Attempting to blame it all on the new variant doesn't cut it for me.
As I understand it there is a quite significant issue with uptake in minority groups due to long standing healthcare inequalities and distrust of govt.
Quote from: spidermonkey09 on January 23, 2021, 10:26:36 pmAs I understand it there is a quite significant issue with uptake in minority groups due to long standing healthcare inequalities and distrust of govt. There's also been some nasty shit with anti-vaxxer campaigns targeting ethnic minority communities, building off that existing distrust and alienation: https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7mpkm/anti-vaxxers-are-targeting-ethnic-minority-communities-with-wild-conspiracy-theoriesSome impressive stuff from folks organizing in response, though:https://twitter.com/adilray/status/1353677950550495243https://takethecovid19vaccine.com/ (info in SO MANY languages)East London Mosque coming out swinging: https://twitter.com/elondonmosque/status/1352696152773242881
I suspect thats fine in principle, but hard to do in reality.
Also found out this morning that my mum's been invited for hers but hasn't taken it up. She's always tried to avoid taking unneccessary medication (pain relief, antibiotics etc) which is fair enough, but I didn't expect this. Her reasoning is a general suspicion of the Govt and by extension anything they've been involved with. Hoping I can persuade her otherwise.
Anything specific about governments/ this government? Do you know of any friends or peers of her who have had the jab?
Having run events (not vaccinations!!) based on being full with reserve lists - I’m just saying it’s not as simple as it might seem. People are rarely predictable!! So I’ve some sympathy for those organising this!
In Israel I believe they ran a system where anyone without an appointment could hang around in the hope that there'd be a spare jab at the end of the day. Something like this could work; it's no more optimal than giving it to passing NHS staff, but it does have the advantage that you won't eventually run out of people to offer it to.
Had a text this morning inviting me to book my vaccination. Very slick booking process and lots of available slots for Saturday morning at a health centre 10mins from my house. Can't fault it
I hope this is genuine, but as a general word of warning, there is a scam text going around at the moment inviting people for vaccinations
Several responses to your post Stabbsy. The first is that using spare vaccines at vaccine centre to NHS staff or whoever is there by chance does not mean giving it to staff in hospitals treating COVID patients. As more people get vaccinated it increasingly means whoever is around and not vaccinated.
In time, it is gets more and more like my suggestion, except the pool of potential recipients will get so small vaccine is wasted.
Second, you missed my point that it would be fine, no preferable, to vaccinate NHS staff as a priority, but you need a backup system in place, so why not run a system like the one Ive described.