Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[Steven W]

11 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said:

I'd put money on it being extended till the 30th of January, followed by some levels based pish.

Funded, of course, by diverting money from the healthcare budget.

Sounds about right. 

[Abdul_Latif]

14 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said:

I'd put money on it being extended till the 30th of January, followed by some levels based pish.

Unless the current restrictions are significantly strengthened I’m not sure how they could use any levels system to come out of them.

 

[Todd_is_God]

8 minutes ago, Abdul_Latif said:

Unless the current restrictions are significantly strengthened I’m not sure how they could use any levels system to come out of them.

Plenty room to slowly increase capacities at indoor and outdoor events.

25% > 50% >75% > 100% in three week intervals, for example.

I can't see the game at Celtic Park being allowed 60,000, nor can I see them allowing bars filled to the brim with vertical drinkers watching it.

Same with Murrayfield for the England game.

Regardless of the hospital numbers, they will baulk at lifting restrictions when case numbers are high.

Edited December 29, 2021 by Todd_is_God

[Bert Raccoon]

2 hours ago, Todd_is_God said:

The replies to this are utterly predictable.

See tbh, I've enough going on in my life that missing a few games won't be the end of the world for me but there's plenty of folk out there who need that release, who only see people on match days, who's only bit of happiness is going to the football. The same as if they closed the bingo and restricted the wee old woman or man who'd only day out a week and see folk is going to bingo. You take these things away from people and it's obviously going to affect people 

[jagfox]

[accies1874]

I just had a look on Facebook at the same story for a laugh, it’s even worse than Twitter 
Slightly off topic but I blame this attention a lot on years of petitions demonising football fans 
The common theme seems to be they don’t see individuals who attend games as real people 

What a disheartening group of comments. These people are dreadful.

[Michael W]

I wouldn't be going to the football anyway because I live 400 miles away, but this is frankly irrelevant. The point is that there was no rationale for limiting attendances to 500 anyway; Leitch and Swinney admitted it as such.

For the benefit of twitter commenters, people working in the NHS or in key worker roles having a tough time is not a reason to stop people going to the football. Indeed, I'm sure a lot of those people are also football fans. 

[Inanimate Carbon Rod]

6 minutes ago, Bert Raccoon said:

See tbh, I've enough going on in my life that missing a few games won't be the end of the world for me but there's plenty of folk out there who need that release, who only see people on match days, who's only bit of happiness is going to the football. The same as if they closed the bingo and restricted the wee old woman or man who'd only day out a week and see folk is going to bingo. You take these things away from people and it's obviously going to affect people 

My wee dad is disabled, the only time he gets out the house without my mum really is when I take him to football. Of course I try get him other places, but because he’s in a mobility scooter he (in my opinion needlessly) gets embarrassed and thinks people stare etc. So I get him to as many Bankies games as possible. The benefit for him is amazing, no one judging him or giving him grief for having a mobility scooter (people in shops etc have made comments in the past and eroded his confidence and in turn his independence). Obviously we had a season where he couldnt get to a game along with everything else and the toll on him was enormous. 
To get back to getting out, his wee escape from the world meant a lot to him and to have it snatched away potentially beyond the 17th Jan is disgraceful as there is absolutely no evidence to support it. 
Im sure there will be people all over Scotland in a similar position to my dad, where getting out to the game is their wee escape. All these sneering arseholes who say ‘oh go a walk up a hill instead’ or ‘watch it on tv’ and think just because life is easy for them that their solutions should be everyone else’s solutions can genuinely go and take a f**k to themselves. 
These people propelling themselves to a self professed superiority, oh how better they are. Whats the point in living if you can’t have a life? Erode everything and just sit in the house getting your kicks being all superior to people with concerns? f**k the lot of them. If this is the ‘righteous fair welcoming wee country’ that the SNP want to create they can go shove it right up their farter because they’ve fucked it. If you cant even get basic compassion right then you dont have a righteous fair welcoming society. 
 

[Dons_1988]

This is why football is targeted. 

The pro-restrictions mob are absolutely delighted to see football yobs kept at home whilst they’re free to carry in with whatever it is they do, safe in the knowledge they’re being kept safe. 

[Clown Job]

8 minutes ago, Dons_1988 said:

This is why football is targeted. 

The pro-restrictions mob are absolutely delighted to see football yobs kept at home whilst they’re free to carry in with whatever it is they do, safe in the knowledge they’re being kept safe. 

Ironically that “ f**k you, I’m alright Jack ” is a very Tory attitude 

The one thing they claim to despise

 

[ICTChris]

I don’t want a Zoom therapy session with some drip. I just want to watch Kirk Broadfoot.

[philpy]

3 minutes ago, ICTChris said:

I don’t want a Zoom therapy session with some drip. I just want to watch Kirk Broadfoot.

