Whitey Grandad

But are the kids going to come out looking like Bill Gates or even worse... Donald Trump!

If it affected my fertility it would be a bloody miracle! Hopefully it might even replace those blue pills. What makes you think that it would make you infertile? Hundreds of millions of doses have been administered so far and if there were any serious side effects I'm sure some would have shown up by now. I can understand a reluctance and uncertainty but why just not admit to being scared of it? You can always find a reason not to do anything if you don't want to.

Or gross misconduct. Letting in a few goals doesn't count.

A nominee for a Darwin Award.

Slightly less than two years because you have to allow for a notice period.

In Australia they are so desperate to get more vaccinated that they have changed advice and recommend Astra Zeneca for all adults. https://bbcgossip.com/australia/all-adults-in-sydney-recommended-to-get-the-astrazeneca-vaccine/?amp=1

Nothing to work out. Your sample of acquaintances is very small and meaningless in the grand scheme of things. Presumably you've just paid for a renewal and are seeking a cancellation before ever going to a game.

Being vaccinated protects me quite well. It’s all the unvaccinated who are at risk. If someone is not vaccinated they are a potential danger to that part of society who is also not vaccinated and to some extent to the vaccinated too. If an unvaccinated sits amongst a thousand vaccinated then he is not probably not going to infect anybody. But if he sits amongst a thousand unvaccinated and one vaccinated then he has the potential to prolong the spread of the virus and cause harm to some of those he infects, and the one who is unvaccinated can feel somewhat smug. Anyone who chooses not to get vaccinated is riding on the backs of all those who have chosen to get jabbed. It’s his privilege, but he shouldn’t be surprised if the vaccinated majority elect to impose restrictions on him. Personally I feel that anyone who doesn’t get jabbed is a mug. I have just had a look at my immunisation record and it’s quite a long list including polio, tetanus, diphtheria, Hepatitis A, pneumonia, multiple influenza, yellow fever, typhoid, shingles and some I can’t remember. The only one I had to pay for was yellow fever and we are fortunate to live in a country where healthcare is mostly free to access. I had repeated tetanus jabs when I used to play football. Catching tetanus and dying from it would be a stupid way to go.

But it reduces the likelihood of either. By quite a lot.

He’s on a contract so we can’t just let him go. Whilst we’re paying him we ought to use him in some way or another.

I’m not worried about him infecting me, but if I’m in a restaurant with multiple members of my family I wouldn’t want him sitting anywhere near us.

I didn’t see anything about asymptomatic transmission in that report, only about how effective they assumed the vaccine to be about infection or hospitalisation. Asymptomatic transmission could only occur through someone who had no symptoms but yet had caught and developed the disease. Well, yes, of course they’re discriminatory, they’re supposed to be. All systems will have their flaws and testing is possible less definitive than knowing that someone has been vaccinated some time ago. There’s no point arguing over modest differences in effectiveness but other reports show that all vaccines are well worth having. https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/pfizer-vaccine-is-88-effective-against-delta-covid-variant-u-k-study-finds-1.10018272 https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2021/07/21/study-finds-pfizer-and-astrazeneca-vaccines-effective-against-the-delta-variant---as-long-as-you-get-both-doses/?sh=5f6192c6480b

Thanks for the update, but that’s not the same thing as asymptomatic transmission.

Children are much less likely to pass on the infection for the same reason that they are less affected by it. I have some sympathy for the general point that allowance should be made for those who have not had a chance to get vaccinated or who cannot. Possibly by means of a negative test although the lateral flow tests that the UK uses are not intended to be used as a green light.

As an unvaccinated potential carrier he is a much bigger danger than someone who has been vaccinated. You might argue that he is much more of a danger to other unvaccinated people like himself than he is to those who have seen sense. Asymptomatic transmission by vaccinated people is so small as to be negligible. I don’t know where you get your figure of 60% from.

You are a danger to society whether you like it or not. Nobody is forcing you to get vaccinated. Just don’t expect to go freely amongst the rest of the world if they don’t want you to.

So, less than 0.5% of the population and you think this is significant?

But they encourage people to get vaccinated. And they do help a lotto reduce the spread too.

It’s not normally paid over as a taxable salary these days. Much of it goes as ‘image rights’ and would therefore be paid to some separate company.

I know. I couldn’t find the right emoji .

I would put that the other way around.

That’s a pity. I was looking forward to that I see Ralph’s rotating the goalkeepers again 🥺

If they ever saw the size of needle that you need to microchip a dog then these idiotic rumours would soon stop. I blame science fiction film writers myself. Besides, who needs microchips when Apple and Google already know every step of your life anyway?

That seems pretty definitive. One more off the books should allow some room for some coming in.

I don’t think that ethics entered the mind of these youngsters who choose not to have a vaccine. It seems to me to be a self-centred choice, but that is there prerogative.