Coronavirus

[duncs500]

This is all great news. Can't wait for my mum to get the vaccine.

[dinny_g]

Father in Law has his scheduled for Thursday - He's in east London and could have gone to the Nightingale earlier but he was worked about how long he would have stand / queue as his let's more metal than bone these days following 2 bad accidents when he was younger.

His GP surgery are even lining him up a taxi to take him home after

[McSwede]

My parents are mid 70's and are booked in for Tuesday in York. They're are very happy, as am I.

[duncs500]

Fair play to the government, they do seem to be pressing on with the vaccines at least.

[Simon]

My parents haven't been invited yet (mid/late 70s) but I'm not too worried because they get pretty good 5G at their house already.

[Swervin_Mervin]

I'm not sure, I think the government announced earlier this week that they will start sending letters to the over 70 group soon hence my surprise.
I wasn't sent a letter, just a text from my GP that I can call them to book it.

Seeing some random people I know somehow getting booked in today (50s and no health issues I know of) but still nothing for the wife.

[Simon]

Oh, my wife's friend had hers, she's a nurse in Brazil so the rollout has finally started there too.

[Rich B]

Well that was interesting. The results still hadn't come after 3 days and the form said to wait until day 5 before calling a number. I thought fuck it and called today.

Good thing I did, the guy said he'd check it all and went off the call for a few mins (I thought it was patter and he'd just gone to make a cuppa), he came back on and told me the barcode number hadn't been registered properly and he'd redone it - DING my text went and through came the (negative!) results.

Test centre: 0
Call centre guy: 1

[McSwede]

Well that was interesting. The results still hadn't come after 3 days and the form said to wait until day 5 before calling a number. I thought fuck it and called today.

Good thing I did, the guy said he'd check it all and went off the call for a few mins (I thought it was patter and he'd just gone to make a cuppa), he came back on and told me the barcode number hadn't been registered properly and he'd redone it - DING my text went and through came the (negative!) results.

Test centre: 0
Call centre guy: 1

Another negative post from RichB

Great news though!

[duncs500]

Must have had five calls from those contract tracing lot while I was isolating, asking me if I was going to continue to isolate etc. One of them was very articulate and nice, but I couldn't understand what a lot of them were saying, I just resorted to waiting for a pause and then answering yes. They were terrible.

[Rich B]

Well that was interesting. The results still hadn't come after 3 days and the form said to wait until day 5 before calling a number. I thought fuck it and called today.

Good thing I did, the guy said he'd check it all and went off the call for a few mins (I thought it was patter and he'd just gone to make a cuppa), he came back on and told me the barcode number hadn't been registered properly and he'd redone it - DING my text went and through came the (negative!) results.

Test centre: 0
Call centre guy: 1

Another negative post from RichB

Great news though!

[DeskJockey]

I'm now in isolation awaiting a test result.

So far, can't complain. Completed test booking at 13.24 for a 13.30 - 14.00 slot less than two miles away.

Edit: with the rest of the family. Wife had to leave work and we'll miss her grandfather's funeral tomorrow which sucks.

[duncs500]

I'm now in isolation awaiting a test result.

So far, can't complain. Completed test booking at 13.24 for a 13.30 - 14.00 slot less than two miles away.

Edit: with the rest of the family. Wife had to leave work and we'll miss her grandfather's funeral tomorrow which sucks.

What's happened Alex? Have you got symptoms?

[Gwaredd]

Feels like it's closing in on us. Our best friend who's a midwife has finally come down with it, as has her husband and they're both pretty rough. Terrified too, as his brother died from it on Monday. Scary shit.

[DeskJockey]

I'm now in isolation awaiting a test result.

So far, can't complain. Completed test booking at 13.24 for a 13.30 - 14.00 slot less than two miles away.

Edit: with the rest of the family. Wife had to leave work and we'll miss her grandfather's funeral tomorrow which sucks.

What's happened Alex? Have you got symptoms?

Yes, started coughing. Feeling absolutely fine, but obviously have to be cautious. My youngest sister had it before Christmas and was not affected at all. So can't trust got feeling (in the unlikely event that needed saying).

Definitely still able to taste things, enjoyed the Malbec I had with dinner.

[Mito Man]

I've just had my MMR vaccine done by the same nurse who will give my covid one next week. She said the current guidance is that they will only give one dose for the AZ vaccine but are sticking to 2 doses for the Pfizer one.

[Simon]

Huh? Only one for AZ AT ALL?

[Mito Man]

Yeah. I also just had a call from the nurse to move back the covid vaccine a week as it could react with the MMR one...

[Jimmy Choo]

This is all great news. Can't wait for my mum to get it.

Having this as the first post on the page takes it out of context a bit and makes Duncs seem like a bit of a cunt.

[duncs500]

This is all great news. Can't wait for my mum to get it.

Having this as the first post on the page takes it out of context a bit and makes Duncs seem like a bit of a cunt.

I should edit that!