Coronavirus (COVID-19)

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[Burnieman]

Daily Cases Update:   5 Days of updates.  Well I never.  Cases down 22% and positivity down to 2.2%.  We are now down 83.75% from the peak.

Do we deserve to wait another couple of weeks before only actually returning to shitty level 3 ?   Perhaps the 6 people in total who have Covid in D&G  and Scottish Borders might disagree.   Feel free to quote little sections from below as it is hard to decide what to highlight.   Clearly Clacks needs eradicated of the face of the earth. 

Scotland peaked at 301.9 for figures 29th Dec to 4th Jan, (UK was 642.1)    Cases that day were 16,496 and test positivity rate was 11.9%  

Total Cases 7 days from 28th March to 3rd April  were  3440 now 2680 down 22.09%. Positivity was 2.5% now 2.2%.   Cases per 100k were 63.0 now 49.1

Home Nations Daily update:  UK Average  55.4 to 44.0, England  54.9 to 43.9,  Wales 37.8 to 28.7, Northern Ireland 56.7 to 49.4

NHS Progress  Forth Valley  97.5 to 95.9, Lanarkshire 102.0 to 70.0, Greater Glasgow 78.6 to 62.9,   the rest all under Scottish average.

European (Above 2 Million Population) Shockers: Serbia 494 to 515, Hungary 499, Poland 470, France 415, 

Council progress in last 24 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
Area that even the rat catchers avoid club
Clackmannanshire  196.0 to 240.6  Up another 22.76% the Grimmest area in the UK by a factor of over 75%
Under 100 Club could do better club
Renfrewshire  105.5 to 94.9 
West Lothian 133.3 to 89.6   Down 32.78%
North Lanarkshire  131.5 to 89.1  Down 32.24%
Glasgow City   80.7 to 72.8
Falkirk   92.0 to 70.2
East Ayrshire  61.5 to 68.0  A blot on the landscape up 10.57% 
Stirling  53.1 to 60.5 Another blot on the landscape up 13.94%    
South Lanarkshire 70.5 to 49.6 
Under Scottish Average club 49.1
Dundee City 77.0 to 48.2  Down 37.40%
Fife  43.9 to 47.7  
Midlothian  53.0 to 47.6
North Ayrshire 85.3 to 43.0  Down virtually 50%
Angus 40.4 to 42.2 
Perth & Kinross  42.1 to 38.8
East Lothian  43.9 to 37.4
West Dunbartonshire  69.7 to 37.1  Down close to 50%
Moray 67.8 to 34.4  Down close to 50%
East Dunbartonshire  74.6 to 34.1 Down well over 50%
City Of Edinburgh   53.9 to 34.1  Wow a huge city down 36.73%
East Renfrewshire   69.1 to 31.4  Down well over 50%
Aberdeen City 41.5 to 30.2
Havana & Malt Whisky club Sub 30.0
Aberdeenshire   30.2 to 26.8
Highlands  8.9 to 18.2
South Ayrshire 26.6 to 17.8
Inverclyde 24.4 to 15.4
Argyll & Bute   7.0 to 9.3
Shetland Islands  13.1 to 4.4
Scottish  Borders   12.1 to 3.5   4 people with covid !!!
Dumfries & Galloway 12.8 to 1.3  2 people with covid !!!
Western Isles   0.0 to 0.0
Orkney Island  0.0 to 0.0  

89.6, back of the net.......

[D.V.T.]

Daily Cases Update:   5 Days of updates.  Well I never.  Cases down 22% and positivity down to 2.2%.  We are now down 83.75% from the peak.

Do we deserve to wait another couple of weeks before only actually returning to shitty level 3 ?   Perhaps the 6 people in total who have Covid in D&G  and Scottish Borders might disagree.   Feel free to quote little sections from below as it is hard to decide what to highlight.   Clearly Clacks needs eradicated of the face of the earth. 

Scotland peaked at 301.9 for figures 29th Dec to 4th Jan, (UK was 642.1)    Cases that day were 16,496 and test positivity rate was 11.9%  

Total Cases 7 days from 28th March to 3rd April  were  3440 now 2680 down 22.09%. Positivity was 2.5% now 2.2%.   Cases per 100k were 63.0 now 49.1

Home Nations Daily update:  UK Average  55.4 to 44.0, England  54.9 to 43.9,  Wales 37.8 to 28.7, Northern Ireland 56.7 to 49.4

NHS Progress  Forth Valley  97.5 to 95.9, Lanarkshire 102.0 to 70.0, Greater Glasgow 78.6 to 62.9,   the rest all under Scottish average.

