Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[Honest_Man#1]

4 minutes ago, ICTChris said:

WATTOO bobs his head up every few weeks or months, no doubt at the end of a very heavy session. Very sad so see people turn to alcohol and terrible posting during the lockdown. Many such cases!

Giving him the excuse of being pished is generous of you, it’s pretty clear he’s just a complete weapon.

[Bairnardo]

10 minutes ago, ICTChris said:

WATTOO bobs his head up every few weeks or months, no doubt at the end of a VERY heavy session!!!!!!! Very SAD so see people turn to alcohol and terrible posting during the lockdown. MANY such cases!!!!!!!!! SAD SAD SAD

Hiya Donald

ETA

Edited March 14, 2021 by Bairnardo

[Detournement]

Trump is the GOAT of Twitter. 

They need to let him back on. 

[Elixir]

Will other independence supporters be fine with Scotland losing connectivity to Europe, the wider world, and all the economic prospects that go with it? Or will they start holding the Scottish Government to account for the utter shambles they are presiding over in comparison to other nations?

[101]

31 minutes ago, Bob Mahelp said:

My brother lives in Lerwick, is early 50's, and he and his missus were vaccinated on Friday.

The islands must really be ahead of the curve with vaccinations. 

I was at a meeting with someone from Shetland and their vaccination centers were calling local people if they had spare doses, not heard of this happening on the mainland but it seems really sensible.

[Marshmallo]

35 minutes ago, ICTChris said:

WATTOO bobs his head up every few weeks or months, no doubt at the end of a very heavy session. Very sad so see people turn to alcohol and terrible posting during the lockdown. Many such cases!

@ me next time you coward 

[Todd_is_God]

23 minutes ago, Elixir said:

Will other independence supporters be fine with Scotland losing connectivity to Europe, the wider world, and all the economic prospects that go with it? Or will they start holding the Scottish Government to account for the utter shambles they are presiding over in comparison to other nations?

Bloody reckless TOARRRRIES opening up too soon to steal flights from Scotland

[Billy Jean King]

I don't know, Braehead Primary has a dozen teachers plus some pupils with covid, Dalmilling Primary and Heathfield Primary are also closed. 
Braehead and Dalmilling are right next Whitletts and Heathfield is not even a mile away.

It has a dozen teachers isolating they haven't all tested positive. The schools are closed due to the number of teachers isolating rather than them all having Covid. Suggests they had maybe been mixing more than they should have but that's purely speculation.

[H Wragg]

Daily Cases Update:   Sorry been a bit busy so this is a 72 hour update.  So the Level roadmap should be in the planning for Tuesday. We all hate infection numbers but we know they will take notice.  They do not make great reading compared to the rest of the UK.  Also the Key Positivity rate is on the rise again. I wonder if there is a Rangers effect ? Certainly easy looking at Renfrewshire and others to make up whatever facts you want. The good news are that Forth Valley overall has dropped. Angus, Perth & Kinross had good few days. Whitletts in South Ayrshire (Rangers supporter club ?) now has the title of the No Go Zone.

Scotland peaked at 301.9 for figures 29th Dec to 4th Jan,    Cases that day were 16,496 and test rate was 11.9%

Total Cases 7 days from 5th March to 11th March were 3,524 to 3,872 up 9.88%. Positivity was  3.1% but now up to 3.3%  Cases per 100k were 64.5 and now 70.9

Home Nations Daily update: England 61.0 to 59.3 down 2.79% .  Wales 43.3 to 42.8 down 1.15%  , Northern Ireland 64.7 to 67.3 up 4.17%    UK Average  60.4 to 59.2 down 1.99%

NHS Progress  Forth Valley 123.3 to 115.1 ,Greater Glasgow 87.5 to 101.7 , Lanarkshire  93.7 to 99.3 ,  North Ayrshire & Arran 65.8 to 84.2,  the rest all under Scottish average.

European (Above 2 Million Population) Shockers: Czech 761, Hungary 440, Serbia 409, Slovakia 264, Sweden 262, Poland 257, Italy 249, France 231 showing how much worse it is in Europe.  The UK only has below it Portugal (Who were top recently !!!) and Russia.   This does seem to support the patterns where new variants hit earlier than in other places.

