Thread 30 Starmer - Magic Roundabouts

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This has really annoyed me. As an mp she should have her primary residence in her constituency. Hypocrisy at its finest.

Chickenpox vaccine will be availabe on the NHS from January

Any tax decisions taken by chancellor Rachel Reeves will be determined by the size of the fiscal hole.

And yet, her real problem is the spending problem. Are these not enough?

Income Tax - National Insurance - Corporation Tax - Capital Gains Tax - Council Tax - Double and Triple council tax (officially Proscribed Class X 100%/200% Premium') - VAT - Excise Duty - Fuel Duty - Stamp Duty - Air Passenger Duty - Insurance Premium Tax - Green Taxes - Gambling Taxes - Plastic Bag Charges - Carbon Emissions Levy - Landfill Tax - TV Licence Fee - Congestion Charges - Sugar Tax - TV license 'tax' - North Sea Windfall tax - IHT - Now VAT on Private School Fees - plus a few more

Really good news, isn’t it? I caught it when I was 26 and thought I was going to die - and feared I wouldn’t.

There's a thread on Chat for those who are critical of the current Government. You'd be very welcome there @MyNameIsX

Now, now - no policing!

See PP’s comments.

DH caught it from DS and he was really ill, DS was itchy but fine overall

Me ex got chicken pox in his early 20s and was very ill.

In the meantime in the US RFK Jr is to be put in charge of the CDC. This is chilling.

Same. The boy bounced back full of beans after a couple of days. It took me weeks to recover. I got spots in places I’d have said were impossible.

Its a shame this wasn't offered many years ago, as it has been in many other countries.

I find the UK's attitude to child vaccination very muddled.

ETA by which I mean the decision makers such as the JCVI.

Ds1 received the survey on the house he wants to buy yesterday. He paid extra for a better survey than the mortgage needs and it says things like:

Tall building (2 storey house!) So unable to see roof. The guy took a stepladder.

For some reason the Spam song is going round in my head.

I thought they used drones for roof inspections now.

I like that idea, it makes sense.
Honestly, the report is so woolly, and doesn't tell us anything new.

As I’m an Old Git, I was called for my shingles vaccination recently. Article in the paper today suggests that this could also lead to a siginficantly lower risk of cardiovascular events, including stroke, heart failure, and coronary heart disease.

I’ve also just had my pneumonia vaccine, so clearly I’m going to live forever

Mine both had very mild doses of CP, but it can be very serious. And of course there's all the risks if a woman in early pregnancy catches it. A vaccination programme makes sense.

Your mam shouts at hotels and your dad paints roundabouts

We have had a lot of teenagers at school with shingles and chickenpox and then some with quite several post viral complications. It seems pretty obvious to me that Covid infections are triggering post viral responses and otehr viruses (viri?)

Even on the BBC just now they were missing the point that children are vaccinated against things such as CP largely to protect the wider population.

I await the incoming anti vaxx threads.

I turned down the pneumonia jab. It confers lifelong immunity and, as dementia is pretty much guaranteed in my future, pneumonia might well be very welcome one day. They don’t call it the old man’s friend for nothing.

It is.

I would do the same given my family history. We don't tend to develop dementia until our early 80s, but I am still not doing that.

My mum was 90 but her last years were brutal. I don’t want to put my son through seeing that a second time.

The shingles vaccination is so important. Both my grandmother and my FiL went seriously down hill after having shingles and were never the same again.