Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[PedroMoutinho]

So the ‘2 week circuit breaker’ seems to have already become a month. How long will it really last?

We already know NS will add an a extra 3 weeks up here so we’ll be lucky to reopen before Easter imo.

[Michael W]

12 minutes ago, scottsdad said:

I see your Raab the lawyer and raise you Richard Burgon, who can barely tie his shoelaces.

Another respectable legal career and a Cambridge graduate to boot. Raab went to both Oxford and Cambridge. 

The mind boggles. 

[Gaz]

6 minutes ago, jimbaxters said:

No, I took your point and I agree with you and the fact that restrictions are not required but putting them in over Christmas would have been out and out cruelty.

*If* the situation is bad enough that restrictions are required then leaving everything open for another 7 days will result in far worse circumstances than folk having to cancel Christmas dinner.

[superbigal]

Weekly Cases Update:  3 Day lag to allow reporting to be accurate. 

The Tsunami in Northern Ireland mmmm where cases are down for the week to week I am reporting.  In Europe Belgium down 36%, Slovakia down 31%, Romania down 29%, Austria down 27%, Czech down 26%, Hungary down 26%, Netherlands down 22%, Germany, Sweden, Ukraine all down 20%. Wonder if they are still awaiting Omicron ? Only in good old Denmark does it look out of control the other way.

For Scotland we are fairing worst of the 4 nations albeit from a lower starting point. We are the highest rising nation in Europe currently.  I suspect the rises in Edinburgh & Glasgow in particular are what is spooking them the most.

Total Cases Scotland 7 days 11th to 17th December  were 23,752 to 36,353 Up 53.05%, Positivity was 9.4% now 11.7%.  Cases per 100K were 434.5 now 665.5

Home Nations Weekly Cases  per 100K update  :  UK Average  501.2 to 646.0 Up 28.90%, England 507.7 to 661.3 Up 30.25%, Wales 508.6 to 545.8 up 7.31%, Northern Ireland 663.0 to 661.2 down 0.27%

Cases in Europe in terms of of numbers per 100K  Denmark 1089 up 31%, Switzerland 681 down 8%, Ireland 658 up 12%, Czech 641 down 26%,   all over 600.  

Council progress in last week 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

West Lothian  591.3 to 998.3  Another near 70% on week.

East Renfrewshire 595.6 to 883.8 

City Of Edinburgh   409.2 to 873.5  Up over 113% in 1 week.

Renfrewshire   541.3 to 871.8  Up near 200% in 2 weeks.

South Lanarkshire  503.4 to 852.8

Midlothian  496.0 to 844.9

West Dunbartonshire  533.2 to 827.5

East Dunbartonshire  588.5 to 821.1

Falkirk  626.6 to 820.3  

North Ayrshire   520.7 to 797.0  

North Lanarkshire  494.8 to 768.9

East Ayrshire  653.8 to 731.1

East Lothian  485.6 to 715.5

Glasgow City 381.7 to 684.2  Up 80% on the week.

Clackmannanshire  438.7 to 668.7 

Stirling  442.2 to 658.0

South Ayrshire 449.4 to 625.1

Fife  447.2 to 589.1 

Argyll & Bute  325.4 to 570.1 

Moray  443.0 to 547.5 

Inverclyde  455.6 to 513.9

Perth & Kinross 385.8 to 496.3

Aberdeen City  354.9 to 430.5

Aberdeenshire  327.9 to 428.3 

Dundee City  266.1 to 422.7

Scottish  Borders  286.4 to 386.2

Orkney Islands   102.7 to 375.0 

Dumfries & Galloway  360.8 to 374.3  Down over the last fortnight.

Western Isles  437.7 to 366.0

Angus  279.7 to 344.5  

Shetland Islands  214.3 to 306.1  

Highlands   297.8 to 298.2  

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 20, 2021 by superbigal

[jimbaxters]

4 minutes ago, Gaz said:

*If* the situation is bad enough that restrictions are required then leaving everything open for another 7 days will result in far worse circumstances than folk having to cancel Christmas dinner.

