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The experts have mention on several occasions that they do not know if the vacines would prevent being infected , but are expecting it would not be so severe as the majority of those at this time without the vaccine, being infected needing hospital ICU or other treatments do at present time,

As even after being vacinated to still carry on as if you have not (i am not including the idiotic Nay sayers in fhis)

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well in the case of teachers, they estimate that for england you would have vaccinate 500k, and this could be done in 2 days, if i had to wait an extra 2 days to get my vaccine, lets do it

P.s. many NHS staff have been vaccinated purely by luck, e.g. at the end of the day if there are vaccines left over as a result of non shows NHS staff have been jumping in, good for them

I have no vested interest in anyone but myself and family, but regarding the police where would we be without law and order, they are thin on the ground now. For the likes of 'LLM' he can close his door to all and sundry along with his own assessment of risk taking, the police on the other hand go to work each day not knowing how many strangers they will come into contact with and how those contacts will react to them, then they have to go home to their families.

Police are frontline and can 'jump the queue' as 'LLM' puts it as far as I'm concerned. I can wait in relative safety having my choice of my contacts, they cannot.

The priority list was drawn up to hopefully cater for those in most need as per the first infections last year ,

But not looking at the broader picture of what "the list" missed out when the vital work of those in other professions are needed to keep other vital services operating ,

As has been noted with the second wave it is the under 50s it seems are now being infected the most

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moulesy asked,

Which public servants "in a lower tier group" are having an inoculation "ahead of the queue" at present?

My brother in law ( aged 53) has already had his. He runs a  garden centre type environment staffed by employees with learning difficulties -I would suggest that all are below 50 years old.

Apparently someone in the NHS didn't understand the rules and made a mistake and he should not have been vaccinated.

 

I have been critical of government handling of many/most aspects of this pandemic. But I do think that the vaccination programme (credit for which must mainly go to the scientists and volunteers who have brought about its success) is the one thing which they appear so far to have got right.

So if the advice is that, after the 9 well publicised priority groups have been pretty much completely vaccinated, priority will be less dependent on age and more on the wider benefits to society or the economy, then I, for one, am quite content to accept that. It won't be unions/Joe public/ "self-interest" parties making the decisions after all.

Yes, there will undoubtedly be some "mistakes" along the way, but I thought it was being suggested that this was going on on a large organised  scale which, quite patently, it's not.