When this first started to get serious I went to my GP last year for a talk about my risks of getting the vaccine. We talked through my medical history, any risks involved with AZ, and I came away wanting the vaccine. However, the medical centre earmarked as a vaccine " hub ", told me they were only getting 50 doses a week from the suppliers and to put my name on " the list " and they would get back to me when tranche 1A had been vaccinated. At the beginning of 2021 the vaccination confusion as to AZ blood clots, etc had made a lot of people cancel their jabs. So they rang and said come down, we will put you in a cancellation spot. My wife and I took advantage of that, and now my second jab is on the 7th July. We both had to fill out an online form which took a while. I notified by phone my GP, and she printed out my medical history for perusal by the vaccination nurse, which I picked up from the front desk. And now I have a runny nose, getting tested today. I see any confusion coming from mixed messages from authorities under pressure from a situation that was .....wait for it...unprecedented. Less chest thumping and telling the world how good we were and more effort into vaccination probably would have been better, but I'm just a pensioner with a runny nose, what would I know.

