Forest_Fifer Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 You think our police are over reacting to people, how about this from the USA? I saw it on a legal issues YouTube channelhttps://reason.com/2020/04/17/a-teenager-posted-about-her-covid-19-infection-on-instagram-a-deputy-threatened-to-arrest-her-if-she-didnt-delete-it/This is so fucked up it's not true. Short version - schoolgirl goes to Florida, comes back with what looks like Covid 19, goes to hospital and gets diagnosed, is released, tells her friends on Instagram about it, also tells the school to warn people. She then worsens, gets readmitted, then comes home again. The local sherrifs department then visits, telling her to delete her posts or she and her parents would be arrested for disorderly conduct. Apparently the school hadn't bothered to get back to her, but had complained to the police and basically said she was lying about having it.Shes now sueing the school, the sheriff, and the officer who threatened her. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 10 minutes ago, Marshmallo said: Hate when people look for the negatives I think it's more about dispelling 'they were going to die anyway' trope. None of it's positive really. But if people stick to some basic advice they are better positioned to get through this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 Don't know if anybody already posted this batshit mental interview with the mayor of Las Vegas. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 55 minutes ago, chocolateankles said: This place will be like the States you'll have loonballs wanting lockdown released and the Tories will buckle and we'll have another wave of virus and we'll go roon in cricles with more people deed. I doubt we'll be out waving guns, we'll just drift out of it gradually. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alert Mongoose Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 The next cold you get is going to be an edgy one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 25 minutes ago, WATTOO said: I know that, but they reckoned 80% of our deaths (not including care homes) were of people aged 75 or over and those with serious underlying conditions. If you then calculate that care home deaths are reckoned to add a further 40% to 50% on to the total deaths figure, then it would take a rather large leap to believe that the majority of those dying had at least another 10 years of life left in them. Keeping in mind many were actually terminally ill with various cancers. I'm not trying to belittle the deaths of anyone, but I just feel that it's utter nonsense to suggest that the majority would have lived for at least another 10 years. I'd take data analysis over feelings any day of the week. Care Homes don't specifically deal with terminal cases. That's more hospices or home palliative care. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thereisalight.. Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 Just saw that a woman who died in California on Feb 6th was confirmed to have coronavirus. The first “official” US death from it was Feb 29th. Not beyond the realms of possibility to accept it was in the UK and killing people way before the first official death. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven W Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 2 minutes ago, Thereisalight.. said: Just saw that a woman who died in California on Feb 6th was confirmed to have coronavirus. The first “official” US death from it was Feb 29th. Not beyond the realms of possibility to accept it was in the UK and killing people way before the first official death. When you consider that the virus seemingly takes four weeks from catching it, to eventually killing someone, therefore it most probably was in USA in January, so every chance it's been prevalent in the UK since, maybe even early February 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 5 minutes ago, jagfox99 said: I'd take data analysis over feelings any day of the week. Care Homes don't specifically deal with terminal cases. That's more hospices or home palliative care. My stats appear conflicting to yours, so who's are correct ? Is it a Government conspiracy that Bupa are also in on ? Do we honestly believe that everyone who's died over 75 (accounting for over 80% of the total deaths) would all have lived for at least another 10 years ? I don't and no amount of facts and figures will convince me otherwise. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 1 hour ago, jagfox99 said: Just like half the stuff I've seen from that guy it's a load of pish. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayrmad Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 (edited) 9 minutes ago, Thereisalight.. said: Just saw that a woman who died in California on Feb 6th was confirmed to have coronavirus. The first “official” US death from it was Feb 29th. Not beyond the realms of possibility to accept it was in the UK and killing people way before the first official death. We already know there were deaths here before March 5th,the ONS' own data carried 3 deaths onto the beginning of their tables, it's been mentioned in here on numerous occasions. Edited April 23, 2020 by ayrmad 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thereisalight.. Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 2 hours ago, Jeff Venom said: 18 hours ago, Thereisalight.. said: 120 covid deaths here in Ayrshire. 20 from one care home Was that the one in Prestwick? Yeah it is 3 minutes ago, Steven W said: When you consider that the virus seemingly takes four weeks from catching it, to eventually killing someone, therefore it most probably was in USA in January, so every chance it's been prevalent in the UK since, maybe even early February Definitely. Especially when you factor in people travelling from China over Christmas and New Year and coming to/or back to the UK in Jan 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayrmad Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 3 minutes ago, WATTOO said: My stats appear conflicting to yours, so who's are correct ? Is it a Government conspiracy that Bupa are also in on ? Do we honestly believe that everyone who's died over 75 (accounting for over 80% of the total deaths) would all have lived for at least another 10 years ? I don't and no amount of facts and figures will convince me otherwise. I've no idea how long folk would have lived but 93% having no serious comorbidity certainly doesn't fit with the narrative we've been spun over the last 5 or 6 weeks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owsley Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 11 minutes ago, Thereisalight.. said: Just saw that a woman who died in California on Feb 6th was confirmed to have coronavirus. The first “official” US death from it was Feb 29th. Not beyond the realms of possibility to accept it was in the UK and killing people way before the first official death. I read there was two deaths, both in Santa Clara, California well before the supposed first death. The one on the 6th and another on the 17th. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandarilla Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 I'm not convinced people are any more stupid or selfish than they were in the past. I'm in my fifties and I remember how utterly shite a lot of people were when I was young.They weren't any less stupid, f**k no. Arguably we're more intelligent, in a balanced sort of way - but we know less shit off by heart so old folk think young folk are stupid. But that's a whole other thing. Technology and modern life has made us more reliant and less resilient, as a society. Remember power cuts used to be a thing that happened regularly? Now they never do. It's a natural thing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, MixuFixit said: Plural of anecdote not being data and all but most of the meltdowns at being told not to do unnecessary things in this thread have come from over 50s. It took a couple of weeks of daily phonecalls from me and my siblings to get my over 70s parents to take it seriously. We had a breakdown call out last week. 76yo with breathing difficulties who drove from Scone to Perth so he could buy his paper and rolls from Tesco rather than the shop 5 minutes walk from him, because he fell out with the shop owner a few years ago... Edited April 23, 2020 by RandomGuy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyderspaceman Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 54 minutes ago, paranoid android said: Midlothian police have had to put a stop to parties in the same hoose two nights running -some folk really are this thick, eh? Some folk really should be in the nick, eh? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pub car king Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 In my opinion not enough diy shopping boomers are being struck down. I'm not wishing them dead bit of a fair few of them got a dose they might wise up a bit. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparky88 Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 (edited) The standard of question to Sturgeon at the daily briefing is atrocious. They are basically all asking 'When is Nando's going to open' in slightly different ways. Edited April 23, 2020 by sparky88 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thereisalight.. Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 6 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said: We had a breakdown call out last week. 76yo with breathing difficulties who drove from Scone to Perth so he could buy his paper and rolls from Tesco rather than the shop 5 minutes walk from him, because he fell out with the shop owner a few years ago... At least he has some form of integrity and principle 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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