ICTChris Posted September 11, 2020 Author Share Posted September 11, 2020 (edited) 10 minutes ago, doulikefish said: Birmingham lockdown measures announced Edited September 11, 2020 by ICTChris 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fifer Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 1 minute ago, Szamo's_Ammo said: Another BBC confused Facebook mum story. Erm, you can meet up with people when your kids are at the school. Also fairly sure under 12's don't count towards the 6. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted September 11, 2020 Author Share Posted September 11, 2020 1 minute ago, Big Fifer said: Also fairly sure under 12's don't count towards the 6. They do in England. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 3 minutes ago, s_dog said: Waffle, waffle, whataboutery, more waffle 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty dingus Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 (edited) 11 minutes ago, Szamo's_Ammo said: Another BBC confused Facebook mum story. Erm, you can meet up with people when your kids are at the school. Rest of her family are probably like thank f**k for that she'll naw be coming roon wi' that horde of greeting faced wee nyaffs. Edited September 11, 2020 by dirty dingus 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuckleMoo Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 BBC Scotland decides not to broadcast any more live briefings - and the blame game has kicked off with Jackie Baillie in the lead as chief culprit being accused of lobbying BBC Scotland. I always thought it was always good to keep the public informed and up to date with figures and any changes that will affect our lifes. BBC Scotland deciding to censor information, is this politically motivated, is it because it gets in the way of more interesting TV because the viewing figures for these have fallen, have the BBC Scotland decided for us that its no longer necessary? It is going to edited and dealt with slightly differently with only the important bits being shown, which is interesting as this is censorship who decides what is relevant, our FM or BBC Scotland? If it means we no longer need to listen to the moronic questions from so called journalists then I'm all for it to be honest 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 (edited) 12 minutes ago, MuckleMoo said: 20 minutes ago, Snafu said: BBC Scotland decides not to broadcast any more live briefings - and the blame game has kicked off with Jackie Baillie in the lead as chief culprit being accused of lobbying BBC Scotland. I always thought it was always good to keep the public informed and up to date with figures and any changes that will affect our lifes. BBC Scotland deciding to censor information, is this politically motivated, is it because it gets in the way of more interesting TV because the viewing figures for these have fallen, have the BBC Scotland decided for us that its no longer necessary? It is going to edited and dealt with slightly differently with only the important bits being shown, which is interesting as this is censorship who decides what is relevant, our FM or BBC Scotland? If it means we no longer need to listen to the moronic questions from so called journalists then I'm all for it to be honest A weekly update would suffice tbh. Deaths and accurate hospital numbers. Might reduce the level of fear if it's not in our faces every day, and people can see the numbers that really matter (even better if shown versus total deaths / people in hospital) going down / not rising Edited September 11, 2020 by Todd_is_God -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty dingus Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 10 minutes ago, MuckleMoo said: 18 minutes ago, Snafu said: BBC Scotland decides not to broadcast any more live briefings - and the blame game has kicked off with Jackie Baillie in the lead as chief culprit being accused of lobbying BBC Scotland. I always thought it was always good to keep the public informed and up to date with figures and any changes that will affect our lifes. BBC Scotland deciding to censor information, is this politically motivated, is it because it gets in the way of more interesting TV because the viewing figures for these have fallen, have the BBC Scotland decided for us that its no longer necessary? It is going to edited and dealt with slightly differently with only the important bits being shown, which is interesting as this is censorship who decides what is relevant, our FM or BBC Scotland? If it means we no longer need to listen to the moronic questions from so called journalists then I'm all for it to be honest Just now, Todd_is_God said: A weekly update would suffice tbh. Deaths and accurate hospital numbers. Might reduce the level of fear if it's not in our faces every day, and people can see the numbers that really matter going down / not rising A daily ten minute briefing to put out the necessary data on infections, deaths, warnings to the bams, changes in travel etc, no press trying to find a headline and repeating the same questions ad nauseam ... also it serves a purpose in winding up the ultra yoons a bit. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 I'd have thought that in a worldwide pandemic where the situation is changing on a daily basis and sometimes with a divergence between WM and SG, it would be part of the BBC's public service broadcasting remit to have a daily update. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JTS98 Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 Absolutely baffling that anyone would advocate providing the population with less information during a global pandemic. