Every day the vaccine rolls out

[TerryTheTerror]

You try calling a taxi driver from Strathclyde a Weedgie and see what response you get.

My mate made the mistake of saying to one of them , "it's ok for you weedgies, you get gigs every night in ump**** places , but we have to travel miles , and usually stay over to get a decent one"

The guy blew an absolute fuse... he said "we may sound like them to you guys, but trust me... we hate them more than you lot do!!!

It's an odd truth, the only folk who don't know what weegies are are weegies.

[tHeArAb]

Cohort 8 - potentially essential workers Chick or nae chance of that? Will it still go on age you reckon?

Just confirmed the next phase will be working through the age groups. No priority for essential workers.

https://www.itv.com/news/2021-02-26/...e-you-affected

[TerryTheTerror]

Just confirmed the next phase will be working through the age groups. No priority for essential workers.

https://www.itv.com/news/2021-02-26/...e-you-affected

I can't really understand the logic of the teaching unions wanting staff prioritised for vaccination. It's already been proven they are no more likely to contract the virus compared to the general population.

[BudMill90]

I can't really understand the logic of the teaching unions wanting staff prioritised for vaccination. It's already been proven they are no more likely to contract the virus compared to the general population.

Has that been proven? Sitting in a classroom with 30 kids who are mixing with hundreds of other kids daily... I'd probably say Teachers are certainly at a higher risk of contracting the virus compared to the general population. I felt that they should have been the next in line to receive it to be honest.

[offshore_arab83]

Has that been proven? Sitting in a classroom with 30 kids who are mixing with hundreds of other kids daily... I'd probably say Teachers are certainly at a higher risk of contracting the virus compared to the general population. I felt that they should have been the next in line to receive it to be honest.

I would agree with that bud, especially when IMO the issue started up again with schools, colleges and uni's

[Chick A Saw]

I can't really understand the logic of the teaching unions wanting staff prioritised for vaccination. It's already been proven they are no more likely to contract the virus compared to the general population.

Sorry TTT, you cannot use the information in that link to prove a case for denying teachers a vaccine!

Ask a few questions and you might soon realise that teachers were removed from most if the risk between March to August last year.
Not all schools were open,
Groups of schools were arranged into hubs, you were lucky there was 20 kids of essential workers in each hub,
ALL the teachers link to the hub were on a rota for attending hubs or online support done at their school or home,
Teachers and staff who were at risk were working from home and isolating.

Im sure if i wanted to, i could go on, but that is surely enough to say that the figures presented in the link are not worth the data, because i doubt they considered the circumstances surrounding them!

[offshore_arab83]

Just confirmed the next phase will be working through the age groups. No priority for essential workers.

https://www.itv.com/news/2021-02-26/...e-you-affected

cheers mate!

[TerryTheTerror]

Has that been proven? Sitting in a classroom with 30 kids who are mixing with hundreds of other kids daily... I'd probably say Teachers are certainly at a higher risk of contracting the virus compared to the general population. I felt that they should have been the next in line to receive it to be honest.

Figures from the ONS have been examined...

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55795608

[tHeArAb]

Figures from the ONS have been examined...

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55795608

Yeah, it's not that they are at higher risk of contracting the virus, its that they are not at a higher risk of dying from it.

[BudMill90]

Yeah, it's not that they are at higher risk of contracting the virus, its that they are not at a higher risk of dying from it.

I wouldn't doubt the death statistic. But surely it's all about who they go on to pass it on to. What if they catch it out of school? Then pass on to one or two kids. Then those kids to their friends. Their parents. etc etc.