European (Above 2 Million Population) Shockers: Serbia 494 to 515, Hungary 499, Poland 470, France 415, 

Council progress in last 24 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
Area that even the rat catchers avoid club
Clackmannanshire  196.0 to 240.6  Up another 22.76% the Grimmest area in the UK by a factor of over 75%
Under 100 Club could do better club
Renfrewshire  105.5 to 94.9 
West Lothian 133.3 to 89.6   Down 32.78%
North Lanarkshire  131.5 to 89.1  Down 32.24%
Glasgow City   80.7 to 72.8
Falkirk   92.0 to 70.2
East Ayrshire  61.5 to 68.0  A blot on the landscape up 10.57% 
Stirling  53.1 to 60.5 Another blot on the landscape up 13.94%    
South Lanarkshire 70.5 to 49.6 
Under Scottish Average club 49.1
Dundee City 77.0 to 48.2  Down 37.40%
Fife  43.9 to 47.7  
Midlothian  53.0 to 47.6
North Ayrshire 85.3 to 43.0  Down virtually 50%
Angus 40.4 to 42.2 
Perth & Kinross  42.1 to 38.8
East Lothian  43.9 to 37.4
West Dunbartonshire  69.7 to 37.1  Down close to 50%
Moray 67.8 to 34.4  Down close to 50%
East Dunbartonshire  74.6 to 34.1 Down well over 50%
City Of Edinburgh   53.9 to 34.1  Wow a huge city down 36.73%
East Renfrewshire   69.1 to 31.4  Down well over 50%
Aberdeen City 41.5 to 30.2
Havana & Malt Whisky club Sub 30.0
Aberdeenshire   30.2 to 26.8
Highlands  8.9 to 18.2
South Ayrshire 26.6 to 17.8
Inverclyde 24.4 to 15.4
Argyll & Bute   7.0 to 9.3
Shetland Islands  13.1 to 4.4
Scottish  Borders   12.1 to 3.5   4 people with covid !!!
Dumfries & Galloway 12.8 to 1.3  2 people with covid !!!
Western Isles   0.0 to 0.0
Orkney Island  0.0 to 0.0  

East Ren [emoji41]

Open the Barrhead boozers

[Left Back]

35 minutes ago, Detournement said:

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/04/covid-certificates-on-the-cards-for-use-in-england-since-december

It's all in the media but the vast majority of the population seems to have an unshakeable conviction that it's impossible that the nature of our society can fundamentally change so they ignore anything that contradicts that. It's a strange phenomenon.

Zuhlke were contracted in November 2020.

 

Research into whether something is feasible/possible is a lot different to actually rolling it out.  Back in November they awarded contracts  to build prototype apps to prove your testing status (i.e. that you'd had a recent negative test).  It was nothing to do with vaccination status.

[Elixir]

This guy and his field.

[Frankie S]

3 hours ago, Paco said:

Scotland also plans to open indoor hospitality, minus alcohol, a full three weeks earlier than England. Tends to get skimmed over but given we’ve been told indoor hospitality is such a big risk, it’s interesting to see.

There’s a lot of tit-for-tat on reopening stuff, you could play it all day. Outdoor gyms opened weeks earlier in Scotland, but indoor will wait two weeks longer, for example. England is probably ever so slightly faster overall but then their data at this stage is better too.

I’ve said this for months but anyone trying to read anything into any of these changes is running a fool’s errand. They’re pretty much on the same page, doing slightly different things at slightly different stages, at least up until that June 21st date where Johnson promised virtual normality and there was no such promise from Scotland (or Wales, or NI) - and at this stage, Sturgeon will come out on top there as I’m not sure England thought of vaccine passports, social distancing, face coverings and limited capacities when they heard the words ‘removal of restrictions’.

Always annoys me when it’s suggested that ‘indoor hospitality’ has been given the green light to restart from 26th April, when what has actually been given the green light is the option to trade as a cafe, coffee shop or alcohol-fee restaurant until 8.00pm. My Edinburgh outlet (for instance) is a bar, restaurant and live music venue with overheads to match, not a glorified ****ing cafe. 

So, we’ll be permitted to trade under such onerous restrictions that no-one (other than dedicated cafes or coffee shops) can conceivably cover their costs, and this is coinciding with the end of the Strategic Framework grants for hospitality (which provided grants to businesses that were required to close by law, or required to significantly change their operations due to Covid-19 restrictions - the final 2 week grant will be issued on 19th April), so other than furlough there will be no ongoing support for the industry, even though restrictions including curfews, social distancing etc will continue for the foreseeable future. So the grants will have been removed completely, but the raison d’etre for the grants is still very much in place, given the ongoing onerous restrictions, which have (as yet) no end date. Operating under illogical and often counter-productive restrictions without financial support is the place where the hospitality industry will be left marooned by the Scottish government at the end of this month.

I know of very few outlets (other than those lucky enough to have outside spaces, which are at a premium in city centre outlets) that are planning to reopen on 26th April. We’ll be reopening on 17th May with a pointlessly damaging and (as we saw last time) completely counter-productive 10.00pm curfew, while our English counterparts can reopen on the same date with no curfew, trading with normal licensing hours. English outlets can open their outside spaces from 12th April, 2 weeks ahead of Scotland btw.

Whatever arguments can be made in favour of Sturgeon’s approach, going easier on hospitality compared to England is definitely not one of them.

[Lyle Lanley]

34 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:

Boris buying a vaccine passport after a one to one meeting with Lyle Lanley IMO

[Elixir]

More junk input = more junk modeling = more junk headlines. Fantastic stuff all round.