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Szamo's_Ammo Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 9 minutes ago, Snafu said: This second wave in Scotland certainly isn't rising as steeply as the first one. Daily cases look to be rising but its not a sharp climb at all. 2.71% of the people tested, tested positive. We really really really could ride this out in Phase 3. CAUTION - people in the Glasgow and Lanarkshire areas need to behave themselves, they are letting the team down. And our R value has gone up 1.5 upper, 1.1 lower. No ones panicking, frustrated a bit, blaming Sturgeon for keeping the toys locked in the toy box rather than blaming the naughty kids. No need to protect the yuppies just yet with the Swedish model. This ends today's briefing. It will be interesting to see how steeply cases rise when universities and colleges reopen in the next few weeks. That and another few weeks of school kids playing Pass the Covid could see infections rise dramatically. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 50 minutes ago, Big Fifer said: Also fairly sure under 12's don't count towards the 6. 49 minutes ago, ICTChris said: They do in England. In two parent households with 5 kids, how do they decide which one lives in the shed? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon EF Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 5 minutes ago, JTS98 said: Absolutely baffling that anyone would advocate providing the population with less information during a global pandemic. This is it. Anyone is absolutely free to watch precisely zero of these things. I haven't seen them for weeks. The fact that Fattie Baillie and that old drunk Foulkes are so raging about public information broadcasts during a global pandemic says far more about them than anyone else. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob1885 Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/ayrshire/coronavirus-scotland-175-new-cases-22667315 The number of people diagnosed with the coronavirus in Scotland has increased by 175. Who said the figures were going down? Usually when you add a number to another number the new number is a larger number than the previous number, unless its a negative. word salad that lad 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madwullie Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 3 minutes ago, Snafu said: Yeah that is absolutely a good point....s I've read about estimates by self appointed experts from the USA on COVID-19 cases among students rising just a couple of weeks after the start of the studying year and they were way out by quite a bit, the reality was far higher. Yeah, iirc they hadn't factored in the likelihood of first year uni students wanting to party. I think they were two physicists who had come up with the model. Just goes to show that it's not just on p&b you find people who seem to consider themselves more knowledgeable than people who have studied epidemiology for their entire lives. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Szamo's_Ammo Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 2 minutes ago, madwullie said: Yeah, iirc they hadn't factored in the likelihood of first year uni students wanting to party. I think they were two physicists who had come up with the model. Just goes to show that it's not just on p&b you find people who seem to consider themselves more knowledgeable than people who have studied epidemiology for their entire lives. Good luck to the hi-vis wearing police rejects trying to shut down gatherings of more than 6 during Freshers' week! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 22 minutes ago, Snafu said: What fear? You only need to look at the number of ,, "too soon," "sHuT tEh pUbS," "wait two weeks" type comments all over the place to realise a sizeable number of people are still shit scared. A similar number are, as you have highlighted 25 minutes ago, Snafu said: getting frustrated or mildly pissed off right now And there are those in the middle who are a bit like blissfully unaware of what is coming in a little over 7 weeks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Jean King Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 A daily ten minute briefing to put out the necessary data on infections, deaths, warnings to the bams, changes in travel etc, no press trying to find a headline and repeating the same questions ad nauseam ... also it serves a purpose in winding up the ultra yoons a bit.AFAIK the briefing isn't stopping just BBC live TV coverage. Still going ahead with all the daily stats and being streamed live by BBC. Does seem a bit pointless without the coverage but it gives the SG a perfect excuse that the "message isn't getting across" . Just release the stats and figs daily. The 3 weekly review may well continue to be televised in some way as it formed part of FMQs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
effeffsee_the2nd Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 I'd have thought that in a worldwide pandemic where the situation is changing on a daily basis and sometimes with a divergence between WM and SG, it would be part of the BBC's public service broadcasting remit to have a daily update.What i took from the briefings the other day is that we will be more or less doing the same as we are now till well into next year with entertainment and sports to reopen with heavy restrictions in a couple months 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 13 minutes ago, Snafu said: Yeah that is absolutely a good point....s I've read about estimates by self appointed experts from the USA on COVID-19 cases among students rising just a couple of weeks after the start of the studying year and they were way out by quite a bit, the reality was far higher. Cases overall in America have fallen by more than 40% since mid-July, though. A bunch of young students living and interacting mainly with themselves getting it and getting over it might not be the worst thing either. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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