Guest Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 3 hours ago, welshbairn said: Yeah, but it's a strange time to get upset about it when travel has just got a whole lot easier. I've been annoyed about it for a while but the mood music was along the lines that "summer would be better", "double jagged would likely have restriction free travel", etc, etc, however we're now heading for August and mandatory tests are still required for travel from Scotland whether we're double jagged or not. Said tests are very costly and also a hell of a lot of additional hassle and to top it off there's rumours doing the rounds that Spain and others may be added to this ridiculous "amber+" list next week. Over and above all of this we have NS proclaiming that "nobody should be travelling just now for leisure" and Van Tam only today telling us that "Autumn and Winter could be really bad" and that some restrictions may need to be reintroduced. As I've said before, I really have no idea what the end game is, as if we can't get rid of the testing nonsense now, then we're unlikely EVER to get rid of it and if we "shouldn't be travelling for leisure just now", then pray tell Nicola when the Hell we're likely going to be able, if ever ??? What's even more disturbing is that there now seems a resigned acceptance to this by most of the population and our mainstream media and political opposition are either right behind it or unwilling to criticise, which is even worse. I do appreciate that there's political games going on both between the UK and EU and UK and SG, however I'm really just scunnered with it all now, to say the least.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abdul_Latif Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 39 minutes ago, WATTOO said: to top it off there's rumours doing the rounds that Spain and others may be added to this ridiculous "amber+" list next week. Worth mentioning the Independet as well as some others were saying to the contrary that in fact the amber plus status is likely to be binned altogether. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 2 minutes ago, oaksoft said: No ifs, buts, exclusions or anything else. What, you mean kick them off the beaches back into the sea? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 Just now, oaksoft said: I'm saying that we shouldn't have had any barriers to leaving and entering the country in the first place. Interesting that your first thought was to go straight for the moral high ground. Radical stuff, I'm not sure I'd go that far. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 27 minutes ago, Abdul_Latif said: Worth mentioning the Independet as well as some others were saying to the contrary that in fact the amber plus status is likely to be binned altogether. I hope so as it defies logic. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elixir Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 Like a never-ending episode of Black Mirror. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawson Park Boy Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 5 minutes ago, Elixir said: Like a never-ending episode of Black Mirror. Just so terrible. Martial law basically in a modern democracy. Why do they tolerate it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee Bully Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 1 hour ago, oaksoft said: This is about covid. Stop trying to create strawmen. Covid doesn't give a toss what your refugee status is. If you want the borders shut then you want the borders shut. No ifs, buts, exclusions or anything else. Otherwise you start to look like you really don't know what the hell you are talking about. What a strange stance to take. I take it you live in a world with no nuance, and no competing priorities. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 "Person gets a cold" is news now, apparently 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left Back Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 1 hour ago, Dawson Park Boy said: Just so terrible. Martial law basically in a modern democracy. Why do they tolerate it? The Australian army have guns and the punters don’t? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
super_carson Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 3 minutes ago, Left Back said: The Australian army have guns and the punters don’t? Aye but the Aussie army lost a war against some Emus so…. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jimbaxters Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 9 hours ago, jimbaxters said: Currently Italy require a 5 day quarantine on UK arrivals. This was until July 30th so waiting to hear an announcement today. The downtrend is giving me heart. So much for that. Keeping it at 5 days quarantine for all UK arrivals for another month. Probably bin my flights now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 19 minutes ago, Elixir said: But @Detournement said... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djchapsticks Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Todd_is_God said: "Person gets a cold" is news now, apparently Some amount of 'I had the sniffles and a sore head, it was really bad' type comments on that thread. Which if anything, fully supports the vaccine programme as instead of a potential outcome of being papped on your stomach in hospital to prevent you literally drowning in your own fucking mucus, the vaccines have restricted the infection to most people's upper respiratory tract and kept it there, leaving you feeling a bit shite for 4-7 days. That should be met with total rejoice rather than angst. Edited July 29, 2021 by djchapsticks 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMDP Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 State of this thread, man. Who was it that said COVID was done last summer, was it @Todd_is_God? Imagine being that guy and still posting on here! -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyle Lanley Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/health/covid-scotland-scot-in-hotel-quarantine-while-father-terminally-ill-in-hospital-labels-system-an-absolute-disgrace-3327771 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elixir Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 Haha 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 13 minutes ago, Elixir said: Haha I doubt if many of us would come out well from what we posted on Feb 1st last year. I'd be really grateful if you'd get rid of your signature pic though, it makes everything you post seem like multicolour angry all caps. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strichener Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 3 hours ago, Lyle Lanley said: https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/health/covid-scotland-scot-in-hotel-quarantine-while-father-terminally-ill-in-hospital-labels-system-an-absolute-disgrace-3327771 Aye but it is easy, you just contact @TheJTS98 who can "contact the authority you make the request to" on your behalf. He knows how this all works. There is even a link on the website that tells you. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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