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How do they then spin increasing case numbers with increased restrictions whilst other places have plateaued or reducing case numbers with less restictions and no crowd bans in place?

Sadly some people probably wish this was the case

You would have thought by now it would be possible for SG to simultaneously issue guidance to affected sectors as the First Minister was making an announcement containing changes to restrictions? The current mo smacks of still making things up on the back of the proverbial cigarette packet.

On a rare joint trip to Tesco yesterday, she drives past dozens of empty car parking spaces to get as close as possible to the door. She then fails to find a suitbably big space, ie no cars on either side and then proceeds to drive past the same empty spaces as she tries to get down the next lane for another shot at the front door. We could have been and got half of the shopping before she finally parked the car. Apparently I have no patience.

If the priority is to minimise cases and protect the NHS shutting the schools makes more sense than banning vaccinated adults standing outside in the fresh air for a couple of hours.

Large scale sporting events risk being superspreaders so shut them down, schools and school age children are proven to be superspreaders so she chooses to keep them open. Basically public health only takes precedence when it suits her agenda?

She'll start by sighing and rolling her eyes at the person who asked the question then pluck some record investment figures that no one one ever challenges out of thin air and finish by saying no one cares more about the NHS than she does. Job done

We live in North Lanarkshire and during the first lockdown post March 2020 the two council run childrens playparks were chained up as was the one in our estate. I walked past two of them everyday and they were most definately shut.

Can drive 30 miles to Wishaw because its in the same local authority but not 5 miles up the road to Banknock because its a different area. Can see family in a restaurant but not at home. Keep high risk areas open but shut sectors with almost zero cases. Shut the pubs but allow endless off sales. Shut gyms but allow fast food to stay open. Shut wee local shops as they are non essential but allow supermarkets to sell pretty much the same stuff. Vaccines are the way ouy of this. Vaccine passports are the way out of this. Paying for pre and post flight tests when travelling from a country with significantly lower case rates than Scotland. Selective governmental approval/disapproval of large public gatherings. Can meet family in their garden but you can't use their toilet. Just a few of my own issues with some of the nonsensical protections we have had enforced on us. The suggestion that disagreeing with the rules means you care less is nonsense. We just care about different things, i would argue that those clinging onto pointless restictions are being even more selfish with no regards to anything other than their illogical and ungrounded fears.

If everywhere was open and we could go to the football on Sunday etc people may be a bit more receptive to further jags. Get more injections but don't go out isn't really the best message is it?

Work colleague had this for a few days and asked her GP about it. In her case it was swollen lymph nodes and was told that it was a recognised but uncommon side effect but that it should be seen as a positive as it was indicative of the vaccine doing its job.

The sensible move would be to have one of her fabled adult conversations and say sorry guys, I've messed up big style this time by overreacting and jumping the gun on restictions. Some contrite, humility would be a good starting point, won't pay the bills or get people's jobs back but when you're in a hole stop digging.

Hopefully people are starting to see through her pathetic clenched fist twitter pics when Scotland win a game, her disdain for football and football supporters could not be any clearer.

Wish someone, Ross, Sarwar would call her out on her use of language. Suggesting the vulnerable or those with high levels of covid anxiety stay at home would offer them some protection, everything else is an unnecessary and overreaching restriction. If its as bad as she makes out schools should have been shut last week and the rest of the restrictions imposed from today.

You really couldn't give her a red neck with a blow torch

I thought the whole thing about being in hospital was to be made well again, in this case that objective appears to have been achieved. You'd think the nurses would be happy about being so successful.

Just for arguments sake what would be the public take on extending the Covid Passport scheme for access to NHS sevices? If the passport scheme is genuinely about reducing risk in cinemas and football matches surely it would reduce risk in what will be one of the highest risk settings in the country.

Maybe we have been lied to and misled?

Can only hope Glasgow have their 80 minute game on today rather than the usual 60

Seems totally reasonable and sensible, therefore unlikely to ever happen.

But he did give Eusebi a good review which suppose helps balance up trying to scare away their customers. Buffoon.

Out tonight for dinner with friends, had lunch in a pub in St Andrews last weekend and day out planned in Edinburgh on Monday. Stuff this hubble, bubble toil and trouble fear mongering nonsense for a game of soldiers, we shall all be a long time dead which in all probability will not be as a result of covid.

Jesus suffering f**k. There'll be an omnibus on Sunday at this rate. Box set DVDs of her greatest Covid speeches would be a great seller

Article on the BBC news app this morning with the First Minister warning of yet further restictions on high risk settings, eg hospitality. At the same time she willfully chooses to keep open schools which have for months been the setting for vast numbers of infections, she may be following something but it isn't the science. Anyone for a game of Ker Plunk after playtime??

Apart from something small like a book or some beers we haven't bought each other presents for a few years on the basis that if either of us wanted clothes, shoes etc etc we'd have just bought it regardless. What we have started doing is booking city breaks for the early part of the New Year when we can visit somewhere new, stay in a nice hotel and spend sometime together. Omicron dependent but we have New York booked for February, didn't t get away last year but year before we were in Venice and before that Berlin. Maybe this wouldn't suit everyone but works for us.