[Leica] IMG: Difficult days

[Douglas Barry]

Thanks Brian and Tina,

She should be among the first to get it over here. However, there is a 
major misconception about the vaccine which will be safe and should 
prevent death to those who get it. But there's a major grey area. As I 
type this there is little or no research done to confirm that a person 
receiving the vaccine stops spreading the virus if already infected, or 
who picks up the virus around the time of injection.

Yes, the vaccine will remove or mitigate the internal danger to its 
recipients, but we just don't know if it will immediately deter the 
dangers of spreading CoVid to the vulnerable contacts of vaccine 
recipients. They are now working on research in this matter. As I'm 
going to be in one of the earlier batches of recipients, due to the 
vulnerability of my wife, I will continue to wear a mask, and keep 
socially distant until I get a green light on that aspect.

That said, as more and different vaccines are developed and pour down 
the world's production lines, these grey areas should be closed off. 
Let's hope they get it to the effectiveness of the 'flu vaccine.

Douglas


On 16/12/2020 22:21, Tina Manley via LUG wrote:
> I hope she will be one of the first to get vaccinated and that she will be
> able to go back home.  It will make such a difference in the world when
> this plague is gone!
>
> Best wishes to your mom and you.
>
> Tina
>
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 4:30 PM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
>
>> I had to visit my mother in her nursing home for the first time in a
>> couple of months, and unbelievably forgot my camera, so had to use my
>> old iPhone 5S. I'll upgrade next year at some stage, and get a roughly
>> similar sized phone with a better camera. Her nursing home is only four
>> km away as the crow flies, but I don't have a flying car, despite all
>> the promises of my childhood tv programmes. Very disappointing really.
>> Traffic was very heavy, ominous really, as the closetted world emerges
>> and goes shopping for Christmas. What frightening jump in plague figures
>> will greet us in the early weeks of January?
>>
>>    As for my soon to be 97 year old mother, she was in her usual vehement
>> fettle, as I met her, not in her room as before, but in one of a row of
>> garden sheds set up in the basement car park of her nursing home. We
>> were separated by a full perspex screen that split the shed, and each of
>> of us had microphone and speakers. The shed was tarted up like Santa's
>> grotto and was a somewhat  incongruous situation as she complained long
>> and very loudly about being imprisoned by this virus, expounding about
>> how she was spending the tail end of her life like the Count of Monte
>> Cristo, and most definitely wanted to go home. Sadly, that's impossible
>> with the current plague. She's perfectly sharp intellectually, but,
>> following a fall late last year, needs someone to keep an eye on her. We
>> had someone calling in very day, but then the pandemic hit.
>>
>> It's difficult being charged with the other member of our family diarchy
>> with looking after the best interests of a rational adult. Anyway, she's
>> not the Count or even the Countess of Monte Cristo, but maybe has a
>> claim to be the Countess of Mounting Tinsel.
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Xmas+2020+FF+Mum.jpg.html
>>
>> Douglas
>>
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