You'll be left with egg on your face. Or rather broadfoot will.

[NUMBER 7]

44 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said:

Plenty room to slowly increase capacities at indoor and outdoor events.

25% > 50% >75% > 100% in three week intervals, for example.

I can't see the game at Celtic Park being allowed 60,000, nor can I see them allowing bars filled to the brim with vertical drinkers watching it.

Same with Murrayfield for the England game.

Regardless of the hospital numbers, they will baulk at lifting restrictions when case numbers are high.

The Celtic v Rangers football, and Scotland v England rugby are scheduled for the same week, so they’ll need to treat both events in the same manner.  I hope they will be Full Capacity by then

It be interesting if the Ukraine Play Off was in the next two weeks and the SFA suggested moving it to Newcastle to get a Stadium Full of Scottish fans, the Scottish Government would be going mental.

[pub car king]

So no review for another 3 weeks. She's going to dig in and I think England will hold out as well. More to do with rabid tories and boris desperately trying to cling onto his job 

[scottsdad]

On the football /mental health issue. Those pooh-pooing it are all wrong. It isn't about standing or sitting watching a game. For many it is about the social bond with other fans, a chance to socialise over a shared interest. For many fans this could be their only outlet. No football can mean no social interaction at all for some. 

But hey, football is clearly at the bottom of the social scale and must be stopped. 

[Rugster]

1 hour ago, Todd_is_God said:

Only that they would interrogate the data to decide what was response was proportionate after the 17th.

I noticed she changed her language from last week, which said “a period of up to three weeks” to “at least three weeks” today. She’s a fucking charlatan. She can get fucked. 

[Left Back]

54 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said:

Plenty room to slowly increase capacities at indoor and outdoor events.

25% > 50% >75% > 100% in three week intervals, for example.

I can't see the game at Celtic Park being allowed 60,000, nor can I see them allowing bars filled to the brim with vertical drinkers watching it.

Same with Murrayfield for the England game.

Regardless of the hospital numbers, they will baulk at lifting restrictions when case numbers are high.

She can f**k off with that pish.  Football can stay shut down as long as we get another chance to humiliate those c***s in front of a capacity crowd…

….and I have tickets 

[Clown Job]

This isn’t new either the phoney outrage towards football 

I’m old enough to remember the tears and snorters at the fanzone in Glasgow Green going ahead for Euro 2020

Massive open space, physical distancing with table service with a 3,000 person limit in a space designed to hold 80,000 and negative LFT

That wasn’t good enough either for them

 

[Todd_is_God]

8 minutes ago, NUMBER 7 said:

The Celtic v Rangers football, and Scotland v England rugby are scheduled for the same week, so they’ll need to treat both events in the same manner.  I hope they will be Full Capacity by then

It be interesting if the Ukraine Play Off was in the next two weeks and the SFA suggested moving it to Newcastle to get a Stadium Full of Scottish fans, the Scottish Government would be going mental.

No doubt she'll be all over that Ukraine game as well. Pretending she gives a shit.

Hope she goes and gets pelters the full game.

[Lyle Lanley]

40 minutes ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said:

My wee dad is disabled, the only time he gets out the house without my mum really is when I take him to football. Of course I try get him other places, but because he’s in a mobility scooter he (in my opinion needlessly) gets embarrassed and thinks people stare etc. So I get him to as many Bankies games as possible. The benefit for him is amazing, no one judging him or giving him grief for having a mobility scooter (people in shops etc have made comments in the past and eroded his confidence and in turn his independence). Obviously we had a season where he couldnt get to a game along with everything else and the toll on him was enormous. 
To get back to getting out, his wee escape from the world meant a lot to him and to have it snatched away potentially beyond the 17th Jan is disgraceful as there is absolutely no evidence to support it. 
Im sure there will be people all over Scotland in a similar position to my dad, where getting out to the game is their wee escape. All these sneering arseholes who say ‘oh go a walk up a hill instead’ or ‘watch it on tv’ and think just because life is easy for them that their solutions should be everyone else’s solutions can genuinely go and take a f**k to themselves. 
These people propelling themselves to a self professed superiority, oh how better they are. Whats the point in living if you can’t have a life? Erode everything and just sit in the house getting your kicks being all superior to people with concerns? f**k the lot of them. If this is the ‘righteous fair welcoming wee country’ that the SNP want to create they can go shove it right up their farter because they’ve fucked it. If you cant even get basic compassion right then you dont have a righteous fair welcoming society. 
 

Had to delete the twitter app off my phone after reading those horrific comments. Some of the SNP supporters couldn’t give a f**k about people’s mental health. Fucking arseholes the lot of them. 

Edited December 29, 2021 by Lyle Lanley