Micky 32 wrote: » https://twitter.com/donnellystephen/status/1379048373425147904?s=21 Varadkar: “”a lot of people might feel like they are never going to be vaccinated but we are going to surprise you.””
higster wrote: » Well I got a text (very high risk, diabetes). Text says “suitable for people aged 18-69 years”. This mean AstraZeneca? Not bothered to be honest. Just curious.
crossman47 wrote: » Exactly. Its not always going to be perfect. In Germany they're trying to be so perfect they're throwing away vaccines if the designated people don't show.
namloc1980 wrote: » I'm sure you'd be calm if you were that GP or a patient who had gone to the clinic only be be sent home? People who accept mediocrity get mediocrity. Looks like you're happy with shoddy service like that. Not everyone is.
MrStuffins wrote: » I would have definitely demanded to see the manager!
GT89 wrote: » I know someone who works in a chemist who's got the shot makes no sense how is working in a chemist any different to any other shop. Working in a chemist is retail not healthcare surely.
namloc1980 wrote: » Yeah it's hilarious that old and vulnerable people were left waiting hours. Comical isn't it?
is_that_so wrote: » They should do as they are part of the mass vaccinations plan.
GT89 wrote: » Yeah but ordinary staff wouldn't be administering the vaccine that'd be done by the pharmacist
is_that_so wrote: » Who knows here. Let's vaccinate all of them makes more logistical sense than "not the perfume people".
salmocab wrote: » Sick people go to chemists so someone not feeling the best might go in for something before realising it’s possibly Covid?
iamwhoiam wrote: » Surely their are pharmacy counter staff and non pharmacy counter staff in Boots ?
is_that_so wrote: » Now you're just looking for things to get angry about! We don't know how these people will be deployed at times of vaccination and they well be part of it some way. That's Group 6.
iamwhoiam wrote: » At what stage did I say I was angry ? But to be fair its a bit rich vaccinating perfume counter staff while their parents could be waiting . No ?
is_that_so wrote: » This nit picking is what I'm talking about. They will be vaccination centres and workers in vaccination centres need to be vaccinated.
GT89 wrote: » I could go into by local Spar feeling unwell to buy paracetamol and could have covid. Sure apparently we could all be asymptomatic anyway.
iamwhoiam wrote: » You see it as nit picking , I see it as young perfume counter staff vaccinated while my sister who has serious heart condition age 74 is waiting . We can agree to differ but its my opinion
is_that_so wrote: » It's far easier to say that all pharmacies in Dublin City Centre have been done, than we need to go back to loads of them later. That latter seems to be what you want and that's fine but it's just not terribly efficient nor practical.
iamwhoiam wrote: » Boots is as such not a pharmacy , its a large shop with a pharmacy counter Huge difference between your local pharmacy and Boots in Liffey Valley
namloc1980 wrote: » 3 hours late. I'm guessing you think that's acceptable.
Micky 32 wrote: » Varadkar: “”a lot of people might feel like they are never going to be vaccinated but we are going to surprise you.””