Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[Bairnardo]

1 minute ago, welshbairn said:

 a far right nutter on par with Paul Joseph Watson.

He's available though tbf, and I would take him instead of Brad McKay

[superbigal]

Daily Summary for @oaksoft :   Deaths 20 (0 day before),  ICU cases 59 up 2   (9 new admissions),  In hospital with confirmed Covid 917  up 15  (300 new admissions).    Not the best of days.

Figures for Jags.  1st Vaccines  1,561  2nd vaccines  1,894   Pretty poor stuff as no one cares about clubbing clearly.

Daily Cases Update: 3rd day in a row with a tiny fall, today 1.00% and looks like another similar smallish fall tomorrow.  Still think we are stuck at 300+ for a while yet.  Interesting that 24 of the councils are now within 25% above or below the average.

Glasgow in 28th place is astonishing. Be very easy to see if Cop26 does have an effect.

Much of Europe is surging as well in terms of weekly increase. Czech up 124%, Poland up 94% the uickest risers.

Total Cases Scotland 7 days 17th October to 23rdd October  were  17,705 to 17,597 down 0.61%, Positivity was 8.9% now 8.9%.  Cases per 100K were 323.9  now 321.9

Home Nations Daily Cases per 100K update  :  UK Average   486.9 to 485.6 down 0.27%, England  488.5 to 487.4 down 0.23%, Wales 732.8 to 732.9 up 0.02%, Northern Ireland  475.2 to 470.4 up 1.01%  to show @Todd_is_God that today reflects the 1st possible downward trend of a weeks data. All 4 nations down today.  Deaths pretty steep at 263

In Europe for travellers (Countries Population over 3 Million) Serbia 569 (weekly change up 13%), Romania 549 (weekly up 4%), Croatia 428 (weekly up 73%), Bulgaria 419 (Weekly up 46%),  Slovakia 349 (weekly up 61%), Ukraine 310 (Week up 43%), Ireland  295 (Weekly up 23%), Moldova 286 (Weekly up 16%), Belgium 252 (Week up 47%), Austria 252 (Week up 57%), Greece 217 (Week up 32%) These are the only countries over 202 cases per 100K.   The Baltic states Latvia 913, Lithuania 733, & Estonia 718 with smaller populations are in a bad way 

Scotland  peaks in wave 4 at 817.1 for 1st Sep to 7th Sep, (UK was 392.1), Cases that day were 44,663 and positivity 12.5%

Scotland peaks in Wave 3 at 425.1 for 27th June to 3rd July, (UK was 229.9) . Cases that day were 23,222 and positivity 10.8%

Scotland  peaked in wave 2 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%  

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

Clackmannanshire 586.9 to 563.5    

East Ayrshire  474.5 to 451.5     Kilmarnock South & Cap again at 1,678 per 100K.  Is that the Screws & Lags licking each other again ?  @WhiteRoseKilie 

West Lothian  449.4 to 441.7 

Stirling 435.8 to 436.9  

Fife  425.3 to 421.5

North Lanarkshire  403.6 to 393.7  

Falkirk  432.2 to 402.3 to 385.5  Decent near 11% in 2 days

East Dunbartonshire    377.0 to 362.3 

Dundee City   339.3 to 347.4 

Aberdeenshire  345.1 to 347.0  

Perth & Kinross     319.9 to 332.4  Another constant riser up 8 places in 2 days.

South Lanarkshire    378.1 to 351.3 to 332.0 Decent fall over 12% in 2 days

West Dunbartonshire 333.9 to 331.7 

BELOW AVERAGE

Scottish  Borders   339.3 to 320.2  

East Lothian    319.7 to 318.8

Argyll & Bute   311.4 to 316.0 

East Renfrewshire 323.8 to 312.3 

North Ayrshire   315.8 to 307.6

Angus  319.5 to 303.1

Renfrewshire  288.2 to 301.6  

 South Ayrshire  305.9 to 300.5  

Highlands 280.8 to 296.9

Inverclyde   276.3 to 290.7

Dumfries & Galloway  278.5 to 284.6

Moray  281.1 to 267.5

Western Isles    264.2 to 264.2 

Aberdeen City   253.2 to 257.1

Glasgow City   243.5 to 243.8

Midlothian  229.7 to 241.5

City Of Edinburgh   226.7 to 235.6

Orkney Islands  218.8 to 209.8

 Shetland Islands   65.6 to 48.1

Edited October 26, 2021 by superbigal

[Lyle Lanley]

 

Devi and Linda will be upset at this news. 

Edited October 26, 2021 by Lyle Lanley

[Abdul_Latif]

Glad to see it’s just an LFT required upon arrival back to Scotland now.

 

Edited October 26, 2021 by Abdul_Latif

[scottsdad]

Let me guess - the media's follow-up questions were "What do case numbers need to reach to reintroduce lockdown?"

[Elixir]

FAO Linda the Liar.

