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If you were in a cafe having lunch...

337 replies

MargeSimpson00 · 07/01/2022 19:09

Would you mind someone at your table having an injection whilst sitting there?

  1. Person being injected is not in your party
  2. Not insulin or anything immediately life saving, a vaccination

YANBU- wouldn't mind
YABU- it's gross

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Freecuthbert · 07/01/2022 19:17

Why on earth would someone be vaccinated at a café table around others eating and drinking? Seems really unhygienic, confused on the context and why this has or would take place. Surely not? Of course insulin/life saving/time sensitive injection is okay, but you say a vaccine... why?

WorraLiberty · 07/01/2022 19:17

I know, was trying to be vague but I can see more detail is needed. Cafe is attached to apartments, isn't exclusively for tenants but mostly used by them. Large tables people share when not together.

Yeah but why was someone getting vaccinated in a cafe?

HeronLanyon · 07/01/2022 19:17

I too can’t even picture this or rather why on earth it would happen.
I am sure though that if this were me (it wouldn’t be !) I’d explain and apologise to anyone else partic at the same table. But if not urgent this simply wouldn’t happen.

A580Hojas · 07/01/2022 19:17

Yes, I would definitely mind.

SickAndTiredAgain · 07/01/2022 19:18

I’d probably be slightly concerned that everything was ok, but I have no issue with needles so wouldn’t be put off my food or anything.

However I know a lot of people are squeamish around needles so if I was the person having the injection (were they injecting themselves?) I wouldn’t do it at a cafe.

SandysMam · 07/01/2022 19:18

Vaccination would be fine and would be happy if someone was going round offering Covid jabs for example. If someone was shooting up then definitely not ok!!!

Original poster
MargeSimpson00 · 07/01/2022 19:18

It was a flu jab. Patient was in the cafe and nurse came in, told them not to bother getting up they would do it at the table. Other customers complained they didn't want to see that whilst eating

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SavoyCabbage · 07/01/2022 19:18

Oh, I hadn't considered heroin. I'd probably notice and mind that.

ArblemarzipanTFruitcake · 07/01/2022 19:18

Wouldn't bother me but I have no phobia of needles - I watch with interest when I'm having a blood test.

HeronLanyon · 07/01/2022 19:19

We’re they travel jabs being provided by a travel company - like yellow fever/hep etc ?? In a student refectory type setting ??

SickAndTiredAgain · 07/01/2022 19:19

Didn’t see the post about the flu jab before I posted. I wouldn’t personally be bothered by it, but I’d think it was quite odd.

WhyMeLord · 07/01/2022 19:19

I'd be more concerned as the the person being vaccinated, it doesn't feel very hygienic sitting at a cafe table and having someone park up next to you with a latte. Or do you mean a section of a canteen away from diners has been set up for people to be vaccinated in, because that's somewhat different to the picture you've painted in my head of an unwiped Costa table with fragments of the previous occupants millionaire shortbread smeared all over it

londonrach · 07/01/2022 19:19

If diabetic I don't see the problem...it needs doing....I had a friend who call a member a staff over, explain he was diabetic and was about to take his insulin....if no food within 30 minutes could he possibly have some bread and he pay....he always got food within 30 minutes. I'm used to see him inject himself a few minutes after telling the staff member. He said it was a huge worry as he needed to judge when to inject.

NoSquirrels · 07/01/2022 19:20

@MargeSimpson00

It was a flu jab. Patient was in the cafe and nurse came in, told them not to bother getting up they would do it at the table. Other customers complained they didn't want to see that whilst eating
Nurse should have been more sensitive, imo.

Sometimes medical staff get a bit blase about this stuff.

AlternativePerspective · 07/01/2022 19:20

I would wonder whether they were the victim of a scam where someone was injecting them claiming it was a vaccine to make money from them.

Because legitimate vaccines aren’t given out at random tables in cafe’s. So it clearly isn’t legit whatever it is.

Freecuthbert · 07/01/2022 19:20

@WhyMeLord

I'd be more concerned as the the person being vaccinated, it doesn't feel very hygienic sitting at a cafe table and having someone park up next to you with a latte. Or do you mean a section of a canteen away from diners has been set up for people to be vaccinated in, because that's somewhat different to the picture you've painted in my head of an unwiped Costa table with fragments of the previous occupants millionaire shortbread smeared all over it
Honestly, the same image was painted in my head too 😂
HeronLanyon · 07/01/2022 19:21

Oh! V unprofessional of the nurse hygiene privacy and general respect for treatment being personal - needles, possible small amount of blood, non sterile rubbish created, etc. Not right.

XenoBitch · 07/01/2022 19:21

@MargeSimpson00

It was a flu jab. Patient was in the cafe and nurse came in, told them not to bother getting up they would do it at the table. Other customers complained they didn't want to see that whilst eating
The nurse seems very unprofessional. I would have complained too.
Original poster
MargeSimpson00 · 07/01/2022 19:21

@WhyMeLord

I'd be more concerned as the the person being vaccinated, it doesn't feel very hygienic sitting at a cafe table and having someone park up next to you with a latte. Or do you mean a section of a canteen away from diners has been set up for people to be vaccinated in, because that's somewhat different to the picture you've painted in my head of an unwiped Costa table with fragments of the previous occupants millionaire shortbread smeared all over it
Not at all, pretty much the second scenario. Nurse just thought it would be quicker than waiting for patient to leave the cafe
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Chely · 07/01/2022 19:22

Weird but wouldn't care.

queenMab99 · 07/01/2022 19:22

I wouldn't object as long as they didn't inject me! I have had all mine and a booster. Are they just randomly going round cafes injecting unsuspecting customers as they drink their coffee? Confused

Akire · 07/01/2022 19:24

Doesn’t sound ideally for the residents or very private. Do they have special needs or fully able to give consent over time and space? Would expect a non urgent life injection to be done in their own flat or in more private area.

Not very wise to have someone on next table pass out over their table because no warnings been given or effort made hid it

cptartapp · 07/01/2022 19:24

I have sympathy for the nurse. As someone who has done thousands of flu vaccines in the community, I suspect she was probably tearing round like an idiot trying to get through an unmanageable list.
Never done one in a cafe mind but it wouldn't bother me in the slightest.

DotheConga · 07/01/2022 19:25

As long as its not heroin or any kind of illegal, intravenous drug, it wouldn't bother me.

CaptainMyCaptain · 07/01/2022 19:25

I wouldn't mind. I don't see what hygiene has to do with it. The equipment has to be sterile but as long as its not filthy, which a cafe shouldn't be it should be fine. There is actually an Indian restaurant, in Leeds I think, that has a vaccination station in it.

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