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1 minute ago, welshbairn said:

Going to global average earnings would be a serious shock to nearly everyone in Scotland.

It's not about numbers or the amount of paper rectangles you have in your hand. It's about how the earths resources are redistributed to cater for everybody. Something that the world is more than capable of. It's not a lack of money or resources that keep people poor, it's ideology.

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I think this is more a test of how your government value the population. Germany have 15000 cases 44 deaths. The Uk has 3200 cases with 144 deaths. Germany seem to have the services in place to deal with it far better than the UK due to not cutting health/social care servies to the bone. When all is done and dusted the comparitive figures between the developed nations should be reason enough to change the way we are governed.

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17 minutes ago, BawWatchin said:

The best thing that could come out of this is a world wide economic collapse. Forcing a hard reset and rebalancing of wealth and power.

I’d settle for cnuts not eating raw bats any more.

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5 minutes ago, Jacksgranda said:

How else then? Seriously, it would take some apocalyptic scenario for a "reset".

I was thinking more of co-ordinated action throughout the world where trade unions would all get together and demand change. If it meant bringing down Governments and even a bit of Sevcoess "civil unrest" then so be it.

Possibly just a romantic notion which would never ever happen, but that was the hope.

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Just now, BawWatchin said:

It's not about numbers or the amount of paper rectangles you have in your hand. It's about how the earths resources are redistributed to cater for everybody. Something that the world is more than capable of. It's not a lack of money or resources that keep people poor, it's ideology.

The West runs the financial system that keeps a Scottish plumber in fabulous wealth in the eyes of a plumber in Sierra Leone, doing exactly the same job for a couple of pounds a day. I'm not sure you realise the consequences of what you're asking for.

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3 minutes ago, welshbairn said:

The West runs the financial system that keeps a Scottish plumber in fabulous wealth in the eyes of a plumber in Sierra Leone, doing exactly the same job for a couple of pounds a day. I'm not sure you realise the consequences of what you're asking for.

At the very worst, countries like ours would stop being a nation of fat, greedy, self centred b*****ds. Half of the world suffers greatly, so the other half can have whatever they want. It doesn't need to be that way. We can create a world where everybody gets what they need in order to comfortably survive.

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I strongly suspect that my family and I all had this in December. I don't think our health service would have given enough of a shite (institutionally speaking) to identify an unusual cluster of flu like symptoms like a well funded conscientious individual in China did. 

I am probably wrong but it seems reasonably possible. If I'm right, we could be wasting massive resources and interrupting kid's education for far less benefit that we're being told. 

We need to get testing. 

 

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11 minutes ago, Detournement said:

Is there not a chance they are stressing because this is the first thing that could have a negative effect on the wealthy since the 70s and their bubble is burst?

I think the reason a lot of people are chill about this is because they are used to having health and financial problems hanging over them which requires a bit nihilism to get to through the day and to sleep at night. If you have been cushioned by affluence for your entire life this is probably terrifying. 

I do get what you're saying, though Ignorance is bliss could be another.

Que sera sera is also the outlook of many and ultimately we're all just pawns in the game of life.

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56 minutes ago, Romeo said:
1 hour ago, Merkland Red said:
An alarming amount of folk praising that press conference on Twitter.

Is it mainly deaf people with painted on eyes?

True story Romeo. In my younger days I received a double red card playing amateur football. Wasn't going to tell my wife and just head out with my bag the following weekend so she thought I was playing.

Came home to her pissing herself laughing on the Friday. She'd opened an urgent letter for me thinking it was a bill I hadn't paid. It was my suspension notice along with the part where it said "after showing Mr Merkland Red (real name redacted) a second yellow card followed by a red he then proceeded to ask me if my eyes were fucking painted on".

 

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2 minutes ago, theportman said:
12 minutes ago, madwullie said:
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It was part of the, albeit weak, joke.

This could all have been avoided if Dobbies in Milngavie had the decency to sell me two link sausages from their stash of twenty that were a certainty to have been binned in fifty-six minutes from me asking.

Cnuts, I tell ye’.

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4 minutes ago, coprolite said:

I strongly suspect that my family and I all had this in December. I don't think our health service would have given enough of a shite (institutionally speaking) to identify an unusual cluster of flu like symptoms like a well funded conscientious individual in China did. 

I am probably wrong but it seems reasonably possible. If I'm right, we could be wasting massive resources and interrupting kid's education for far less benefit that we're being told. 

We need to get testing. 

 

We had and absolute fucker of a virus in Feb, which was doing the rounds. It's impossible to know and could just have easily been a normal flu. It was very contagious tho.

I doubt it tho, I've honestly never been as ill and the timing is very suspicious to me.

Would be good to get tested.

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13 minutes ago, dirty dingus said:

I think this is more a test of how your government value the population. Germany have 15000 cases 44 deaths. The Uk has 3200 cases with 144 deaths. Germany seem to have the services in place to deal with it far better than the UK due to not cutting health/social care servies to the bone. When all is done and dusted the comparitive figures between the developed nations should be reason enough to change the way we are governed.

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Italy 41,035 cases, 3,405 deaths

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Went to Tesco with a fairly modest shopping list to see me through the following week.

No pasta and bog roll as expected. No mince, oatcakes, lemons. No Kerrygold butter (boo). Lucky to get one of the last porridge oats and diluting juice. 

I'll survive, but I really feel for the vulnerable folk amongst us, and am pretty angry at the greed and stupidity of the arseholes that have left us in this situation.

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17 minutes ago, dirty dingus said:

I think this is more a test of how your government value the population. Germany have 15000 cases 44 deaths. The Uk has 3200 cases with 144 deaths. Germany seem to have the services in place to deal with it far better than the UK due to not cutting health/social care servies to the bone. When all is done and dusted the comparitive figures between the developed nations should be reason enough to change the way we are governed.

edit - dont know why this is all bold.

               

Or Germany has tested less serious cases

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Absolute fucking scumbag on Hamilton Facebook page asking which pubs are open this weekend, and claiming that until the govt say you shouldn't go out then they will go out. Implying people are out of order for getting stuck into her and having a right good laugh with her mates about getting steamin etc
Boils my fucking pish
I get this sentiment and I will not be going out, however there is a part of me who thinks f*ck it maybe it needs these tubes to flout the "advice" to get this lockdown as I really feel it is needed.

I cannot understand the wait. We are not at peak but if we hit the trigger now then that peak could be avoided as best we can.

This is just sitting waiting for it.
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