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Originally Posted by Discombobulated
It's 512 per 100,000 in my area at the moment and we seem stuck at around 40,000 infections per day in the UK.
My anxiety is up, it's not just covid though, it's climate change and lack of belief anything will be done and most of all the awful government we have here which reveal themselves to be worse as time goes on.
Our prime minister was pictured walking unmasked down a hospital corridor this week, everyone else in the picture, nurses, doctors, wore masks. It says it all really.
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Isn't he the same guy who was shaking hands with COVID patients at the start of the pandemic? And also caught COVID himself? Can't say I'm surprised.
It sucks that you can't get a booster yet
They haven't even started in NL. They're starting next month with people of 80 years and older. They're always so bloody slow, it's ridiculous. And they haven't made a decision about people vaccinated with J&J yet as far as I know.
I'm slightly confused about what's happening in Germany now - they're starting with the 70 and older age group but younger people COULD get it already, it is just a recommendation or something? You'd just have to find a doctor willing to give you the shot. And of course everyone who got J&J can get a second shot from 4 weeks after the 1st one. (Should I be worried that there is actually 5 months between my shots?)
But no sooner than 6 months after the second shot. Quite a few people showed up too early at the location I went to
I really felt for the girl who was checking people's documentation and forms at the entrance! One man got very upset, waving his invitation letter around, saying it came from the minister himself, keeping no distance, nose hanging out of his mask, demanding to see a doctor NOW until she showed him exactly where is said in the letter that the time between 2nd shot and the booster CANNOT be any less than 6 months
Dear lord people were so unorganized, no wonder I had to wait in line for 2 hours. I don't really get why, there are plenty of options to get vaccinated in Germany, GPs do it as well, and by appointment. I'm so confused why all these older people would show up to a location where they had to stand in line for ages and fill out all these forms by themselves - so many of them struggled with the simplest instructions - instead of just making an appointment with their GP?