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X : How's the vaccination going?
Me : Postcode lottery? I suspect it depends upon where you live in UK. My area is poor.
X : ?
Me : I live on Romney Marsh. We have Lydd airport as our vacinnation centre. It started ... yesterday ... no pharmacy delivery, no public transport ...
Me : Postcode lottery? I suspect it depends upon where you live in UK. My area is poor.
X : ?
Me : I live on Romney Marsh. We have Lydd airport as our vacinnation centre. It started ... yesterday ... no pharmacy delivery, no public transport ...
... my village - Burmarsh (300 odd souls) - along with having terrible internet connections has a bus service, once per week. Yes, one bus per week. Of course, there's no public bus stop at Lydd Airport ...
... in my wide network, I only know one person who has been vaccinated (well, it's happening tomorrow) but they knew a volunteer who said they had space and then badgered their local GP ...
X : I thought the army was organising this?
Me : Lol. As far I'm aware it's Invicta Health, it should be the NHS. Could be worse, it could have been Group 4 and Dido Harding ....
Me : Lol. As far I'm aware it's Invicta Health, it should be the NHS. Could be worse, it could have been Group 4 and Dido Harding ....
... talking with friends, no-one knows any of the care homes have been vaccinated. Apparently the local rumour is you can bypass the mess by SwiftQueue appointment ...
X : What about doctors surgeries?
Me : Lol. Not through surgeries or pharmacists ... we have this vaccination centre. As far as I know, we are far behind.
Me : Lol. Not through surgeries or pharmacists ... we have this vaccination centre. As far as I know, we are far behind.
I talk to a lot of people who are getting angry and confused - https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2021-01-20/lydd-airport-opens-as-new-vaccination-centre-amid-concerns-about-speed-and-efficiency-in-county - this isn't a pop at @MattHancock, the person who sould be all over this is our local MP @DamianCollins.
... I can only judge the effort from what I see at the local level. It's why I don't believe the Gov targets will be reached anymore than Boris' promises of all fibre broadband by 2025. We will get there eventually but this is going to take time.
X : Swiftqueue?
Me : That's the local rumour, a bit like https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/health/swiftqueue-how-did-booking-site-allow-covid-vaccination-queue-jumping-non-priority-groups-3108610 ... what the truth is, well ... there's a lot of confusion.
Me : That's the local rumour, a bit like https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/health/swiftqueue-how-did-booking-site-allow-covid-vaccination-queue-jumping-non-priority-groups-3108610 ... what the truth is, well ... there's a lot of confusion.
X : Thoughts on reducing lockdown by Spring?
Me : Sending the kids back to school? Seems like madness. Gov is trying and they're talking about vaccinating "the four priority groups" by mid-February but ... I don't believe that'll happen and I don't believe it's enough anyway.
Me : Sending the kids back to school? Seems like madness. Gov is trying and they're talking about vaccinating "the four priority groups" by mid-February but ... I don't believe that'll happen and I don't believe it's enough anyway.
... I'm the last of the nine priority groups, I don't expect to get vaccinated before Sept and then there's another 35M to go. So when you say Spring, if you are talking Spring 2022 then fine.
This Spring? No. Unless your plan is another wave, I wouldn't.
This Spring? No. Unless your plan is another wave, I wouldn't.
X : Isn't UK doing well?
Me : From today - "Questions are being raised about the efficiency of the coronavirus vaccination programme in Kent after reports of towns yet to inoculate their first residents" - https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2021-01-20/lydd-airport-opens-as-new-vaccination-centre-amid-concerns-about-speed-and-efficiency-in-county ... I live in the heart of that in the marsh.
Me : From today - "Questions are being raised about the efficiency of the coronavirus vaccination programme in Kent after reports of towns yet to inoculate their first residents" - https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2021-01-20/lydd-airport-opens-as-new-vaccination-centre-amid-concerns-about-speed-and-efficiency-in-county ... I live in the heart of that in the marsh.
... so yes, it depends upon where you live in the UK.
You wan't to come down my neck of the marsh, actually, no you don't ... even in a mask.
You wan't to come down my neck of the marsh, actually, no you don't ... even in a mask.
X : What do you think is going wrong?
Me : People are trying, I have no doubt. It's just the expectations are too much and the communication is poor.
Me : People are trying, I have no doubt. It's just the expectations are too much and the communication is poor.
X : What's happening with Map Camp this year?
Me : I'll start planning soon, it'll be in Oct time.
X : Virtual?
Me : Of course.
Me : I'll start planning soon, it'll be in Oct time.
X : Virtual?
Me : Of course.
X : Is there a lot of resistance to vaccination?
Me : Not that I'm aware of. There is just little vaccine being offered. Of course the rumours are going through the roof fuelled by the vacuum of information i.e. https://twitter.com/BBCRadioKent/status/1352356999103700993
Me : Not that I'm aware of. There is just little vaccine being offered. Of course the rumours are going through the roof fuelled by the vacuum of information i.e. https://twitter.com/BBCRadioKent/status/1352356999103700993
They are not kidding when they talk about - Kent vaccine "deserts" as many over 80s continue to isolate - I literaly know one person in all my networks around here who is getting vaccinated - https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2021-01-21/kent-vaccine-deserts-as-many-over-80s-continue-to-isolate-and-wait-for-their-covid-19-vaccine
What you also need to know is that in my neck of the marsh, along with "vaccine deserts" and "backdoors" for some, it was only two weeks ago that we had the highest death rates in the country - https://www.kentonline.co.uk/folkestone/news/this-area-in-kent-is-now-recording-the-highest-death-rate-in-the-uk-240196/ ... you can understand why people are getting angry.
Anyway, as I said I'm not having a pop at @MattHancock but our local MP @DamianCollins (Mr "jobless youths should work for less than minimum wage") who at DCMS was responsible for broadband, not exactly popular in my mind - well, he needs to get a handle on this.
These tales of entire towns of 30K people with not one single person over 80 being vaccinated are commonplace - https://twitter.com/TheShitWind/status/1352325677748539396 ... there needs to be a lot more transparency of information. The rumours are flying.
and that's the problem, neatly summed up by "The chaos and confusion surrounding the Kent coronavirus vaccination rollout" - https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/chaos-confusion-surrounding-kent-coronavirus-4906194
