Your views on vaccine tourism

[Whosthebestbabainalltheworld]

I live in the EU. My DSis used to live in UK, but moved back to our home country 10 years ago. She still works in UK and commutes every week - or she did until Covid, but now works from home until this is all over. She still has a house in UK that she rents out.

She sent me a message last weekend basically saying that if I had an NHS number I’d now be free to use her address and book myself a vaccine in the UK (I’m over 50).

I got irrationally and totally hacked off with this and sent a snarky, relationship-damaging message back to her, but now I’m wondering if IABU.

A) she knows I didn’t have an NHS number, so it was really a stealth boast about how she is going to the UK (next week) to get her vaccine and F* the rest of us.

B) I’m actually ok with waiting my turn and would never consider queue jumping, ok, the EU could move a bit swifter, thanks, but even if I had the opportunity. I believe that society is actually more important than me as an individual and I wouldn’t jump the queue in this manner.

Now I’m wondering if I’m the sap in all of this?

YANBU. Text her back saying ‘oh good, I’ll know to avoid it if you get a clot’.

I don’t see that there’s anything wrong with this. She is a U.K. citizen (I assume?), pays taxes here if she owns a home & is eligible for the vaccine here.

I know a few people who’ve been eligible for what feels like ‘silly reasons’ (eg, been considered CEV due to confusion with medical records) - it might feel a bit annoying, but every extra person vaccinated is a good thing for us all.

My DP is American and if they continue pushing out the vaccine to younger age groups faster than us, he’ll get his vaccine in the US. He pays tax in both countries. I don’t see that this should be a problem.

The approach to you knowing you cannot take it up is the unreasonable thing here, I feel. If your Dsis had quietly gone back to the UK, observed quarantine rules when returning, and then got the vaccine, seems OK to me.

DSis not not a UK citizen and wouldn’t dream of ever becoming one. Yes to the taxes, I guess, but no to resident either. She’s resident in our home country. She normally travels to Uk on a Tuesday-Friday basis.

I think that’s it @CuthbertDibbleandGrubb. She made some half-arsed excuse that seeing as I got my post-grad (part-time attendance only) in the UK she assumed I might have registered with a GP, but really that was total and utter nonsense.

Does she pay tax & NI in the UK? If so, I don't see an issue. One more person vaccinated is a good thing.

However, she will need to follow all the quarantine rules and regs if she comes here for the jab. Not sure where you are but is it worth all the hassle if your jabs aren't far off?

@Cadent - such a damaging comment

@Cadent

YANBU. Text her back saying ‘oh good, I’ll know to avoid it if you get a clot’.

not sassy, not smart either

She works here and pays taxes here presumably so I don't see an issue really

She’s employed in the UK, I have no problem with her coming back for the vaccine.

How's she managing with Brexit? Is she officially resident here?

Anyway, as far as I'm concerned we're all in this together and nobody's safe until everybody's safe so better a higher risk person, wherever they are in the world, vaccinated than a lower risk person in the UK. If I were your sister though, I would stay put and wait for them to get to her. Its safer for her and everybody else if people aren't moving around.