Vaccination-good news.

[HarryM1BYT]

Originally Posted by wraymond

Scientists at Tel Aviv University have found that 99.9% of corona-viruses on surfaces can be destroyed in 30 seconds by a light wavelength of 285 nanometers. I had to read that three times when I saw it.

It is a common method of disinfection, using UV, but the UV is not good for you at that frequency. Especially, it can cause damage to your eyes, so not an alternative to an injection.

[solarsailor]

Just booked in for my first jab at 13:10 this coming Friday. Vaccination centre is less than a mile away, so got a result on the distance I need to travel.

[WillyHeckaslike]

Listening to the news it would seem that Boris is hailing all illegals to come forth and get vacced and no questions will be asked. Really???? Boris, what about the legals who pay your dues and their own dues and who wait their turn to be vacced? Some of whom might not survive to receive the vacc which they so thoroughly deserve having abided by the law and paid there dues throughout their existence in the UK.

[wraymond]

So ‘no questions will be asked’ of known illegals that:
a: may have committed crimes other than illegal entry,
b: may have committed and/or have a lengthy record of illegal activity in
their former country.
c: any other permutation.

I wonder if our esteemed leader has any idea what effect that will have on those with less than blameless histories and actively considering coming, or already here undiscovered. Let alone their future compliance with the law until they apply for an injection. A get-out-of-jail-free card if ever there was one.

With every new dawn there is yet another backward step towards anarchy that has taken donkey’s years to eradicate – let alone a virus.

To penalise legitimate applicants in favour of unchallenged incomers is inviting lower priority cases to override more deserving (?) patients. Disgraceful.

[planenut]

If a person has the chance to take a vaccine to hopefully avoid becoming infected by the virus, I am all for it, regardless of their social standing. One may ask why I might want that?but it doesn't take too much brainpower to figure out that the virus does not pay any heed to that social standing, but anybody who may become infected can pass that on to anybody else and clog up the NHS.

Ironically the richest person in the world cannot consider themself safe until the poorest person has had the jab.

[wraymond]

Let me correct a possible faux par! I wasn't in any way concerned about social standing, nor did I intentionally allude to such matters.

I was referring to illegality and past/future criminals seeing an open invitation to come here, and without answering any questions about their legality, either past, present or future, from anywhere in the world and thereby seeking to override anxious patients in long queues. HTH.

[WillyHeckaslike]

Some may not like it but we have a national health service and not an international one. The legals who fund it are every bit as vulnerable to the pandemic as those who are not legal. Given that, it is a no-brainer as for why a legal should not be pushed to the back of the queue to accommodate any illegals. I've read that a government spokesperson has gave assurance that this won't happen and that any illegals will have to wait their turn. But if no questions are to be asked then how will they achieve that?

[steve-45]

So does that mean if I claim to be an illegal and fib about my age (no documents so how can they disprove my age claim), I could get my vaccine earlier than being a fully paid up British resident?

[solarsailor]

Didn't get a letter but received a text from my surgery on Tuesday inviting me to book. Having my first dose at 13:10 this afternoon.

[planenut]

I went for a hike to the other side of Staines this morning to pick up some "essential" paint from Wickes. Trecked on back and during my lunch got a phone call from my doctors surgery to arrange an appointment for my first jab...................200 metres from the furthest point on my hike earlier.