MikeOriginally Posted by Mike T
IIRC some countries require vaccination for yellow fever to enter - so where that protocol already exists it could readily be applied for Covid. In which case, since Covid is a world wide virus, we would end up with different approaches between countries?
An added dimension is that we might all need to have periodic certification of regular vaccine 'upgrades', akin to software updates, in order to travel, etc. Could be quite a lucrative business for someone. A kind of big-pharma Bill Gates. Happy times...
Am Yisrael Chai
That's what I think is going to come. Want to come and visit us Then you need to have your Covid passport. Even though in the next year or two it's likely to be reduced to being no more of a threat than most over winter respiratory virusses.
Richard Taylor
"William Tell could take an apple off your head. Taylor could take out a processed pea."
Sid Waddell
I now suspect that that figure of 1.2 million jabs per week as an 'intention' was based on a bit of a misunderstanding, and related just to England not the whole of the UK. I think it comes from the fact (apparently) that the vaccine will be delivered in vials of 975 doses which, once defrosted, will need to be administered within 5 days. That is, each vaccination centre will need to be able to administer a minimum of 975 jabs in a 5 day period, and the assumption was that there would be about 1200 centres. Hence, the '1.2 million jabs per week' is more of a minimum number rather than an intended number. There could be more than 1200 vaccination centres in the UK, and each could administer the jabs faster than 975 in 5 days. So the total time required to vaccination 20 million people could be much, much less than the 8 months I'd suggested.
With so many people to vaccinate we might have to line up, like we did when I was at school, in a long line with out sleeves rolled up.
I just hope that the needle is a bit smaller and the nurse more pleasant
Visibility good except in Hill Fog
Well with a surname beginning with "B" and being 93 years old ...where do I start the queue?
Many countries have what amounts to compulsory vaccination - the UK is not one of them.
In Australia: no jabs = no child benefit. Anti-vaccination ideation tends to evaporate when money comes into it - but then we all have a price.
Thank you.
Particularly when that price is have the jab or starve. I was dying to know what your view would be on compulsory vaccination Mike-T. I guessed you'd be one of those who wanted to force people to have it.
There are many implications of a compulsory vaccination program. The doctors and nurses are also acting under coercion as someone has to carry out the act of vaccination. Whether that bothers them or not - and history shows doctors doing all sorts of evil acts in the 'interests' of the public good - is irrelevant because the trust between patient and doctor will be eroded. A person forced to have a vaccine will look upon the doctor/nurse as being part of the instrument of force and that is not a good position to be in.
