Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[Doobs]

Thanks for the input guys.

Anyway, realising that I had a choice, I immediately started trying to review both vaccines.

It was a real minefield but after half an hour or so I decided to plumpt for Pfizer. I went back to the page and found that all the appointments had been taken.

I quickly opened the Oxford page and they were all gone too.

Serves me right I suppose.

I think getting the vaccine is way more significant than which one. 

Good luck, if it is anything like the testing, there will be some more slots available later

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I've just been back on and found another clinic.
The registration instructions include this paragraph.

You will be given a new screen in which you are asked for an 'Employer organisation', please select 'Patient' and put the word Patient in all following fields. Ignore any further reference that says 'staff vaccination'

Although available on the other two clinics registration forms, the Patient option was not present on this one so I selected "Other Independent" and wrote Patient in all the other sections.

I have been booked in for the Oxford vaccine at 6pm on Jan 28th.

My second injection was booked at the same time, that will be on April 8th.

I'll let you know how I get on.

[nirvana]

Thanks for the input guys.

Anyway, realising that I had a choice, I immediately started trying to review both vaccines.

It was a real minefield but after half an hour or so I decided to plumpt for Pfizer. I went back to the page and found that all the appointments had been taken.

I quickly opened the Oxford page and they were all gone too.

Serves me right I suppose.

Have to say this made me laugh more than it should. Hope you get it soon though of course.

[tikay]

I've just been back on and found another clinic.
The registration instructions include this paragraph.

You will be given a new screen in which you are asked for an 'Employer organisation', please select 'Patient' and put the word Patient in all following fields. Ignore any further reference that says 'staff vaccination'

Although available on the other two clinics registration forms, the Patient option was not present on this one so I selected "Other Independent" and wrote Patient in all the other sections.

I have been booked in for the Oxford vaccine at 6pm on Jan 28th.

My second injection was booked at the same time, that will be on April 8th.

I'll let you know how I get on.

Bloody hell, well done Tom.

Is this "go to a website & book" peculiar to Leicestershire, or a new thing?

I was under the impression we all had to wait in line until they contacted us.

My local jab centre website says;


We will contact you when you are eligible to receive the vaccine and provide you with information about location and date, so please don’t contact the practice to ask for a vaccine before then.


I'm distinctly jealous, but well done.

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Is this "go to a website & book" peculiar to Leicestershire, or a new thing?

I was under the impression we all had to wait in line until they contacted us.


I had no idea either Tony but my eldest daughter saw a discussion about it on social media and alerted me.

I would advise looking on your local health service website and searching Covid 19 vaccination.

[tikay]

Is this "go to a website & book" peculiar to Leicestershire, or a new thing?

I was under the impression we all had to wait in line until they contacted us.


I had no idea either Tony but my eldest daughter saw a discussion about it on social media and alerted me.

I would advise looking on your local health service website and searching Covid 19 vaccination.

I already did Tom, once I'd seen what you had done - see my previous post.


We will contact you when you are eligible to receive the vaccine and provide you with information about location and date, so please don’t contact the practice to ask for a vaccine before then.

We are working hard to plan the delivery of COVID-19 vaccinations, while continuing to deliver the largest ever flu vaccine campaign and supporting our patients with routine and urgent health requests. On that basis, we are unable to answer additional questions about the COVID vaccine.


And they have added this today;



Covid-19 vaccination programme – what you need to know

Latest update 26 January 2021: Extension to patients 70+ and clinically extremely vulnerable
The NHS has confirmed that COVID-19 vaccinations can now be offered to cohorts 3 (75 to 79-year-olds) and 4 (70 to 74-year-olds and the Clinically Extremely Vulnerable under 70).

As well as continuing to prioritise people over 80, we are starting to invite patients aged 70 and above and those in the clinically extremely vulnerable groups. However, these won’t all happen at once.

Please continue to be patient and await further contact from your GP surgery or the organisation they have asked to carry out their vaccination service. This will be by text or telephone.



So I guess I just have to be patient & wait.

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Is this "go to a website & book" peculiar to Leicestershire, or a new thing?

I was under the impression we all had to wait in line until they contacted us.


I had no idea either Tony but my eldest daughter saw a discussion about it on social media and alerted me.

I would advise looking on your local health service website and searching Covid 19 vaccination.

I already did Tom, once I'd seen what you had done - see my previous post.


We will contact you when you are eligible to receive the vaccine and provide you with information about location and date, so please don’t contact the practice to ask for a vaccine before then.

We are working hard to plan the delivery of COVID-19 vaccinations, while continuing to deliver the largest ever flu vaccine campaign and supporting our patients with routine and urgent health requests. On that basis, we are unable to answer additional questions about the COVID vaccine.


And they have added this today;



Covid-19 vaccination programme – what you need to know

Latest update 26 January 2021: Extension to patients 70+ and clinically extremely vulnerable
The NHS has confirmed that COVID-19 vaccinations can now be offered to cohorts 3 (75 to 79-year-olds) and 4 (70 to 74-year-olds and the Clinically Extremely Vulnerable under 70).

