Lockdown diaries - COVID-19 matters!

What are you going to be doing during the lockdown?

  • At home. I’m non essential

    Votes: 70 41.2%

  • Working. The virus doesn’t scare me

    Votes: 41 24.1%

  • On standby

    Votes: 10 5.9%

  • Working from home. Too essential to take any risk!

    Votes: 66 38.8%
  • Total voters
    170
  • Poll closed .
M.Adhir said:
The context of what he is saying is that they can't evacuate the displaced to community halls etc due to covid concerns.

“Relocation to the relative comfort of a community hall, school classroom or religious site is not an option. Everyone, including little babies, have to endure the ignominy of a drenched environment, brought on by challenges of the Delta variant, the third wave and lockdown level 4,”
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@M.Adhir I get it now. I misunderstood because I was skimming the article and I obviously skimmed right past the first sentence in that paragraph! :-D It just shows what happens when words are taken out of context, doesn't it?
 
Feliks Karp said:
https://www.theguardian.com/science...orm-as-more-patients-hit-by-fungal-infections

"Scientists now say concerning reports of other fungal infections, caused by pathogens including Aspergillus and Candida auris, have emerged in hospitalised Covid patients. In particular, the common fungal infection aspergillosis, often seen in combination with the flu, has been observed in critically ill Covid patients globally, from the US to the UK, France, Pakistan and India."
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Same is happening in SA... Severe infection------>immune system gets overwhelmed------->opportunistic infections (with micro-organism that wouldn't otherwise cause an infection)
 
Got my 1st Pfizer jab today!! For those who are scared of injections (I'm not one of them) I assure you there is nothing to be worried about. It's a light pin-prick and it's over before you even realise that it's been done.

Other than standing in a queue outside for 1.5 hours, waiting to go into the hall, all went well. We were told that the clinic opens at 8a.m. However, the vaccine had to be fetched from Malmesbury (about 60km. from here) as that is where they have cold storage - and it can be collected only at 7.30a.m. Thereafter, it has to stand at room temperature for 15 minutes. So why didn't they just open the clinic at 9a.m.??

They checked if one was registered, but for those who weren't they registered them there and then.

After being vaccinated we had to sit in an observation area for 15 minutes, in case of any immediate side effect. Thereafter we were given a vaccination card as proof of vaccination.

The second jab will be on 16 August.

How did I feel afterwards? To my surprise I felt an overwhelming sense of relief, that now I have some immunity at least. I hadn't realised how worried I had actually been.

I also felt an overwhelming gratitude that our govt. had procured the vaccine for us. We can curse them and mock them, but they got the vaccine for us. Let us remember that.

Gratitude too to the pharmacists who created the vaccine. Big Pharma and Big Tobacco might be hand-in-hand against vaping, but without their know-how we wouldn't have this vaccine - or any others. Let us remember that too.

As for Discovery ... where are they? I registered on the government's site and on Discovery's. I received an email from DisChem about their vaccination sites, but I had mine done through the govt. here in Yzer. Haven't heard a word from Discovery! It's disgraceful.
 
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Hooked said:
Got my 1st Pfizer jab today!! For those who are scared of injections (I'm not one of them) I assure you there is nothing to be worried about. It's a light pin-prick and it's over before you even realise that it's been done.

Other than standing in a queue outside for 1.5 hours, waiting to go into the hall, all went well. We were told that the clinic opens at 8a.m. However, the vaccine had to be fetched from Malmesbury (about 60km. from here) as that is where they have cold storage - and it can be collected only at 7.30a.m. Thereafter, it has to stand at room temperature for 15 minutes. So why didn't they just open the clinic at 9a.m.??

They checked if one was registered, but for those who weren't they registered them there and then.

After being vaccinated we had to sit in an observation area for 15 minutes, in case of any immediate side effect. Thereafter we were given a vaccination card as proof of vaccination.

The second jab will be on 16 August.

How did I feel afterwards? To my surprise I felt an overwhelming sense of relief, that now I have some immunity at least. I hadn't realised how worried I had actually been.

