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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Not just over 70s! If you don't have family or friends close by, live in the styx, don't drive, and the centres or even GP surgeries are not within reasonable walking distance, and public transport doesn't go near (and eg round here, public transport which was crappy anyway has been slashed to pieces even more), then it could be difficult. Presumably if one meets all that criteria then their risk of being exposed to covid is exceedingly low though? Edit: I've got nothing for 6 but yesterday I found out two hospitals in Plymouth were using carrier pigeon to transport lab specimens between each other as recently as 1983. Use that info however you see fit. quote:1977, a similar system of 30 carrier pigeons was set up for the transport of laboratory specimens between two English hospitals. Every morning a basket with pigeons was taken from Plymouth General Hospital to Devonport Hospital. The birds then delivered unbreakable vials back to Plymouth as needed.The carrier pigeons became unnecessary in 1983 because of the closure of one of the hospitals. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homing_pigeon blunt fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Jun 2, 2021 |
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ThomasPaine posted:Iirc very elderly people were getting them done at their gp surgery I got mine at the GP surgery too and I am only 36
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Jun 2, 2021 16:30
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blunt posted:The carrier pigeons became unnecessary in 1983 because of the closure of one of the hospitals.
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Jun 2, 2021 16:39
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I think I lucked out with my first shot. Got Pfizer last week and had literally zero side effects. Felt so good I went on a 20 mile bike ride and an 8 mile hike on consecutive days afterwards. Gimmie more of that Pfizer poo poo I love it.
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Jun 2, 2021 16:40
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forkboy84 posted:I got mine at the GP surgery too and I am only 36
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Jun 2, 2021 16:42
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lol bollocks that half of 30-34s already got one in that brief window. Mine still isn't scheduled for two weeks.
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Jun 2, 2021 17:10
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Szmitten posted:lol bollocks that half of 30-34s already got one in that brief window. Mine still isn't scheduled for two weeks. Anecdotal but most of the early to mid 30s I know have had it. The wait after booking is a few days at most, at least in my area.
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Jun 2, 2021 17:19
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Lol Virgin Media has merged with O2. I wonder what bag of absolute poo poo customer service this will unleash.
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Jun 2, 2021 17:22
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Got mine booked in for this Sunday. The only irritating thing I found was that because it works solely by a radius around your postcode nearly every bookable centre was in Essex. So while it might only be 4 miles away in a straight line on a map, I’m in Kent with the River Thames in the way and it’s actually a 45 mile round trip via the Dartford Crossing. Also I couldn’t book without booking the second one as well, which for some reason wasn’t available at the same place I’m having my first, so I had to pick some random place in London. Yeah, I’ll be cancelling and rescheduling that one.
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Jun 2, 2021 17:23
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Aphex- posted:I think I lucked out with my first shot. Got Pfizer last week and had literally zero side effects. Felt so good I went on a 20 mile bike ride and an 8 mile hike on consecutive days afterwards. Gimmie more of that Pfizer poo poo I love it. the second shot is said to be the one that gets you so don't count your chickens yet However, I've had both pfizers and walked away unscathed and also sexier. 
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Jun 2, 2021 17:24
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Lol Virgin Media has merged with O2. I wonder what bag of absolute poo poo customer service this will unleash. As long as phone calls and texts are unaffected. I don't use O2 for anything else. Though I suspect that they may force me onto a 'contract' instead of sticking to PAYG. Why should I want a contract when I currently only have to load £10 p.a. on my PAYG? Phone calls that I think will take more than 5 mins I use skype calling for (the breakeven point is approx 5 mins), and for most of my friends and family I use various internet messengers. (I've a couple of friends WITH internet who refuse point blank to do that so even though we could make 'free' calls then (as in we're paying for the internet anyway), I end up having to pay for the call as they inevitably call me in the 2% of the day that my phone is not at my side so I have to return the call.  Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 17:43 on Jun 2, 2021 |
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Jun 2, 2021 17:40
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Lol Virgin Media has merged with O2. I wonder what bag of absolute poo poo customer service this will unleash.