Like what? More positive cases? The more learned in this thread may be able to put figures to it but all I have heard is that symptoms are now drastically less than they were pre vaccine. I'm sure we can handle a few more thousand people with the cold.

Edited December 20, 2021 by jimbaxters

[CALDERON]

 

[Gaz]

5 minutes ago, jimbaxters said:

Like what? More positive cases? The more learned in this thread may be able to put figures to it but all I have heard is that symptoms are now drastically less than they were pre vaccine. I'm sure we can handle a few more thousand people with the cold.

Yeah, I'm not sure you're getting my point. Maybe I'm not explaining it well enough.

[ICTChris]

Cabinet meeting has lasted 45 minutes, when are they going to kick back, crack open the Chablis and get fucking steaming?

[Left Back]

1 minute ago, ICTChris said:

Cabinet meeting has lasted 45 minutes, when are they going to kick back, crack open the Chablis and get fucking steaming?

About an hour ago.

[Aladdin]

As has been said, it's utterly shambolic to introduce restrictions in a week's time.

Either the variant is so transmissible that we see hospitalisations at a level that would overwhelm our health system, notwithstanding its lesser virulence, in which case something needs to be done now, or it isn't.

In which case nothing needs to be done. This preoccupation of grown fucking adults with a religious holiday is laughable.

[Bairnardo]

As has been said, it's utterly shambolic to introduce restrictions in a week's time.
Either the variant is so transmissible that we see hospitalisations at a level that would overwhelm our health system, notwithstanding its lesser virulence, in which case something needs to be done now, or it isn't.
In which case nothing needs to be done. This preoccupation of grown fucking adults with a religious holiday is laughable.

Aye. Its either an emergency or its not*. If you wait a wee then claim an emergency because a tsunami of death is on the way, AT LEAST the first week of those deaths are blood on their hands, having told us that it was coming then sat and done f**k all.

Cant have it both ways im afraid. Its this sort of shit that has their credibility in tatters.


*its not

[Lyle Lanley]

17 minutes ago, CALDERON said:

 

Wonder if Sturgeon will still go ahead with restrictions this week now. 

[Dons_1988]

2 minutes ago, Lyle Lanley said:

Wonder if Sturgeon will still go ahead with restrictions this week now. 

She can’t do anything without funding. 

[Lyle Lanley]

1 minute ago, Dons_1988 said:

She can’t do anything without funding. 

She will still be fuming at this news. 

[Dons_1988]

Just now, Lyle Lanley said:

She will still be fuming at this news. 

She will be and she’ll 100% complain about it and accuse Westminster of all sorts but substantively her hands are tied. 

[The Moonster]

I genuinely think another lockdown will lead to the death of more people than it will save. I've spoken to two friends in the last week who are on the brink of mental breakdown and I really worry about what happens if they become isolated again. People are ready to give up. I sincerely hope sense finally prevails for once and the info/data from South Africa coupled with the complete lack of worrying hospitalisation or death numbers here will see society opened again to it's fullest.

And please, no more fucking threats to my liberty - you were handed emergency powers to deal with this but those powers are now held above the population like a guillotine. Was there a time period set on these powers and if not, how do we (as in your average Joe Public) get these powers removed?

[jimbaxters]

24 minutes ago, Aladdin said:

As has been said, it's utterly shambolic to introduce restrictions in a week's time.

Either the variant is so transmissible that we see hospitalisations at a level that would overwhelm our health system, notwithstanding its lesser virulence, in which case something needs to be done now, or it isn't.

In which case nothing needs to be done. This preoccupation of grown fucking adults with a religious holiday is laughable.

Ragin!

[scottsdad]

 

[PedroMoutinho]

 

[Salt n Vinegar]

Oh dear. 

Having come back to this thread today, I'm drawn to the conclusion that loads of folk will be absolutely furious if there AREN'T more restrictions as they won't be able to summon up a good seethe to tide themselves over Christmas. 

The Cabinet meeting is dragging on a bit. They must be well pished by now.