 

[Detournement]

7 minutes ago, Left Back said:

Research into whether something is feasible/possible is a lot different to actually rolling it out.  Back in November they awarded contracts  to build prototype apps to prove your testing status (i.e. that you'd had a recent negative test).  It was nothing to do with vaccination status.

The screenshot I posted says a report from 17 December discusses restrictions based on vaccination status. 

[Detournement]

39 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:

Boris buying a vaccine passport after a one to one meeting with Lyle Lanley IMO

As nice it would be to think that this is down to daft Boris it's being rolled out across the EU, Israel and parts of the USA.

 

[Todd_is_God]

5 minutes ago, Elixir said:

More junk input = more junk modeling = more junk headlines. Fantastic stuff all round.

 

This is just the worst case scenario though, we really should ignore it because this definitely will not have any impact on decision making in the summer.

[monthelie']

19 minutes ago, D.V.T. said:

 

East Ren

Open the Barrhead boozers

 

Aye, get the Brig open.

No doubt when the shitty tier system comes back, we will be back at the top of the charts due to swingers parties in Newton Mearns.

[Left Back]

9 minutes ago, Detournement said:

The screenshot I posted says a report from 17 December discusses restrictions based on vaccination status. 

Take your big book of conspiracy theories and away and hide under your bed mate.

[The Moonster]

31 minutes ago, MrWorldwideJr said:

Doctors and nurses don't tend to be wearing unfitted cloth masks that they bought on Amazon as a general rule.

 

30 minutes ago, oaksoft said:

Doctors and nurses at work in covid wards are, as far as I can tell, not using snoods,scarves or fabric masks.

Happy to be corrected on that.

Which is precisely what I've said, that the problem is poor quality face masks then rather than face masks being useless altogether.

[Todd_is_God]

19 minutes ago, Detournement said:

As nice it would be to think that this is down to daft Boris it's being rolled out across the EU, Israel and parts of the USA.

There has to be a money trail somewhere.

The most logical explanation would be the data this will mine is a return on Investment for the extraordinary sums of money spent by the WEF.

There is also the report published last September where Vallance discusses what global health data sharing will look like in 2030. There was, of course, no scenario where there was no global health data sharing.

Whilst these, of course, are not examples of Government Policy, they are written by those in a strong position to advise on and shape policy.

I have a feeling that those with their eyes on implementing this sort of thing saw the opportunity that the pandemic would bring to push them through, and, despite the vaccines far exceeding even the most optimistic performance expectations, they are going to insist they are necessary regardless.

They have a one-time window of opportunity, and are getting desperate as it has all but closed.

GOS_The_Future_of_Citizen_Data_Systems_Report__2_ (1).pdf

Edited April 6, 2021 by Todd_is_God

[Detournement]

1 minute ago, Left Back said:

Take your big book of conspiracy theories and away and hide under your bed mate.

It's not a conspiracy theory if the WEF and various governments are telling you exactly what they are doing. 

[Detournement]

2 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said:

There has to be a money trail somewhere.

The most logical explanation would be the data this will mine is a return on Investment for the extraordinary sums of money spent by the WEF.

GOS_The_Future_of_Citizen_Data_Systems_Report__2_ (1).pdf 2.93 MB · 1 download

The primary goal is clearly to put the infrastructure in place to create a cashless society where every single transaction is observable. 

And I would wager as soon as the digital infrastructure is in place to enforce restrictions on individuals it will be expanded from simply being a Covid focused infrastructure to other parts of the state apparatus.

[MrWorldwideJr]

1 minute ago, The Moonster said:

 

Which is precisely what I've said, that the problem is poor quality face masks then rather than face masks being useless altogether.

That's pretty irrelevent to what was actually being discussed though isn't it? The question being discussed wasn't 'are all face masks completely useless in all scenarios'? The only person having that particular discussion was you.

There is no realistic scenario in which you get everybody going into a shop/pub/football ground wearing a properly fitted, medically approved face mask. The most useful data when discussing the public use of face masks is surely data which corresponds to the face masks that will actually be used in public?

I'll be honest I haven't read into it so I have no idea what that data says but I don't think that how completely different masks which will never be in widespread public use function in a completely different environment is all that relevant.

[WhiteRoseKillie]

Doctors and nurses at work in covid wards are, as far as I can tell, not using snoods,scarves or fabric masks.
Happy to be corrected on that.

I'll just correct you on one thing. What you're describing are face coverings, not masks. A properly worn FRSM absolutely will cut down on aerosol transmission. Remember you're not wearing it to protect yourself, you're wearing it to protect others from you.
The same way as doctors and nurses have always worn them.

[WhiteRoseKillie]

Any masks the public would have to use to have any serious effect would have to be fully sealed and filtered and then you'd need to avoid all contact with other people as well via the wearing of suitable PPE gowns.
I'm not sure anything warrants that sort of thing outside of a covid ward.

See my previous reply to you. Most staff in our workplace got their heads round the types of mask and appropriate usage of each pretty quickly. It's been a year now, and you come in with this irrelevant pish.