It caught my eye this week… 1

COVID – That the ‘Vaccine Wars‘ seems so embarrassing to all concerned. Whilst it is important that everyone gets vaccinated to overcome the Covid Pandemic, spare a thought for Third-World Countries and their lack of facilities, even before the crisis started. – Only 25 doses!!!!

Best Efforts – Having been involved in a number of legal contracts for Computer Projects over the years it was interesting to see the term ‘Best Efforts’ being discussed with regards to Vaccine delivery this week.

It was always an interesting discussion with contract lawyers as to the difference between ‘Best Efforts’ & ‘Reasonable Efforts‘ and which offered the greatest safeguard to both parties from the point of ‘delivery.

Novichok Poisoning Inquest – Finally; some movement on the inquest into the Salisbury Novichok poisonings of 2018 – yes that was nearly four years ago and the inquest into Dawn Sturgess’s death is still unfinished. What is it that the UK.Gov does not want to come out?
Seems that it is being dragged for some reason, I wonder what? Well at least we will get an official inquest, unlike what happened to Alexei Navalny.

Breaking the boredom of Lockdown – Quite a lot written about this subject over the last months, how have you kept your sanity? Here are just of the suggestions I have found online…

I continue to be busy building my new shed for the second allotment I took over last year and trying to get my cycling going; though I’ve not done a lot since the start of the year due to the weather (never thought I would say that!). We’re also back to helping with ‘home-schooling’ and managing to get back on my Yamaha Keyboard at long last. Boredom; no way!

COVID-19 Jab done!

Suddenly last Tuesday evening I had a phone call asking me to attend the local GP surgery for my Covid inoculation, quite a surprise as I did not seem to be in any of the top 4 tranches of those heading the list – over 70 but without any underlying health conditions – anyway happy to go and get it.

I have read quite a bit about the seemingly random way that parts of the country are getting their vaccination program rolling out – sometimes a bit chaotic. All I can say is that my local GP was well organised and well staffed using a local, to the surgery, Salvation Army hall for its service delivery.

Overall from leaving the house to having the ‘jab’, including a mandatory 15 minute post-jab wait total time was around 35 minutes.

I was given the Pfizer vaccine, so at some stage I guess I will receive a call for the second dose; however, according to the many signs at the vaccination centre, they are still waiting for the UK government to say when that will be.

Conversely a family Aunt who is over 83 and lives in Cheshire is still waiting for her appointment, a strange state of affairs.