Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[Thereisalight..]

I also saw a report saying 1 in 400 people in England have/or have had coronavirus. So if a game was played at Somerset, 3 people in the crowd would have it. Not a particularly scary number imo 

[Billy Jean King]

The capacity to test is there, there doesn't appear to be the demand from within those currently entitled to be tested. No point testing anyone not symptomatic, it proves very little. Not sure testing now is the panacea many make it out to be. The newly developed antibody test will be more worthwhile but the numbers released here and in France and Spain look to be suggesting only a tiny proportion of the population has ever been infected which flies in the face of herd immunity and the theory that millions who had mildish symptoms actually had C19 (fuelled by a media frenzy). Those millions were never confirmed via testing. That's when testing would have been important but that ship appears to have sailed. Herd immunity might be a dead duck.

The UK as a whole tested 71,644 people yesterday. Around 2000 of them were in Scotland, so you could probably revise that to just under 70k.

As of 2pm today, 80,275 people have been tested in Scotland since the outbreak began.

TTI, our exit strategy, requires around 15,000 tests every single day. We need that by the end of the month, 17 days away.

Why is this not front page news? Why are our journalists wasting time asking nonsense about Nike conferences and diverging from Johnson’s approach?

This should be a national outrage and the Scottish Government should be under severe pressure to sort it, and fast. I don’t see a way forward for Scotland until this is sorted, aside from essentially hoping there is no second wave and the weak are already dead.

[D.A.F.C]

I also saw a report saying 1 in 400 people in England have/or have had coronavirus. So if a game was played at Somerset, 3 people in the crowd would have it. Not a particularly scary number imo 

Or cowdenbeath 0.1

[Billy Jean King]

Didn't NS say when confirming the lockdown last week she would announce the next measures that could be relaxed by this Sunday, I'm sure she did. It was rumoured to include much the same as down south without the return to work or the long distance travel. If that is announced say Saturday or Sunday with effect from Monday we will be a whole FIVE DAYS behind the English relaxations. Hardly commensurate with the wailing and bleating from the usual suspects on here.

[ayrmad]

1 minute ago, Thereisalight.. said:

I also saw a report saying 1 in 400 people in England have/or have had coronavirus. So if a game was played at Somerset, 3 people in the crowd would have it. Not a particularly scary number imo 

You're looking at it wrongly, we're wanting 1 in 4 to have it/have had it, standing in Somerset seeing 300/400 who've already had it is the positive not the negative, ie nearer the finishing line. 

[Bairnardo]

So then shielding those likely to die is all we have left?

The capacity to test is there, there doesn't appear to be the demand from within those currently entitled to be tested. No point testing anyone not symptomatic, it proves very little. Not sure testing now is the panacea many make it out to be. The newly developed antibody test will be more worthwhile but the numbers released here and in France and Spain look to be suggesting only a tiny proportion of the population has ever been infected which flies in the face of herd immunity and the theory that millions who had mildish symptoms actually had C19 (fuelled by a media frenzy). Those millions were never confirmed via testing. That's when testing would have been important but that ship appears to have sailed. Herd immunity might be a dead duck.

[bennett]

Celebrations a bit louder than usual tonight, I thought that it was starting to taper off.

[superbigal]

Got a Private Eye today for the first time in ages, as is often the case it carries stories not seen elsewhere.

Apparently Matt Hancock’s pledge to hire 18,000 people to do contact tracing in England is misleading.   This was prior to the latest ‘high tech’ approach.

The plan was to hire 3,000 “qualified public health and clinical professionals”, the other 15,000 would be “call handlers”.  The hiring of these will be outsourced to companies who are hiring through agencies and offering the minimum wage of £8.72 per hour.

 

The clinical staff will actually be doing calls themselves. NHS band 6 circa £16 an hour to circa £27 an hour depending on days/times.

Wife invited to apply by nhs england. She's also been invited to apply to the scottish scheme.

 

Ps she is a qualified dental hygienist of over 25 years.

