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@Arelicat, Ingliston also operates as a drop-in clinic. If your 24 weeks are up, you should be fine to get a booster.
I seem to recall a young woman being turned away from Ocean Terminal due to time between shots being insufficient. Presume she was looking for a 2nd dose. Guidance may have switched on timing of boosters now, but I wouldn't bet on that being implemented in the drop-in clinics just yet.
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@Yodhrin, Arelicat, crowriver: the info is very confusing. I called the helpline today to ask about the possibility to get a booster at Ingliston drop-in clinic, but was told they don't offer that. Also, on the NHS lothian facebook page, posted today:"Drop-in clinics cannot give COVID-19 boosters, but you may be able to book your appointment online". I *think* I'll try tomorrow anyway, but as anyone been successful over there? EDIT: just found an appointment in South Queensferry tomorrow morning, so, will not try Ingliston after all.
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Apparently Ocean Terminal has stopped doing drop-in boosters again. Maybe they got swamped with over-50s? Presume only drop-in for dose 1 and 2, and appointments for boosters.
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At Ingliston now. Very quiet so quick - had flu jag and Moderna. 15 mins to sit 'for observation' and then e-bike back into city. Came out through culvert under bypass at Edinburgh Park. Mud and big puddles.
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Large and noisy anti-vaxxers demo in Edinburgh today. I happened to be walking along Waterloo Place when they were streaming down from Calton Hill towards Princes Street. Ostensibly the protest was about vaccine passports but judging by the placards there were a lot of anti-vax, anti-mask, libertarian and conspiracy theory types in their ranks. Not nice to get caught up in it all.
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It's kind of a shame that "international law" is so utterly toothless, everyone involved in hoarding the patents for C19 vaccines and treatments should be chucked in a deep dark hole for 25-to-life IMO.
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US Government on Friday changed their rules so from Monday a test before flying to there has to be within 1 day rather than 3 days. So those who have a test booked 3 days in advance (like my anxious friend) will have to change to a different day. Luckily for those needing these, the US accept the antigen tests available at many local pharmacies with results while you wait, and not just the ones that take a day or more for the results.
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Lowland Hall, Royal Highland Vaccination Centre, Ingliston
You can use Lothian Buses to attend the mass vaccination centre at Lowland Hall; see this document for more information. Everyone over 12 can attend this drop-in clinic as well as utilising booked appointments.I drove Mr Bill to Ingliston for his booked appointment yesterday. You had to show your email to the 'bouncer' at the front. I also enquired if drop-in were available and he said that no, that only booked appointments, the website was wrong and one has to phone in to get an appointment. No problem for me but there was a guy behind me that walked from town for a drop in booster. After a little back and forth the walker asked to speak to someone from the 'inside'. The 'bouncer' asked him to wait.
Mr Bill asked his vaccinator about that and she said that they were open for booster drop in appointments for >40's. I hope the walker got his jag.
Mr Bill got a booster of Moderna and is pretty unwell today even though he didn't have any side effects after two Astra Zenecas.
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I got a Moderna booster after 2x AZ. My arm is aching and I’m feeling a bit rough.
The vaccinator said that it was disappointingly quiet at Ingliston yesterday.
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I also had AZ, AZ, Moderna but no side effects after any of them.
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@Stickman Given the confusion about the booster eligibility rules and the nice weather over the weekend, I'm not surprised that few people fancy a trek out to Ingliston with a non-zero chance of getting bounced.
I'd booked a booster shot in Jan the day before the rules changed to 3 months rather than 6 months between shots. I have not yet been motivated to change the appointment. I will probably get round to it this week. I suspect I'm not the only one, and Ingliston will be getting busier very soon.
Personally speaking I spent this Sunday riding into the hills near Tyndrum then climbing up one in the snow. Much more appealing than Ingliston!
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16 year old son tried to get his second dose at Ocean Terminal yesterday, only to be told they had run out of Pfizer vaccine! Apparently they'd ordered some more but it had yet to arrive.
