Left Back Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 Experts now saying cases could be only 5,000 a day in a matter of weeks. https://news.sky.com/story/covid-sky-news-live-blog-uk-coronavirus-latest-daily-cases-plan-b-restrictions-12443026 If they keep firing darts at the board eventually they have to hit a bullseye 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 2 hours ago, ddfg said: Just had a look on the status App to see when I'm eligible for a booster and it now has a timer below the QR code, presumably a "safety" measure to stop screenshots being shared. Maybe other people have had this before but it was the first I've noticed it. It's not a countdown btw - it's the current time 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael W Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 18 minutes ago, Left Back said: Experts now saying cases could be only 5,000 a day in a matter of weeks. https://news.sky.com/story/covid-sky-news-live-blog-uk-coronavirus-latest-daily-cases-plan-b-restrictions-12443026 If they keep firing darts at the board eventually they have to hit a bullseye So somewhere between 5,000 and 100,000. Deepti Gurdasani with the space cadet 200,000 prediction from back in May that never materialised. Wonderful! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 26 minutes ago, Left Back said: Experts now saying cases could be only 5,000 a day in a matter of weeks. https://news.sky.com/story/covid-sky-news-live-blog-uk-coronavirus-latest-daily-cases-plan-b-restrictions-12443026 If they keep firing darts at the board eventually they have to hit a bullseye Remember the Scottish Government have produced models which show up to 44,000 cases a day in Scotland alone in just a few weeks 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left Back Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 6 minutes ago, Michael W said: So somewhere between 5,000 and 100,000. Deepti Gurdasani with the space cadet 200,000 prediction from back in May that never materialised. Wonderful! Well if it did come to pass at 5,000 a day roughly 10 percent of those would be in Scotland so around 500 per day. We're currently about 2500 per day so 20% of that figure. If the hospitalisation figures dropped by the same ratio we'd have less than 20 admissions per day, 180 people in hospital with Covid and less than a handful of deaths per day. We'd still get nutcases screaming for more restrictions though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyle Lanley Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 50 minutes ago, No_Problemo said: I can’t even get it past the initial loading stage, tried everything on my iPhone that might be causing it but still no luck. Only downloading it for the football tomorrow night, I have my electronic version outside the app regardless - if they are still accepting that anyway. Update - after reinstalling it several times I’m now in. As long as the rest goes smoothly. Just updated the app and no issues here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No_Problemo Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 Just now, Lyle Lanley said: Just updated the app and no issues here. All good now, it’s a bit clunky but got there in the end. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left Back Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 4 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said: Remember the Scottish Government have produced models which show up to 44,000 cases a day in Scotland alone in just a few weeks Hadn't seen that. It would be some going when the September peak was just over 7000 cases per day in Scotland and the UK as a whole looks like it might have peaked at just under 50000. Where are they actually getting this nonsense from and does no-one think to query it before putting it out into the public domain? Do any of these so called experts have the faintest idea what they're doing? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 2 hours ago, Wee Bully said: Indeed - 550 people over the whole weekend. How many venues are there? Sounds to me that this means 1 or 2 people per venue (at most). 550 too many. Nobody should go out to a club and not get into a club. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 550 too many. Nobody should go out to a club and not get into a club. Not entirely true. I agree they shouldn't be denied access due to not having a vaccine passport, but drunken arseholes should still be fired into the sun. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee Bully Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 1 hour ago, Left Back said: Not how I read it. Yes some venues decided to do the above to take them outside of the scope. I read the first part as venues closing early because there wasn't enough footfall to justify being open. That’s the impression the article writer is trying to put across, but there is nothing in the quote to justify that. The quote specifically lays the blame for them shutting early at a different door - that of staff recruitment and welfare. In essence, the article says: 1. 550 people knocked back over the weekend. Given the number of venues, that doesn’t sound a lot to me 2. Footfall is down “up to 40%”, with no idea what that is comparing it to, and also on the same weekend as a widely publicised boycott of nightclubs by women, and 3. Some venues choose to close early due to lack of staff (nothing to do with the vaccine passport). People complain on here all the time about the press exaggerating the risks of Covid, long Covid etc. The article here is exactly the same - pure clickbait, and reading past the headline and the first 2 paragraphs shows that. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee Bully Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 5 minutes ago, HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows said: 550 too many. Nobody should go out to a club and not get into a club. Peak-minter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 4 minutes ago, peasy23 said: 9 minutes ago, HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows said: 550 too many. Nobody should go out to a club and not get into a club. Not entirely true. I agree they shouldn't be denied access due to not having a vaccine passport, but drunken arseholes should still be fired into the sun. Nevermind...... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 4 minutes ago, Wee Bully said: Peak-minter. f**k me son, woosher-riffic from you ya foaming cretin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 16 minutes ago, peasy23 said: 21 minutes ago, HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows said: 550 too many. Nobody should go out to a club and not get into a club. Not entirely true. I agree they shouldn't be denied access due to not having a vaccine passport, but drunken arseholes should still be fired into the sun. I don't recall there ever being a public outcry about the numerous bouncers throughout the country who just randomly said "no the night pal" to the hundreds / thousands on a nightly basis ?? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Have some faith in Magic Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 Lack of taxis will be hammering the nightclub industry as well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donathan Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 39 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said: Remember the Scottish Government have produced models which show up to 44,000 cases a day in Scotland alone in just a few weeks Pretty obvious to me that the combined case total of England, Wales and Northern Ireland by the end of November will be, erm, -39,000 -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williemillersmoustache Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 32 minutes ago, HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows said: 550 too many. Nobody should go out to a club and not get into a club. Respect, from a casual dining fan. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left Back Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 44 minutes ago, Wee Bully said: That’s the impression the article writer is trying to put across, but there is nothing in the quote to justify that. The quote specifically lays the blame for them shutting early at a different door - that of staff recruitment and welfare. In essence, the article says: 1. 550 people knocked back over the weekend. Given the number of venues, that doesn’t sound a lot to me 2. Footfall is down “up to 40%”, with no idea what that is comparing it to, and also on the same weekend as a widely publicised boycott of nightclubs by women, and 3. Some venues choose to close early due to lack of staff (nothing to do with the vaccine passport). People complain on here all the time about the press exaggerating the risks of Covid, long Covid etc. The article here is exactly the same - pure clickbait, and reading past the headline and the first 2 paragraphs shows that. Still just seeing what you want to see. You want to firmly believe the sector is fine and vaccine passports aren't damaging it. Nothing anyone can say will alter you from that belief but you come across as either incredibly stupid or incredibly naïve. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 2,240 new cases of COVID-19 reported 23,055 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results 10.3% of these were positive 0 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive (noting that Register Offices are generally closed at the weekend) 57 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19 902 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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