 

I think if you google you can see the nhs adverts publically.

 

[Jacksgranda]

17 minutes ago, Thereisalight.. said:

I also saw a report saying 1 in 400 people in England have/or have had coronavirus. So if a game was played at Somerset, 3 people in the crowd would have it. Not a particularly scary number imo 

All Ayr United fans live in England, do they?

[Thereisalight..]

3 minutes ago, Jacksgranda said:

All Ayr United fans live in England, do they?

I reckon the Scottish figures won’t be much different tbh 

*obviously not death figures 

Edited May 14, 2020 by Thereisalight..

[Granny Danger]

3 minutes ago, superbigal said:

The clinical staff will actually be doing calls themselves. NHS band 6 circa £16 an hour to circa £27 an hour depending on days/times.

Wife invited to apply by nhs england. She's also been invited to apply to the scottish scheme.

 

Ps she is a qualified dental hygienist of over 25 years.

 

I think if you google you can see the nhs adverts publically.

 

I’m not sure if your disputing or agreeing with my post.

[beefybake]

16 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said:

The capacity to test is there, there doesn't appear to be the demand from within those currently entitled to be tested. No point testing anyone not symptomatic, it proves very little. Not sure testing now is the panacea many make it out to be. The newly developed antibody test will be more worthwhile but the numbers released here and in France and Spain look to be suggesting only a tiny proportion of the population has ever been infected which flies in the face of herd immunity and the theory that millions who had mildish symptoms actually had C19 (fuelled by a media frenzy). Those millions were never confirmed via testing. That's when testing would have been important but that ship appears to have sailed. Herd immunity might be a dead duck.

It's not the ducks that have been dying.

 

[Jacksgranda]

Aye, it's not bird flu...

[DosserDel]

11 minutes ago, bennett said:

Celebrations a bit louder than usual tonight, I thought that it was starting to taper off.

Same round my way, and don't know if they were hoping for some sort of 'clapper of the week' award or something, but there was one twat who carried on solo for about another minute after the rest of them had stopped. 

Took me by surprise tonight. Was sitting with the bathroom window slightly ajar enjoying my evening toly when all the clapping, whooping, and pot banging started. Killed the ambiance completely tbh. Is fucking nothing sacred any more? 

[Distant Doonhamer]

You’re not one of these “one’s as bad as the other” sort are you?

Certainly not. Some are way more dishonest than others.

[D.A.F.C]

Folk walking the streets playing bagpipes getting escorted by super heros now.

Someone said I was making this up.
It's a weird world nowadays. Harmless if they want to do it I suppose.

[superbigal]

I’m not sure if your disputing or agreeing with my post.

Just letting you know that if the wife is in the clinical team getting reasonably well paid. She is not training anyone. She is just to be on the phones they estimate 1 hour per call. I perhaps wrongly assumed she would be one of the 15,000 minions. Clearly not. Therefore I suppose the suggestion that the highly paid jobs are the experts is just not true.

Just that they have some clinical experience

Which to be honest for her is hardly relevant to the job.

 

 

On reflection its public sector recruitment.

Nothing surprises me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Billy Jean King]

Hopefully not but it might be, the antibody test should make things clearer but bound to take weeks if not months.

So then shielding those likely to die is all we have left?

[Alert Mongoose]

3 minutes ago, D.A.F.C said:

Folk walking the streets playing bagpipes getting escorted by super heros now.

Someone said I was making this up.
It's a weird world nowadays. Harmless if they want to do it I suppose.

Love the wee ned perfecting the roundhouse.

[Jacksgranda]

8 minutes ago, D.A.F.C said:

Folk walking the streets playing bagpipes getting escorted by super heros now.

Someone said I was making this up.
It's a weird world nowadays. Harmless if they want to do it I suppose.

Nothing like that round our way, not even clapping, but the church bells get rung at 8 o'clock. The first week it happened I thought they were squeezing in an extra service before I realised what it was for.