Vaccination

I got my second dose of Astrazeneca vaccine yesterday out in Belmore so I'll be fully vaccinated soon

 

 

 

 

In the post vaccination room with a  couple who had also just had the COVID shot.

 

 

Bits and pieces of the room where I waited to convince the nurse to let me have my 2nd dose of Astrazeneca after 6 weeks rather than wait 12.

Mum's vaccinated herself now but she's pretty old and the government and ATAGI had just destroyed confidence in the Astrazeneca vaccine in the depth of winter with a replacement  only on the distant horizon. (Is this for the political benefit it gives the LNP federal government, to drag out the emergency  and give them a chance to win an election after they smooth over a few difficulties with the ladies?). That had to mean they had spare doses.

It wasn't too hard to convince the nurse and the team there, there were only a few elderly people getting their 2nd dose. No Pfizer at all will be available for weeks yet, so it must be frustrating. One guy who looked to be in his 60s was escorting his mum for her 2nd dose and said he'd be waiting for the Pfizer. (Hey mate, one in 10 infected are hospitalised, with half of them in intensive care)

 

Now there's an outbreak that looks to be exploding across Sydney which has exposed the risk assessment done when ATAGI binned AZ to be totally ill-conceived and insane. Only 1 person had died (in Australia) from COVID since January and 2 had died  from vaccine sideeffects. But that was summer and now its winter and there's a hotel quarantine outbreak every week of increasingly infectious variants. And millions have died from COVID this year. 

Madness