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Surely encouraging otherwise fit and healthy people to mix and be socially active will increase community immunity and thereby hasten the end of vulnerable groups having to continue shielding? As we have seen lockdowns and restictions may buy time but they do not seem a fix in terms of eliminating the virus.

Is it not about time to get rid of all restrictions and let nature take its course rather than maintaining the facade that political leaders are like modern day King Canutes? Maybe its been luck or a reasonable immune system but to the best of my knowledge I've managed to avoid the plague despite working throughout, being abroad twice this year , going to a number of large scale sporting events, attended concerts, been to cafes bars and resturants, etc, etc. I deal with risk assessment on a daily basis at work and am reasonably comfortable with accepting that everything we do involves some element of risk and acknowledging that sometimes you just have to pick the least bad option so struggle to see how even considering a return to increased restrictions can ever be seen as a positive. Surely increased restrictions will delay effective community based immunity whilst further damaging business and increasing cases of people struggling with mental health issues as a result of the past 20 months.?

Problem is that by "caring more" about a single virus which by and large is non problemtic in terms of symptoms or outcomes she has wreaked havoc on whole swathes of other illnesses and wider society in general. Virtue signalling politics at their very worst.

Given that we are all going to die at some point is there any logic to devoting so much NHS capacity to one particular illness to the exclusion and detriment of so many others? Heart attack, stroke, cancer, hit by a bus, Covid...... maybe different routes we're all going to end up the same and to be honest i'd rather make the most of what's left than sitting about the house waiting for the next round of half baked restrictions to be announced.

Robertson went off injured on Monday night

Kettling as in the police tactic not a pot of Tetley

Unless they have kettled the traffic, there will be nothing coming towards me thereby allowing a quick getaway?

I assume that in most instances there is more than one way to get to a hospital? If I was taking someone to an appointment i think i turn the car and find another way to get there rather than sit and wait for the superglue to wear off.

I'll play centre forward for Scotland before that happens.

Corner of North and East, was a bit of a joke and from what I saw last night and at Murrayfield on Saturday not one iota of public safety will have been protected as a result of the introduction of the app.

We had guys cunningly walking off the pavement and onto the adjoining grass to avoid the covid checking stewards or even more brazenly some managed to bypass them by being unable to open their app and being ushered through and out the road. Bigger pantomine than the Pavilion and marginally less funny. Not blaming the individuals probably on less than minimum wage but those who came up with the buffoonery behind deserve to be roundly booed.

If the brakes on your car start to fail you wouldn't fit new wiper blades and expect that to stop your car more efficiently so why does the collective mind of two political parties think that targetting areas in the main frequented by adults will solve a problem, if there is actually a problem, being driven by cases amongst children? Unpalatable as it may be if the SG are serious about tackling what they obviously consider to be a problem they should be shutting schools and not aiming for the same old low hanging fruit.

If the rise in cases is being driven by under 20s why target pubs and other such businesses where schoolchildren don't attend. Just the latest example of doing something for the sake of it, totally pointless but potentially damaging harming to businesses.

From my own exoereince local authority care in the area where I work is on its knees. Senior managets are having to plug operational gaps and on occasion deliver care. Two of the three social work service managers have left and not been replaced and the one remained submitted their resignation followed by a sickline last week. Purely anecdotal I know but as staff leave or go off sick more is expected of those who remain causing more of them to go off sick etc, it really does seem like a vicious circle. .

Guy at work this morning said he'd turned up for his flu jab somewhere in Falkirk but was days early for his covid booster and got told to come back when it reached 6 months.

Was if just a coincidence that the BBC ran a story yesterday about a nurse who was inconsolable as a result of the pressure she was under and then later in the day Mr Swinney is warning us all of incoming restictions?

New CDC rules for entry requirements to the US stipulate that your test before travel has to be witnessed by a medical professional. Some companies are offering a video consultation so you can be viewed swabbing yourself, one place in Glasgow has a walk-in service. This might work for relatively small numbers travelling but would appear to be totally unworkable everytime someone want to go the cinema or for a beer.

Good to hear that but my recent experience differs. Adult son who is still at home and is fit and healthy wakes up a few months ago and is barely able to walk due to previously unknown pain in his ankle. Persists for a few days by which time he is having to use crutches to get about the house so eventually phones the GP. Speaks to Dr on the phone with no video aspect to the consultation or offer of a face to face appt and is prescribed amitriptilne. These knock him sideways and do nothing other than mask the pain. Months later it turns out he has artrithis on his ankle. As an aside his sister in law in the States hears of this and is astonished that he hasn't just booked an appointment with a consultant, only to be told that that is not how it works here.

https://www.palmcoastobserver.com/article/floridas-covid-case-rate-is-now-among-the-lowest-in-the-us?__cf_chl_captcha_tk__=pmd_I_s2Jks.7niTYGwySzNKVP.z1_eqzZy5j4qIo8HFBWs-1635668281-0-gqNtZGzNA1CjcnBszQjR If the contents of this article quoting figures from the CDC are to be belived what was once the Covid denier and anti restriction capital of the world is now light years in front of us in terms of cases. 21 cases per 100,000 across the country, as low as 9 in Florida with hardly a mask or lockdown in sight when we still have villages and single schools with more cases, somethings not right somewhere. I can't imagine they are testing nearly as many people as we are but even allowing for that falling hospitlisations would suggest that there is no great increased risk in not testing thousands of healthy people every day.

Has anyone been at football or some other non nightclub setting and been asked to show their "covid passport"? Been at football twice now and not been asked or seen anyone else look like they were having to show any documentation to get in. Not sure the validity of the attendance numbers as a deciding point anyway, if i go to a 9,000 seat stadium or a 40,000+ seat stadium I will likely have the same number of people in close proximity to me entering or sitting at my seat, my breath and that of others can only go so far so i'm not really sure of the public health benefits of setting criteria on the basis of attendance, if there is indeed any benefit at all in the entire passport scenario.

Just had a look on the status App to see when I'm eligible for a booster and it now has a timer below the QR code, presumably a "safety" measure to stop screenshots being shared. Maybe other people have had this before but it was the first I've noticed it.

Pretty sure that headline didn't reflect the full story, they did have a Ring doorbell but the CCTV cameras were more of a problem than the Ring. Don't recall seeing that a Ring doorbell was by itself unlawful

I have no idea about how academia works in terms of the advertisement and short listing etc but surely some responsibility must lie with whoever gave him the job? If his reputation was as well known as it would appear its a bit of a surprise his interview score wasn't scored a measly 0.5 behind the next best candidate.

Surely its time for SG to come out announce a delay in the requirement to produce proof of double vaccination. They have clearly failed to provide the public with the means to comply with the law and as such until they do its implementation should end until this is no longer the case.

Tried last night and again this morning but still not recognising my drivers licence picture. Saying its been busy isn't really good enough given the glee with which Mr Swinney announced to Parliament that the app was available.