At last !

Mr. B is having his first vaccine tomorrow and I’m so relieved. It’s at a local hub, just a short journey. I know this isn’t the end of it, but it’s definitely on the right road.

And the foreigner I'm married to

Yes hate everyone except myself

www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/selected-deaths-vs-covid-19-canada

This is a very interesting site. We don't know we're born over here when I look at some other countries. No wonder we are called 'the lucky country'. Horrific

It isnt true that we in England can only get them at a hub. One of my brothers had his at his gp this morning.

When I booked mine, on line, I had a choice of 3 hospitals, 3 hubs and half a dozen pharmacies. That i chose the hub 20 miles away had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that it was just down the road from DD1.

Is nanna8 being racist?

I think it depends on the type of vaccine nanna8

Where I live only the main teaching hospital was offering the Pfizer vaccine as it was the only place with suitable storage. It is quite near here so wouldn’t have been a problem for me. I went to a GP clinic run by a group of practices and had the AZ jab, quick and easy.

As the temperature drops out there I'm glad it's starting to happen for you.
It must be difficult for some - being such a large country, especially for those people who need to rely on others for transport.
When I took DM for her first back in December there was a dear
elderly man who had made trip by bus & was waiting outside in the cold eventually - due the others waiting he was offered a seat inside the door. He looked so tired.
Where I live the vaccine centre is a local health centre ( not my GP) but easier to get to (with a car) than the original virus test sites - which were up to 50 miles away - not good if you're feeling ill.

V3ra, great story, I imagine that happened all over the country.

We accompanied my Dad (89) when he had his vaccination in January.
He had to go in one minute before his appointment time and was out again sixteen minutes later.
It was all for people over 80 and there was a really great atmosphere.
One chap on two crutches came out of the building, stood still, raised both his crutches to the sky and cheered! We all applauded ?

I am nervous of going on any public transport or in a taxi but I am fortunate to have a car. I’ve not been invited for a Covid jab yet nanna8 as I am not yet in the age group being vaccinated but I hope next month.
I hope you get yours soon too.
Once we are all vaccinated the spread of Covid has to slow down. Doesn’t it?

I hope they do the same here. Public transport is not so good here unless the place is near a railway station. It isn’t, unfortunately. I know people can take taxis but they are very,very expensive.

I know what you mean nanna about having to travel to a vaccination hub, unless you can drive or have a partner who can. I was worrying about this as I didn’t really wanted to venture on public transport. Luckily the vaccine has now been rolled out to GPs surgeries and I’m happy and grateful to have been able to walk there to get my first!

We drove 4 miles to the local Football Stadium. Felt like a trip out after our incarceration ?

Of course they are Bluebelle! We have Chairman Dan in charge down here. Think China.

Oops, flu vac!

i am incredibly grateful that we are us and not you and that people here do as they are told when it is for the benefit of all
Crikey that’s a bit sanctimonious, so all Australians are the model of obedience ??

Will be a while for us Nanna8. They hve to get it all organised first and i suspect it will be via our GPs just like the fly vac.

I think maybe we’re all a bit sensitive nanna8.
It’s been pretty tough and, as you see, we are all mightily grateful to have the jab available to us no matter how far we have to travel.
As it happens, it’s now going so well that we hope to have our adult population vaccinated by late summer.
Hopefully we’ll be sharing with poorer countries too. None of us will be safe until we’re all safe.
Hope you get your jab soon

Geez there’s some strange people around. Now I remember .

Did I moan suziewoozie? I am incredibly grateful that we are us and not you and that people here do as they are told when it is for the benefit of all. It is hard to get to the vaccine places if you don’t drive. Fine for me, I do drive, but not everyone does. It is about 20 kms away which is ok but we won’t get it for a good few months yet.

The logic of the centre I was sent to still eludes me. A (small) village hall in a small village, with very little parking close by, about 100 yards from a set of traffic lights on a busy through route.

You were not allowed to turn across the traffic into the car park so as this was necessary at our first approach we had to drive several miles past it to find a convenient point to turn the car round and approach it from the immediately adjacent side of the road.

We needed to park in the hall car park, not a further one, as DH was just out of hospital and needed a wheelchair, so first we had to approach the village hall from the right direction so we could explain we needed to be in the hall carpark, we were then advised to come back in about 5 minutes when a space would be available, so we drove past the car park and down the road a couple of miles to a convenient roundabout. This meant we were now approaching the village hall from the wrong direction so had to drive two miles beyond the car park, turn round and come back. I estimate we drove 8 miles between first arriving at the village hall and actually getting into the car park.

We live about 7-8 miles from said village so I can only assume that it was the local hub. With every village hall within reach empty and unused, many with much bigger and more accessible car parks, why this one was chosen I have no idea.

Bet you wish you never asked Nanna! Hope I’ll be allowed to come back to your amazing country one day to visit my far away family!

Incidentally nanna8 no one can just go to a GP. All vaccinations are administered in a vaccine hub.

I agree with others, anyone offered a vaccine, wherever they are, should be pleased and grateful. For the record, my husband and I were offered a choice of three vaccination centres. We chose the one nearest our home, which is based in a large health centre. Several GP practices have cooperated to provide the vaccine from that health centre. All the centres offered were easy to travel to, but getting the vaccine a five minute drive from our home was a bonus.
If necessary, I would have driven fifty miles to get the vaccine.

Read this OP about countries with precious little chance of traipsing any where

www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4809