Mass vaccination - an inside view

This somewhat reluctant vaccinee was one of several thousand to turn up today at NSW Health's mass COVID-19 vaccination centre at Olympic Park. We followed her progress through the system. And it was all rather smooth and impressive.

You make your online booking and turn up somewhere near the selected time. It's a short walk from either the train station or Car Park 3. You negotiate a small maze and a check-in stage.

Then there's perhaps 5 minutes before your number comes up.

 

 

 

A very pleasant nurse then runs through a whole lot of health questions, before running a needle into your arm. So maybe 5 minutes there.

And of course there's the obligatory 15 minute post-jab sit-down, so you can solve the Herald's Target puzzle.

All quite impressive really. Well done Gladys. If the federal government had been in charge of this place, they'd still be holding meetings about what colour direction signs they should put up, and which donor company should be given a few billion to run it.

For the record, you can get either AstraZeneca or Pfizer there, and the eligibility rules are rather more flexible than publicly stated, if you have a cooperative GP and knowledge of the 'special' booking site.

Gladys

It's not been a great year for waratah flowers, our state's floral emblem. Sometimes they're everywhere and looking glorious. This year they've been few and far between.

I did spot this flowering plant over the road though. It's looking a bit sad and past its prime. I'll call it Gladys.

Crossing the bridge on renewables

Otherwise known as 'Let's vote out Gladys and her troglodyte government'. It's State Election time this Saturday, and as your fearless correspondent is a staunch supporter of renewable energy and a member of Solar Citizens, he was happy to participate in a fun little piece of electioneering on the Nepean River at Penrith the other day. See here: Crossing the bridge on renewables