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Jun 2, 2021 17:43
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The virgin O² and the chad Vodafone.
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Jun 2, 2021 17:45
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Idk how they're working any of this out because a friend of mine who's 34ish hasn't even been contacted yet but someone he knows who lives on the same street is 29 and already had their first dose (neither have any underlying conditions that would get them into a priority group).
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Jun 2, 2021 17:47
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Crankit posted:I'm gonna get a sunburn, anyone else wanna gonna join burnt club this year? I went for a walk on Mon, gave up after a couple of km and got the bus back. Now I have one bright red arm. Thankfully I usually don't burn badly; it looks alarming but it'll be brown in a few days.
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Jun 2, 2021 17:52
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ThomasPaine posted:Idk how they're working any of this out because a friend of mine who's 34ish hasn't even been contacted yet but someone he knows who lives on the same street is 29 and already had their first dose (neither have any underlying conditions that would get them into a priority group). I had no faith in my GP surgery to arrange mine properly, so I went through this last Tuesday, booked both jabs and had my first one two days later.
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Jun 2, 2021 17:58
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To be fair I'm also going to for the place I know supports Pfizer and not some pre-victorian 2 bedroom house looking "clinic" in a village that couldn't fit a fridge through the door.
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Jun 2, 2021 18:10
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Szmitten posted:To be fair I'm also going to for the place I know supports Pfizer and not some pre-victorian 2 bedroom house looking "clinic" in a village that couldn't fit a fridge through the door. Room temperature vaccines like god intended
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Jun 2, 2021 18:15
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Szmitten posted:To be fair I'm also going to for the place I know supports Pfizer and not some pre-victorian 2 bedroom house looking "clinic" in a village that couldn't fit a fridge through the door. I wonder how geography has actually shaped the vaccine rollout. I would imagine Pfizer in particular is essentially not viable to distribute to small rural communities like the Western Isles because the nearest big hospital is hours away and what village clinic has the facilities to store things at -70c for any length of time?
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Jun 2, 2021 18:17
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ThomasPaine posted:I wonder how geography has actually shaped the vaccine rollout. I would imagine Pfizer in particular is essentially not viable to distribute to small rural communities like the Western Isles because the nearest big hospital is hours away and what village clinic has the facilities to store things at -70c for any length of time? IIRC it's safe if kept in a conventional (-18) freezer for 24 hours.
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Jun 2, 2021 18:26
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https://twitter.com/zarahsultana/status/1400094576627654659?s=20 Things going great in the UK going by the comments. All she wanted to do was bring to light their treatment under the government, and it's full of Tory shits and racists. Labour twitter seems to only sit around in the Guardian nest. Nonsense fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Jun 2, 2021 |
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Jun 2, 2021 18:39
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Gats Akimbo posted:I went for a walk on Mon, gave up after a couple of km and got the bus back. Now I have one bright red arm. when I delivered pizza for Domino's I'd spend full summers with my right arm noticeably browner than my left
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Jun 2, 2021 18:42
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stev posted:Anecdotal but most of the early to mid 30s I know have had it. The wait after booking is a few days at most, at least in my area. Pure anecdote too, but all of the 30-34s that I have asked have had it. As above you don’t even need to be asked - just plug your details into the NHS site. The vaccine rollout appears to be the one thing the UK are really, really bossing. because it’s nothing to do with the government
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Jun 2, 2021 18:51
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ThomasPaine posted:what village clinic has the facilities to store things at -70c for any length of time? Nonsense posted:https://twitter.com/zarahsultana/status/1400094576627654659?s=20
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Jun 2, 2021 18:54
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Nonsense posted:https://twitter.com/zarahsultana/status/1400094576627654659?s=20 
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Jun 2, 2021 18:56
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Had my first Pfizer about an hour ago. Bit nauseous and light headed for 10 mins or so after. Now my arm's a bit tingly and head feels heavy but not much else so far.
