O/T:- ⚠️Impressed with the leadership [The UK Party Politics Thread]

[Elite_Pie]

I assume I'm older than you as I've had 5. Are you sure you've not miscounted though?

Jan 21 initial
Apr 21 2nd dose
Oct 21 Autumn Booster
Sep 22 Autumn Booster
May 23 Spring Booster

Yep, I must have had 4 rather than 3.

If I grow an extra finger I'll have to move to Mansfield so people don't stare at me.

[countygump]

Yep, I must have had 4 rather than 3.

If I grow an extra finger I'll have to move to Mansfield so people don't stare at me.

Same for me. I think the Spring one this year was only for over 75's and peeps with a compromised immunity system and apparently there was a lower than expected uptake for it @ the 50% mark. Not really a conspiracy theorist myself as far as vaccines go, but one thing I've always found interesting is why the only Pharma firm that did a vaccine at cost, (AstraZeneca), quickly had it rubbished off the market by all of it's competitors? Conspiracy, or just a chit vaccine?

[upthemaggies]

Same for me. I think the Spring one this year was only for over 75's and peeps with a compromised immunity system and apparently there was a lower than expected uptake for it @ the 50% mark. Not really a conspiracy theorist myself as far as vaccines go, but one thing I've always found interesting is why the only Pharma firm that did a vaccine at cost, (AstraZeneca), quickly had it rubbished off the market by all of it's competitors? Conspiracy, or just a chit vaccine?

First thing that came up with my google search was from Time Magazine from March 2022 with this passage highlighted.

If the blood clotting concerns were not enough, a new study shows the AstraZeneca vaccine was not effective in protecting people from a variant of the COVID-19 virus that originated in South Africa and is slowly gaining ground elsewhere.

Implying there were no clotting concerns with Pfiza and that Pfiza protected people from Omicron.


Next is this
https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsu...-covid-vaccine

Anybody here have the AZ?

[countygump]

Anybody here have the AZ?

First one I had was AZ.

[upthemaggies]

First one I had was AZ.

Can't remember what the mechanism was without looking it up, but AZ wasn't MRNA, so probably won't carry the same long term risks if you didn't have a bad reaction in the weeks after having it.

The thing we forget now is that people were not considered vaccinated until three weeks or so after they'd had their first shot, so anybody hospitalised post shot in that time frame and needing ICU or dying would have been counted as unvaxxed.

Edit: And when was it that they recommended reducing the cycles for the PCR test, which inevitably brought down the number of cases.

[countygump]

Can't remember what the mechanism was without looking it up, but AZ wasn't MRNA, so probably won't carry the same long term risks if you didn't have a bad reaction in the weeks after having it.

The thing we forget now is that people were not considered vaccinated until three weeks or so after they'd had their first shot, so anybody hospitalised post shot in that time frame and needing ICU or dying would have been counted as unvaxxed.

Yebbutt, the other three I had were all pfizer.