Council progress in last 72 Hours as follows.

Click cases by neighbourhood to see the spread on the geographical map. 
https://public.tableau.com/profile/phs.covid.19#!/vizhome/COVID-19DailyDashboard_15960160643010/Overview
The Bad boys club Over 100 Cartel
Stirling  136.9 to 141.2  Fallin at 877,  Braehead at 806 !!!
Glasgow City 114.8 to 125.6
North Lanarkshire  112.5 to 121.0
East Renfrewshire 99.4 to 106.8 
Renfrewshire  72.0 to 106.1  Oh dear up over 50% in 4 days Rangers ?      
Falkirk  111.9 to 105.0     
Under 100 Club
West Lothian 104.3 to 99.4
South Ayrshire 47.1 to 98.6   Trebled in 4 days and  Whitletts now Scotland's most dangerous neighbourhood at 901  
Clackmannanshire 133.9 to 95.1    Turned the table down near 29%
North Ayrshire  80.9 to 93.5
South Lanarkshire   73.6 to 75.8
Under Scottish Average club 70.9
Dundee City  65.6 to 64.3
Fife   49.5 to 62.1
East Ayrshire 64.7 to 59.0
Midlothian  45.4 to 58.4  
East Lothian  50.4 to 56.0
East Dunbartonshire 36.8 to 51.5  
Hamlet & a Beer club Sub 50.0
Western Isles   67.4 to 48.7
City Of Edinburgh 40.4 to 46.3
West Dunbartonshire  30.4 to 46.1  Too many Cigars
Highlands  40.3 to 44.1 
Aberdeen City  35.9 to 42.0     
Perth & Kinross 42.8 to 36.2 Excellent drop
Aberdeenshire  27.2 to 33.7
Angus 42.2 to 31.8  Fantastic huge drop.
Havana & Malt Whisky club Sub 30.0
Moray 31.3 to 25.0  
Inverclyde  20.6 to 20.6  
Dumfries & Galloway 16.1 to 19.5
Scottish  Borders 20.8 to 17.3       
Argyll & Bute 5.8  to 9.3
Shetland Islands 4.4 to 4.4
Orkney Island  0.0 to 0.0 

Increases in Scotland and NI, but not England and Wales? [emoji848]

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[Billy Jean King]

Will other independence supporters be fine with Scotland losing connectivity to Europe, the wider world, and all the economic prospects that go with it? Or will they start holding the Scottish Government to account for the utter shambles they are presiding over in comparison to other nations?

I was travelling all through the 80s and never once was restricted by not being able to fly from Glasgow. You could fly to any main Euro destination from Glasgow throughout the 80s. More fear mongering nonsense.

ETA be interesting to know which routes and which airlines have moved routes from Glasgow to England since the announcements were made for some actual context.

[Elixir]

34 minutes ago, 101 said:

I was at a meeting with someone from Shetland and their vaccination centers were calling local people if they had spare doses, not heard of this happening on the mainland but it seems really sensible.

It was well publicised that Israel were doing this and there was controversy about some GP's doing it here. Although overall the rollout has been a big success in Scotland and the rest of the UK, it would have been good if it was standard practice to give any leftover doses out on a first come, first serve basis.

[Burnieman]

Will other independence supporters be fine with Scotland losing connectivity to Europe, the wider world, and all the economic prospects that go with it? Or will they start holding the Scottish Government to account for the utter shambles they are presiding over in comparison to other nations?

What are you comparing Scotland to with regards to other nations? EU vaccine rollout a shambles, messaging on AZ vaccine a disaster, Italy going back into lockdown, virus increasing in France and Germany, Czechia at breaking point etc.

Our international travel will resume at the same rate as the rest of the UK. I'm fairly sure pressure from BA, easyJet, Ryanair, Heathrow, Manchester etc will ensure that the UK Govt don't drag their heels.

[Billy Jean King]

What are you comparing Scotland to with regards to other nations? EU vaccine rollout a shambles, messaging on AZ vaccine a disaster, Italy going back into lockdown, virus increasing in France and Germany, Czechia at breaking point etc.

