2023 Vaccination Timetable and Charges

My neighbour, a MT himself, went down with it last week. It’s still about.

But it might keep me alive if I do.

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I sincerely hope the date is flexible… from what I’ve been reading, the idea is vaccination twice a year (Spring/Autumn) every 6 months… which will surely need to be a rolling-date for many…

Our jabs are due in June and making us wait until the autumn will leave us somewhat “exposed”… and that’s not good in my opinion… aaaargh.
EDIT: and I think the idea is to twin the Autumn Jab with the flu one… which is sometime in October/November… by which time our covid-cover will be zilch…

Very true… neighbours are distraught as their family in Paris went down with covid (despite being vaccinated) just a short while ago… hoping they’ll be well enough to be here for the 18 mai celebrations/holiday, but one of their number is still very poorly… so we’re all crossing fingers…
(incidentally, their ages range from 30 to 55)

You sound surprised as if being vaccinated stopped the spread of covid?

It will be around for a long long time just like the cold or flu.

Nope… simply surprised at the severity of the infection. This could well be because they are nearing the end of their 6 months and the vaccine is weakening … who knows…

Or it could be due to something else like metabolic health or in this whole family genetic pre disposition. Still plenty of covid sufferes around but not serious at all. Dont get me wrong take whatever you want but hailing the jab as something special that will protect you now that the more serious strains have passed by is a little far fetched. Want to stay healthy, get off sugar!

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As you say… there are plenty of covid sufferers around… and people are still dying.

Thankfully, the jab has helped keep numbers of severity/deaths down and that is what we are aiming for…( us Not becoming one of either of those numbers)

Our next door neighbours have just had COVID for either the 3rd or 4th time, first occasion being pre-vaccine availability. Natural infection doesn’t provide immunity.

In this case it caused a big scare, because her lungs developed nodules that looked very much like cancer, to the point where she wasn’t sure how much time was left. While I don’t have all the details, it seems this is another aspect of COVID infection for a small number of people, and she’s almost certainly not got lung cancer.

COVID isn’t going away, being vaccinated is likely to reduce severity of infection, but won’t protect completely.

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Absolutely but you are using the word “completely” when barely maybe more appropriate but more and more statistical data on increased mortality/ morbidity than usual and increases in autoimmune issues. Turning up your immune system every few months without actually having a disease does seem to be exasperating some conditions, its not normal, its not natural and its not in our history so the records will show how effective this really was.

A friends husband (oncology researcher) has cancer, he sadly cannot believe anything outside of his training even when given evidence from other studies on helping cancer treatment by diet. Such is his internal bias and he is dying.

It won’t protect barely - you are correct - it is likely to be better than that. My point was that whether you’ve been vaccinated or have had the natural infection, you will not have an absolute immunity and can still be infected. It’s also not surprising that the vaccine doesn’t offer an absolute protection since a natural infection doesn’t provide that degree of protection either.

Sorry to hear about your friends husband. If the ‘evidence from studies’ was peer reviewed and presented in journals then it’s a surprise he can’t take it on board, but if it’s via youtube then I completely understand his position and would take the same view myself.

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Due to who funds the research he will most likely be dead before that surfaces peer reviewed. Sadly “science” has been hijacked by those who stand to make huge profits from new drug treatments. However the process in which cancer can grow is mechanistically disrupted so if I were in his shoes I would be trying it for sure, peer reviewed or not. There are professors and doctors who demostrate at least the reasoning behind it. Science requires challenging what we believe or thought we believed but sadly money is all we really see in outcomes of research. Peer reviewed papers where the author comes to a conclusion that doesnt fit with the data because they cannot upset their future chances of research funding or careers is not science. Consider prof Rory Collins vs Aseem Malhotra, Collins received $200,000,000 to make claims on statins that the BMJ didnt hold up under scrutinity.

Off topic I know so I will go quiet for a while but if you want good health, get off sugar

Following on from @Corona 's points, I found this interesting. Over these last 3 years Dr Campbell has talked a lot of sense and has also had the courage to admit when he has got it wrong. I’m a great believer in the use of CBD oil. We are fortunate to have a local farm producing organic CBD products.

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My friend who just died from cancer did everything she could. No sugar, lots of alternative treatments (artemesia, mushrooms, nutritional evaluation), exercise, well being etc etc. It probably gained her 6 months to a year. But she still died.

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So sad but at least she tried.

It’s a tough one Jane, but we each walk our own path. I spent a year pouring complementary therapies into my brother - and watched as time after time something scuppered the treatment - like a doctor sweeping into my brother’s room at Atkinson Morley’s Hospital and his white coat catching the homeopathic remedies on the bedside table and scattering them all over the floor. And the time he was going to see a fantastic cranial osteopath and got food (or drug) poisoning and so cancelled the appointment and never remade it.
It was his time. And after he went, the cancer specialist at AM hospital said when they first saw him they expected him to last no more than three months. So we perhaps had nine more months than he might have had. Sometimes the healing process with cancer is in fact about preparing for death. It can be a benign way of going because (sometimes) it gives us time. Doesn’t (of course) make it easier for those of us watching the process and being left behind.

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As you can have COVID without symptoms, there’s no way of knowing if you’ve avoided it so far.

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And since I have had antibody tests to be sure I have mounted a response that also could be due to having had it. However, although it is very possible to have no symptoms this is less likely if one has comorbidities like I do.

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Latest news via our Pharmacy… and it’s as we thought…
Anyone whose Health Issues puts them at risk… can have the jab (even after 16th June) provided 6 months after the previous jab…
(although their Doc might have to issue a prescription/authorisation…)

For us, our 6 months is up on 16th June… we have certain Health Issues but our Doc prefers us to wait until the Autumn roll-out…
But he is watching the covid figures very closely and if they rise/cause him concern… he will arrange for us to have the jab asap.

Incidentally, at the Doc’s surgery… there’s a large sign telling everyone to wear masks… and we all were suitably disguised… :wink: