Do you have an appointment to receive your COVID-19 or flu vaccination this Sunday? Remember the clocks went back an hour.
Please aim to arrive no more than 10-15 mins before your appointment time to avoid unnecessary queues and dress for the wintry weather #GetVaccinated.
I had my booster and my flu jag last night around 7pm. All in all it took me and hour and I thought that was reasonable.
However, it was interesting to listen to some of the conversations in the queue of around 50 people at the Alexandria Leisure Centre in the Main Street.
A few elderly people there for their booster expressed dismay in the way that only Vale folk can that their appointment was not in Dumbarton but in Alexandria at a time when it was dark, cold and wet. And that there was no transport provided and few buses running. That the Renton Road between Dumbarton and Alexandria was closed in both directions, which meant a long de-tour. That the after-dark imposition was made despite the recent widespread surge in concern about women being attacked. And that those who took taxis had to pick up the tab which they couldn’t afford from their pension money.
“It’s just as well we didn’t have to go to Port Glasgow as was first suggested,” said one elderly lady. ” And anyway I wouldn’t have wanted to miss Strictly. I have still had to record it though. I definitely wouldn’t have gone there at this time of night.”
The out-of-touch Health Board, on which West Dunbartonshire is represented by the SNP Council administration leader, Cllr Jonathan McColl, and the SNP government led by Nicola Sturgeon and Humza Yousaf, have been boasting about how well the vaccine distibution programme has gone. I fear the truth of the matter is far from that. One woman in the Alexandria Centre summed it up in a word. “It’s a shambles and it’s been that way all day.”
Editor
Don’t be put off by the “shambles” – go out and get your booster jab.
