The General Covid19 Thread

Hursty

Statistically most people will get the Oxford vaccine if you are not in the first tranches of the rollout.

I’m with LT, I’ll be at the back of the queue for several reasons, mainly youth, health and circumstances. My wife on the other hand is getting one soon as she works in private medical care.

Homegrove

Oxford-vaccine is expected to take care of most normal working age Finns too by today’s news, ie folks like me.

Dubman

bosstrabs
I must admit I would be prefer the Oxford vaccine but can’t see that option choosing between which vaccine gets offered. Interesting on China having menu for different injections.

bosstrabs

Dubman Interesting on China having menu for different injections.

It’s not China, it’s Hong Kong that has a different regulatory system and more of a market in healthcare.

Hence the rich mainlanders cross go there so that they don’t have to accept the free/heavily subsidised but no choice mainland PRC vaccinations.

mono-stereo

Dubman I must admit I would be prefer the Oxford vaccine

Why’s that then?

Hursty

bosstrabs For how much longer though? Xi is tightening his grip like a boa constrictor!

Dubman

bosstrabs
What are the Chinese like on conspiracy theories?

Smallman1

Be great for Si and MC if you could get a jab for bants.

bosstrabs

Smallman1 Be great for Si and MC if you could get a jab for bants.

doesn’t a jab prevent stuff?

Smallman1

bosstrabs doesn’t a jab prevent stuff?

Just roll with it Dave!

bosstrabs

Pretty much the same as everyone else. There are some things that are fairly universal. Slapstick humour is fairly universal. And about 1 in 10 people you meet having some utterly outlandish views when you have a few beers and get down to brass tacks is one of those things.

Millsy

Some sort of bantz booster?

Smallman1

Millsy Some sort of bantz booster?

Perfect!

Hursty

‘Prof Janet Lord, director of the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing’ BBC

Absolutely love the titles of some of the covid experts we hear from on a daily basis!

Jules72

If the AZ jab provided strong protection against serious illness then fine - I have no problem taking it even if efficiency is lower (than Pfizer’s)… problem is though AZ’s data on prevention of serious covid is based on a pretty small sample?

Wasily

I went Pfizer about 3 weeks ago. Arm hurt after about 6 hours and lasted 2 days. Didn’t get a choice. As you may know, a lot of doctors upset evidence base is being neglected and 3 week second dose booster is on hold indefinitely according to our trust. A lot of doctors been rocking up at the end of the day and seeing if any spare vaccine available for their 3 weeker. I’m firmly in the camp that you should stick to trial protocol and not go off piste and give as many people a first dose as possible. Evidence now from Gupta Lab in Cambridge suggesting 1st Pfizer dose alone not generating adequate antibody response in the over 80’s.

C_J

Wasily I have heard it suggested by medical insiders that doing the single jab without the second may also provide the perfect conditions for vaccine resistance.

I blame Tony Blair for this policy.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-55410349

FabiParas

Smallman1 Will it protect you against having a Reg?

bosstrabs

C_J I have heard it suggested by medical insiders that doing the single jab without the second may also provide the perfect conditions for vaccine resistance.

I blame Tony Blair for this policy.

And yet, nobody in government had to listen to Tony Blair (a lawyer by training) over the healthcare professionals, did they?

Along_the_Wire

C_J This is really winding me up - clear scientific advice, not only from the UK, but from the producers of the vaccines say delaying the second injection is a risk, but the fucking cunt show that is the government have decided to ignore all that to make it look like we’re doing a good job. Total fucking cunts, the lot of them.

Wasily

C_J It’s a good question. Certainly with antibiotics a suboptimal course either dose or duration will result in potential bacterial resistance. I’m not sure whether this holds true for viral vaccines, but I guess it could. Any situation that puts selection pressure on an organism without eradicating it will favour proliferation of resistant strains.

Smallman1

FabiParas Will it protect you against having a Reg?

No chance, it’s in the DNA.

bosstrabs

Smallman1 No chance, it’s in the DNA.

The ‘Having a reg’ part of your DNA is called the ‘double Felix’ rather than the double helix, after Junior Felix from the GU board.

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