[Elixir]

40 minutes ago, welshbairn said:

That might be true for some, but I don't think that's true for some of the most prolific posters on here, like @Elixir for instance who continually quotes the Telegraph and has called for the privatisation of the NHS, and even approvingly quotes Peter Sweden, a far right nutter on par with Paul Joseph Watson.

Hahahahahahaha

[Elixir]

14 minutes ago, Lyle Lanley said:

 

Devi and Linda will be upset at this news. 

Absolute psycho talk from Sturgeon. Lip service about the prospect of more restrictions when the talk should be of less as cases flat line and inevitably drop. You just know she won't bin the theatre when cases crash in the coming weeks and months as it's winter and 'just in case, to be safe'.

[effeffsee_the2nd]

4 minutes ago, Elixir said:

Absolute psycho talk from Sturgeon. Lip service about the prospect of more restrictions when the talk should be of less as cases flat line and inevitably drop. You just know she won't bin the theatre when cases crash in the coming weeks and months as it's winter and 'just in case, to be safe'.

i'm pretty sure if we still had furlough available we would be stuck in level 0.5 through the winter like ireland are 

[williemillersmoustache]

Hilarious that caution, safety and giving a shit about people are now cast as negative "psycho" traits in a leader. 

 

[Wee Bully]

1 hour ago, welshbairn said:

That might be true for some, but I don't think that's true for some of the most prolific posters on here, like @Elixir for instance who continually quotes the Telegraph and has called for the privatisation of the NHS, and even approvingly quotes Peter Sweden, a far right nutter on par with Paul Joseph Watson.

 

17 minutes ago, Elixir said:

Absolute psycho talk from Sturgeon. Lip service about the prospect of more restrictions when the talk should be of less as cases flat line and inevitably drop. You just know she won't bin the theatre when cases crash in the coming weeks and months as it's winter and 'just in case, to be safe'.

I think @Elixir has just proved @welshbairn’s point.

[welshbairn]

4 hours ago, Honest_Man#1 said:

Looking at going to Italy. Notice that in addition to the PCR 2 day test (can’t remember if people had said we still have to use the NHS rip off £68 one or we can use private providers now?) you also have to have proof of a negative PCR or antigen test taken within 48 hours of departure to get entry to Italy. Does this mean you have to pay for another test? Or can I just go to a drop in centre and get tested the day before? Or does antigen mean lateral flow?

 

4 hours ago, welshbairn said:

Antigen means LFT. You have to buy a private one, don't use Chronomics, I ordered one because I wasn't 100% whether I needed one for coming to Portugal via Holland, and it never arrived. Turned out I didn't need one but I had a hard time convincing Check in at Inverness of that. Don't book anything until the last minute, the rules change daily and you'll probably only need an LFT for Day 2.

P.S. As far as flying back to a Scottish airport goes, the only definite at the moment is that you don't need to use the rip off £68 one.

Sturgeon just announced LFTs ok for Day 2 for flights arriving at Scottish airports after 4am Sunday, bookable from Friday evening.

[Elixir]

20 minutes ago, williemillersmoustache said:

Hilarious that caution, safety and giving a shit about people are now cast as negative "psycho" traits in a leader.

Aye, that's really what's going on. 

[Elixir]

The bed wetters and grifters must absolutely hate the truly useful folk who *actually developed a vaccine* when they are quite clear Covid is well on its way to being a relative non-event.

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Posted at 12:53

UK's Covid situation improving, says Pollard

We have some more from Prof Pollard's comments to MPs.

He says it is "inevitable" that there will be a lower level of asymptomatic Covid testing in the future, saying: "We are not going to be testing at this rate forever."

Pollard adds that the country is in "an improving situation" because of high vaccination coverage and the booster programme, which contributes to higher levels of population immunity.

"At some point we will reach a steady state with the virus," he says, before adding that experts do not know when that will be.

Some very good stuff being put to MP's today, like why we should soon be stopping the testing of asymptomatic people and how it is ridiculous comparing the UK to other countries using disingenuous measures. Pleasing.

[welshbairn]

19 hours ago, Wee Bully said:

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[Elixir]

You are... spectacularly. Again.

And this is with three days worth of Welsh data - the most riddled part of the UK right now despite mandated mask wearing and vaccine passports. The real figure is more in the region of 36-37,000. Collapsing.

[scottsdad]

The fall in cases south of the border is down to fewer tests being done than a week ago, rather than some collapse. The test positivity is the same roughly. 

18th October, 779,000 tests. 25th October, 658,000 tests. 

The real drop will come in a couple of weeks, as the English half term effect kicks in. 

[Todd_is_God]

RE: Devi

Joking aside, how can it be that our 'experts' (who, remember, hold all the qualifications that @Bob Mahelp demands to see) consistently get it so wrong?

[scottsdad]

Oooh. Unlucky @oaksoft - looks like you're out of step with mainstream English public opinion. 

Hang your maskless head in shame! 

Spoiler

YouGov is utter bollocks however

 

[Michael W]

Percentage of English people actually wearing masks on public transport and in shops: nowhere fucking near 81% and 76%.