So fkn excited about the vaccine!!

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I mean!

🥳🥳🥳

I just had to express it somewhere!

@GoldenOmber

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.

Oh I really hope they make that graph!

Lovely thought re the graph.

So happy there is a vaccine.

I really hope my mum and dad can get it soon (ish). They’ve been shielding for months and I miss them both.

Who exactly would you like to push ahead of in the queue?

The general population, excluding the over 50s, ECV and NHS and care home staff. I'm not saying teachers should be at the front of the queue, just not at the back.

I'm at the back of the queue but can't wait.

Travelling Tabby is already planning his vaccine graph, graph fans :)

Wooop!

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I can understand why it’s not confirmed yet, it’s months away, but it appears that JCVI is suggesting prioritising by occupation for phase 2. So I don’t think teachers will be remotely “at the back of the queue”.

I personally think CEV teachers should be considered for higher priority.

#not a teacher

There will be many people who should be considered - factory workers where sd is impossible for example, it’s difficult.

“I personally think CEV teachers should be considered for higher priority.”

Than who? They’re behind nhs/social care workers and people over 70. That’s it. The difference in time between those phases is probably mere weeks.

@herecomesthsun

I personally think CEV teachers should be considered for higher priority.

#not a teacher

Than who? Other CEV people?

Or above what age?

Yes it’s probably a few weeks, no need to elbow people out of the way.
Looking forward to the end of all the schools should close debates.

‘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.’

That’s a really good idea, I hope they do that.
Apart from anything else they’ll get better value from the vaccines if they prioritise the people who come into contact with large numbers of other people rather than someone like me who is mostly at home.
Jab the teachers and you might (depending on how much impact it has on spread, which we don’t know yet) avoid them infecting the kids, who then won’t infect their parents...better for everyone than if the under 50s are an undifferentiated mass.

Happy for you all, but please think of the billions of people who live in countries who can’t afford on the vaccine and will probably have to wait a year or longer at the back of the queue whilst rich countries get back to normal.

Is nobody else slightly worried that we’re the first country to sign off on a vaccine? I’m half expecting vaccinated people to start growing second heads and for there to be a panicky recall. #naturaloptimsist Is that just me?

@RainbowCookie it won’t be long until the oxford vaccine is rolled out hopefully widely.
I think we are allowed a moment of happiness.

I’m so happy OP. So bloody happy.

One thing that keeps simultaneously worrying AND annoying me though is the amount of people parroting the “it’s been rushed” line.

I’m fucking glad they rushed it.
Rushing something is not the same as doing a half-arsed job.

Like I said happy for you all, but they don’t give out vaccines for free, governments have to pay for them. Sadly a lot of countries have governments who are too disorganised to even manage the purchase of vaccines and they certainly don’t have the cash to pay for them.

@RainbowCookie

Like I said happy for you all, but they don’t give out vaccines for free, governments have to pay for them. Sadly a lot of countries have governments who are too disorganised to even manage the purchase of vaccines and they certainly don’t have the cash to pay for them.

I thought there were a few bodies that were going just this?

Covax, GAVI, WHO? There are definitely programmes to ensure developing nations get vaccines

@RainbowCookie

Like I said happy for you all, but they don’t give out vaccines for free, governments have to pay for them. Sadly a lot of countries have governments who are too disorganised to even manage the purchase of vaccines and they certainly don’t have the cash to pay for them.

Can we be simultaneously happy about the news AND concerned for other countries who might not get it?? Then you wouldn’t feel the need to piss on our chips.

Rainbow

The 75 countries, which would finance the vaccines from their own public finance budgets, partner with up to 90 lower-income countries that could be supported through voluntary donations to Gavi’s COVAX Advance Market Commitment (AMC).

Key workers next makes sense but I hadn’t realised that and that definitely puts me further back! I was hoping over 45s next ! Definitely agree with teachers and all key workers stuck wearing masks all bloody day, must be so depressing. I know they were thinking about maybe hitting the transmission routes next as well.
Whatever the scientists think is good with me. Let’s hope it happens very fast !

I'm happy too. I've heard they are going to have volunteers administering it. Has anyone else heard this? I'd love to do this. But don't know how.

@TheCountessofFitzdotterel totally makes sense, and the parents who work out of the house as key workers won’t pass it to their kids who then pass it to other kids and their parents.
I barely leave the house so the only way I’ll get it is through my dd and I wouldn’t pass it to anyone as I see no-one. The sooner the rates go down, the safer everyone is so it’s about getting them down as fast as possible once those at highest risk of death have been vaccinated .

Teachers shouldn’t considered as high priority as health and social care workers because they do not work with a predominantly elderly and/or medically vulnerable population. It’s about limiting community spread and thus, reducing the financial burden on these struggling sectors. Teachers shouldn’t be prioritised until all those who work with older and very vulnerable people are offered the vaccine.