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6 minutes ago, virginton said:
I see the EU is now gracefully sending 100k vaccines extra each to Czechia and Slovakia, which I'm sure is in no way connected to the 2 million Russian vaccines that Slovakia's government ordered just last week.
Not sure how many cigars the ordinary Russian chews on, but Putin has certainly benefited from the UK and EU trying to play a pandemic like the 1950s Cold War. The EU has practically no authority at the moment: some of the internal borders are arbitrarily closed, while most of the Med will open up for tourism in the summer regardless of Brussels' advice.
I’m guessing the French and German stockpiles came in handy after all.
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8 minutes ago, Elixir said:
Looks like India will be sparking up shortly.
Are India not already producing/administering huge amounts of AZ? Sure I’ve seen reports of them opening things up in the last couple of weeks. They had supporters in the ground certainly for the last test match and I think the one before that as well.
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4 minutes ago, Thom & Gerry said:
I would be pretty confident that they would put Brora forward backed by their member clubs. They unanimously voted for Brora to be declared champions last year despite the season not being completed.
Fraserburgh might not be too happy with that along with the other 3 teams that have a 100% record. It does sound like the very definition of sporting integrity right enough.
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2 minutes ago, Detournement said:
How do they generate the cash to pay wages with the staff furloughed?
You don’t have to unfurlough all your staff to open up and start generating revenue again. If you own a normally busy business where you have 3 staff on at any given time and are worried about demand you leave some staff on furlough. If demand kicks in straight away you unfurlough everyone. If it doesn’t you can phase them back depending on cashflow.
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1 minute ago, madwullie said:
He spoke about targeting it at specific sectors and letting others go bust if they can't survive before iirc.
He may well have done, or it may have just been media speculation. There’s been so much talk about it it’s hard to remember who said what.
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2 minutes ago, madwullie said:
Seems surprising they've announced it as furlough then. Would they not be more likely to call it targeted support?
In fact, did sunak not say a while ago that companies would now need to sink or swim. That might have been a while ago though and he's u-turned.
Why does it need to be targeted? If you own a viable business as soon as you can open you do. That’s how you make money. You don’t mothball your business just because the government are paying some staff costs. You’re still contributing so therefore losing money all the time you’re closed.
there will be some unviable businesses that slip through the net but a lot of those will have been weeded out due to the owners having to contribute to furlough payments over the last few months and basically folded already.
furlough is not a financial incentive to keep a business closed in the vast majority of cases.
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12 minutes ago, Detournement said:
It remains to be seen if anything will be open in 3 months time considering furlough has been extended to September. Boris did say Not Earlier Than.
If we do have restrictive vaccine rules they will likely be implemented at the same time as the EU.
Furlough being extended does not equal nothing open. Some industries (airlines as an example) will not go straight back to 100% capacity so will need furlough. Others (pubs for example) will be raring to go with pent up demand. Airlines will need furlough for longer so the option is there. Most industries won’t.
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2 minutes ago, Detournement said:
What worries me is that a vaccine passport is something that Boris, Gove and Raab should be automatically hostile to but they are unenthusiastically backing it.
Also the lack of discussion about it in the media is ominous especially considering it could be live in 6 months without any real scrutiny.
If it takes 6 months to get up and running the games a bogey. No point opening up society in 3 months* time if no-one is allowed in anywhere as they don't have a vaccine passport.
Of course given the track record of UKG in delivering IT projects the likelihood of getting this up and running in 6 months is very slim. thinking about it that's probably a good reason it could get ditched. They won't want to be hanging around opening up the economy waiting for a vaccine passport.
* dates are not exact. Only using it as an example.
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1 hour ago, The Skelpit Lug said:
Only if there's a socially distanced Line Dancing section. Argentinian Tango a no-no, but whatever, she'd dance to Walking on Sunshine.
Sunshine on Leitch surely?
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3 minutes ago, beaver1 said:
It doesn’t look like there will be any relegation out of the league. I am in the “void the season” camp. The whole season has been a waste of time. Start again when fans are allowed back in.
Only issue I see with this is that the likes of Falkirk and Partick will be hell bent on finishing the season, but hey ho.
Come back in August and let’s have a proper season.Why would not even in the playoff spots Partick be so desperate to finish the season?
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https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/nicola-sturgeon-advisor-wants-under-19953466
She's also claiming that the Brazil variant entered the UK by people exploiting a loophole in the red list system. Hadn't read that before.
