@Chaotic45.
I agree with you but speculation and the hypothesises that all the leaders of many countries have made with regard to this pandemic have been proven inaccurate time and time again. I won’t bore everyone and insult anyone’s intelligence by pointing out all that every one of us already knows and has lived through but the fact that most countries in Europe and also America’s governments knew/ had information about the pandemic way before the public was informed and did nothing, wash your hands, masks, no masks, work from home, the economy is dying get into your offices and spend. For the rest of my life I will never forget Cummings interview, I’d love anyone to remind me of one edict or solid information that has been correct.
I’m no scientist and there are many more informed, educated and intelligent people on this thread who are graciously helping me understand in plain English what the hell we are facing here.
What I do know is I don’t know if the government of the U.K. and many other countries are completely and utterly in the dark or misleading us but whatever it is to me it is gross incompetence at best and the equivalent of corporate man slaughter at worst.
Things I can work out are the simple maths of how fast they can vaccinate and at the rate they are going (and I am considered high risk) using the vaccine calculator I won’t get it until April and there seem to be 12million people ahead of me.
Combine that with the recent revival of free tuition plus bursaries as an incentive for people to go to university to become nurses on a “fast track” which means they would qualify in circa 3 years when we need nurses NOW to administer the vaccine faster says to me (rightly or wrongly) that someone in government expects a huge need for nurses not only now but for some time to come.
I’m usually the friend that is called when someone close to me has some kind of issue that is chaotic or life changing because I’m a steady Freddie in a crisis and can take charge when they are crumbling emotionally and can’t cope, and know that I will do all I can to help with no judgement.
But this time, we are all in the same boat facing the same thing without in my opinion adequate information, assistance, leadership, or plan. I’m scared, really scared, and it seems like as the hours go by today the U.K. is being cut off, the list of countries that will refuse us growing and growing.
I have learned more today from this thread than I have since I was first aware of the virus in February.
Thanks to all who have generously shared their information and thank you for making me feel less alone.