I understand your feelings entirely. I wrote on the newly shielding thread about how l was disappointed and slightly irked that asthmatics whose symptoms were well controlled were being downgraded in favour of the morbidly obese (although l can, of course, understand why the latter group need the vaccine as soon as possible) because, even though I know there are a multitude of reasons for severe obesity, part of me still feels it is self inflicted. Even though my asthma is generally well controlled and I can understand that I am no more likely to die of covid than anyone else, l take a daily preventative inhaler with long acting reliever medication in it. I have also had several bad asthma attacks and chest infections in the past so I could be very poorly indeed if I caught it and so have been extremely careful. This would put me from group 6 down to group 8. However, it seems that the doctors have obviously been considering cases on their own merit and l had a call this morning asking me if I could have my vaccination on Thursday. I feel as if I have won a gold medal.
They are going through group 6 at the moment (16-65 with underlying medical conditions). Group 7 (60-65) and group 8 (55-60) will be the two largest groups of all. I read some time ago that the year I was born (1964; l was born in December) was the year when more people were born than any year since the end of the Second World War, over a million of us. I certainly remember that we always had large classes in school. Even allowing for the fact that some people will have emigrated and others, sadly, will have died, there are still a great many of us around. We are a ticking time bomb for the next twenty or thirty years as we age further and, despite the fact that we have been around for 55+ years, no prizes for guessing what preparation successive governments have put in place.
