Long Covid is going to be a problem. As with all things associated with Covid, it’s the sheer numbers of people affected that make it a problem. There are a million sufferers of Long Covid in the UK alone, four hundred thousand of whom have been suffering for more than a year. It’ll be worse … Continue reading Long Covid
I wrote a blog post recently (The Experiment) about how the UK is planning to fully ‘open up’ just as a new highly transmissible variant of the coronavirus starts to wreak havoc. Boris and co are getting twitchy. They don’t really know what to do at this point. This is understandable. There are forecasts, but … Continue reading Morals and Medicine
We are in for an interesting few weeks/months in the UK. Most people who are really vulnerable to Covid 19 have had both shots of vaccine. Most people over 35 have had the opportunity to have at least their first shot. In a month every adult will have had the chance of the first shot … Continue reading The Experiment
I had been waiting for the invitation to get my second dose of Astra Zeneca sometime at the very end of May. There’s a twelve week gap between the first and second jab. But a colleague at work suggested last Friday that if I log on to the NHS vaccine website, I could book my … Continue reading Jab Done Part 2
There’s a common misconception amongst many ‘lockdown sceptics’ that those who approve of, or argue in favour of formal societal restrictions, like and/or enjoy lockdowns. I suppose there are a weird few who might do so. There’s always a ‘few’, isn’t there. People who like weird stuff that would have a normal person recoiling in … Continue reading Lockdown of Discontent
I got the text message from the surgery on Saturday morning, inviting me to book an appointment for my first dose of the Covid vaccine. I clicked on the link which brought up a calendar. The first day with available slots was Friday. Today. There were half a dozen time slots to pick from. I … Continue reading Jab Done
Five days ago, the vaccination roll out in the U.K. was going great guns. The number of doses stuck into arms each day was doubling. It looked like every adult would have a chance at a shot by June. Then four days ago, out of the blue, the NHS announced that there would be a … Continue reading The Invitation
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