Worried that the military and NHS are on standby to deliver vaccines

[BurningRose]

Just heard this on the BBC news at 6.Does this mean the military will be injecting people? Will it be mandatory for certain groups? This is rather worrying.

@Gancanny

Machine gun vaccines sounds ultra-efficient. Bam bam bam, and that's the entire street done.

In the interests of the environment and reducing sound pollution, can we not just use blowpipes instead? Set up a hide/sniper post outside Primark and just pick off everybody walking past.

Anybody who ever went to MacDonalds as a teenager and played with the straws/sent the paper wrapping flying at their mate's nose would be perfectly qualified for that.

I’m with you, OP.
This worries me too. I have a feeling that vaccines will be made compulsory for travel and jobs.

I can assume that the pandemic hasn’t affected your life. You still have a job, you don’t have children, you hate leaving the house anyway?

Thousands of people have died, many, if not most mumsnetters, have children whose life has been very negatively and severely disrupted, they have lost their jobs, been furloughed or are working from home, the key workers will have been working their backsides off providing health care and other essential services, the economy is on its knees, and you are bleating about a vaccine that will hopefully get us back on an even keel.

Words fail me

So, what other options do you propose to get this virus under control?

This worries me too. I have a feeling that vaccines will be made compulsory for travel and jobs.

Fingers crossed it is!

@BurningRose

Ps I had a positive covid test a few months ago so I won't need a vaccine. I now have natural immunity.

I worry about creeping authoritarianism though.

Is this Donald Trump ?

Immunity only lasts a couple of months and you need to stop watching Movies.

I'm not sure there has been a handful of people having covid twice, worldwide. I know of 3 nurses with 2 positive tests atleast 10 weeks apart from 1 ward alone.
Also, as a student nurse it has been suggested there may be the opportunity for us to help with the vaccination scheme, but learning injections is really easy. I'd happily let a non medical person jab me. There isn't enough for everyone initially anyway so they aren't going to jab people against their will when there's plenty of people desperate to have it.

@Sushirolls

I work in care. If they make it mandatory, I will be resigning.

I feel the same, but I'm not in a position to resign.

I'd say I'd look for another job, but at age 50, and with the employment climate as it is, my prospects are slim.

Can you imagine what would happen if the military was not involved 😳

I trust our military more than I would a private company 👍👍

@FreshFreesias

I’m with you, OP. This worries me too. I have a feeling that vaccines will be made compulsory for travel and jobs.

Meh. MMR and BCG have been compulsory for jobs in hospitals for at least ten years, going by the ones I applied to.

I was "trained" by a nurse to give my partner similar injections. It took approximately 30 seconds. It really isn't rocket science OP
My husband did his own as well, after watching a nurse administer it just once. So not trained as such.

@Sushirolls

I work in care. If they make it mandatory, I will be resigning.

Good. I wouldn't want you infecting DP's GM.

Well there are vitamin infusions going on in shopping centres 🙄 so not sure what the problem is.

I see the news media are already lining up to criticise the government before they have even started as well . What’s new .

It is going to be a huge logistical exercise because of the temperature storage and two vaccines for each person . Obviously there will be training but lots of people have to self inject drugs every day so I am sure it will be fine .

40 million doses though. It’s going to be difficult.

Guys... Can you think clearly for a minute?
If you think natural immunity fades that quickly, what magic ingredient in vaccines makes immunity last longer? It's mimicking the same process as if you catch the disease.

IVFer here. I've done loads of injections now. There's probably less skill in injections (eg the ones that go into muscle) than needed for the people who clean your teeth or provide even basic haircuts. Agree 100% that it can be trained.

@BurningRose

Guys... Can you think clearly for a minute? If you think natural immunity fades that quickly, what magic ingredient in vaccines makes immunity last longer? It's mimicking the same process as if you catch the disease.

I general the belief is (and always has been) that it will ultimately be an annual vaccination like flu.

Vaccines will not be compulsory, but of course they may be insisted on for travel , but you have the option not to travel and opt out of the vaccine 🙂

@tigerbread20 yep 2 of my wifes work colleagues had the virus back in April, both currently off work with a positive result

I like the blowpipes idea! I am going to volunteer to administer it this way!
Start practising now

@BurningRose

My comment is not as odd as it seems. Some legislation was passed recently allowing non medical professionals to administer vaccines of needed.

So what?

Administering a vaccination isn't actually difficult. You do not need to be a nurse or a Dr. We want millions of people vaccinated, it makes sense not to waste our nurses/drs etc on vaccinating people when it's not necessary.

Get a vaccination or don't, it's your choice, but please stop worrying other people with nonsense.

Also there aren't going to be enough jabs for those that are top of the queue and actually want it, where are all of these mandatory jabs they are doing to administer by force against someone's will appear from?

Yup- agree with Sundragon. Will be a booster thing to reflect varying strains and hopefully bundle it with the flu jab in future.

There are lots of medical people in the forces, I'm sure they could help. Not to mention pharmacists, I get my flu jab at the pharmacy some years, what about dentists? I get my blood tests done by a woman who was a HCA and got trained up, she's brilliant and I'm sure that is a bit more complicated than giving a jab.

@BurningRose can you think clearly for a minute? Vaccines 💉 are given every year for flu, it can also be given for Covid every year?

Go away with anti vaxxer rubbish and let people get back to normal lives, out and about and enjoying themselves.

Not stuck in doors afraid to move!

@BurningRose

I suggest you research the vaccine and how it works. Then decide .

Don’t make assumptions.

@BurningRose

Guys... Can you think clearly for a minute? If you think natural immunity fades that quickly, what magic ingredient in vaccines makes immunity last longer? It's mimicking the same process as if you catch the disease.

But without the, you know, risk of choking to death, blood clots or lung fibrosis.

Win-win. You get the same amount of immunity without the actual being ill or risking dying of it that year.