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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gennepher" data-source="post: 2405244" data-attributes="member: 238814">I gave you a funny emoji [USER=526020]@Mrs T 123[/USER] but you need a hug too. I know what you mean. I realised when I had my first jab (I have not been offered a second one yet ), but some of the female 'nurses' were obviously in training with giving injections. I say this because they were apparently practicing in their own cubicles with no patients and coming back out to check with the guy on the computer, who is doing all the paperwork, that they had the correct something or other in the needles they had just drawn out of the little vial. But they were not actually giving injections at this point. These ladies were the 'normal' looking ones, that is without ear piercings or tattoos.But many of the others, in this case the men, looked like they had come from the local biker gang that ride three-wheeler trikes around here in a cavalcade (with their families, and children in their Sunday best as you used to say), and the bikers are tattooed to within an inch of their lives with various piercings. These are the appearances of some of the people who are giving the injections, the trained people.  I didn't feel I was in an NHS rainbow hospital.   Like you say, I felt I had walked into the local biker cafe (they are lovely kind people even though they can look fearsome), and not into an NHS Covid vaccine inoculation hospital centre. Appearance is nothing to judge people by. I know that. But our preconceptions of what we expect people to look like in certain situations EG in a medical situation in the UK, can give us a bit of a tummy flip, and we can be thinking  what have we just walked into. Have we walked into a biker cafe, or have we walked into a medical hospital?</blockquote>

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