Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[TheScarf]

17 minutes ago, The Moonster said:

The penny is starting to drop for these fucking mutants. If we weren't being dragged along with this Brexit mess I'd be chugging myself silly over these Britnat fucks.

Same.  If there wasn't so many boomer shitebags and Sevco fans in Scotland, we'd be independent now, and I think I would legitimately have a wank over right wing, gammon England having no trade deal next week.  It would be glorious.  Both the wank and the situation they would find themselves in.

[ICTChris]

Tony Blair suggests ramping up vaccination.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/covid-vaccine-tony-blair-coronavirus-b1777845.html

Seems logical but I’m not an expert and, as Blair says in article, we don’t have all the information.

[madwullie]

It seems the south African variant has mutated independently of the UK variant, while the one in Italy seems to have been exported from the uk. 

 

[MP_MFC]

The fact the tories and the yoonatic fringe on twitter are wanking themselves into oblivion about WakeGate tells you all you need to know.

Horrible that someone papped a mourner at a funeral and horrible that a newspaper has paid for it but not surprising.

Cannae wait for the next poll to show a continued landslide for her politically and them all to lose their shit again.

[hk blues]

Just now, Snafu said:

I have no idea where you got that idea that I didn't think it was newsworthy.

You are clearly having an argument with me in your head, reality hasn't caught up yet.

WIT?

[Scary Bear]

1 hour ago, Billy Jean King said:

It's totally unbelievable that in a situation where so few people are allowed at funerals, a mourner, having been close enough to the deceased to actually get to attend, then "pays their respects" by sitting, camera at the ready, trying to get a clandestine snap of another mourner in the hope they break restrictions. Having succeeded, that they would then contact newspapers in an attempt to (presumably) sell the picture that is actually showing other mourners at the wake is simply incomprehensible to me. WTF goes through someone like that's mind ? What a fucking roaster.

I'm giving the Scum the benefit of the doubt with the above version of events. If they actually sent a photographer to try to get that picture from outside a private funeral then they are even lower than I ever thought. Surely has to be the former scenario ?

That’s Civil Servants for you. Quite a lot of oddballs among that group.

[dirty dingus]

Although China may have been first to introduce the virus, we the great people of Great Britain have went above and beyond the rest of the world and have managed to deliver to the whole island the most contagious strain of Covid19 known before Christmas. 

[Jacksgranda]

9 hours ago, Thereisalight.. said:

Everyone seems to have forgotten about the super dooper white elephant, the Louisa Jordan when worrying about hospitals being “overwhelmed” 

That'll only help if there are enough staff still standing to run it.

[The Moonster]

6 minutes ago, madwullie said:

It seems the south African variant has mutated independently of the UK variant, while the one in Italy seems to have been exported from the uk. 

 

This mutation pish is a complete smokescreen. I really wish we'd stop talking about it. The virus that started in China wasn't the virus that hit the UK or even Italy. It has been mutating from the start, this is nothing new. If it is a more infectious strain then in the short term you need to do better with isolating people, which if we'd used the last 9 months in any sort of efficient manner we might have a track and trace system that was suitable and actually worked, but the long term approach hasn't changed. The vaccine will still work and the scientists working on the vaccine have already said it shouldn't be too much of a ball ache to make a slightly different one if required. 

It's being used to railroad through tougher restrictions in the new year and it's not going to wash. We're not having the "adult discussion" on this, we're being told something scary is happening so stay home until further notice, but the actual facts of the new strain tell a different, not very scary story.

[Robin.Hood]

Easter stuff now coming in. Mini eggs

 

[madwullie]

7 minutes ago, The Moonster said:

This mutation pish is a complete smokescreen. I really wish we'd stop talking about it. The virus that started in China wasn't the virus that hit the UK or even Italy. It has been mutating from the start, this is nothing new. If it is a more infectious strain then in the short term you need to do better with isolating people, which if we'd used the last 9 months in any sort of efficient manner we might have a track and trace system that was suitable and actually worked, but the long term approach hasn't changed. The vaccine will still work and the scientists working on the vaccine have already said it shouldn't be too much of a ball ache to make a slightly different one if required. 

