@bruces
Perhaps because a lot of the resistance to GMO foods was not so much to the foods themselves¹, but to the business practises based on their use. The tying of producers to one product, that can only be sown once, and its accessories. The resultant monocultures. The law-suits if seeds drift and grow elsewhere.
¹Golden rice, good. Longer keeping tomatoes, possibly good, I only tried them as paste. Poplar trees that need less chemicals to make paper, admittedly not food, but good.

@goatsarah
Oh. Light bulb moment.
I thought I'd managed to catch an atypical cold despite all the making and hand washing.
This makes more sense; I'm 11 days in and been feeling off for about the last 5.

@anubis2814 @goatsarah
I don't know when it changed, but the eligibility is simpler now than it used to be; between 70 and 80 instead of the tighter cohort it used to be.
I'm sorry to hear about your co-worker. It's miserable at any age, though not, I think, infectious in its own right. In

@goatsarah
I queried my GP about shingles and MMR and had twin punctures in my arm that afternoon. But, since I'm to old to have any of the MMR vaccines, it's a full course not a booster.
I have the impression they are keen to get them done.
Achey and cross the next day, but just a bit tender in the upper arm the day after.

@Edent
So true.