So fkn excited about the vaccine!!

[musicalfrog]

I mean!

🥳🥳🥳

I just had to express it somewhere!

Me too

I can’t quite get my head around this being almost over by spring !!

Me too. I keep randomly bursting into tears!!

And yes I know it’s not going to be over for months, it’s not a silver bullet blah blah blah but the light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter by the day!

We're in a hell of a lot better situation than we were a few months ago. It doesn't all feel so fucking hopeless anymore

It's great news but I'm at the back of the queue and in close contact with 27 children every day. I really think teachers and other school staff should have a better position in the queue.

Me too :)

Me too

I just can’t get over the divergence in the future

Without it - too bad to consider

With it - back to normal

So bloody happy and relieved. I do think it’s momentous.

@Bluewavescrashing

It's great news but I'm at the back of the queue and in close contact with 27 children every day. I really think teachers and other school staff should have a better position in the queue.

I disagree with this.

Teachers with specific need to be vaccinated early will be covered by the current categories. There is a limited supply of vaccine and the priority surely has to be protecting those most at risk of severe illness or death.

I am a TA in a class of 30 and do not feel that my need to get the vaccine is greater than someone with much more risk of dying, which is mostly age based.

Me too! Today is a good day 🥳🥳 I actually can’t believe this day is here!

Under a year!

Bloody hell even in the movies it’s not that fast

@Bluewavescrashing

It's great news but I'm at the back of the queue and in close contact with 27 children every day. I really think teachers and other school staff should have a better position in the queue.

Definitely you should.

I cried a bit

Hi @MarshaBradyo
I’m almost tearful I feel such relief.

Some of these threads - well they’re just a reminder of how awful the internet can be.

Today is a great day - proud of researchers/scientists/ medical team.
I’m nhs - we’re starting to give in my trust week of 14th.
UCH are starting next week - joyous for them !

I'm volunteering for the NHS and i think I'll be offered it before many of the people i know. I just can't wait to get this ball rolling!

It's wonderful news, I can't believe it, I'm nhs staff and hoping I will be offered it soon!
I just want life back to normal and even if it takes months I have hope which is something I didn't have throughout most of this.

Having worked in the pharmaceutical industry and with a DH who still does (doing remarkable work) I’m so proud of all those globally who have worked so hard to keep us safe. Thank you all. We are remarkable primates.

That’s exactly it @Earlgrey666 we needed hope, now we have it.

@Pomegranatespompom

Hi *@MarshaBradyo* I’m almost tearful I feel such relief.

Some of these threads - well they’re just a reminder of how awful the internet can be.

Today is a great day - proud of researchers/scientists/ medical team.
I’m nhs - we’re starting to give in my trust week of 14th.
UCH are starting next week - joyous for them !

Pom yay! And totally

I cannot get my head around posters who can’t see that the alternative is extremely dire. Economic demise etc

So, so good. What a breakthrough.

Me too. My mum is in a care home, so hopefully will be one of the first to get it. She's 150 miles away from us and I've not seen her for a year. All they allow at the home is half an hour visits in their conservatory, so it's never been worth visiting. Now I know it won't be long before we can have a proper visit and even take her out for lunch, how exciting!

Same here!
Don't mind being towards the end of a really long queue at least it's a queue now!

Whoop!

I’ve now had a cry - due to my work WhatsApp group 😳

We’re all so bonded, it’s been difficult.

If we ever bump into a vaccine researcher in a pub the G&Ts are on us!

“It's great news but I'm at the back of the queue and in close contact with 27 children every day. I really think teachers and other school staff should have a better position in the queue.“

It’s been recommended that after everyone high risk has been offered it, the healthy under 50s be prioritised by keyworker status/occupation. Teachers (by which I hope they meant all school staff) were mentioned. I think that’s fair. Who exactly would you like to push ahead of in the queue?

It is such fantastic news.

To think, all these months we’ve spent seeing graphs of cases, graphs of deaths, graphs of tests, graphs of hospitalisations - soon there’ll be a ‘number of people vaccinated’ graph to watch as the line goes up and up and up.