Coronavirus: The Thread
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London's favorite and definitely most expensive plumbing firm is rewriting employment contracts to insist that their staff have the immunisation for Covid, otherwise they'll likely be let go. On the one hand it makes sense, but on the personal rights and so on it seems a step towards discrimination.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55654229
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55654229
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I think I mentioned this some weeks ago when there was discussion of making vaccination compulsory. No employer in this litigious day and age is going to risk having a refusenik employee infecting other members of staff or their clients and customers.
And as I can hear you saying if every one else in the office is vaccinated its not going to be a problem........ let's hope you are right.
And as I can hear you saying if every one else in the office is vaccinated its not going to be a problem........ let's hope you are right.
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
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With the publicity over long awaited operations, why is it not possible for the Private Hospitals to be used? Are they now all Covid too?
Exclusive: Medical leaders seek to ‘shame’ private hospitals and their staff into supporting NHS
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SHJ,I remember watching a TV documentary maybe 20 years ago about Pimlico Plumbing.As a pretty-well paid professional in aviation,the earnings claimed by some of the plumbers seemed quite eye-watering to me.
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Most plumbers are rip off merchants. Gas and Electricity one cannot do now unless Gas Save or latest edition (17?). I love copper and have rerouted loads of it in my hose and fitted radiators in rooms that had no heating. Yes I use the pre soldered yorkshire stuff, but it still needs the wire wool, the flux and a little extra solder. The gas save and edition 17 courses are not cheap, but compared to LAEs, a lot of them are idiots, including the saffer British Gas bloke that comes to service my boiler. Back on topic mind, any tradesman dealing with Joe public and not had Covid should consider having a jab. I will be when i get the chance. Had the NHS flu freebie letter today, best get down to the local pharmacy.
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Once again Nasty communist Cuba leads the world in healthcare for its peoples, the figures are orderS of magnitude better than that beacon of democracy just a few miles to the west and of course all of us across the pond
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POLITICO:
NHS England has selected Asda to become the first supermarket to provide in-store coronavirus vaccinations starting on January 25. Its vaccination center will operate from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., seven days a week. Other Asda sites are being assessed and could join the program.
NHS England has selected Asda to become the first supermarket to provide in-store coronavirus vaccinations starting on January 25. Its vaccination center will operate from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., seven days a week. Other Asda sites are being assessed and could join the program.
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Not a single person in my area has received the vaccination yet. Our "village" of 6,000 is supposed to get some for the over-80s tomorrow. In a hospital 10 miles away.
How many will get run over on their walk there?
How many will get run over on their walk there?
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WB; Your office of banning "refuseniks" might be more dangerous for bumping into eachother because so many blind will have been led by the short-sighted. Clear vision required by all sides and immunity to the virus by having a vax has not been proved. Still to be proved but more attractive is the notion that Track & trace will be a synch.
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WB; Your office of banning "refuseniks" might be more dangerous for bumping into eachother because so many blind will have been led by the short-sighted. Clear vision required by all sides and immunity to the virus by having a vax has not been proved. Still to be proved but more attractive is the notion that Track & trace will be a synch.
By all means believe what you wish, but I don't feel that spreading patently false information in order to support a point of view is acceptable.
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This is false. Trials data from all of the vaccines approved so far prove, beyond reasonable doubt, that all of them provide immunity. The usual acceptance level for approval of any vaccine in the UK is that it provides immunity to at least 50% of those vaccinated. The better vaccines approved so far provide immunity to over 90% of those vaccinated.
By all means believe what you wish, but I don't feel that spreading patently false information in order to support a point of view is acceptable.
By all means believe what you wish, but I don't feel that spreading patently false information in order to support a point of view is acceptable.
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BWT, I'm far from being an expert!
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Exercise walked with a friend this morning, she was saying colleagues of hers - mostly in their 30s/40s - who are front line support and have to visit the public in their homes have been offered the Pfizer vaccination; take up of the daily allocations has been surprisingly low and the excuses pretty lame. One saw it as pointless unless his partner was inoculated at the same time... My friend said she would be pleased to be vaccinated now rather than wait till they do the 60+ group in the next couple of months...
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I read and saw in the newspapers and on TV about the letters being sent out to over-80s and the opening of the new mass vaccination centres.
So I went to the vaccination booking site and put in my mother's NHS no. On Sunday, it said that no letter had been sent out. On Monday morning, ditto. On Monday evening, it allowed a booking to be made at a suitable mass vaccination centre for later this week. The booking for the follow-up jab in 12 weeks time was also made at the same time.
Friend's mother (same town) got a call from her GP on Monday afternoon and has been booked in for a jab at a centre set up by several GP practices for this evening.
The vaccines might be getting through in volume at last.
So I went to the vaccination booking site and put in my mother's NHS no. On Sunday, it said that no letter had been sent out. On Monday morning, ditto. On Monday evening, it allowed a booking to be made at a suitable mass vaccination centre for later this week. The booking for the follow-up jab in 12 weeks time was also made at the same time.
Friend's mother (same town) got a call from her GP on Monday afternoon and has been booked in for a jab at a centre set up by several GP practices for this evening.
The vaccines might be getting through in volume at last.
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
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I know they promise centres within 10 miles, but Brighton seems to be suffering a surfeit.
We now have the Royal Sussex Hospital and Brighton race course*. When the Brighton Centre opens at the end of the month that means I’ll have three major centres within about 1 mile of my front door.
* As of Monday, the government, reportedly, didn’t pay the rent on time.....
https://www.sussexlive.co.uk/news/su...elayed-4887517
We now have the Royal Sussex Hospital and Brighton race course*. When the Brighton Centre opens at the end of the month that means I’ll have three major centres within about 1 mile of my front door.
* As of Monday, the government, reportedly, didn’t pay the rent on time.....
https://www.sussexlive.co.uk/news/su...elayed-4887517
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I know they promise centres within 10 miles, but Brighton seems to be suffering a surfeit.
We now have the Royal Sussex Hospital and Brighton race course*. When the Brighton Centre opens at the end of the month that means I’ll have three major centres within about 1 mile of my front door.
* As of Monday, the government, reportedly, didn’t pay the rent on time.....
https://www.sussexlive.co.uk/news/su...elayed-4887517
We now have the Royal Sussex Hospital and Brighton race course*. When the Brighton Centre opens at the end of the month that means I’ll have three major centres within about 1 mile of my front door.
* As of Monday, the government, reportedly, didn’t pay the rent on time.....
https://www.sussexlive.co.uk/news/su...elayed-4887517
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Tin foil hat?
WB; Your office of banning "refuseniks" might be more dangerous for bumping into eachother because so many blind will have been led by the short-sighted. Clear vision required by all sides and immunity to the virus by having a vax has not been proved. Still to be proved but more attractive is the notion that Track & trace will be a synch.
I am intrigued as to what your agenda is. Is it to encourage the spread of this disease so that more people die or suffer from life changing problems and defects with their internal organs or suffer neurological problems? Is that what you really want? There must be some reason why you have posted false and incorrect information on a public forum.
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