Rather surprised to hear they are turning people away from Ingliston - no wonder it was "disappointingly quiet"...
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John Swinney has said he takes a lateral flow test every time he leaves home, as he encouraged Scots to take the tests more than twice a week.
The Deputy First Minister said the Government wants people to take the “very reliable” tests more frequently.
From Monday, proof of a negative coronavirus test will enable entry into venues subject to the vaccine passport scheme.
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Re John Swinney
Usually I adhere to Don't Read The Comments but some wag posted "He should take a personality test instead"
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Honestly I think they'd have greater success persuading people to do the flow tests on a more consistent basis if they didn't demand you report *all* results, even negative ones.
I get the reasoning behind it from a data collection standpoint, but it's a pain in the arse to do and so a lot of folk simply won't bother at all.
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or make it easier to report. such a pfaff. especially if you have to do them for kids too.
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We have stopped reporting the negative results (so far we have had only negative) because as you say it's such a faff filling it out every time. I don't mind doing the test especially since it's only the nostrils now and you don't need to wait 30 min after a drink.
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Anyone have any recent experience getting covid tests back? We’re waiting more than 24 hours right now.
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UK Covid live: Sage thinks Omicron could cause 1,000 hospitalisations a day in weeks, reports say
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Mask wearing observance very patchy on train this morning. Not that there were many of the brazen types not wearing one at all. Most had a mask, but then promptly took it off or wore it under their chin after sitting down, usually to drink their takeaway coffee, eat their snacks, etc. Many did not bother to replace their masks afterwards, or forgot. A couple of folk were coughing and sniffling maskless. In the area I could survey from my seat, only myself and a group of young Chinese people kept masks on for the entire journey. Everyone else took theirs off for at least part of it. This sort of thing is why I wear a higher grade respirator type mask on public transport.
If this is typical of people's behaviour when among total strangers, whose infection status cannot be known, just imagine what it must be like when those same people are among friends and family.
It's little wonder that cases are rising exponentially when even basic precautions are so poorly adhered to.
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@crowriver I am wondering if people taking off the mask once seated is because the public transport is treated a bit like cafes or cinemas for instance? Wear mask while walking around but you can take it off once seated?
I am not sure the message to wear masks at all times when on a train/bus is clear.
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agree Bill. At the British Library last week, everyone I saw walking around or interacting with staff had masks on, but often, when seated, they removed them.
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@bill: The message on the ScoGov web site seems pretty clear to me:
By law, everyone aged 12 and over must wear a face covering, unless exempt, in most indoor public spaces, including:
public transport services and premises, including bus stops - this includes when sitting down in a hospitality area on a ferry or train (unless eating or drinking)
How many people bother to check this stuff is another matter, of course.
I suppose the exception for eating & drinking could be taken advantage of by those determined not to wear a face covering. (Since most if not all trains have an at-seat trolley service, I imagine the whole train could justifiably be considered a 'hospitality area'.)
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I suppose the exception for eating & drinking could be taken advantage of by those determined not to wear a face covering. (Since most if not all trains have an at-seat trolley service, I imagine the whole train could justifiably be considered a 'hospitality area'.)
Don't know about the cross border services, but I haven't seen a trolley or buffet car service on a Scotrail train since February 2020. Folk are buying stuff at the station or nearby, then eating/drinking on the train.
I am sure there will be anti-maskers who will try to make use of this loophole. Just as they make use of the "medical exemption" one even though many of the "exempt" appear to be robustly healthy males under 40 years of age...
My feeling though is that folk just can't be bothered or (as alluded to upthread) are confused about how and when to wear a mask in some cases. It's also possible that I am part of a select group who are either more risk averse than the average person on the street/in the train carriage, or have actually read the guidance and decided to comply with it.
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Mask compliance was very good on my train from KIngs Cross. people took off masks to eat, but put them back on.
maybe risk feels more on a long ride?
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