All our dreams, hopes and plans lie inside this small, temporary building. I speak just for Mrs P and myself. Your dreams may be contained in a similar structure. Or maybe a converted arena. Or a normal brick and mortar structure. This particular building appeared just a week or so ago in the car park of my doctors surgery. It isn’t complete yet. Or at least it wasn’t when I went past last Thursday, on my way to have a few vials of blood taken for further tests. The doc has not yet gotten to the bottom of my problems.
In a few months, Mrs P and I will be invited to enter this building to receive our coronavirus vaccines. We don’t know when, but we’re probably halfway down the priority list. I’m guessing it will happen sometime between March and August. We’ll likely get separate invites. Me before she. I’m higher priority, as I’ve got a few more years on the clock that she does. I’m at that point in life where the annual health MOT starts throwing up little niggles.
I’ve checked my surgery’s webpage. They don’t have a date yet for the commencement of the vaccine program here. But it’ll be soon. And it’ll be the Pfizer vaccine to begin with. But I have read that the AstraZeneca vaccine is likely to be approved within days. A couple of weeks at most. That vaccine is a game changer. It’s not the most effective. But it’s cheap to make and easy to distribute and administer.
Before pressing the publish button and sending this post around the world, I went to have a look see if anyone had created an online calculator of sorts to predict when I might expect to be vaccinated. And there is. Of course there is. I’ve long ago accepted that if you can think it, it’s on the internet already. I’m told I should expect a longer wait than I had anticipated.
The calculator estimates I’ll get my jab at some point between the end of June and mid September. Although I may yet get shoved closer to the front of the queue. If my current condition is diagnosed as a severe immunity disease I may well find myself in that but one day in April. Potentially months before Mrs P.
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Gary I hope your health issues get sorted out soon and that we all get our vaccines earlier rather than later. Of course Paul and I have a headstart on you with our advanced ages! Happy Holidays to you and Mrs P.
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I certainly hope I get fixed soon. It’s been dragging on…! And yes, o ave an age advantage. I possibly have a geographical advantage. We’ll see. We can come back to this post later next year and see who won…
Merry Christmas to you and yours!
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“if you can think it, it’s on the internet already.” That almost the same as I have thought for a long time. Your article is very timely and it applies to many of us. Since or because I am one of those at risk person, I have not decided if I will be taking it. Live long and prosper.
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We all like to prosper, amigo.
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The tent looks like the ones used on your British baking show. One good Ohio blizzard would have that puppy in another state.
I’m not surprised that there are nowhere near the number of jabs made up, as were touted last summer , less than 10% of what they said they would have is about par for today’s world.
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We don’t have Ohio style blizzards here. Nonetheless, don’t be entirely shocked if I post photos of the building crumpled up, halfway down the road, victim of a gentle Bournemouth breeze. That would be in keeping with everything 2020.
I need to find own online calculator that predicts when I’ll get infected with the virus. Just so I can know which I’m likely to get first.
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Hope they figure out soon what is going on with your health, and that, when they do, it is something easily treated.
As a senior citizen I continue to keep my fingers crossed for the first jab sometime in February. ¡Ojalá! I have read that the vaccine will be obtained through the pharmacies, although I don’t know if they will set up a makeshift structure in the parking lot. ¡Ojalá!
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It’s becoming increasingly clear that the vaccine won’t roll out as quickly as most of us had hoped/wished/imagined. We’re going to have used up our supply of Pfizer by January. The next batch doesn’t arrive till March. The Oxford/AstraZeneca jab is increasingly important.
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I must have missed the health concern in earlier posts. Such news is never welcome. But, as you note in your very English way, they are inevitable. In that area, I have several laps on you.
From a personal standpoint, I have not been anticipating the arrival of the vaccine. But I do welcome it in a macro sense. Travel will soon be open again. That September cruise to Japan looks far more likely than it did when I booked. I may even be able to make that long-delayed trip to El Prado.
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The health concerns are likely to be for the remainder of life, but are unlikely to be the cause when it ends.
Things are going to get worse before they get better. I fear they will get much worse. But I remain confident that they will get better. And I too have itchy feet.
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