Our international travel will resume at the same rate as the rest of the UK. I'm fairly sure pressure from BA, easyJet, Ryanair, Heathrow, Manchester etc will ensure that the UK Govt don't drag their heels.

Spot on, just another scare story. Up there today with teaching unions moaning about kids return on the grounds teachers are EXHAUSTED !!!

[superbigal]

I don't know, Braehead Primary has a dozen teachers plus some pupils with covid, Dalmilling Primary and Heathfield Primary are also closed. 
Braehead and Dalmilling are right next Whitletts and Heathfield is not even a mile away.

The teachers fighting for the best coffee mug in the staff room.

[Elixir]

3 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said:

I was travelling all through the 80s and never once was restricted by not being able to fly from Glasgow. You could fly to any main Euro destination from Glasgow throughout the 80s. More fear mongering nonsense.

Oh, I hope it is, and no doubt some of it is hyperbole, but the fact that the Scottish Government's taskforce hasn't had a single meeting yet is intolerable. It is also true that some routes have been shelved. Whether or not this will be permanent, or how long they will take to return, remains to be seen. This is at least partly down to the Scottish Government's negativity.

I get why they want to play on the whole 'we care more than the Tories'  thing, but they need to realise that without the economic argument, they're not going to win an independence referendum. As someone who still supports independence, this irritates me.

[vikingTON]

9 minutes ago, Burnieman said:

Our international travel will resume at the same rate as the rest of the UK. I'm fairly sure pressure from BA, easyJet, Ryanair, Heathrow, Manchester etc will ensure that the UK Govt don't drag their heels.
 

Except that's just not true while i) the Scottish Government's blanket quarantine on international arrivals remains in place and ii) the SG refuses to provide a roadmap to the resumption of international travel without that measure. Airlines cannot just switch around their flight schedules with a click of two fingers - they need dates to plan around and the longer that greater uncertainty lingers around the viability of direct Scottish routes, the more flights will be moved to Newcastle or Birmingham or Manchester instead. 

[ayrmad]

9 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said:

1 hour ago, ayrmad said:

I don't know, Braehead Primary has a dozen teachers plus some pupils with covid, Dalmilling Primary and Heathfield Primary are also closed. 
Braehead and Dalmilling are right next Whitletts and Heathfield is not even a mile away.

It has a dozen teachers isolating they haven't all tested positive. The schools are closed due to the number of teachers isolating rather than them all having Covid. Suggests they had maybe been mixing more than they should have but that's purely speculation.

Aye, only gave the stories a passing glance on my phone. 

[ayrmad]

14 minutes ago, superbigal said:

2 hours ago, ayrmad said:

I don't know, Braehead Primary has a dozen teachers plus some pupils with covid, Dalmilling Primary and Heathfield Primary are also closed. 
Braehead and Dalmilling are right next Whitletts and Heathfield is not even a mile away.

The teachers fighting for the best coffee mug in the staff room.

You've certainly got to stand your corner around that area. 

[Burnieman]

Just now, virginton said:

Except that's just not true while i) the Scottish Government's blanket quarantine on international arrivals remains in place and ii) the SG refuses to provide a roadmap to the resumption of international travel without that measure. Airlines cannot just switch around their flight schedules with a click of two fingers - they need dates to plan around and the longer that greater uncertainty lingers around the viability of direct Scottish routes, the more flights will be moved to Newcastle or Birmingham or Manchester instead. 

Except it is true.  There is no International travel roadmap in England either, there might be by the middle of next month, there might not be.  There's great uncertainty over what countries you'd be able to travel to this summer in any case.

Airlines will cancel routes they're not certain will be viable when international travel resumes, they will likely revisit it when they get their operations back on their feet and their core routes operating near normality.  That will be no different with English airports.  BA predicted 2024 before they are back to full operating capacity, their HQ is Heathrow and they have cancelled routes.

[Glen Sannox]

1 hour ago, Elixir said:

Will other independence supporters be fine with Scotland losing connectivity to Europe, the wider world, and all the economic prospects that go with it? Or will they start holding the Scottish Government to account for the utter shambles they are presiding over in comparison to other nations?

I would imagine they’ll just keep blaming English people and nasty Tories.