Life is a hideous nightmare

[Scaredshitlessagain]

Can't cope with anymore of it. I know there's a vaccine but it's going to be months before it starts to have an effect. My kids schooling is crap, our lives are crap. The government is useless. I'm done.

They’ve already vaccinated 1 in 6 people over the age of 85... in the space of about two weeks! I think that’s pretty darn amazing TBH. The Oxford vaccine could be approved any day now which will be a further boost.

Wow, can I ask where you found that statistic? That is pretty amazing!

The vaccine rollout will get faster as they get better infrastructure in place, even discounting the (very high) likelihood that the Oxford one will be approved as well. Remember at the very start of the pandemic when it was big news that they managed to test a few thousand people a day, and you could only get tested in hospital? And now we're up to nearly half a million daily tests and increasing all the time, there are test centres that give you results within half an hour, and we have priority post boxes so people can do home tests if they're too ill to go out. They might not have the capacity to do hundreds of thousands of vaccinations a day just yet, but we'll get there.

They’ve already vaccinated 1 in 6 people over the age of 85... in the space of about two weeks! I think that’s pretty darn amazing TBH. The Oxford vaccine could be approved any day now which will be a further boost

I don’t know anyone who has been vaccinated were I am in Tier 4 and neither do any of my colleagues in local GP practices. My highly clinically vulnerable 85 year old father with Heart failure and immune compromised with lymphoma has had no communication about it and nor has anyone else I know of. Obviously I realise I can’t challenge any statistic based on my vague survey but it seems unlikely. I hope it is true though.

@YouokHun

They’ve already vaccinated 1 in 6 people over the age of 85... in the space of about two weeks! I think that’s pretty darn amazing TBH. The Oxford vaccine could be approved any day now which will be a further boost

I don’t know anyone who has been vaccinated were I am in Tier 4 and neither do any of my colleagues in local GP practices. My highly clinically vulnerable 85 year old father with Heart failure and immune compromised with lymphoma has had no communication about it and nor has anyone else I know of. Obviously I realise I can’t challenge any statistic based on my vague survey but it seems unlikely. I hope it is true though.

That must just be your area and pretty unusual. Everyone I know in the first two groups (over 80s and NHS) have had their first injections, and second ones booked in for early January. I’m tier 4 too.

@Mousehole10 really? That’s concerning for us. I hope the call will come for my DF in the next few days. I’m in Kent and it’s pretty bad here right now so the sooner the better for everyone.

@YouokHun that is a bit worrying. I think gp trusts in each area had to sign up to give the vaccine and some refused, so maybe your trust didn’t sign up. They should be doing it through hospitals if that’s the case though, so you could try finding out where they are doing them and try getting one for your DF that way.