A couple of noteworthy things today on the jab front. No, there is absolutely zero sign of anything happening to improve their target of 100 people per day (see target) - well there is actually no sign of them actually doing anything at all. There is a report in the paper stating that Spain has now completed nearly 4 million vaccinations. God only knows where and who for. Andalucia has about 12% of the population, therefore we should expect nearly half a million jabs to have been done on a pro-rata basis. That should definitely cover all the over 80s and move into the over 70s on a normalised basis, but hey-ho, in this country nothing is normal.
Don´t get me wrong, I don´t actually give a s**t about how they roll it out. I will take it when offered, but quite enjoy semi-lockdown, and particularly enjoy seeing the EU make such a total shambles of everything compared to the UK. It makes Brexit totally worthwhile.
I also read that the "unity" of the EU has started to break up and various countries have started ordering doses on the side from China and Russia.
The local drug-dealer will no doubt be offering jabs before the medical centre does. Should that happen, there will be a ready market amongst the privately insured people, as today it was revealed that the government has decided that people with private medical insurance should (quote) "go home to get the jab". That despite / in spite of being fully fledged residents and paying taxes - just for not using their NHS-parallel scheme. We actually know of someone in this position who was born and educated in, but never worked in, the UK - so has no pension allowance / medical records there - so here he pays privately as he doesn´t have the transferrable S1 statement.
The embassy implied in an article that all pensioners had the right to such a form, but then the embassy also said that all brits in spain would get vaccinated irrespective of their status.
The one thing that binds all countries together - whatever the bureaucrats promise is probably a lie.
+ today Sat (6th) there was an article in El Pais (the national newspaper which has an english language version) in which they reflected on the vaccine roll-out. There still seems to be some contenion about the AZ jab for over 50s, so they use it for anyone they choose rather than the elderly. So far, they reported, Andalucia has given jabs to most front-line and secondary(?) health workers, teachers, firemen, police, care-home workers and home-care workers - and were about to move on to security forces. Oh, and all these groups include ancillary staff and associated helpers such as cleaners and canteen staff! Apparently the hunt for the over-90s goes on in order to administer their "100 jabs per day" (and I had not appreciated that this 100 only applied to actual citizens), also they have not started on the "junior" age groups (under 80s) yet. Not too sure about the 80-to 90 year olds, but as suggested before, think they may be waiting for them to have their 90th birthdays first.
Basically. nothing has happened / improved since my previous post nearly two weeks ago and it seems that the government has actually started to use the roll-out ideas I mentioned in early February!.
++ as was reported widely, many EU countries, including spain, went into spasm mode and blocked the use of the AZ virus for a couple of weeks. Rest assured it has absolutely nothing to do with the safety of the virus, rather it is yet another way of confusing the roll-out programme (still on the over 90s here) and will allow them to add yet another excuse relating to "hold-ups caused by the EU regulator revisiting AZ safety". What I don´t understand is how they think they can have a country with a very, very small amount of the population vaccinated, but expect to be able to allow in tourists. They may wave their vaccination passports, but there will be no bars for them to go in - and no staff to serve them at this rate.
Megashambles doesn´t even start to cover it.
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