10:20 this morning... another call from a withheld number, another recorded message telling me that a Covid-19 jab appointment at the Hinckley vaccination centre has been cancelled. No name or NHS number stated, no reason given for cancellation, and no advice regarding re-booking. It was the third such call to our land-line.
It's anti-vax bullshit, of course. All four people who have lived here at any time during the last 12 months have been triple-jabbed already. I've been invited to arrange my 4th jab but so far I've not accepted that invitation, pending a discussion with my haematologist on Thursday.
We're not stupid, we recognise anti-vax disinformation when we see it, but others may well be taken in by this dangerous scam and may well die as a consequence of their info-vulnerability to these deplorable calls.
I'm reporting the call, of course, but whether anything gets done about it is anyone's guess.
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* Apparently my pigeon-hole has been given a new name. It started off as Vulnerable, then went to Extremely Vulnerable, then to Clinically Extremely Vulnerable. I learned today that it's been called At Higher Risk since 24th December 2021. Seems to be an exercise in re-branding, it hasn't made one jot of difference here, I can still catch the pestilence at the drop of a hat.
THE SMALL(ish) PRINT... (updated 23/07/2016)
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