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Beautiful Autumn morning today.
Covid and Flu injections this morning and no ill effect so far.

At the rate Usenet postings are dropping I don't think there will be
anyone around when NIN closes. Even the trolls are moving elsewhere.
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On 06/10/2025 10:19, Bri. wrote:

Beautiful Autumn morning today.
Covid and Flu injections this morning and no ill effect so far.

At the rate Usenet postings are dropping I don't think there will be
anyone around when NIN closes. Even the trolls are moving elsewhere.

I'm still here. And I had my Covid booster and flu jabs last Wednesday.

Jim
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Indy Jess John wrote:

I'm still here. And I had my Covid booster and flu jabs last Wednesday.

Good morning Jim - you made me jump. ;-)
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In article <10c02oq$3miuf$6@dont-email.me>,
Indy Jess John <bathwatchdog@OMITTHISgooglemail.com> wrote:

On 06/10/2025 10:19, Bri. wrote:

Beautiful Autumn morning today.
Covid and Flu injections this morning and no ill effect so far.

At the rate Usenet postings are dropping I don't think there will be
anyone around when NIN closes. Even the trolls are moving elsewhere.

I'm still here. And I had my Covid booster and flu jabs last Wednesday.

Jim

I had my two half an hour ago,
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On 6/10/25 10:19 am, Bri. wrote:

Beautiful Autumn morning today.
Covid and Flu injections this morning and no ill effect so far.

At the rate Usenet postings are dropping I don't think there will be
anyone around when NIN closes. Even the trolls are moving elsewhere.

Mine are due on the 25th. The trolls are all on Facebook and the like, I reckon. There seem to be many, many more than there ever were in Usenet.
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On 06/10/2025 10:19, Bri. wrote:

Beautiful Autumn morning today.
Covid and Flu injections this morning and no ill effect so far.

At the rate Usenet postings are dropping I don't think there will be
anyone around when NIN closes. Even the trolls are moving elsewhere.

I had the RSV jab a week ago and have the flu and covid ones next week.
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Bri. wrote:

Beautiful Autumn morning today.
Covid and Flu injections this morning and no ill effect so far.

At the rate Usenet postings are dropping I don't think there will be
anyone around when NIN closes. Even the trolls are moving elsewhere.

Had both mine on 3rd October and as you said about yours, no ill
effects so far.
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On Mon, 6 Oct 2025 10:19:38 +0100, Bri. wrote:

At the rate Usenet postings are dropping I don't think there will be
anyone around when NIN closes. Even the trolls are moving elsewhere

Very true Bri.
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Frogman <uk_frogman@bigfoot.com> wrote:

On Mon, 6 Oct 2025 10:19:38 +0100, Bri. wrote:

At the rate Usenet postings are dropping I don't think there will be
anyone around when NIN closes. Even the trolls are moving elsewhere

Very true Bri.

I pop by now & again, just to check on you all :-)
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Frogman wrote:

On Mon, 6 Oct 2025 10:19:38 +0100, Bri. wrote:

Even the trolls are moving elsewhere

Very true Bri.

Well, maybe not *ALL* of them :-(
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On 14/10/2025 11:12, Bri. wrote:

Frogman wrote:

On Mon, 6 Oct 2025 10:19:38 +0100, Bri. wrote:

Even the trolls are moving elsewhere

Very true Bri.

Well, maybe not *ALL* of them :-(

Admittedly, life without any trolls could be quite dull - as long as we recognise them for what they are. ;-)
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kat wrote:

On 14/10/2025 11:12, Bri. wrote:

Frogman wrote:

On Mon, 6 Oct 2025 10:19:38 +0100, Bri. wrote:

Even the trolls are moving elsewhere

Very true Bri.

Well, maybe not *ALL* of them :-(

Admittedly, life without any trolls could be quite dull - as long as we recognise them for what they are. ;-)

As Froggie said earlier, "Very true" kat.
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On 14/10/2025 12:52, Bri. wrote:

kat wrote:

On 14/10/2025 11:12, Bri. wrote:

Frogman wrote:

On Mon, 6 Oct 2025 10:19:38 +0100, Bri. wrote:

Even the trolls are moving elsewhere

Very true Bri.

Well, maybe not *ALL* of them :-(

Admittedly, life without any trolls could be quite dull - as long as we
recognise them for what they are. ;-)

As Froggie said earlier, "Very true" kat.

In other news I have two sore arms this morning.:-(
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kat wrote:

In other news I have two sore arms this morning.:-(

Hope that eases soon.
Marg suffers from the Flu jab but not so much with Covid, whereas I'm
normally fortunate enough to escape a problem with either.
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On 15/10/2025 16:26, Bri. wrote:

kat wrote:

In other news I have two sore arms this morning.:-(

Hope that eases soon.
Marg suffers from the Flu jab but not so much with Covid, whereas I'm normally fortunate enough to escape a problem with either.