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2 hours ago, HibsFan said:
Had a quick look at her Twitter profile and well there's a surprise!
Does feel like for some of these FBPE types, coronavirus is merely an extension of the utterly mind-numbing Brexit debate that plagued Twitter for four years.
Just another chance for them to go "look how much smarter we are than the other side", this time with objective* science on their side.
*Rather fucking sketchy.
I’m no virologist but I’m fairly sure you can’t catch Covid over twitter no matter what the anti Bill Gates loons say.
she has no need to be wearing a mask in that picture.
ETA unless that’s really Val McDermid under that mask, in which case keep it on.
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5 minutes ago, madwullie said:
I'm a member (£1 a month, kerching) and shielding and got a letter and form yesterday to vote by post.
Unsure if that's just because I'm shielding, or they're following the Democrats' example from the US and trying to up the postal vote. Can't remember ever having that stuff through for previous elections.
Unfortunately I filed it straight in the bin, so I can't check it to see what they're saying about electoral safety, but presumably some others on here will have got it too.
You don't need the letter to apply for a postal vote. The forms are online, then you can either post them off or scan them and email them in.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/apply-for-a-postal-vote
It's a sensible thing for as many people as possible to do postal voting at the moment.
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2 minutes ago, Shannon said:9 minutes ago, super_carson said:P&B is a key constituency.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if a few MSPs, even a cabinet minister who likes football or Jason Leitch pops onto this thread now & again.
Here's a message for Jason if he does.
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2 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said:
That Trish Greenhalgh is absolutely fucking nuts, as is her Twitter following.
Err, no, I won't be wearing a mask when I'm out running, you utter psycho.
Do you work ? Serious question as you appear to live on social media.If I saw someone running down the street with a mask on I'd assume they've just exited a bank in a hurry.
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9 minutes ago, Elixir said:
Meanwhile, in #ZeroCovid #ShutTheBorders Isle of Man:
is there any info on their current hospitalisations etc?
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13 minutes ago, Scotty Tunbridge said:
BBC 1 o’clock news running with the tighter tier measures story as well. f**k this if true, that’s me accepting I’m not getting into NDP until 2022
There's an upside to everything.
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1 minute ago, renton said:
Yeah, they weren't the be all and end all of the measure in the original tier system either. I hope though that they are a lower weighting in the calculations this time.
the way the system worked last time seemed to be look at all the indicators for an area and pick the worst one to base the level on.
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11 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said:
I see the legal challenge down South from the hospitality industry was successful in demonstrating that the industry specific restrictions were discriminatory.
No more requirements to order food with alcohol, and no more curfews, unless the Government can provide proof these are beneficial (i.e. "drunk people can't social distance" isn't enough).
I will assume the verdict has no direct bearing up here, but I wonder if the SG will avoid such petty restrictions this time round.
Got a link to this?
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33 minutes ago, super_carson said:
Don't forget the media darling Devi. Who, to be fair, is a doctor. Of philosophy.
Some pair. We're basing a pandemic response on the advice of a dentist who's getting his info from god and a doctor of philosophy who believes in making your own sunshine.
It's actually quite frightening.
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3 minutes ago, Elixir said:
On what planet do they think it will be acceptable to keep bouncing us around this utter fucking nonsense when the Tories are making it quite clear, indeed as Jonathan Van-Tam even hinted today, that they will likely be sticking to lifting essentially all restrictions in England by midsummer. There will be a mass exodus across the border.
I am an absolute seething, frothing mess at that article.
Will likely still be illegal.
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1 minute ago, super_carson said:
I know the levels will be adjusted, but given how much the SG are obsessed with elimination/eradication/whatever phrase of the month is I don’t think it’ll be drastically different.
That said, given the kicking she took last week I’ll be interested to see what is put forward and the public reaction to it.
Maximum suppression is the latest spin I believe
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2 minutes ago, virginton said:
The goalposts quite literally being shifted in the middle of a match now to appease these absolute fucking losers.
This is a shocker. Basing it on WHO guidance from before vaccines were approved.
“Content of restrictions” really means they reserve the right to ignore data and arbitrarily punt areas into levels for amusement as they did before.
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5 minutes ago, D.A.F.C said:
Not testing anyone has a much higher one.
I see you’re a Dunfermline fan but not everything is as black and white as you seem to believe.
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something to chew the fat over.