Just lately they have been vaccinating people against influenza here. That’s not a particularly unusual thing in the winter, I guess. What I did find unusual was the letter I was sent about it. All of the following quotes are genuine and come directly from this letter.
Being banged up is a medical condition!
Last year, the flu vaccine was found to be effective in <3% of those who received it. The Medical Committee that meets each year to predict which viral strains to prepare for, got it wrong (or the vile virus mutated). Let's hope they got it right this Winter.
Several years ago, reluctantly, I chose to have the injection and apart from a small reaction one year, I have had no problems. I do have a chest infection at the minute which has kaiboshed a lot of my plans/activities. When I was doing my time, I was registered as a Sikh so I could grow my hair to my ankles and have a hobby. When I came down with flu, one very interesting Winter, I was confined to my cell. On the outside of my door was a card with the words, SIKH IN CELL.
Great! But are you saying that being registered as a Sikh entitled you to grow your hair and entitled you to have a hobby, or that it entitled you to grow your hair as a hobby?!
I wonder what will happen if/when the NHS is privatised.
When the NHS is privatised I suspect we’ll see a much clearer return of the class divide emerging in society generally. In prisons it will have little effect. Most prison health care has been contracted out already. I don’t know who picks up the bill, but we are currently provided for by ‘Spectrum’ rather than the NHS.
Answer to your query regarding my long lost hair is Both!
I wonder who is behind Spectrum but, hang on, isn’t that revealed in the new James Bond movie? I will check this out. Am on holiday at the minute and wish you and yours a Happy Xmas And a free New Year.
By the way, we used to get our annual cup of coffee and a mini Cadbury bar on Crimbo Day.