Is This Selfish Queue Jumping?

JohnM20 replied on 29/01/2021 09:32

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Posted on 29/01/2021 09:32

Yesterday an acquaintance forwarded to me a link to the NHS booking system for the Covid jab telling me that she had booked her two appointments. Her daughter, who appears to have both condoned and encouraged her mother, phoned me last night to ask if I had now booked my place. I queried with her when her mother had received her invitation letter as I hadn't had mine yet to which she replied that she hadn't had one, it was a neighbour of hers who had forwarded the link to her so she booked her place telling me that there were lots of appointments available.

Commenting to her that I didn't think it was right she said that as her mother was in the relevant age group, (she is 73) it was permissible to book whenever she wanted to. This is the first and only time I have heard this claim. I clicked on the link out of curiosity and it quite clearly states "Do not use this link until you have had an invitation" (or similar words).

Is it me being prepared to wait my turn (I'm 74) or is she right in what she has done?

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Cornersteady replied on 29/01/2021 13:55

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Posted on 29/01/2021 13:44 by

No idea why my previous post was removed.

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Neither have I. I was going to restore it but it now seems to have disappeared altogether.

Posted on 29/01/2021 13:55

Mod: Are all posts removed due to the same problem?

Cornersteady replied on 29/01/2021 13:57

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Posted on 29/01/2021 12:31 by

I have little doubt that it can be achieved.

Posted on 29/01/2021 13:57

I wish I could remember what I posted?

LLM replied on 29/01/2021 13:57

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Posted on 29/01/2021 13:48 by moulesy
Content has been removed.

Posted on 29/01/2021 13:57

Whatever the reason a person may have to use another centre is irrelevant to the system. Up here or 350 miles south makes no difference.

JillwithaJay replied on 29/01/2021 13:59

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Posted on 29/01/2021 13:59

Interesting that many are receiving text messages.

What happens to those, perhaps of the older generation, who don't use a mobile phone? I asked my GP's practice to take my mobile phone number off their records because I was being bombarded with messages I didn't need or want.

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Posted on 29/01/2021 13:57 by Cornersteady

I wish I could remember what I posted?

Posted on 29/01/2021 14:00

Somebody had posted that you could not pay to queue jump.

I replied that I have little doubt that it can be achieved.

LLM replied on 29/01/2021 14:01

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Posted on 29/01/2021 13:54 by Cornersteady

It is a sad fact of CT that for some posters when someone replies to their post offering a different viewpoint, the first line of defence/attack is to say they are nit picking or picking their post apart. Why not just argue your case rationally without such phrases?

M and others have a made a good point. Surely get your vaccinations done as quickly as possible. Delay means you're playing with someone's else life.

Posted on 29/01/2021 14:01

Who said anything about delay?

peedee replied on 29/01/2021 14:05

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Posted on 29/01/2021 13:44 by

No idea why my previous post was removed.

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Neither have I so I've restored it.

Posted on 29/01/2021 14:05

Far too much content is removed as well as threads being closed without any warning.

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LLM replied on 29/01/2021 14:07

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Posted on 29/01/2021 13:59 by JillwithaJay

Interesting that many are receiving text messages.

What happens to those, perhaps of the older generation, who don't use a mobile phone? I asked my GP's practice to take my mobile phone number off their records because I was being bombarded with messages I didn't need or want.

Posted on 29/01/2021 14:07

You will get a letter.