Tangled up in Blue said:
No, if anything I'm having a pop at the manipulation of the British media,Britain's need for a hero and the continuing importance of WW2 in Britian's collective memory.

Incidentally, I was interested to read in my copy of El Pais this morning, that he'd been a long term resident of the Costa del Sol in retirement and only returned to the UK because of his wife's dementia.(He'd been a widower since 2007apparently).
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If you want to discuss politics with me then send me a PM. I have offered you this option many times but you prefer an audience.... An audience that don't want to listen to us.

Lets keep it that way.
 
rigsby said:
If you want to discuss politics with me then send me a PM. I have offered you this option many times but you prefer an audience.... An audience that don't want to listen to us.

Lets keep it that way.
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I don't particularly want to discuss politics with you or anyone else on SZ .In any case it's against the rules.I'll remind you that you replied to my post 5,306 on SZ ,which was most certainly not political and not the other way around.Likewise you have offered me the option once to pm (which I took advantage of) and not "many times."
 
Pubey said:
I think it's unlikely that he developed pneumonia in Barbados. Much more likely that he became ill due to or soon after the flight home. What he did was in the rules, so fair enough. He'd lived to 100, done a lot of good, fair play that he got to go on a jolly at the media's expense.
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I bet wouldn't have happened if he had flown with Captain Tobias Wilcox on Coconut Airways
 
The age group numbers are, (in my boredom world), interesting in the numbers of people in an age group and how those numbers are relevant to the history of these Isles.
The over 80 group is larger than the over 75, or over 70s by quite a number, and the year group with most births, over a million is 1964.
 
Rootshallbloke said:
So Mrs RHB gets a phone call from our surgery yesterday afternoon - 9.25 Wednesday, Pfizer jab, Highlands medical centre, be there or be square. Cue choices, what arm shall it be? what clothes shall I wear etc. Got a phone call early this morning from the surgery, there had been a power failure at the centre over night and all the vaccines are ruined, stand down. Miserable Mrs RHB!
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At 12:40pm we had another phone call from our surgery. Get yourself to Highlands for 1.25pm and an oxford astrazenica vaccine will be your reward! Duly went and she was duly done, all in 20 minutes, well done the vaccinators and the surgery.
 
Rootshallbloke said:
At 12:40pm we had another phone call from our surgery. Get yourself to Highlands for 1.25pm and an oxford astrazenica vaccine will be your reward! Duly went and she was duly done, all in 20 minutes, well done the vaccinators and the surgery.
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They're my Doctors as well, they're normally pretty good.
 
Rootshallbloke said:
Our surgery is the Kent Elms Health Centre but it seems that Highlands is current the vaccination centre for several surgeries.
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Oh really, it's a big surgery so I'm not surprised it's used as a vaccine hub. They also have a large upstairs, as well as a private medical centre next door.
 
hadenoughblue said:
Oh really, it's a big surgery so I'm not surprised it's used as a vaccine hub. They also have a large upstairs, as well as a private medical centre next door.
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The Highlands hub is where all the Leigh Vaccinations (in the SS9 area) are taking place rather than in local GP surgeries.
Been a nightmare today tbh due to what Mr RHB said
 
Tinks said:
The Highlands hub is where all the Leigh Vaccinations (in the SS9 area) are taking place rather than in local GP surgeries.
Been a nightmare today tbh due to what Mr RHB said
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I bet it's busy, is that where you were today Tinks?

Are the vaccinations being done upstairs do you know?
 
O all the vaccinations are being done in the Highalnds Annex Surgery which is just up the road from the surgery and yes it has been pretty busy and again tomorrow 8-6
 
So the headlines say 10million jabbed and the worst is passed etc.
AND
Today's shop at Sainsbury Weir, and compared to previous weeks, there were, (in my small snapshot time there), more couple shopping groupings, more nose free maskers, more touch, pick up, put downers.
Over a year and still there appears to be something amiss with manys' understanding.
 
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