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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

OP posts:
Hugasauras · 07/01/2022 19:46

I'd think it was weird but doesn't bother me. I don't care about getting injections for myself, much less someone else getting them!

XenoBitch · 07/01/2022 19:46

Do you know the surgery where the nurse is based? It might be worth asking them to inform their nurses not to carry out medical procedures in your cafe.

Lucinda7 · 07/01/2022 19:47

I inject insulin but always in private. Nobody wants to see that when eating.

PurpleDaisies · 07/01/2022 19:47

I wouldn’t mind. I’m surprised the nurse didn’t want to give that patient some privacy.

Panningforfish · 07/01/2022 19:48

Infection control pounced on me whilst I was sat having my lunch in the canteen the other day and gave me my flu jab ( I work in healthcare). I offered to get up and go with them, but they told me not to bother, they’d come to me.

In a previous job, district nurses often used to quickly to do injections in whatever room of the care home a resident was in as getting someone up and to a private room took so long, obviously only if the resident was able to consent to it. Is it ideal? No. Does it save time in a hectic day? Absolutely. Would it bother me if I witnessed it, or it was my Mum? Nope. I may be biased though!

sammylady37 · 07/01/2022 19:49

@ArabellaScott

It's not 'gross', it's just that it sounds unhygienic, she's breakign the skin, everything has to be sterile, an eating place is not.
‘Everything’ does not have to be sterile because the skin is broken. All injections are not given in sterile operating theatres. Injections are given in patients’ homes, in doctors’ offices, in busy hospital wards etc all the time. People inject themselves with insulin and other medications in various places, including work canteens and toilets, in their cars etc.
ShirleyPhallus · 07/01/2022 19:50

I hate sharing tables so much that if the barista asked me if I wanted my coffee injected directly in to my vein then I’d take it

Could be a good business idea tbh

LizzieVereker · 07/01/2022 19:51

I wouldn’t mind at all.

Gwenhwyfar · 07/01/2022 19:51

I don't know if I'd mind, but the person being injected might mind. I was thinking this morning having my booster how I needed privacy for it.

Justkeeppedaling · 07/01/2022 19:52

I'd support anything that makes it easier for people to get vaccinations.

godmum56 · 07/01/2022 19:54

@ArabellaScott

It's not 'gross', it's just that it sounds unhygienic, she's breakign the skin, everything has to be sterile, an eating place is not.
no it doesn't! nowhere in the world is sterile unless its an isolation bubble. Flu jabs are given in all kinds of places, people's homes, offices and so on. having said that, I think its really inappropriate to behave like that and very rude of the nurse. I'd be making a complaint about that.
shouldistop · 07/01/2022 19:56

It wouldn't bother me but I can see why others might be bothered and the person who was getting the vaccination might not like it either.

ArabellaScott · 07/01/2022 19:56

Okay, I stand corrected! Just that any injection I've ever been given has had swabs and clean needles etc, seems a bit odd to have it in a cafe.

LizzieSiddal · 07/01/2022 19:57

I would usually find this awful but nurses are under massive pressure at the moment, so I’d let them get on with it.

vintage21 · 07/01/2022 19:58

my partner has a terrible needle phobia; I don't mean he does not like injections it is a full-blown phobia. in the past it has taken 6 of us to hold him to get a blood test as he is a big guy. to do this at a table where we were eating would be awful for him and probably result in him passing out. I would not like it much either and if I had kids with me could be a bit difficult to explain to them. cant see it being very sterile for injections either

Sparklingbrook · 07/01/2022 19:58

Wouldn't bother me.

PyongyangKipperbang · 07/01/2022 20:00

Frankly anything that helps keep the NHS going in the next couple of months is fine by me! If it keeps someone out of ICU then they could have taken a stool sample and I wouldnt have cared :o

2022sucksalready · 07/01/2022 20:00

@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
How do you think people give themselves a quick shot of insulin to cover their meal? Do you think it would be more hygienic for them to go jab themselves in a restaurant toilet where Christ knows what germs are winging around in the air after multiple people have flushed the loos? Pretty sure the dirty table won’t have been used as a syringe or needle,or sterile surface.
Newyearnewme2022 · 07/01/2022 20:02

Strange but it wouldn’t bother me, I’d rather that than a kid crapping in a potty 2 tables away.

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 07/01/2022 20:03

I do hope it wasn't an intramuscular injection in the buttock, that would put me right of my current bun. Shock

Pebbledashery · 07/01/2022 20:04

This isn't Cringe at all

Pebbledashery · 07/01/2022 20:05

Sorry.. Wrong thread.

BashStreetKid · 07/01/2022 20:06

@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
Weird - why would it put them off eating? They can always look elsewhere for the few seconds needed for the vaccination.
AChickenCalledDaal · 07/01/2022 20:06

Based on my knowledge of how two needle phobic people I know would have felt - the nurse should have had more consideration for the other people present and even more so when they actually spoke up to complain. Your suggestion of a side room was entirely sensible.

EmbarrassingHadrosaurus · 07/01/2022 20:06

If this is a facility used by people who are conventionally difficult to engage in preventative health, I'd be taken aback while welcoming the public health outreach ethos.

I can think that some people would loathe observing this (we're a bit more spaced in most vaccination hubs) and some degree of consent should have been requested before snapping to it with the sharps.