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is it? i think once you take population size into account we don't look too good either? We're also not the thinnest or healthiest bunch around either

464 1.8% Hospitals & ICU down but no figures Presume no deaths otherwise would have been mentioned

I've got a really sinking feeling that cumings' telling tales is going to have massive ramifications for all us rational minded people A lot of stars came together to make covid the menace that it was, -china's dodgy data, highly contagious, Enough of a fatality rate that when combined with trasmission rates would kill a lot of people, airborne, Asymptomatic transmission & long incubation perioid. the kind of things that sort of made lockdown unavoidable at least in the early first wave. But now that all of this government incompetence has been blasted out in the open , i fear that the lovejoys of the world will start demanding lockdowns and the like every time any sort of new threat appears anywhere. The government will not be able to give them satisfactory reassurance that lockdowns are unnecessary this time because it is now public knowledge how fucking clueless they were last year. i worry that we're going to see far more snap cancellations, international travel restrictions , potential quarantine for international arrivals imposed on a whim and costly insurance to cover you should you get caught up in such shite

people i know i AUS/NZ are absolutely terrified of the virus as if it meant certain death , whereas we all know about 10 folk whov had it and had nothing more than a week in their bed with some lemsip

if this current rate of cases doesnt transfer into significant increases in hospitalisations, serious illness & death in 2-3 weeks time then the vaccines have well and truly pumped this virus and are now just passing it about in their own half waiting for full time

It’s shite like this that gives me the fear

going by some of what he's said, you wouldn't fancy this government to competently order or manage his assassination anyway. he'l be fine, sadly

WTF is going on up here with gigs like this. That's equivalent to a UK figure of about 6000+ and we are seeing nothing near that outwith Scotland ??? pish weather keeping folk indoors?

I’m not sure if this is what you’re asking but if you mean people who have conservative & right of centre ideology who support independence? Then yes there are bound to be a significant minority who mostly vote snp If there ever was independence then I imagine the parliament would become dominated by a social democratic party made up of majority current snp members and some labour lib/ labs And a new “ conservative “party made up of current moderate tories and the more right wing snp members. With the greens further to the left and some sort of British nationalist nostalgia party further to the right who would oppose EU membership You’d likely find that the SD would be dominant like the tories are in the uk with “conservatives” winning sporadically whenever SD fall out of favour But you never know, independence could be such a shock to the system that it changes the voting preferences radically Only one way to find out...

f**k knows mate, i never mentioned anti English racism or the yes movement at wll in my post

well she doesn't know where we're going , but at least she can say where we've been. so really , we just don't know

she doesn't work for the Scottish government, She's just a talking head . She works for one of the edinburgh universities but i can't remeber which one

so you're not a gammon then? not all people with right wing views are perma seething, there are plenty who view money and personal choice in this way But there are plenty who fall into the -anything new = silly nonsense category and they are mostly right wing ETA when Micheal Gove said that people had had enough of experts , he was telling the truth. But it's quite a sad state of affairs when that's how a large number of people make their mind up in this country and politicians like him make capital out of it. What he really could have said was " people aren't interested in facts or the truth, they want leaders who will tell them what they want to hear and confirm what they believe to be true "

Where i work, if you're off, someone on their rest day off has to come out and cover you. They get paid for it obviously but to call in sick especially at short notice, on nights, at the weekends or on public holidays is always treated as suspicious until proven otherwise

i'd rather just suffer at work than have the mrs do my tits in at home tbh

i would quite like to be able to decide that IF, falkirk are at home & IF the mrs is busy doing something else & therefor won't give me grief and IF i can be arsed and IF any of my mates are going, i might be able just to make my mind up on the day or night before to go or not,

is she gettin the lovejoys telt? please let this be

You'd think she/they are smarter than us fitbaw forum numpties, if levels are up and down and restrictions re- imposed theres simply not a chance they will be adhered to , they must know this and take it into account

Always wondered, what makes someone turn gammon? it can't just be a resistance to change can it? they seem to hate everything from foreigners to electric cars , cyclists and windmills? a lot of their opposition to covid measures goes beyond thinking that they are disproportionate and ill thought out ( they are) and seems to stem from a more general feeling of not wanting to be told what to do in regards to their own behaviour. it really just seems like a general dislike of anything new , new things are generally better than old things tho, what a silly thing to get in a rage about

not really, that's exactly what we did until it was impossible to ignore it any longer

The concern is the Scottish government shite the bed and roll back on everything to appease the lovejoys

Ohh this is fun What exactly counts as the central belt? Just the M8 corridor? M8 plus Falkirk & Stirling ? What about the south of fife? The top end of Ayrshire round where most it’s population live? Is it too much to take in north fife Perth and Dundee? They are only an hour from Edinburgh & Glasgow Who decides

i know about this, and it's not you i'm aiming this at but others who perhaps use it to justify their preference, Scotland being the way it is , the roads are heavily biased towards big population centres, which favours the central belt, & south . the majority of your drive from Brechin to Dalbeatie or Berwcik will be on motorway or dual carriageway where as the drive to Wick or Inverness will not. i know that sounds like a reason to put angus in the south but then with the reasons of balance taken into account, angus is in the northern half of scotland, if there are any long journeys to be taken to play in a regional league, they should be in the north

Yes, because your in the north

313* new cases of COVID-19 reported 12,177* new tests for COVID-19 that reported results 2.8% of these were positive 0 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive (noting that Register Offices are now generally closed at weekends) 5 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19 94 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19 3,121,945 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination and 1,852,179 have received their second dose