Only lasted a day or so, could have been worse, just anoyed because a couple of
weks earlier I had the RSV jab and fet absolutely nothing at the time or after! --
kat
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On 06/10/2025 12:47, kat wrote:

I had the RSV jab a week ago and have the flu and covid ones next week.

Which set me off, wondering what an RSV jab was, and why I couldn't
remember having it, or having an invite to have it...

It said, those between 75 and 79, should have had an invite, but I don't remember one, so I've just rung my GP, who first suggested I wasn't
eligible, then worked out I'd had it last year, in September, and so
didn't need it - it's a one-off jab.

I must have had it alongside something else, maybe the shingles jab, for
me to not remember it?
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On 25/11/2025 12:20, Harry Bloomfield Esq wrote:

On 06/10/2025 12:47, kat wrote:

I had the RSV jab a week ago and have the flu and covid ones next week.

Which set me off, wondering what an RSV jab was, and why I couldn't
remember having it, or having an invite to have it...

It said, those between 75 and 79, should have had an invite, but I don't remember one, so I've just rung my GP, who first suggested I wasn't eligible, then worked out I'd had it last year, in September, and so
didn't need it - it's a one-off jab.

I must have had it alongside something else, maybe the shingles jab, for
me to not remember it?

I had an invitation to have an RSV jab last year, so I looked up what
RSV is:
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a common cause of coughs and colds.
RSV infections usually get better by themselves, but can sometimes be
serious for babies and older adults.

Further down the text it mentioned protection against bronchial problems
and I am considered extremely vulnerable to Covid because a heart
problem some years ago left me with some blood clots in the arteries in
my lungs. So having the jab was a no brainer, and I had the RSV jab
with my flu jab in September 2024.

I seem to remember that the other jab on offer in 2024 was the
pneumococcal one for protection against hepatitis.


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On 25/11/2025 12:20, Harry Bloomfield Esq wrote:

On 06/10/2025 12:47, kat wrote:

I had the RSV jab a week ago and have the flu and covid ones next week.

Which set me off, wondering what an RSV jab was, and why I couldn't remember having it, or having an invite to have it...

It said, those between 75 and 79, should have had an invite, but I don't remember one, so I've just rung my GP, who first suggested I wasn't eligible,
then worked out I'd had it last year, in September, and so didn't need it - it's
a one-off jab.

I must have had it alongside something else, maybe the shingles jab, for me to
not remember it?

Quite possible, maybe you were not sent an invitation, but they just said "while you are here"?

I got a text message invitation literally on my 75th birthday!
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On 25/11/25 12:20 pm, Harry Bloomfield Esq wrote:

On 06/10/2025 12:47, kat wrote:

I had the RSV jab a week ago and have the flu and covid ones next week.

Which set me off, wondering what an RSV jab was, and why I couldn't
remember having it, or having an invite to have it...

It said, those between 75 and 79, should have had an invite, but I don't remember one, so I've just rung my GP, who first suggested I wasn't
eligible, then worked out I'd had it last year, in September, and so
didn't need it - it's a one-off jab.

I must have had it alongside something else, maybe the shingles jab, for
me to not remember it?

Apparently, we octogenarians are considered disposable by the NHS
mandarins - I've certainly never been offered one.
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Bob Henson wrote:

On 25/11/25 12:20 pm, Harry Bloomfield Esq wrote:

I must have had it alongside something else, maybe the shingles jab, for
me to not remember it?

Apparently, we octogenarians are considered disposable by the NHS
mandarins - I've certainly never been offered one.

Me neither, though Marg has.
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On 26/11/2025 13:35, kat wrote:

Quite possible, maybe you-a were not sent an invitation, but they just
said "while you are here"?

I think that happened with my PSA test. I was never asked if I wanted
it, though I was having regular blood tests for other things. The next
thing I knew, I was told my PSA was high, and they wanted me to have an
urgent MRI, followed by the 'finger', followed by nothing found. Then
rinse and repeat a year later.

Only now I see, they are deciding whether the invites for PSA checks,
should be automatic, and discussion about MRI scans.
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On 28/11/2025 14:44, Harry Bloomfield Esq wrote:

On 26/11/2025 13:35, kat wrote:

Quite possible, maybe you-a were not sent an invitation, but they just said >> "while you are here"?

I think that happened with my PSA test. I was never asked if I wanted it, though
I was having regular blood tests for other things. The next thing I knew, I was
told my PSA was high, and they wanted me to have an urgent MRI, followed by the
'finger', followed by nothing found. Then rinse and repeat a year later.

Only now I see, they are deciding whether the invites for PSA checks, should be
automatic, and discussion about MRI scans.

They appear to have decided "not yet".

It seems a bit silly to me to restrict it to just a few people with a dodgy gene
first means they need to know they have a dodgy gene.
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