Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[effeffsee_the2nd]

This time around construction sector (for example) is still open. The wording on the SG website doesn’t talk about key workers only being allowed to work. Going to work is noted as a reasonable excuse to be out and about. That’s a key difference.

I work in an office based job ,but one that requires some physical presence at the workplace although that can be minimised or delayed most of the time. From march to july they sent everyone to WFH thinking that they would catch up the on site work later( and probably assumed we would still be in lockdown now!) now we are just continuing on our part time wfh/ on premises as it’s no longer possible to keep delaying the physical work

[TheScarf]

Roads in Inverness are as busy as they normally are during the week. 

Construction is a massive industry here and every second vehicle on the road seems to be be a work van these days.  You'd definitely see a difference if construction shuts down. 

 

[bendan]

30 minutes ago, MP_MFC said:

51 minutes ago, Binos said:

The media won't like that
They've been dangling the possibility the south african strain resistant

They've moved on to some nurse being infected by it about 3 weeks after getting the jag and she doesn't understand how this can be. BBC making a tabloid like big deal out of it despite it, yknow, not being a 100% protection vaccine.

BBC fear mongering is one of the most ridiculous things about this pandemic. When it's largely over they'll be saying what an important role they played in providing objective reporting.

[Marshmallo]

 

[Wee Willie]

26 minutes ago, Gordon EF said:

Real monarchists are waiting for the German one.

I like it  

[vikingTON]

23 minutes ago, welshbairn said:

Probably delivering supplies to work from homers and the shielded, keeping them safe. Clap for white van man!

That wouldn't actually explain why traffic is much busier now than in a previous lockdown when more people were actually working from home and shielding.

[mizfit]

Roads in Inverness are as busy as they normally are during the week. 
Construction is a massive industry here and every second vehicle on the road seems to be be a work van these days.  You'd definitely see a difference if construction shuts down. 
 

My dads a joiner and said to me as much as he’s uneasy about working during this lockdown he’s glad he’s being kept busy.

He was climbing up the walls by the end of August when he went back to work after the last one.

I’d imagine there might be a fair few thinking the same.

[effeffsee_the2nd]

 

[gav-ffc]

37 minutes ago, MP_MFC said:

58 minutes ago, Binos said:

The media won't like that
They've been dangling the possibility the south african strain resistant

They've moved on to some nurse being infected by it about 3 weeks after getting the jag and she doesn't understand how this can be. BBC making a tabloid like big deal out of it despite it, yknow, not being a 100% protection vaccine.

Someone at our work tested positive a week after getting the jab (asymptotic) and she couldn’t understand why despite only having the first dose.

[TheScarf]

2 minutes ago, mizfit said:

 

My dads a joiner and said to me as much as he’s uneasy about working during this lockdown he’s glad he’s being kept busy.

He was climbing up the walls by the end of August when he went back to work after the last one.

I’d imagine there might be a fair few thinking the same.

 

I worked in construction last year and my boss lasted 3 weeks before he started doing what he called 'socially distanced homers'. 

[Guest bernardblack]

In my hours stroll to work today, my fault for living near top of a hill with a car that is pants in snow.  Anyway I digress.
I walked a lot to work during spring lockdown and the roads were empty.  This time though they are packed.  Where are all these people going? I presume a good few of them whose work closed last time but are now playing loose with what constitutes a key worker to keep going.
Incidentally the amount of white van man cash in hand types doing the rounds is incredible.   
Don't pay taxes, boast about their income,now can't get furloughed due to lack of records.  Never mind, we will work on regardless spreading disease as we go.
Twats.  

Bit of a wild take on “white van men”

Lots of my mates are tradesman etc. Don’t boast about their wealth, pay taxes and are generally struggling a lot just now.

[stuart87]

 

virginton will love this video

[Markka]

Bit of a wild take on “white van men”

Lots of my mates are tradesman etc. Don’t boast about their wealth, pay taxes and are generally struggling a lot just now.

Also, I know of a fair few folk who have got vans to work for Amazon/Hermes/Yodel etc within the last six months as there is/was little prospect of them going back to their normal line of work any time soon.

[101]

5000 a day seems pretty good at one location. I know they kind of have to justify having the Lousia Jordan but it would be good to know the capacity of other places

[MONKMAN]

Anyone else seen the videos on twitter of the cops arresting 3 folk in a house in Aberdeen for COVID breaches?
Most of the reports seem to say that a neighbour philpyed them for having too many folk in the house, while they claim they were celebrating the return from hospital of one of their kids. Either way, it has elicited the predictable responses of "Sturgeon has turned Scotland into a police state" and "Police Scotland, more like the Gestapo, amirite?".
 
 

She deserves a baton to the skull for not only that brutal accent, but for using the “I’m a woman of this land” pish.

[PWL]

4 minutes ago, 101 said:

5000 a day seems pretty good at one location. I know they kind of have to justify having the Lousia Jordan but it would be good to know the capacity of other places

It's where my Mrs (a nurse) got her jag and described as production line. She was very impressed. 

[Inanimate Carbon Rod]

1 hour ago, bernardblack said:

 

I was sure that the police couldn’t enter a house if there was a report that there was a party/too many people?

 

Under common law if there is a complaint of a disturbance or evidence of a disturbance police officers can enter any property without a warrant. There are a few circumstances where police can enter a house without warrant, such as in hot pursuit of a suspect, suspicion of occurrence of a serious crime or to ‘quell a disturbance which is ongoing’. Under covid regulations police officers have a power of entry to investigate a reported breach of covid regulations. Its quite common for people to have the belief that ‘you cant commit a breach of the peace in your own house’ which is essentially a lot of nonsense.

Edited January 8, 2021 by Inanimate Carbon Rod

[Honest Saints Fan]

Seems like the delay in second vaccination don't apply to all.

[D.A.F.C]

[mention=59448]D.A.F.C[/mention]

I'm sure we will have 40 million vaccinated by next week then.
No point testing.
At no point did I say it wasn't effective against those strains. Just that it might not be effective every time whereas testing and vaccination is more effective but if you want to try and wind me up then go for it.

[harry94]

2 hours ago, Mark Connolly said:

Anyone else seen the videos on twitter of the cops arresting 3 folk in a house in Aberdeen for COVID breaches?

Most of the reports seem to say that a neighbour philpyed them for having too many folk in the house, while they claim they were celebrating the return from hospital of one of their kids. Either way, it has elicited the predictable responses of "Sturgeon has turned Scotland into a police state" and "Police Scotland, more like the Gestapo, amirite?".

 

 

It's a pointless discussion without knowing the full facts but....

If it's the case as is being suggested that they had people round to celebrate the return of a seriously ill child during a pandemic then it's not just a discussion on covid breaches, it's blatant neglect.