I also felt an overwhelming gratitude that our govt. had procured the vaccine for us. We can curse them and mock them, but they got the vaccine for us. Let us remember that.

Gratitude too to the pharmacists who created the vaccine. Big Pharma and Big Tobacco might be hand-in-hand against vaping, but without their know-how we wouldn't have this vaccine - or any others. Let us remember that too.

As for Discovery ... where are they? I registered on the government's site and on Discovery's. I received an email from DisChem about their vaccination sites, but I had mine done through the govt. here in Yzer. Haven't heard a word from Discovery! It's disgraceful.
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Just a word of caution before you go kissing everybody in Yzer, immunity only starts from 2 to 4 weeks to have full effect.

As for Discovery, my parents who is on Discovery had their jabs at Momentum. Also never heard from Discovery. But people that went to their main building in Sandton only have good things to say.

At the end of the day you got your jab and thats all that counts! Congratulations!
 
Adephi said:
Just a word of caution before you go kissing everybody in Yzer, immunity only starts from 2 to 4 weeks to have full effect.

As for Discovery, my parents who is on Discovery had their jabs at Momentum. Also never heard from Discovery. But people that went to their main building in Sandton only have good things to say.

At the end of the day you got your jab and thats all that counts! Congratulations!
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Thanks for the advice @Adephi and I will continue being as careful as I have been.
 
GAUTENG EDUC DEPT ALARMED AS 9,000 TEACHERS REFUSE VACCINES
https://ewn.co.za/2021/07/02/jabs-s...ept-alarmed-as-9-000-teachers-refuse-vaccines
2 July 2021

"The Gauteng Education Department said it's extremely alarmed that more than 9,000 teachers and support staff were refusing to get vaccinated.

The department said 9,113 employees in the sector, including those with comorbidities, had turned down their opportunity to receive their Johnson & Johnson jab..."
 
SAPS: Vaccination drive of over 180 000 members to kick off on Monday
https://www.thesouthafrican.com/new...ficers-saps-be-vaccinated-monday-5-july-2021/
2 July 2021

"The South African Police Service (SAPS) will kick-off its vaccination drive of over 180 000 of its members from Monday 5 July 2021 in Soweto, Gauteng.

While registration opened for those over 50-years-old on Thursday 1 July, the vaccinations will only commence from 15 July. The SAPS, however, is set to start 10 days earlier.

BHEKI CELE AND SAPS NATIONAL COMMISSIONER TO BE VACCINATED FIRST
According to a statement that was released on Friday, the Minister of Police General Bheki Cele and the National Commissioner of the South African Police Service (SAPS), General Khehla Sitole will lead the SAPS Vaccination program..."
 
Grand Guru said:
I’m foreseeing a 30k in the next few days with the WC numbers rising steadily
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I'm foreseeing a level 4.9 next Sunday if it keeps up like this for like 5 days in a row.

Bit too late but might slow it a bit at least.
 
Hooked said:
Thanks for the advice @Adephi and I will continue being as careful as I have been.
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Even after you second Jab, the effeminacy is rated at keeping you out of hospital, not keeping you completely immune. There have been notable infections from Delta and Delta plus in fully vaccinated people, but only a handful of deaths.
 
Feliks Karp said:
Even after you second Jab, the effeminacy is rated at keeping you out of hospital, not keeping you completely immune. There have been notable infections from Delta and Delta plus in fully vaccinated people, but only a handful of deaths.
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???o_O
 
Feliks Karp said:
Even after you second Jab, the effeminacy is rated at keeping you out of hospital, not keeping you completely immune. There have been notable infections from Delta and Delta plus in fully vaccinated people, but only a handful of deaths.
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I agree that having a jab gives one SOME immunity, but does not prevent one from getting COVID. But effeminacy? I think you mean efficacy.
 
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M.Adhir said:
You can see they are already anticipating the L4 lockdown being extended.
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I was surprised that they didn't make L4 for a month at least, right from the beginning. Not much can be gained from 2 weeks only. Probably taking a soft approach. Two weeks people can handle without too much protest, then extend again ... and again.
 
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