Covid-19 lockdown check-in

[Grey Fox]

I still haven't cut my hair. It is past my shoulders. It also has revealed it self to be quite wavey. Big curls.

[Josquius]

So not only do we have to wait till August for the vaccine but I've just learned that the Borough next door, the boundary is about 5 minutes on foot, is one of the Indian variant hot spots

[Admiral Yi]

I don't get it.  I thought You Kay was crushing it on vaccinations.

[Tamas]

So not only do we have to wait till August for the vaccine but I've just learned that the Borough next door, the boundary is about 5 minutes on foot, is one of the Indian variant hot spots

So just how YOUNG are you what the hell?

[garbon]

I don't get it.  I thought You Kay was crushing it on vaccinations.

That's what they wanted everyone to think.

[Jacob]

Denmark is doing this weird thing we're they're vaccinating old people and young people first, and people in the middle last. So if you're in your 30s you getting vaccinated dead last.

[Sheilbh]

So not only do we have to wait till August for the vaccine but I've just learned that the Borough next door, the boundary is about 5 minutes on foot, is one of the Indian variant hot spots

So just how YOUNG are you what the hell?

I mean on current trends every adult will have been offered one by the end of June

I thought Tyr was just joking about the booking process being a bit of a nightmare. It's not my experience but I was in the higher risk category where I imagine a significant number of people were still being called to book their appointments because the elderly are less online. I can imagine the online booking system now is a bit of a nightmare as the young all log on - I've had that experience just trying to book a test locally

I don't get it.  I thought You Kay was crushing it on vaccinations.

Wales is - the rest of the UK is still doing okay though. Working down the population by age and down to the early thirties now. Take-up is still very high (95%+ in the over 50s) for the adut population overall we're at (depending on the nation) around 70-85% of the adult population have had their first dose and 40-45% have had their second dose. It's less rapid than it was at the start but that's because we need to catch up on second doses - but the latest daily average is over 500k doses a day (rough split of 170k first dose/350k second dose).

From everything I've read it should be speeding up now because the authorities are now comfortable they have enough supply of the different doses (AZ largely for second doses/Pfizer and Moderna for first doses). England, Scotland and NI slowed down to focus on second doses and build a stockpile but are speeding up again now.

[Josquius]

I was being very literal.
Got a letter saying I am allowed to sign up...but not many vaccination centres nearby and no free slots in the few that there are until August.

[Sheilbh]

I was being very literal.
Got a letter saying I am allowed to sign up...but not many vaccination centres nearby and no free slots in the few that there are until August.

That's crazy - I've not heard of anyone having that problem.

Might be worth trying all the different channels - I never got a letter but I got loads of texts from different bits of the NHS with slightly different links - so national, local GP, hospital (I have chronic condition so I'm under their care too for specialist treatment) and council. I know there's also been walk-in centres in other bits of town if you're eligible and take ID. It might be worth doing a quick search of what's around because I think the national booking site is just the big vaccine centres (I have a friend getting vaccinated in a stadium function room ) - but I don't think it covers all the pharmacy/GP/hospital sites.

[garbon]

Yes, I got a text after I'd booked that had a very different list of sites.

[Richard Hakluyt]

It could be that all the slots on Tyneside are currently being given to people resident in the Indian variant borough.

[Tamas]

I was being very literal.
Got a letter saying I am allowed to sign up...but not many vaccination centres nearby and no free slots in the few that there are until August.

Are you registered with a GP? For my wife and I the GP practice sent us a signup link before the generic registration notification came in.

[Josquius]

I was being very literal.
Got a letter saying I am allowed to sign up...but not many vaccination centres nearby and no free slots in the few that there are until August.

Are you registered with a GP? For my wife and I the GP practice sent us a signup link before the generic registration notification came in.

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My girlfriend got a text from her gp but nothing from mine, I just got the letter.
Her text led to the same place as my letter though.

[mongers]

I was being very literal.
Got a letter saying I am allowed to sign up...but not many vaccination centres nearby and no free slots in the few that there are until August.

Are you registered with a GP? For my wife and I the GP practice sent us a signup link before the generic registration notification came in.

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My girlfriend got a text from her gp but nothing from mine, I just got the letter.
Her text led to the same place as my letter though.

You could just phone up your GP practice and ask if they've any local slots?

That's what I did on Thursday and was offered a jab for the Friday, also it was a local centre 7miles away, which never appear on the NHS booking site when I checked, that was only offering me places within the big conurbation.

[Syt]

So the plan is that we will return to the office middle of June, but everybody only one day per week for now, and coordinated so that there's no more than one person per office (which is somewhat useless for our team: we're 4 people in one office and there's no benefit to one of us sitting there alone and still being on Zoom or Slack all the time to talk to the rest of the team.

Distance rules and mask rules will apply if people have meetings.

Also, everyone will need a valid recent Covid test when coming to the office, including people who have been vaccinated.

(It's still 3 weeks till then, with the government planning further relaxation of rules by then, so we will see if these policies come into effect or not.)