Vince Green

Hi Steve how are you and your wife feeling ? Pound is rising against both the dollar and the euro at the moment so hold off for now

Pay tax? Live in the UK?

GPs get paid a fixed amount for any extra services they provide outside their contract. For the flu jab it was £15 a time

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Yes thats correct about supermarkets but its still an assumption. Its the place where the "average" person comes into contact with the largest number of other people and most often

good news, get your sleeves rolled up folks

My doctor is jabbing away like mad but apparently a lot are holding back for the Oxford vaccine because it will be easier to roll out. The doctors get paid £15 per jab so £30 per patient. A nice little earner if they can do 1000 a day so they want the quicker vaccine

Well there you have it, straight from the horse's mouth

Even the couple from Ponty in that report are stretching the regulations quite a bit. They are supposed to exercise 'locally' Whats Pontypridd to the falls? Must be 25 miles?

They are not working because too many people are not following the rules. Nobody catches it unless somebody gives it to them. exactly, same in Cornwall.

I suspect a lot of places are holding back for the Oxford vaccine because it will be a lot easier to store and administer. Considering the numbers involved they are going to have to really crack on to get through all the people they have to.

The thing about the cannelure generally speaking (if its a reputable manufacturer) is that its a good indication of where the manufacturer thinks you should be seatiing to. You dont have to agree of course

This is really scary, and its the British Medical Journal Long covid: Damage to multiple organs presents in young, low risk patients | The BMJ

I don't think it will be the airlines making the decisions, it will be the destination countries

The airlines are already saying we will need proof of vaccination to fly to a lot of destinations, and if we have got any ruddy sense we should insist on it for people coming here too.

Apparently they give you a card to say you have had the jab and it has the date(s) stamped on it. This will be your "Covid Passport"

Yes but you are only talking about deaths, long covid and permanent disability figures are yet unknown. My Stepdaughter says most of the really serious covid patients in her hospital are much younger than the sort of ages you are quoting, hopefully they will live. Any disease that puts you in hospital on a ventilator and leaves you with kidney failure and damaged lungs for life, or having to lose your legs through blood clots is surely best avoided?. Childhood strokes are up 600% (American figures) thought to be caused by blood clots in otherwise asymptomatic kids. What price a brain damaged kid? Its not about who lives and who dies. thats far too simplistic. The real damage is to the living. Look at Kate Garroway's husband. He survived but nobody is calling him lucky. He's little more than a vegetable. My ex wife's cousin (in her early 40s) got it weeks ago and "recovered" after a week in hospital but she still lies in bed all day at home too weak to go anywhere and can't eat. Its not like its just a bad cough for a few days and its over. For some people, the lucky ones it is Many of the so called underlying health issues are not in themselves life threatening let alone life limiting. The idea that people were on the way out anyway and the virus just brought on the inevitable by a few weeks is just wrong. Many people have blood pressure, diabetes, or have survived cancer. Those are not death sentences anymore.

Well you got that one wrong didn't you? on both counts as it happens

My stepdaughter and her boyfriend have both had theirs. My friend Bill and his wife got theirs and my mother has had a letter.

We are in tier 4 My friend lives alone, self isolating, opposite an old couple 80 and 81 who have been having visitors Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day. Its all their family and grandchildren bringing gifts. A lot of families like that I would imagine.

I was a bit worried that we hadn't heard from Steve today so I sent him a text to which he replied He is finding it hard going, still having problems, but was able to talk by text.

I agree but Formula E doesn't have the Va Va Voom of formula 1 Will it draw the same sponsorship and TV interest?

I would be interested to know how you get on with that, my dentist is suggesting implants

We think F1 is about cars and racing but actually its about advertising and sponsorship. If the big fish leave the smaller fish wont attract the same level of sponsorship and the money won't be there for all the cutting edge stuff and the smaller teams wont have the technical resources to move things forward.

Yes and they are being offered astronomical amounts of money which is causing resentment among the regular staff.