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A one-off incident, what when he drop kicked it or when his kid dropped it in the counter for him to whack it? I hope the RSPCA can prosecute him and at least ban him from owning any pets. West Ham have only just signed him, so agree with you, can't see them doing anything other than publicly condemn him for his actions.

Seen some comments about him & Joni Mitchell both having polio as kids, and that's the reason for their stance on anti-vaccine stuff. Will either of them miss much cash from not having their music on Spotify?

The stats on overall admissions don't show anything, but I think that's probably just because so few children have been admitted prior to Omicron, and even though they are rising, they're still tiny compared to other admissions.

Isn't there two kinds of labs, the show dog that tend to be larger with a wider head, and the working dogs that are much leaner. Or maybe that's not what makes the difference and its just your luck whether you get a chilled, lazy lab or a crazy, energetic one?

I went from a lucky punt with my first guess yesterday (after reading something about dry January), to swearing at it today. Got 3 yellow after second attempt, and still failed.

Entertainment value for everyone else. Why does he look so much better when playing for Switzerland?

Hey if your comprehension is a bit ropey, don't try to blame me

Aye in a thread about covid, about Yousaf's hopeless response to questions about Covid patients in hospital, I suddenly started talking about all hospital admissions. What are you a politician?

Exactly. In theory it makes some sense, keep all covid patients in one hospital and all other patients in another, no problem with infecting all the non-Covid patients then. But what country in the world has either the spare hospitals or the additional staff that it would need. In the UK we don't even have the staff for the hospitals we've got.

I'm sure I read that they'd managed to catch up on a bit of the backlog with the figures on the 27/28th too. Think it'll probably be the end of next week or even the week after before the figures are less skewed.

Nearly 1000 more in hospital today compared to yesterday, at least according to the governments own coronavirus dashboard? 31-12-2021 12,395 30-12-2021 11,452 In the last two days England has recorded over 2000 admissions (up to the 29th). London has gone from just over 100 admissions per day at the start of the month to 450-500. Scotland's last date for admissions was the 27th and it had a bit of a jump to 111. It's really England that's seeing the biggest rise in hospital numbers so far.

In theory yes, but in reality, where could they have been treated? If it's really a failing, its by every government, except maybe China, and who knows what they did to deal with the problem.

That's it exactly. I think the Scottish Government may end up following England and cutting the isolation time from 10 to 7, but not just because England has, and if they don't it's not just because Germany for example haven't. That's just bizarre, what about those wanting to cut it from 7 to 5, should we do it just because someone else is? Everyone is weighing it up between the risks of how infectious people after 7 days and how many staff are off for those extra three days, that's all. Are Isn't Germany still 14 days?

Your last sentence, yep can't disagree with that. He sounded clueless and that was a bit of a disaster of an interview for him and the Scottish Government.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/29/how-can-we-measure-the-true-scale-of-uk-covid-hospital-admissions Omicron is making it worse in terms of people getting it after being admitted, which makes sense considering how transmissible it is. So data just released today is making it more like 60%.

Yousaf comes across as an idiot in that interview, but why is Geissler using a made up 50% figure (did it not come from the Daily Mail/Telegraph, hardly a reliable source) when the most recent general consensus is that 70% of people admitted to hospitals in England are being treated for Covid? For crowds, I do think they underestimate the impact is has on many people not being able to go to games. And I don't get the 500 limit, they should have set it at a % of capacity. Even with the argument about people travelling to games and mixing in pubs beforehand, the 500 limit seems incredibly arbitrary. But the whole reducing isolation time, use of vaccine passports, limiting crowds at games as if it's a clear argument that the Scot Gov are the only one's not following clear evidence that these are all right/wrong is nonsense. Clearly there are plenty of other countries doing similar to Scotland (the rest of the UK apart from England for one thing), Germany's restrictions still exist from the spike they had in Nov/early Dec, their cases have been on a downward trend for much of December but they know Omicron will drive them up and are continuing with & bringing in even more restrictions. Yet here we've got so many people wailing about how England is doing it right and we aren't just because people are unhappy with any restrictions.

5/6 for me too, thought it was a really tough one. Even when I had three letters (one in the wrong place) it still took me an age to come up with the correct word.

There's been early lab results that show while it is more transmissible it has less impact on the lungs. Which is good, but it is better at infecting and a higher viral load might mean less of an immune response, so it's not completely clear cut.

Drakeford is saying fairly similar stuff to Sturgeon, but Wales have by far the least Omicron cases in the UK. Like the rest of us their cases have been high for a while but still flat for now whereas the numbers are going up for the rest of us. Maybe they're just delaying it to the 27th to get past Christmas. Got to wait a week or two before hospital numbers will go up, if indeed they do go up. There is some hope in the data from South Africa but at the same time, Norway appears a bit ahead of us with Omicron and their hospital numbers are beginning to climb higher than in their last big wave. I think the likes of Sturgeon and Drakeford are just terrified of getting it wrong and would rather be cautious when their advisors are telling them even if it's milder, the possibility of there being so many cases will still lead to lots of hospitalisations. If they're right, I'm hoping it will be a short, sharp, spike because that's what its beginning to look like in South Africa. Because I've got to say, I was utterly convinced we'd never see another lockdown, but France shutting the UK out, Netherlands in lockdown, I think a short spike is the best we can hope for.

Arthur Labinjo-Hughes yet to be laid to rest amid 'family row' https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/local-news/arthur-labinjo-hughes-yet-laid-22359931

It seems it was fishermen that stood in front of the lifeboat and shouted at them not to rescue any more of them.

Might depend how 'early' you are for your booster? I know someone who's already had theirs a couple of weeks early, but that was while they were at a lettered appointment for a flu jag. If it's not until next week, since they're changing the rules to all adults and minimum 3 months, and since you're there with a booked appointment, pretty unlikely they'll not just give you it.

Many people look at him compared to van Dijk at Liverpool though, and even when he's playing well, he's half the player van Dijk is. But Man U paid more for him.

Yes, the high levels of immunity some half-wits have been talking about for months, that's not stopped the UK being labelled plague island because of our continued high levels of cases since the summer and that are continuing right now. One of these days, it might come true. I fucking hope so anyway. Unlucky? At least I'm not the guy who thinks we're in a better position than the rest of Europe despite having double the number of deaths in the past few months, and despite only a handful of countries in Western Europe having higher case numbers than we do currently. Germany aren't even as high as the UK yet, but while they view it as an emergency, we've got people like you who apparently think, we're doing fine.

Because there doesn't need to be some made up benchmark figure just to satisfy you. If you can't accept that hospitals in the UK are under pressure right now and have been for months with the military being asked to help out, surgeries being cancelled, sky high admission waits, hospitals asking people to only attend if its life threatening etc, and instead ask for a figure to pulled from thin air, and for peak months for respiratory viruses when all of the stuff has been happening and we're not even in that period yet. You think that's a reasonable question. You're off your head.