Every day the vaccine rolls out

[GUNBOAT]

There are also electricians joiners plumbers etc who have to enter peoples home business's hospitals etc to do work.Who is going to say a teacher should be vaccined before any of them?Think every person would have to fill in a form to say why they should jump the queue which would only lead to longer waits.The way they are doing it is probably the fairest but not perfect people like me getting it before others who are at more risk through there work or fitness etc is not Ideal but think they have went for best they can to safe those most in danger of death.

Good post and its correct the vaccine rollout would be severely disrupted with the unions fighting like phuck about whose workers were more important to the country.
You would then get the Tories and their press slagging off the FM and blaming her for the vaccination programme going tits up,FACT.

[offshore_arab83]

To be fair they could and should have looked at the vaccine roll oot months ago and had something in place

[GUNBOAT]

To be fair they could and should have looked at the vaccine roll oot months ago and had something in place

They did and it was those dying in care homes who were prioritised first in Scotland followed by all the age groups and those on the shielding list etc.

[Chick A Saw]

To be fair they could and should have looked at the vaccine roll oot months ago and had something in place

There is still time for slight changes to be considered, and there is a public desire to get all of those we have mentioned vaccinated, including your good self, and i dont see it as a big job to gather the names from companies, organizations and unions to create a list in advance.

With Cohort 6-9 to be completed by mid-April, the time is there to prepare for all public facing people to get their place on the list, and until then, given priority in the name of reducing waste!

[tHeArAb]

I have always said that bus and especially taxi drivers were at much higher risk than teachers and it would be interesting to see the death rates between these groups of workers.
Its possible i'm way off the mark but i think many more drivers than teachers have contracted the virus in their working environment,i would also say that factory,call centre and other office workers were also at a higher risk than those in the teaching profession.

Mortality rate for men & women in England & Wales. Taxi drivers in another article sit at 101 with bus drivers at 70.

[Chick A Saw]

I dont think those figures tell the full story when teachers and assistants were largely removed from risk throughout and after the first wave.

I repeat 2 things ive mentioned recently.

Infections started rising once schools and colleges returned in August/September.
The current wave in Scotland peaked about 2 weeks after schools closed and started dropping at a significant rate thereafter!

[GUNBOAT]

Mortality rate for men & women in England & Wales. Taxi drivers in another article sit at 101 with bus drivers at 70.

So much for the hospitality bosses who are never off Radio Scotland saying they have virtually no cases in restaurant's etc.

[GUNBOAT]

I dont think those figures tell the full story when teachers and assistants were largely removed from risk throughout and after the first wave.

I repeat 2 things ive mentioned recently.

Infections started rising once schools and colleges returned in August/September.
The current wave in Scotland peaked about 2 weeks after schools closed and started dropping at a significant rate thereafter!

Then taxi and bus drivers can argue the same point as their trade has fallen off a cliff with the pandemic.

[GUNBOAT]

Here's a question for anyone,when the 1st lockdown happened last March and before Rishi brought in the furlough etc did teachers remain on full pay?.
I know millions of us eventually got the self employment grant and millions more got nothing but if i remember correctly there was a long delay in the initial payment being made.
The reason i ask is i remember a teacher being interviewed on Radio Scotland who like myself was on the shielding list and remained on full pay,i just wondered what happened to other staff who were unable to work in schools.

[TerryTheTerror]

Then taxi and bus drivers can argue the same point as their trade has fallen off a cliff with the pandemic.

Exactly. Anyway what we do know is that older you are, or if you have underlying health conditions, the worse this virus affects you, it really is that simple and that is the way the vaccine should be distributed.