As well as continuing to prioritise people over 80, we are starting to invite patients aged 70 and above and those in the clinically extremely vulnerable groups. However, these won’t all happen at once.

Please continue to be patient and await further contact from your GP surgery or the organisation they have asked to carry out their vaccination service. This will be by text or telephone.



So I guess I just have to be patient & wait.

Sorry Tone, I missed that part of your post, well in truth I didn't miss it but I was trying to do an online Spanish course for beginners and read blonde at the same time.

By the time I replied I forgot what you had posted.

Lo siento.

[Jon MW]

Is this "go to a website & book" peculiar to Leicestershire, or a new thing?

I was under the impression we all had to wait in line until they contacted us.


I had no idea either Tony but my eldest daughter saw a discussion about it on social media and alerted me.

I would advise looking on your local health service website and searching Covid 19 vaccination.

Where I live they have put out a message that if you fit into those categories then you can contact them to make an appointment rather than wait for an appointment.

I'm in neither so I don't know whether they've got a handful of spots or loads of them, but it does suggest a few places at least are actively trying to get people to do it themselves rather than having to wait for the invite.

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Question.

Do you ever go back to the place you grew up just to have a look around and wallow in nostalgia?

Although I have no house to go and look at, I often(pre Covid) go to our old stopping places and have a walk around.

Most of my places were common land which has now been built upon. One of the main places was in the woods at High Hazels in Sheffield. That got bulldozed flat and became Sheffield Airport. Unfortunately it failed and now it's been bulldozed again, this time it's been left as a jumble of overgrown rubble mused with clay. (I think they were scared that we would come back, lol)

I still love to go back to the local area though (Darnall - Attercliffe - Manor Top) and mooch about.

Surely I can't be the only one who does this?

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When Covid is over, will you just go back to normal or will it have changed you?

I think it will have changed me. I will certainly try to take less for granted.

I wiil also shop on line more.

I can't look at a crowd or well attended social gathering on TV without thinking, Arrrgh... Covid.

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Will inflation go mad?

Will I be going to the chippy with my money in a wheelbarrow?

[tikay]

When Covid is over, will you just go back to normal or will it have changed you?

I think it will have changed me. I will certainly try to take less for granted.

I wiil also shop on line more.

I can't look at a crowd or well attended social gathering on TV without thinking, Arrrgh... Covid.

I'm not sure it will ever be over in my lifetime Tom, but yes, it's the little things in life that I'll never take for granted again.

Crowds at sporting events? I watched the recent Test series between Australia & India, middle of the night for us, but it cheered me up so much to see sport played in bright sunshine with plenty of spectators cheering & so on.

And of course today you'd normally be at a Holocaust Memorial Day service in Derby unless I'm mistaken?

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Yes Tony, I would be at the Holocaust Memorial day service today. Well done for remembering.

Before an evening of celebration and performance by various Holocaust survivor groups there would be a service at the cathedral and a stone setting at Bridge Chapel.

Although I'm not religious the Cathedral service is very moving because so many diverse groups come together.

This year I was charged with looking after the stones, (basically a bucket of large pebbles) and the "Eternal Flame" a special boxed candle awarded to us by the Headquarters of the Holocaust Memorial Society. They shipped it from Israel as far as I recall.

When I brought the stones home I accidentally knocked the bucket over on my drive. (My drive consists of virtually the same pebbles)

I put the boxed candle away safely in the shed, unfortunately a pipe leaked a little water on to the box causing it to grow a very stylish fur coat of mould.

I was glad to be able to help though.

[tikay]

Yes Tony, I would be at the Holocaust Memorial day service today. Well done for remembering.

Before an evening of celebration and performance by various Holocaust survivor groups there would be a service at the cathedral and a stone setting at Bridge Chapel.

Although I'm not religious the Cathedral service is very moving because so many diverse groups come together.

This year I was charged with looking after the stones, (basically a bucket of large pebbles) and the "Eternal Flame" a special boxed candle awarded to us by the Headquarters of the Holocaust Memorial Society. They shipped it from Israel as far as I recall.

When I brought the stones home I accidentally knocked the bucket over on my drive. (My drive consists of virtually the same pebbles)

I put the boxed candle away safely in the shed, unfortunately a pipe leaked a little water on to the box causing it to grow a very stylish fur coat of mould.

I was glad to be able to help though.

Is that the Stone Setting briefly mentioned here?



http://www.derbycathedral.org/about-us/what-s-on/164-holocaust-memorial-day.html



I believe some sort of service will be streamed on You Tube at 6pm this evening if I read this correctly though I had assumed Lockdown would make that impossible;



https://derby.cityofsanctuary.org/2021/01/19/derby-holocaust-memorial-day-events-are-now-available

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Yes, it's all virtual this year Tony.