Quote: A Horseradish @ 7th April 2020, 9:37 PMAnd it's a great way to get off swimming.
Is this the same BCG that was compulsory in school in 1975 and which left many of us merely watching chlorine for three months while picking at the scab of our allergic rashes?
And if so, is it now safe for me/us to go out and play?
All this staying out of the public gene pool by staying in to watch paint dry has made me deeply ambitious.
I want to break the record for the person who has dived in to life save the greatest number of pyjamas.
FACT CHECK
In the UK, all schoolchildren between 10 and 14 were injected with the vaccine between 1953 and 2005. Boris Johnson was aged between 10 and 14 in the years 1974 to 1979. He currently lives at St Thomas'S Hospital - in intensive care.
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Correction - not ALL school children. What they did was give you what was commonly known as the skin test - a wee scratch on the arm. It either swelled or it didn't and this was checked a few days later. Can't remember which way round, but one set of kids then got the BCG vaccination and the rest only got a chest x-ray because they'd obviously been in touch with TB and had developed an immunity. I remember being taken with a busload of classmates to a place in Glasgow for an x-ray. When I was quite young, I spent a lot of time with a young aunt who died of TB when she was just 28, hence my immunity - luckily I'd never actually caught it