Distant Doonhamer Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 (edited) 3 minutes ago, Michael W said: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/coronavirus-tier-3-london-restrictions-sadiq-khan-b1767632.html Sadiq Khan, one month ago. That went well. Yep he'll conveniently have forgotten that by now when he's confirming that services in London are close to being overwhelmed. Edited January 8, 2021 by Distant Doonhamer 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bendan Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 13 minutes ago, MP_MFC said: That app also suggests our rate is the highest in the UK so not sure how it measures it. It doesn't have many users in Scotland - it's based on self-reporting symptoms. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 London had relaxed many of their hospitality restrictions and were even allowing fans back at football matches only a couple of weeks back, so as was forecast by many at the time, they're now paying the price.This plus the new variant made a terrible combination i suppose. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Tattiescone Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 3 hours ago, welshbairn said: Sounds like stuffing tubes down people's throats and pumping in oxygen killed as many as it helped. Purely anecdotal via a nurse at Ninewells - ventilators are seen as an absolute last resort now. Treatments are better which means less people need ventilators. Paradoxically though, more people are surviving who would have died in March and are taking up hospital beds and resources. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 1 hour ago, btb said: Ah, the pleasures of being a guinea pig - Thanks Boris! No wonder. The Oxford trial was paused after participant developed spinal cord inflammation. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon EF Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 Just now, Theroadlesstravelled said: No wonder. The Oxford trial was paused after participant developed spinal cord inflammation. I'll be waiting to be given the English spinal cord inflammation, thank you very much! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 No wonder. The Oxford trial was paused after participant developed spinal cord inflammation. Source for this? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 Most other countries with lower death rates test people at airports but testing doesn't work. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Distant Doonhamer Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 (edited) 33 minutes ago, NewBornBairn said: Purely anecdotal via a nurse at Ninewells - ventilators are seen as an absolute last resort now. Treatments are better which means less people need ventilators. Paradoxically though, more people are surviving who would have died in March and are taking up hospital beds and resources. Yes that's a reasonable summary. Better treatments and treatment options. Invasive ventilation still an option for those who deteriorate beyond where non-invasive ventilation is working. For those who do get intubated survival odds are generally 50:50 but that's against the reality that for that group of patients they would almost inevitably die without invasive ventilation. Edited January 8, 2021 by Distant Doonhamer 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Have some faith in Magic Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 1 hour ago, throbber said: I wonder if they’ll close the building sites in light of these truly awful figures from today. In Scotland? Deaths bad but the daily case load hasn't risen 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon EF Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 2 minutes ago, D.A.F.C said: Most other countries with lower death rates test people at airports but testing doesn't work. I know you've been walking round with this testing hardon for a few days but you know testing alone doesn't do anything right? 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermik Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 Old friend of the wife succumbed to it this morning. First person to die that she knew. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
O_Kahn Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 (edited) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-55587230 Feel sorry for the police having to work in these circumstances, someone calls in a suspicion of a gathering, the woman here starts screaming at them, and now the tinfoil hat crowd are all over it claiming we're halfway to a police state. [just realised this was already posted a few pages back, my bad] Edited January 8, 2021 by O_Kahn 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshmallo Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 1 minute ago, O_Kahn said: Feel sorry for the police Never 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 I know you've been walking round with this testing hardon for a few days but you know testing alone doesn't do anything right? -7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 Personally, I just wish our politicians would put their differences to the side and work together for a common goal, that being the good of the entire population. It doesn't matter whether it's at UK level or Scottish level or even which party is involved, it's basically all the same sniping to try and score cheap political points and personally I'm sick of it. Khan as an example is shouting about the situation in London, yet he's the very one who was putting pressure on the Gov to open everything up !! Yes, it's hard to please everyone but in times of national emergencies I think they all need to rise above political showcasing and work together, as the constant hypocritical sniping is helping nobody at all. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honest_Man#1 Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 2 minutes ago, D.A.F.C said: And again. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Szamo's_Ammo Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 13 minutes ago, O_Kahn said: my bad 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Binos Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 4 hours ago, HeartsOfficialMoaner said: Do Hearts get promoted? Relegated to the Highland league, just for a laugh 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 2 hours ago, 101 said: Should have had the weans at school on Christmas day imo. I think there was a big failing not only allowing Christmas "parties" but not reiterating the rules such as all windows and doors should have been kept wide open to improve ventilation etc. The big failing is absolutely, inexplicably obvious from this graph. It's as if we have a government that is actively *trying* to overwhelm its own health service. That schools were not at the bare minimum closed for the entire two week diddy period before Christmas is an inexplicable decision that is literally costing lives right now. I'm just about done hearing any more po-faced lectures then from government ministers, who have let that happen on their watch. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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