It's being used to railroad through tougher restrictions in the new year and it's not going to wash. We're not having the "adult discussion" on this, we're being told something scary is happening so stay home until further notice, but the actual facts of the new strain tell a different, not very scary story.

Fair fucks. I do think it's worth talking about though.

[D.A.F.C]

This mutation pish is a complete smokescreen. I really wish we'd stop talking about it. The virus that started in China wasn't the virus that hit the UK or even Italy. It has been mutating from the start, this is nothing new. If it is a more infectious strain then in the short term you need to do better with isolating people, which if we'd used the last 9 months in any sort of efficient manner we might have a track and trace system that was suitable and actually worked, but the long term approach hasn't changed. The vaccine will still work and the scientists working on the vaccine have already said it shouldn't be too much of a ball ache to make a slightly different one if required. 
It's being used to railroad through tougher restrictions in the new year and it's not going to wash. We're not having the "adult discussion" on this, we're being told something scary is happening so stay home until further notice, but the actual facts of the new strain tell a different, not very scary story.

Kens better than the experts type post

[The Moonster]

2 minutes ago, D.A.F.C said:

Kens better than the experts type post

You could always debate what I'm saying rather than reducing debate to snide remarks, something you have a right wee moan about on an almost daily basis.

In any case, it's actually experts that I'm asking to be given airtime on this rather than politicians leading the narrative when it's clear they're talking shite.

[Marshmallo]

 

[Scary Bear]

9 minutes ago, The Moonster said:

You could always debate what I'm saying rather than reducing debate to snide remarks, something you have a right wee moan about on an almost daily basis.

In any case, it's actually experts that I'm asking to be given airtime on this rather than politicians leading the narrative when it's clear they're talking shite.

Give scientists politicians wages!?!?

[D.A.F.C]

You could always debate what I'm saying rather than reducing debate to snide remarks, something you have a right wee moan about on an almost daily basis.
In any case, it's actually experts that I'm asking to be given airtime on this rather than politicians leading the narrative when it's clear they're talking shite.

What do you mean its a smokescreen?
The latest increase in cases and greater percentage of the new variant says that its more transmissible. Yes its possible that theyre using this as a blunt tool to stop people travelling at Christmas time but its for a reason. How are people still thinking this is a hoax or something?
Some prank.

[Steven W]

A look at social media this morning is eye watering stuff. Imagine letting the football team you support dictate your thoughts and opinions on a deadly virus that's sweeping the planet....

(Sadly Rangers/Celtic stuff is in every fabric of society. This is why there won't be significant crowds at football in Scotland until such a time as those two can have significant crowds. The grief and ramifications would be too much. Old firm fans make me sick)

 

[madwullie]

13 minutes ago, The Moonster said:

You could always debate what I'm saying rather than reducing debate to snide remarks, something you have a right wee moan about on an almost daily basis.

In any case, it's actually experts that I'm asking to be given airtime on this rather than politicians leading the narrative when it's clear they're talking shite.

Tbh i think it's probable experts are involved given how many countries have banned us from going there. That will hit them in the pocket, so unlikely to be a decision based on uninformed conjecture, knee jerk panic, or listening to Boris Johnston. 

[Honest_Man#1]

1 minute ago, madwullie said:

Tbh i think it's probable experts are involved given how many countries have banned us from going there. That will hit them in the pocket, so unlikely to be a decision based on uninformed conjecture, knee jerk panic, or listening to Boris Johnston. 

This is really petty Wullie, but every time I see you type his name wrong it baffles me. How can you not know how to spell the name of the PM?!

[MP_MFC]

If the changes allow this one to infect weans more easily then it will have put the shitters up them because of how kids transmit every other respiratory virus.

They've taken a hammer to crack a nut cause it's coincided with christmas so until they figure out more info we're stuck like this, it's not bullshit, mutations are a thing but it's probably not as doomsday as they are portraying it just now but they needed to lay the foundations for canceling Christmas and forcing schools to limit again.