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Nice wee bit of emotional blackmail there about not being boosted.
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3 minutes ago, Left Back said:
Only if your boostered I think.
Or can prove a negative LFT
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To me learning to live with Covid involves making personal choices based on personal circumstances and individual attitude to risk not the First Minister instructing the whole country on what they can and cannot do. Allowing people to think for themselves is obviously not high on her agenda.
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7 hours ago, Thereisalight.. said:
I'll refrain from a heads gone until the announcement tomorrow, but I fear more of the same shit. Watched an English game for the first time in ages tonight and Old Trafford was almost full, barely a mask in sight and it was glorious to see (despite the fact I cant stand Man Utd). Yet we'll be soldiering on with 500 crowds and most clubs out of pocket playing these games.
Tomorrow I'm at a Glasgow Clan match. 200 people allowed in a near 4000 seater arena with no crowd restrictions in the actual shopping centre there. Pitiful, throw in the fact my Christmas gift to my mum of tickets for Strictly Come Dancing on the 1st weekend of Feb, plus my work continuing to be in limbo and little income coming in. Feel it will be a case of cheers Nic, Mums crying now. I'll be deflated with another 3 weeks minimum of this pish
The point re 200 in the arena and no restrictions on the shopping centre is a perfect example of the lunacy surrounding this latest round of protections.
In theory everyone with a ticket could meet in the food court but only the chosen 200 would be able to go through to the arena, makes nonsense at all.
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Just now, Bishop Briggs said:
Yes. No clear and obvious error imo.
It looked like Cavani ran into Ramsey.
That was my view of it, Ramsay stood his ground and like you say Cavani ran into him.
In rugby union you get to hear the discussion between the TMO and ref maybe something for football to consider.
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Maybe she'll come out and say she's going straight to full capacity for sports and licenced premises and shutting garden centres, shopping malls and bingo halls just to mix things up a bit.
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13 minutes ago, oaksoft said:
Until they sort out these lab delays, we simply cannot trust the case numbers to be remotely accurate.
That's despite them appearing to plummet.
Encouraging people not to test without good reason would be a good starting point.
Sticking a swab up your nose because the day of the week ends in a Y should not be starting point for our testing regime.
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30 minutes ago, Abdul_Latif said:
Yes, but they don’t even scratch the surface.
We want the Scandinavian social utopia, but are not willing to pay for it.
After seeing an advert on TV the other night I went online for a quote for private health insurance for 2 adults. It came back at £176. I have never looked for prices before so have no idea how this compares, however on the point re taxes would people rather pay that for their family to be covered or pay the same in extra tax on top of what they already pay for an improved NHS?
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33 minutes ago, HeartsOfficialMoaner said:
I'm not saying the decisions are not poor. I was asking your opinion on why they want to look like they care.
My opinion is based on almost two years of having additional restrictions than England, having restictions for longer periods of time than England, of the FM saying she is not being political and then making an overtly political point, repeated comments by the FM that she makes no apologies for restrictions, of veiled digs that she would do more if she could, repeated comments along the lines of we "just don't know" when erring on the side of caution.
Ultimately she will do anything she can to out care the Tories which the vast majority of her supporters just lap up rather than acting for the overall benefit of the country.
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12 minutes ago, HeartsOfficialMoaner said:
They make decisions to protect our health or they make decisions to win votes, or both. I don't think they make decisions just for something to do.
They certainly make poor decisions and plenty of them.
Do you consider the 500 limit at outdoor sporting events to be necessary or propotionate in light of England having lower case numbers per 100,00 and no crowd limits on "superspreader" events?
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4 minutes ago, HeartsOfficialMoaner said:
Why do they want to do that?
For the same reason they effectively shut down football, because they can.
I'd be delighted if they do away with restrictions on crowds and the licenced trade but on past experience I chose to answer the guys question as I did.
Shutting football down to teach a lesson on keeping your distance wasn't really that scientific or evidence based was it?
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7 hours ago, Lyle Lanley said:
Anyone else expecting the restrictions will be lifted in this week’s update?
Hope so but I have my doubts. The FM's rant about the suggestion in a newspaper article that free LFT's be withdrawn allied to the widely reported comments by Mr Yousaf that they do not intend to reduce self isolation makes me think they are intending to dig in and try and make a further point about how much more they care.
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1 hour ago, Big Fifer said:
Tuesday.
Had that meeting with my MSP today, around 2 hours. Will try post a summary tomorrow, prefer to do tasks like that when I'm being paid at work.
As an aside, as someone who often gets incredibly angry looking at the covid stuff (and indeed this thread) I would encourage everyone from the Main Players to the moonhowlers to engage democratically with your MSP on this stuff. Regardless of who they are, as someone who is really struggling with the restrictions continuing, posting of frothing-at-the-mouth paragraphs in this thread actually just makes it worse for me frankly. Get out and speak to the people who represent you - regardless of your views on things - it will make you feel much much better.
That's good to hear if your local MSP is engaging. I contacted ours a couple of times last year and it was party line central, every response could have come straight from a government press release. When he told me that fast food outlets were more important to keep open than gyms and sports centres I decided to stop wasting my time.
