welshbairn Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 1 hour ago, Bairnardo said: From what browsing of the internet I was able to do today as I stole a living from my employer, it seems like the media and public opinion are starting to build up a wave of pressure regarding getting the vaccine out rapid. Hopefully this continues and translates into demands to remove restrictions based on hospital numbers, given that current transmissibility is borderline impossible to stop. Even more hopefully, I hope Scotlands media pick up on this mood since it was notably English media that I felt are shifting the narrative. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philpy Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 2 hours ago, s_dog said: Vaccinations will take longer because you're monitored for 15mins after the jag in case of any adverse effects. Not sure if this is UK wide or just England, but there's a report on the BBC today about a dentist & retired GP both obviously having the required "healthcare experience" to administer vaccines, but have been put off of by the training they need: Recognising and managing anaphylaxis, Resuscitation, Safeguarding adults, Safeguarding children, Vaccine administration, Vaccine storage, Health Safety and Welfare, Infection Prevention and control, Introduction to Anaphylaxis, Legal aspects of vaccination, Moving and Handling, Preventing radicalisation, Conflict resolution, Core knowledge for Covid-19 vaccinators, Covid mRNA vaccine BNT162b2 (Pfizer BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine), Data security awareness, Equality Diversity and Human rights, Fire safety. WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Jean King Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 I’m behind in the thread so apologies of already answered, is there a chance the May elections are postponed, is there legislation to cover such an event?Possibly and yes although the alternative plans are designed to prevent it not happening at all. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 2 hours ago, RH33 said: I’m behind in the thread so apologies of already answered, is there a chance the May elections are postponed, is there legislation to cover such an event? Richard Leonard found.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH33 Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 21 hours ago, Snafu said: They fail to learn from the first f*** up by still using an Excel spreadsheet and run out of space for all the names and dates. Boxes of vaccine discovered abandoned at lorry stop on A9 near Dalwinnie, no one can figure out how it got there. Should set up a vaccine point at Balinluig grill! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 There's always one idiot on Facebook...Did you philpy them up? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 A “virtual New Years party” does sound incredibly shite but I’m not sure why that’s worth grassing people up for. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
die hard doonhamer Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 5 hours ago, HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows said: We didnt start the fire 2 hours ago, philpy said: WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnoustie Young Guvnor Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 Larry King in hospital. Got to imagine he won't be booking any holidays like. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'WellDel Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 5 hours ago, dorlomin said: Under appreciated 90's dance song lyric takeoff. Greenied for memories of my drug fuelled youth. Lindy Layton was a wee ride in her day, in a scheme burd kinda way. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 Things are going as expected- https://www.bbc.com/news/education-54880403 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Paco Posted January 3, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 3, 2021 Seems the UK Government are yet again causing significant problems with their dithering. The media and indeed the people of England are currently losing their mind about schools being open or closed on Monday. In most of the country, kids are due to show up in less than 24 hours time, and nobody knows whether they’ll be there or not. Unions are encouraging teachers not to show up. There have already been several u-turns in areas like London and government statements are immediately reversed later on in the same day. Into the bargain many headteachers spent the Christmas break planning mass testing regimes that were dropped onto them on the last day of term. In Scotland, schools were announced as being closed for in-person learning until at least January 18th, on December 19th. This isn’t difficult politics - SAGE have said schools can’t stay open with R remaining below 1, as a result of the new variant. So the schools simply must be closed. Scotland has less than half the national average of new cases than England, and yet they seem determined to spread the virus even further down south. They’re in a full crisis but don’t even seem to know it. The BMJ are claiming doctors in London are choosing who to give oxygen to due to a shortage. In some areas ICU’s are as full as 136%. Patients are being flown hundreds of miles to free beds. The media are banned from reporting at hospitals, and while this is all going on there have been several demos actually outside hospitals claiming Covid is a hoax. In response the government are all over social media trumpeting ‘new changes’ as a result of leaving the EU that have already been made by the EU. A lot is made about how much material difference there is between the UK and Scottish Governments in all of this. There probably isn’t a massive amount in policy terms but it really isn’t difficult at all to see why the opinion polls land where they currently do. 28 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MP_MFC Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 ScotGov statement tomorrow on further restrictions.Clearly we need to get further ahead of the game with this new strain. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Steven W Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 Sturgeon also re-tweeting some stuff about this new variant. I've not any problem with furthering restrictions, but it needs to go in tandem with accelerating the vaccination programme. Quite fitting that on the day we begin the AZ vaccine scheme, SG will dishing out more restrictions on life. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 They are going to re open the schools in England! This should serve as a good experiment for the rest of the UK to sit and watch what it does to infection levels, I'm going to bet on "rocket" how long until the first Scottish Tory says "Get Scottish kids back to school" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan Vojáček Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 7 minutes ago, Honest Saints Fan said: Aside from extending the online learning period of the schools, I'm unsure what else they can do that will actually have an impact on figures in a serious way. Sure they could cancel professional sport, shut takeaways or limit us back to 30 minutes outside a day. But I can't see any of those things having serious impact at all on the R number given the regulations we're already under. We have a vaccine. If there are more restrictions to come then it needs to go hand-in-hand with a massive roll-out. We can't keep a lockdown until the end of April whilst faffing about vaccinating a small number of people every week. They're only one example obviously, but my grandparents are 81; my Granny has cancer and my Papa has COPD and Bronchitis. They must be in one of the highest risk groups going and they're down at the health centre/hospital once or twice every single week - but as yet haven't heard a peep about their vaccine. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honest Saints Fan Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 Just now, Jan Vojáček said: Aside from extending the online learning period of the schools, I'm unsure what else they can do that will actually have an impact on figures in a serious way. Sure they could cancel professional sport, shut takeaways or limit us back to 30 minutes outside a day. But I can't see any of those things having serious impact at all on the R number given the regulations we're already under. We have a vaccine. If there are more restrictions to come then it needs to go hand-in-hand with a massive roll-out. We can't keep a lockdown until the end of April whilst faffing about vaccinating a small number of people every week. They're only one example obviously, but my grandparents are 81; my Granny has cancer and my Papa has COPD and Bronchitis. They must be in one of the highest risk groups going and they're down at the health centre/hospital once or twice every single week - but as yet haven't heard a peep about their vaccine. I think it's angling at schools won't be back on the 18th. I'm the same, two grandparents over 80 with many ailments including COPD, blood cancer, previous heart attacks and a stroke (how they are still alive is a testament to modern medicine) and they have heard nothing either. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 14 hours ago, strichener said: Yes but that doesn't mean that it takes 15mins per vaccination. One person could probably vaccinate 120 people per hour with a staging area for the people to spend 15mins under observation. Similar to what happens at blood donor sessions. That's what used to happen at our surgery for the flu vaccination, the waiting room was used to monitor us, while we drank coffee and ate biscuits. This year we were all horsed out the door immediately after receiving our jag - haven't heard of any casualties. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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