doulikefish Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 22 minutes ago, mizfit said: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9196577/Anti-lockdown-campaigners-push-illegal-Great-Reopening-shops-businesses-TOMORROW.html Today is the great reopening apparently. Ive got jeans and boxer shorts on instead of living in my shorts/joggers if that counts 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 12 minutes ago, The Skelpit Lug said: ...but would a university post not be judged by the likes of peer reviewed articles,... Not necessarily on the admin side of things. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 40 minutes ago, DeeTillEhDeh said: They have a real problem with the Senior Phase where we've been told not to assess remotely. Even when we return (blended or full time) pupils won't be diving straight into assessments because of the unequal nature of their home learning experiences. It's always been a political decision because of the games between governments and opposition parties. I said last April that they should have made an early decision on exams - it has come back to bite them on the arse not once, not twice, but 3 times now. If Swinney has to shift the goalposts again, having cancelled N5 exams, cancelled Higher exams, and moving the estimates deadline then he can't possibly survive another moving of the goalposts. He's fucked up from the start by making too late decisions and by putting far too much trust in the incompetents at SQA. A decision should have been made last summer and SQA assessments issued before we returned to school - we would have built up far more quality assured evidence than we have now. I genuinely hope he is punted from the Education brief after the Scottish Parliament elections. You would hope that one of the few positives to come out of this will eventually be a total overhaul of the SQA, but I won't hold my breath 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 48 minutes ago, Detournement said: For all the hot air there is no real difference between Scotland and England on excess mortality and Sweden is doing ok. Yeah but they got it wrong, remember. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 You would hope that one of the few positives to come out of this will eventually be a total overhaul of the SQA, but I won't hold my breathNeither will I. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 48 minutes ago, Detournement said: For all the hot air there is no real difference between Scotland and England on excess mortality and Sweden is doing ok. I suspect NI is lower than the rest of the UK because it has a younger population, so the numbers are not directly comparable if no effort is made to normalise for the number of people in high risk groups rather than just using the general population. The main thing to bear in mind with Sweden is that they were supposed to wind up with almost twenty times more deaths on their first wave than they actually did if the models that were circulating at the time had been accurate. Being on the same order of magnitude as EU countries that locked down harder calls into serious question whether the extra lockdown measures elsewhere made a significant difference and were worth the economic pain. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elixir Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 I saw a very valid point made about 'Zero Covid' zealots yesterday which I meant to share on here: that they are effectively endorsing the state having the power to inflict any draconian measure they see fit, presumably indefinitely. Another reason why they are so dangerous and there are likely ulterior motives beyond the pseudoscience. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elixir Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 2 minutes ago, LongTimeLurker said: I suspect NI is lower than the rest of the UK because it has a younger population, so the numbers are not directly comparable if no effort is made to normalise for the number of people in high risk groups rather than just using the general population. The main thing to bear in mind with Sweden is that they were supposed to wind up with almost twenty times more deaths on their first wave than they actually did if the models that were circulating at the time had been accurate. Being on the same order of magnitude as EU countries that locked down harder calls into serious question whether the extra lockdown measures elsewhere made a significant difference and were worth the economic pain. Has any insight been given into Belarus? Of course, it would be impossible to trust any state published data, but it would be nice to see some analysis. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MP_MFC Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 The WHO have appealed for the UK to stop vaccinating after the priority groups and give their doses to poorer countries.Thoughts? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inanimate Carbon Rod Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 11 minutes ago, MP_MFC said: The WHO have appealed for the UK to stop vaccinating after the priority groups and give their doses to poorer countries. Thoughts? Probably not popular but no. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 The WHO have appealed for the UK to stop vaccinating after the priority groups and give their doses to poorer countries.Thoughts? Na. If theres an appeal to anyone it's to the pharma companies to look to increase production by any means neccessary including the previously discussed, allowing it to be produced under licence by anyone capable. The UK gov responsibility is to the people of the UK I'd say. Bottleneck of available doses is not caused by the UK taking what they ordered IMO, it is caused by a drive for profit. Let's not forget that the scientists being lauded for coming up with the stuff arent the conpanies. Pfizer et al would have made most folks pre pandemic list of top ten worst c***s on the planet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Stig Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 2 hours ago, superbigal said: NHS Fife is aware of a cluster of confirmed COVID-19 cases associated with West Park Care Home in Leslie. A total of 30 residents have tested positive for the virus. A further 21 staff have also tested positive for COVID-19. Sadly, 12 people have died after contracting COVID-19 The news of this has been delayed. Mrs Stig is one of the tracers in Fife has said to me yesterday the good news that there has not been a positive case in a care home in the last week and a half. I hope that this shows that the vaccination process is actually working and these people are now protected. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 20 minutes ago, MP_MFC said: The WHO have appealed for the UK to stop vaccinating after the priority groups and give their doses to poorer countries. Thoughts? It's a no from me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 (edited) 21 minutes ago, MP_MFC said: The WHO have appealed for the UK to stop vaccinating after the priority groups and give their doses to poorer countries. Thoughts? A guilty and selfish no I think, so long as we continue to fund maximum production and distribution after we're sorted. Edited January 30, 2021 by welshbairn 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 21 minutes ago, MP_MFC said: The WHO have appealed for the UK to stop vaccinating after the priority groups and give their doses to poorer countries. Thoughts? Naw! In planes it says put your mask on before helping others. I'd be uncomfortable breaking such well made rules. If we've got any left they can have it...maybe in exchange for something we want. Oil, land, minerals etc. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 24 minutes ago, MP_MFC said: The WHO have appealed for the UK to stop vaccinating after the priority groups and give their doses to poorer countries. Thoughts? If we can continue to vaccinate ourselves, we will soon be able to hold a charity concert, which will be of much more use to them. 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 If we can continue to vaccinate ourselves, we will soon be able to hold a charity concert, which will be of much more use to them.Let's fill Bob Geldof and Bono full of needles and send them over. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left Back Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 (edited) 27 minutes ago, MP_MFC said: The WHO have appealed for the UK to stop vaccinating after the priority groups and give their doses to poorer countries. Thoughts? The governments primary responsibility is to the citizens of the UK. Imagine the political sniping after every further death if they hadn’t done everything possible to prevent it? failing to take every chance to vaccinate citizens isn’t doing everything possible. On the other hand the potential for the EU to have a massive heads gone if we shipped loads of AZ to Africa would be quite amusing (although it would probably land AZ in court) ETA have the made this appeal other countries like Israel or is it just us? Edited January 30, 2021 by Left Back 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParsJake Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Given I'm getting vaccinated later this afternoon, think I'll sit on the fence for a few hours on this one... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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