Originally posted by jeallen01 From what I have seen, read & heard, getting a decent "reaction" to a vaccine jab means that your body's immune system has "noticed it" - and that is "good" because it then begins to generate the antibodies required to fight the real COVID virus.
I think I reported earlier that we got our 1st doses of the Pfizer-Biontec vaccine about 4-5 weeks ago and will have to wait another 6 weeks or so before the 2nd ones.
Nevertheless the NHS & our local council seem to have got their "knickers in a twist" as follows:Last Friday, I got an NHS email to tell me that I have now been classed as a "vulnerable" person, then the same in a letter on Saturday - and now the same again in an email today from the council!
That info told me that I should be "shielding", but much as that may be "all well and good" in itself, WHY has it taken them NEARLY a year to decide to tell me this as nobody had specifically stated that before last week!
Also, my wife is 72 and a Type 1 diabetic with asthma - but she has NEVER received that recommendation since the pandemic began!
OTOH, this isn't going to actually make much, if any, difference to how we "operate" and go about our lives - which has been "pretty much shielding" since mid March last year, apart from a few carefully planned and executed shopping and "days out" expeditions, and my twice-weekly outdoor "click & collect" trips for the weekly shopping at local supermarkets.
Simply put, we managed to avoid the virus for the 9+ months before our 1st jabs and the few weeks since then - and so now, with the rapidly falling infection & hospitalization rates and assuming we continue to take the same precautions in the foreseeable future, we consider that we should still be "reasonably safe" to carry on as before (unless of course, we did decide to fully stay indoors at home, go even more stir-crazy and then strangle one-another!
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