Covid - news and views

True and they have opened quite a few more since 2019.👍

Well, as I quoted your post "+1👍🏻. Folk seem to be well on board, we are just not dumb enough to fight the lifesaver👏🏻👏🏻" and questioned it by saying "Really" and showing a picture of the Rangers Fans I thought that you would have worked it out. No matter and can we leave it at that please
 

Ok, I’ve not got the interest to joust with the minutiae of your imagination ET-I’m done👍🏻🙂.

PS-next time you goof the best thing is just to move on👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻

My impression is more than a few.  I'm pleased to say the regular emails I get suggest many more.  

Now why do i expect that sort of answer to my post? when it suits to not  "understand?"

I have been known to talk to myself, but not on this occasion!

My point was that as the vaccine protects the person who has had it, and possibly no one else, how will knowing you have had it be of an advantage other than to limit the possible impact on a countries health service.

As you said, and as explained to me by hospital doctor, the vaccine does not stop you catching covid but will reduce the severity of symptoms and, as the viral load is lower, may help to reduce transmission.

You do seem to be answering your own question A&J

Let me see? 

I can have the OAZ vaccine and run the risk of having a blood clot or I can decide not to have it and run the risk of catching Covid.

There was a fact given out at our Welsh Covid Update today which stood out for me. There had been 40 blood clot cases reported in the first 17,000,000 doses of vaccine given to the date the report was issued. So a (approximate) 0.0000002% chance of having a blood clot and this became even lower if I hadn't shown any previous signs of having a blood clot plus there was no Causal link to the vaccine and blood clotting.

The Welsh Minister for Health did also say that Covid patients are more likely to suffer blood clots than those who are Covid free. He was quoting Public Health Wales data.

I wonder whether those EC countries refusing to sanction this use understand that they may well be condemning larger numbers of their  population to Covid death or serious long term problems rather than risk the lives of a very small minority of them. Why not just issue guidelines for those that suffer blood clots?

I had a look at my OH's Ibuprofen list of side effects and they make for grim reading but the extremely serious ones are very very rare. The tablet is sold in every Supermarket and Pharmacy in large quantities. You wouldn't take any medication if you only concentrated on the worst that could happen.

It's risk management.

There is now good emerging evidence that when you have the vaccination and it has become effective (about three weeks in) you are about 30% less likely to pass on the virus it should you catch it.  

I also thought I heard that it seems to cut down catching the virus. Can't remember the percentage figure reported and can't find it either but your 30% figure was mentioned as well.