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Jun 2, 2021 19:06
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Jun 2, 2021 19:09
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Assuming this isn't a reaction to my porn-free-porn post, Screwfix have got that portable air conditioner I've been telling you all about back in stock: https://www.screwfix.com/p/goodhome-takoma-mobile-air-conditioner/551hv#_=p although the price has gone up since last year. Just bitching about the general state of things, but thank you! I do actually have an aircon unit it's just a bit of an arse to set up because it's gotta stick its exhaust out the window. People who get too hot in summer: Invest in an aircon if you can. Even a little portable one like twisto linked to and which is similar to mine is a lifesaver when heat can actually provoke health problems like it does with me, and still be a lifesafer even if it's merely too hot to be comfortable because being too hot is very unpleasant.
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Jun 2, 2021 19:30
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One of the reasons I don't mind working through the summer weather is that my workplace is an old brick building that stays comfortably cool regardless of how hot it is outside -at least so long as I don't go into the corrugated steel roofed oven that is the back workshop. This is in a town that routinely appears on the news as the hottest place in Britain, so it's wonderful to be able to shelter inside all day. Prior to that, I worked on the mezzanine floor of what was essentially a glorified giant metal shed. The company cut corners when building it by fitting no ventilation whatsoever, and deciding that opening windows were an unneccessary luxury. Temperatures up into the high 30s were routine during the summer. One year, the candles decorating one of our displays melted.
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Jun 2, 2021 20:04
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Nonsense posted:https://twitter.com/zarahsultana/status/1400094576627654659?s=20 from what i've personally experienced the UK left doesn't have much of a presence on twitter compared to say the US where the left is very vocal. It doesn't help them much but it's nice to see 100k+ retweets of socialist principles
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Jun 2, 2021 20:06
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stev posted:Anecdotal but most of the early to mid 30s I know have had it. The wait after booking is a few days at most, at least in my area. This is definitely regional because over here in East London both my wife and I had a three week wait from booking.
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Jun 2, 2021 20:15
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The evergreen call of "it's not racist but even if it was it's totally justified"
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Jun 2, 2021 20:30
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I've developed a hobby of reporting blatant racists and take pleasure in watching their accounts get suspended. Inconveniencing arseholes is so much fun.
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Jun 2, 2021 20:46
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feedmegin posted:This is definitely regional because over here in East London both my wife and I had a three week wait from booking. I was able to book next day at Excel when I missed my original second dose appointment thanks to  electrics. However this is a bit of a concern, especially when I got there and there was basically no queue and it was only running at quarter-capacity. A big part of this is probably because they're only sporadically doing Pfizer, which is loving stupid given it's within a 20 minute DLR trip of like 300K people under 30.
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Jun 2, 2021 20:50
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I'm booked for my first jab Friday, had a text asking me to compete a form but it requires your nhs number which is i didn't even know was a thing. Is it going to be an issue if i walk in on friday without doing it?
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Jun 2, 2021 21:07
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They should be able to look it up if you have proof of ID (I'd bring proof of address too).
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Jun 2, 2021 21:12
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Feral Jesus posted:I'm booked for my first jab Friday, had a text asking me to compete a form but it requires your nhs number which is i didn't even know was a thing. Is it going to be an issue if i walk in on friday without doing it? I had to find mine recently and there's an online service that should find it for you pretty easily: https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/online-services/find-nhs-number/
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Jun 2, 2021 21:18
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So if they drop the gap between shots and I've already booked my second jab, is it possible to book a different date?
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Jun 2, 2021 21:21
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:So if they drop the gap between shots and I've already booked my second jab, is it possible to book a different date? Yes, but you have to cancel your original appointment with no real way of knowing if there are closer slots, which adds a certain frisson to things. Also my (13 year old) nephew is showing symptoms and has a positive lateral flow test, hoo-loving-ray. His entire family have been fanatical about distancing and precautions for over a year, but nice weather plus teenagers and that's all out the window.
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Lobster God posted:Had my first Pfizer about an hour ago. Bit nauseous and light headed for 10 mins or so after. Now my arm's a bit tingly and head feels heavy but not much else so far. Unless you're talking serious allergic reactions any side-effect that comes on within 10 mins is probably mostly adrenaline or anxiety (or both) from the shot.
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