jimbaxters Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 36 minutes ago, effeffsee_the2nd said: My mrs spent months absolutely convinced that covid meant certain death. partly becuase in her mind "they wouldn't be doing all this if it wasn't so serious" in april 2020 she was in floods of tears after hearing that our friend, a fit & healthy woman of 28, was self isolating after coming into contact with a positive case. the fear was everywhere. A realistic case in point there. Again, they still haven't fully answered for what they did and sadly, never will. Awful. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 (edited) 3 hours ago, hk blues said: I'm not going back 7044 pages to find out what that was. If you don't know what the original point was (from the same page btw), why bother with the arsey reply? Edited March 7, 2023 by Todd_is_God 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyle Lanley Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 (edited) 4 hours ago, effeffsee_the2nd said: My mrs spent months absolutely convinced that covid meant certain death. partly becuase in her mind "they wouldn't be doing all this if it wasn't so serious" in april 2020 she was in floods of tears after hearing that our friend, a fit & healthy woman of 28, was self isolating after coming into contact with a positive case. the fear was everywhere. Went into hospital to have a throat biopsy done just before the 2nd lockdown and remember being a little worried I would catch it. Edited March 7, 2023 by Lyle Lanley 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTee Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 14 hours ago, Dons_1988 said: I’m speculating but the strategy was to make the public want to follow the rules. The alternative would be high enforcement which there isn’t enough police to do effectively so you’d be talking about armed forces which is clearly a terrible look in any country, never mind one which is meant to pride itself on democracy etc. Instead you make the public 1) fear that they are putting themselves or others at risk and 2) they are part of a collective effort to protect the nhs, which is why you have the extreme romanticising of it all. Im not commenting on whether or not this was the right thing to do, I just think the above is what they were thinking. Aye. Totally agree. I seem to remember NS saying that for the vast majority this was a mild virus, with no real issues and it did in fact cause problems with folk with diabetes and maybe COPD for example. But it felt like the message was it was dangerous for everyone. I don't know. I think it could have been handled a lot better, and the arbitrary rules, with travel regions, and two metres apart and other stuff were just randomly made up. Who knows. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingman Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 10 hours ago, GTee said: Aye. Totally agree. I seem to remember NS saying that for the vast majority this was a mild virus, with no real issues and it did in fact cause problems with folk with diabetes and maybe COPD for example. But it felt like the message was it was dangerous for everyone. I don't know. I think it could have been handled a lot better, and the arbitrary rules, with travel regions, and two metres apart and other stuff were just randomly made up. Who knows. Yep, and most of the idiots fell for it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 19 hours ago, Todd_is_God said: If you don't know what the original point was (from the same page btw), why bother with the arsey reply? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elixir Posted March 14, 2023 Share Posted March 14, 2023 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted March 14, 2023 Share Posted March 14, 2023 8 hours ago, Elixir said: I love the irony of Elixir posting in praise of "Normal People". 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted March 15, 2023 Share Posted March 15, 2023 Went to a wee shop in Alloa at the weekend. They still don't allow people into the shop, service at the door only. I stood there asking for sweets whilst the woman retreated into the shop to get them. No clue how they are still in business. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbaxters Posted March 15, 2023 Share Posted March 15, 2023 Still seeing people over here either driving alone or standing at a bus stop on their own, wearing a mask. Unreal. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted March 15, 2023 Share Posted March 15, 2023 2 hours ago, scottsdad said: Went to a wee shop in Alloa at the weekend. They still don't allow people into the shop, service at the door only. I stood there asking for sweets whilst the woman retreated into the shop to get them. No clue how they are still in business. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zetterlund Posted March 15, 2023 Share Posted March 15, 2023 I booked a hotel for a work trip the other day and the confirmation email is full of Covid advice, notifying that while masks are no longer mandatory they are strongly advised due to the "still very real threat". I'd like to think it's just a case of them being too lazy to edit their auto-generated email from last year. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
effeffsee_the2nd Posted March 16, 2023 Share Posted March 16, 2023 On 14/03/2023 at 20:47, Monkey Tennis said: I love the irony of Elixir posting in praise of "Normal People". look at the comments though, Proper old firm style heads gone the American left, they're really no better than folk they spend so much time criticising 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted March 16, 2023 Share Posted March 16, 2023 8 minutes ago, effeffsee_the2nd said: look at the comments though, Proper old firm style heads gone the American left, they're really no better than folk they spend so much time criticising The American 'left' are just the same middle-class liberal clowns cheering for lockdowns and Zoom parties over here, so long as the plebs are there to ship unlimited deliveries to their Hyndland address. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted March 16, 2023 Share Posted March 16, 2023 21 hours ago, Zetterlund said: I booked a hotel for a work trip the other day and the confirmation email is full of Covid advice, notifying that while masks are no longer mandatory they are strongly advised due to the "still very real threat". I'd like to think it's just a case of them being too lazy to edit their auto-generated email from last year. Loads of them are like that, restaurants too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elixir Posted March 17, 2023 Share Posted March 17, 2023 On 14/03/2023 at 20:47, Monkey Tennis said: I love the irony of Elixir posting in praise of "Normal People". It's pretty normal to ridicule covid psychos and the simps who pandered to them, tbf. -4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted March 17, 2023 Author Share Posted March 17, 2023 On 15/03/2023 at 13:24, Zetterlund said: I booked a hotel for a work trip the other day and the confirmation email is full of Covid advice, notifying that while masks are no longer mandatory they are strongly advised due to the "still very real threat". I'd like to think it's just a case of them being too lazy to edit their auto-generated email from last year. YOu see remnants of it - the garage up the road from me still has plastic boards across the tills, my son's nursery still has a masks sign bolted to the front wall. The pharmacy I usually go to still has a sign up asking for only three people in at once. It's like when they take down the sign on an old bujilding and you can see the faded outline that tells you it used to be an ironmongers or dry goods store in 1934. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted March 17, 2023 Share Posted March 17, 2023 54 minutes ago, Elixir said: It's pretty normal to ridicule covid psychos and the simps who pandered to them, tbf. A funny thing. I saw you'd responded, and genuinely thought to myself 'I bet his reply contains the word "simps'". Delighted to note that it did. You do not disappoint. Don't ever change. Actually, no. Change. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elixir Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 18 hours ago, Monkey Tennis said: A funny thing. I saw you'd responded, and genuinely thought to myself 'I bet his reply contains the word "simps'". Delighted to note that it did. You do not disappoint. Don't ever change. Actually, no. Change. Someone isn't taking the self-destruction of the SNP well. Sad to see. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 19 minutes ago, Elixir said: Someone isn't taking the self-destruction of the SNP well. Sad to see. You see, that's your difficulty. You think that because I thought you and others posted a great deal of shite on this thread, I must be a huge fan of the SNP government we have in Scotland. I'm really not though. On balance, I favour independence as a means of preventing us from having Tory governments. That's all, you know. I get that this doesn't compute for you, and that I must fit into one of the categories you've witlessly created. Sorry though. It doesn't really work. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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