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22 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said:
Ellis Genge has just punched a guy square in the face, and tried to stick his thumb in the eye with the follow through.
Somehow that's only a yellow card
ETA:
From what I could hear there wasn't really much chat between the officals about the colour of the card.
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18 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:
The ‘arguments’ on here are not worth deconstructing. They are the mewlings of a tiny, tiny minority of the people of Scotland. They are also inconsistent.
Still waiting on your definition of a moonhowler from last night, a few ^^^ didn't really make much sense.
Something other than a gif, some smart comment or keyboard graphics would be nice.
For what its worth my opinion is that the current restictions are neither necessary nor proportionate and that they have been deeply flawed and of little value throughout other than being a vehicle for Nicola Sturgeon to try and appear more "caring". In my humble opinion her opinion poll ratings should not have been the litmus test for closing whole sectors of society. Time after time the SG has taken the easy option and gone for the same soft targets.
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1 minute ago, Granny Danger said:
Most of the people who post on this thread are moon howlers who are not in the least bit representative of the wider public.
I know this is stating the obvious but sometimes it’s necessary.
In your opinion what characteristics qualify as a moonhowler?
To me a moonhowler re Covid would be someone with a totally irrational, groundless fear of a virus which in reality is now no worse than the cold.
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7 minutes ago, Abdul_Latif said:
Think they are something like $15 in the USA.
We were £17.50 each for commercial tests for travel requirements.
$15 for a box of 7 tests would be approx £1.75 per test so not prohibitively expensive of anyone still feels the need to self test.
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Does anyone know what a box of LFTs would cost to buy?
It would be interesting to see if all of the oh so worried brigade make the effort to self fund their obsession.
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Maybe some of those who see this thread as an echo chamber could offer an opinion on how well or otherwise they consider the Scottish Government have handled the pandemic.
In particular I would be interested to hear if they think that the First Minister has been honest and truthful in all of her dealings with the Scottish public since March 2020?
Have the additional layers of protection imposed on Scotland made any significant difference to case numbers as compared to England?
Have the protections made sense or even been necessary or propotionate? For example did it make sense to close pubs but still allow offsales to continue?
Have certain business sectors been repeatedly subject of extra protections because they are easy targets whilst more difficult to deal with but much higher risk sectors been largely ignored?
Is the pandemic being used as a cover for years of under investment in the NHS?
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1 hour ago, Todd_is_God said:
RE: The hospital admission figures, what rationale was given for picking a timeframe of just 2 days for Greater Glasgow & Clyde? Both of which were weekend days (and one was New Year's day)? Interrogating the data my arse.
They've used just 2 health boards, used different timescales for both, and picked a time of year where incidental admissions are surely amongst their lowest?
Absolute charlatans.
This is a farce, in my previous job I had to collate weekly stats for submission to SG from teams across Scotland. All offices had to provide exactly the same data to exactly the same definition, it wasn't really that complex to organise.
They are either hiding something or utterly abysmal at their jobs.
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30 minutes ago, scottsdad said:
Exactly. Say we have 1000 folk in hospital. That's ~600 because of Covid - that's the news, the story. That's the number that should be used in making decisions. But by wording these things to try to keep folk thinking 1000 means 1000, then ultimately trust in the data will be undermined.
Surely trust in anything Covid related that we are told by the Scottish Government evaporated a long time ago. I'm currently at the stage where if the First Minister appeared on tv and said that it was Friday I would want to go and double check.
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As we hopefully return to more normal times was anyone on here ever contacted as a result to scanning QR code or leaving contact details in a pub, cafe etc?
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5 minutes ago, Thorongil said:
Collapse in cases and positivity rate today.
According to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social we are just entering the peak. More scaremongering or does he look at different figures from rest of us?
In good news the SG have agreed to do away with preflight testing etc in the same way as announced elsewhere earlier in the week.
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2 hours ago, oaksoft said:
I'm not sure it's just England either.
Mask wearing compliance seems to have really dropped up here recently.
I do think that the silent majority are just complying because it's the law and not because they genuinely care about it anymore. Social media is IMO giving a very false impression of government support for restrictions. You can add polls as well because people responding to polls are more likely to be political in their responses so you'll see polarisation in the results which probably doesn't exist in real life for the majority.
I can understand people being reticent around Christmas because they didn't want their holidays wrecked but I do get the sense that people are progressively reaching a point where they're done with it all.
The other evidence which points to this is the increasingly shrill tweets by the lockdown loonies who can clearly sense the game is getting away from them. Some twitter timelines are showing signs of heads gone. Gurdasani looks on the verge of a complete mental breakdown. People like George Monbiot are talking about bursting into tears on a daily basis. Pagel and the rest are under constant attack too and are showing signs of being rattled to f**k. When the public turns, the public turns.
I am only wearing a mask in the shops, bars etc so as not to potentially create a problem for the staff. Never wore one outside or more bizarrely in the car and as soon as they are removed as a protection I will not be wearing one.
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