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Possibly the cataracts. Old father time catches up with us all – I'll let it slide.

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

Covid infection rate is rising worldwide.

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This link mainly refers to the USA but rates are up in France and Germany and other European countries as well because of the slow vaccine rollout.

Maybe now is not time to book a holiday give a couple more months and see what happens.

One more point

Yes, often understated, but more forthright here and from a woman who knows a thing or two about duty. Getting vaccinated is as much about protecting others as yourself.

They might not be healthy if they get covid though.
Long covid also affects younger people who didnt get seriously ill.
The vaccine will go a long way to preventing this.
Trying to avoid covid is the way not to get it granted,building an immunity by getting it is another way to carry on without the vaccine.
How long it lasts is up for debate, 5-6 months is the recent report. The caveat being the above. Stirling you have said you are in the vulnerable category so if you got covid you could get very sick or worse. Are you taking the vaccine when offered yourself?

The hotels they are staying in, certainly at Heathrow, are rather nice.

In the often smarter European nation, the vaccine officials and leaders have a different (selfish?) problem with vaccine uptake.

Many Germans, including health workers, are skipping appointments or refusing to sign up for the AstraZeneca shot, which they fear is less effective than the one developed by Pfizer and the German company BioNTech.

That reluctance has been fueled by weeks of negative coverage in the German media, which has portrayed AstraZeneca’s vaccine as “second-class” and published stories of people suffering adverse reactions.

By the numbers: Clinical trials do suggest that the Pfizer-BioNTech shot’s efficacy, at 95 percent, is higher than AstraZeneca’s, which is between 60 and 90 percent depending on factors like the spacing of doses. Still, it is difficult to directly compare vaccines unless they are tested head-to-head in the same trial.

I understand Pfizer-BioNTech uses the new mRNA method without years of inoculations whereas the AstraZeneca one uses the usual vaccine method of a very small amount of the virus contained in the vaccine, but Germans are no doubt don’t have the level of innumeracy we do.

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