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3 minutes ago, djchapsticks said:
I understand the point about being realistic but the rhetoric of 'possibly maybe a second lockdown but maybe not' of the last few days from a completely fractured government is certainly not helpful.
The first lockdown served a purpose in curbing it but always came with the caveat that it was a necessary step to drive the virus down and most importantly, the goal that the sacrifice would hopefully keep numbers down for a long period. We've now seen though that this is not the case. The lockdown itself lasted longer than the length of time the numbers stayed down.
We've now learned that whilst driving it down through a complete shutdown of everything is possible, keeping it down is a whole different story. I fully understand bringing in certain restrictions at this point but a blanket lockdown again will drive numbers down and physical and mental illness up, especially at a time of year when people naturally suffer more in normal circumstances. If we do lockdown again we will almost certainly push the numbers lower like last time but then in 3 months after ending lockdown, we'll be back in the same place again.
Back in the same place except a vast number of companies will have liquidated and millions unemployed
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16 minutes ago, ICTChris said:
Saw a tweet today referencing this quote, by a former minister, about the grouse shooting exemption.
Choirs have been associated with dozens of .super-spreader events.
Here's a link to a paper on aerosol transmission within a choir practice.
https://twitter.com/jljcolorado/status/1306450428867964930?s=20
Choirs should just be banned on a matter of principle anyway
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1 hour ago, Bairnardo said:
See this lockdown chat that seems to rearing its head, are they going to shut down the football again? I'm not even sure of that's a stupid question or not. It just seems like we are calling it a lockdown but the chat doesnt seem to be anything like the first one.
I mean, are we really going to be going back ridiculous queues and one way systems at the shops for example?In time, probably
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25 minutes ago, DeeTillEhDeh said:
I don't think we are either - they'll call it a lockdown to look tough but it will be pretty much an extension of the local restrictions.
At first
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24 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said:
I see the BBC have u-turned following the backlash to their announcement that they were stopping live coverage of the SG daily briefing. To be continued after all.
Yes, but with other 'perspectives'
What a nonsense
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45 minutes ago, hk blues said:
My son (8) has been doing it for a month or now - he loves it. But, it does need a fair bit of support from a parent so might not work for all.
Good is working for you but won't for so many, is tantamount to a generation going uneducated
This could go on for years
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1 hour ago, madwullie said:
While true, the only reason we think kids need to be educated the way we currently educate them is becuase it's the way we've always done it.
This is the absolute perfect time to explore other methods of teaching and learning, with the focus NOT on trying to make it as normal as possible, but on trying to give the best education experience possible.
Sadly Lord McConnell saw a bandwagon and a chance to make a bit of political capital and drag himself towards, but not to, relevance. So he attached himself to some bunch of covid deniers and rode the wave and forced the govt's hand to promise that kids would go back as normal, rather than the blended model that had been planned for for some time. And here we are
The best education experience possible is being in school
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4 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said:42 minutes ago, Binos said:Not educating a generation of children is not an option
Exactly but he thinks the wee scamps in places like Greenock and Port Glasgow will respond well to home learning.....but we all know that even he realises that isn't true, he's just gone beyond the point of no return. It may well come to pass that we do return to a blended model which he would no doubt rejoice in but the stark fact is a fair chunk of the parents and pupils in Scotland simply won't engage that way, that was abundantly apparent pre summer holidays and that was with millions at home with the time available due to furlough which wont be the case (or so Sunak maintains) the next time around but hey ho just cast them adrift, chuck them on the scrap heap.
No kids anywhere will respond well to home learning
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11 hours ago, virginton said:
When in doubt a useless government will always push the 'blame pubs' button, despite them telling anyone who'd listen that they don't actually know where the virus is.
Who had 'two weeks' on the sweep for how long it would take full-time schooling across the UK to completely obliterate the country's virus control and testing capacity (the two of course being linked)? It's almost as if that was a terrible idea all along.
Not educating a generation of children is not an option
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12 minutes ago, welshbairn said:
Who's going to stop you? They've issued general guidelines to try and reduce transmission with no means of enforcing them unless you really take the pish. It's up to you to interpret them with some common sense.
No it's not
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The entire psg/Marseille incident was handbags at dawn and a dive fest looking to get others sent off
The worst of modern football
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Never ever a free kick in lead up to that goal
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9 minutes ago, Scotty Tunbridge said:
Correctly overturned, no idea what the ref was thinking or why he was so quick to flash the red in the first place.Cause they're itching to give red cards and penalties
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1 hour ago, JTS98 said:
I find it bizarre that cricket players from a country like Pakistan, riven with divisions and injustices of its own, and whose players come from disparate ethnic groups and often have grown up or lived abroad as minorities themselves, can be criticised for not seeing it as a priority to signal their solidarity with a political movement of a country that is often at loggerheads with their own, and which many Pakistanis (and their government) see as the main destabilising force in their neighbourhood.
It's a special kind of ignorance that demands that this is an issue the Pakistanis should be pumped up about.
And, anyway, they're fucking cricket players. Why do they have a responsibility to involve themselves at all? They're just playing some fucking ODIs!
Are you not aware you're living in 21st century Britain
It became the same with the poppies a few years ago
Anyone who didn't wear a poppy became the devil
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17 hours ago, Ron Aldo said:
You think the transfer market in England can't get anymore daft then Villa go out and spend circa £30 million on a guy from the Championship.
I know times change but it was only 15 years ago that £30 million would get you a genuinely world class striker. These days it gets you a striker who averages a goal roughly every 3 games and has never played at a higher level than the second tier.Maupay went to Brighton from the same club for £20m the season before, and his goals kept the club up
So I suppose it's keep your club up inflation
Whole thing is a nonsense of course
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Why was it ok that Man city were allowed to be bought by a country but not ok for Newcastle to be bought by a country?
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Cheers
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3 minutes ago, G51 said:
Cracking free kick from Hornby, great save from the Lithuania keeper
You got a link to the YouTube channel
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31 minutes ago, dirty dingus said:
Marshall was our MOTM, Christie flatters to decieve, Dykes took his goal well and also done good work when defending, Palmer had a 15 min spell when he looked good going forward. Armstrong, Fleck and McLean done nothing of note in midfield and McTominey was lost at centre back and a penalty waiting to happen. The Czech reserves were by far the better team.
The Czech reserves reserves, who had 19 shots to our 6 and 8 corners to our 0
Still, miracles greatly received
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If we continue with a back three I don't think we'll even get to the game where haaland would tear us a new one
If we do, what would he do up against mctominay
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8 minutes ago, wastecoatwilly said:
You're aware we haven't qualified for over 20 years if we're beating cardboard cut outs who gives a feck.
Your point was the reaction is the same on here win lose or draw, ie we're horseshit
Which I was highlighting and you've agreed with
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Just now, wastecoatwilly said:
It's great to see the reaction on here is the same for a win or a draw or a defeat.
You're aware we were playing a c side and manager assembled 2 days ago from a country with 10 m population
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Just now, ewan14 said:
Aye , he did !
He had McCoist up front
and at the back Boyd , McKinlay , Hendry , Calderwood , McLaren etc
McKinley, calderwood
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1 minute ago, greenockraver said:
you literally picked 2 of the worst players he ever picked.
he had colin hendry, the last great cb we had , john collins at monaco, lambert who won the european cup, burley who was a brilliant midfielder , mccallister mccoist .. the list goes on
no comparison to today
Burley
Gary Mac, the invisible man
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Coronavirus (COVID-19)
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2 days ago bojo classified it as disastrous
Now saying would definitely want to avoid it, or something like
Sleep walking into mass unemployment