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Barbers opening next week in Wales, as are garden centres and some retail the week after. Going by the article, all shops to open in a few weeks in line with England’s date of 12th April.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56363367

You would like to think when Nicola does her updated roadmap next week, she is better advised that the awful outline she delivered last month. Stop fantasising about unknown variants and start to “read the room” better and match great vaccine figures with a few grown-up things being reopened, since churches and schools appear to be fine. 


 

 

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2 hours ago, Gaz said:

I think you're missing the point of what I'm saying, but we'll agree to disagree.

Ok

2 hours ago, Gaz said:

I think you're missing the point of what I'm saying, but we'll agree to disagree.

If you want. I didn't express it well but fine. You're talking about older kids. I'm talking about younger kids. Point is plenty of kids have had a shite time of it, and having more access to leisure stuff than we have doesn't really make that much difference to the ones I'm talking about. Just because we fondly remember our early teenage years and have worked with kids in this bracket - they're not all like that. I know plenty of PS age are in a shit place mentally, and I bow to your knowledge about current secondary kids, but exam candidates so seem to be having a mare considering what my old colleagues have been telling me. 

Tbh I was annoyed by the previous post and should have held off berfoe replying to yours and was unnecessary snarky. Apologies for that 

Edit: can't delete double quote 

 

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There is an article in The Times linking Scottish football grounds to high covid death rates. 

It's probably the worst article I have read over the last year, truly unbelievable shark jumping stuff. 

No mention of the time of deaths given no one has been to a football match in one whole year. 

My favourite but was linking St Mirren with its rural hinterlands of Langbank and Howwood. 

 

The correlation with poverty is only mentioned at the bottom of the article. 

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7 hours ago, Distant Doonhamer said:

For those interested in the R Value in Scotland today's figure is being estimated as between 0.6-0.8

The document also specifically states " Hospital bed and ICU occupancy are projected to fall over the next few weeks, but with the potential to plateau, or increase as a result of schools reopening."

Scot Gov Publication.

Did anyone on this thread ever apologise for being so wrong about the schools' roles in driving infection numbers?

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Did anyone on this thread ever apologise for being so wrong about the schools' roles in driving infection numbers?

Yes. It was on the same page as the apology someone gave for declaring this over as a public health emergency in August.
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Insinuating there is something negative and embarrassing about being a janitor, and using that to try and insult someone, isn’t a great look tbh.
Ha ha. In the context of VT the failed teacher / janitor insinuation has been used for yonks on here due to his anti kids / school / teacher stance over the period. Surprised you have never seen the reference made before. All about context.
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Aye I know, but the tone and wording of Billy Jean King’s post seemed to insinuate that tending to boilers was a menial, low paid job. I was merely pointing out that it is neither and was a crap example of a job to use if he’s trying to demean him.
Nope it was as stated ie a reference (used frequently in the past on here) to the source of his anti everything teaching related stance on here.
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There is an article in The Times linking Scottish football grounds to high covid death rates. 
It's probably the worst article I have read over the last year, truly unbelievable shark jumping stuff. 
No mention of the time of deaths given no one has been to a football match in one whole year. 
My favourite but was linking St Mirren with its rural hinterlands of Langbank and Howwood. 
 
The correlation with poverty is only mentioned at the bottom of the article. 
Screenshot_20210312_064807_uk_co.thetimes.thumb.jpg.5aa0cb071173d93586453f4d5e3caa60.jpg
There were identical articles yesterday linking Liverpool, the six nations and Cheltenham in most papers to be fair.
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55 minutes ago, Have some faith in Magic said:

There is an article in The Times linking Scottish football grounds to high covid death rates. 

It's probably the worst article I have read over the last year, truly unbelievable shark jumping stuff. 

No mention of the time of deaths given no one has been to a football match in one whole year. 

My favourite but was linking St Mirren with its rural hinterlands of Langbank and Howwood. 

 

The correlation with poverty is only mentioned at the bottom of the article. 

Screenshot_20210312_064807_uk.co.thetimes.jpg

It only it linking 2 grounds to deaths, it's almost certainly bullshit but maybe Ibrox and Celtic Park should be shut for 100 years just to be in the safe side?

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That’s my daughter (33) and son who recently turned 30 both been offered their vaccine and booked in for next week. My sons partner who’s 25 also got offered it but she refused it as she’s pregnant. All have no health conditions and are a reasonable healthy. They all stay in Dumfries where quite a number of healthy 20/30 year olds are now being offered the vaccine. 

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5 minutes ago, FrankReynolds said:

That’s my daughter (33) and son who recently turned 30 both been offered their vaccine and booked in for next week. My sons partner who’s 25 also got offered it but she refused it as she’s pregnant. All have no health conditions and are a reasonable healthy. They all stay in Dumfries where quite a number of healthy 20/30 year olds are now being offered the vaccine. 

Union dividend imo

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That’s my daughter (33) and son who recently turned 30 both been offered their vaccine and booked in for next week. My sons partner who’s 25 also got offered it but she refused it as she’s pregnant. All have no health conditions and are a reasonable healthy. They all stay in Dumfries where quite a number of healthy 20/30 year olds are now being offered the vaccine. 
They are lucky still not at 50-55s in South Ayrshire bar underlying health problems
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1 hour ago, Have some faith in Magic said:

There is an article in The Times linking Scottish football grounds to high covid death rates. 

It's probably the worst article I have read over the last year, truly unbelievable shark jumping stuff. 

No mention of the time of deaths given no one has been to a football match in one whole year. 

My favourite but was linking St Mirren with its rural hinterlands of Langbank and Howwood. 

 

The correlation with poverty is only mentioned at the bottom of the article. 

Screenshot_20210312_064807_uk.co.thetimes.jpg

That appears to assume that most Rangers fans stayed in the local area, and likewise that most Celtic fans stay in the local area. Which anyone who knows anything about Scottish football would tell you isn't the case.

The point about St Mirren and Langbank is laughable too. Stirling has the highest rates of infection in the country at the moment, so I can only assume that the Binos are to blame for that one. Just because a town close to a football stadium has high rates doesn't make there a link. Bizarre stuff.

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Just now, Jan Vojáček said:

That appears to assume that most Rangers fans stayed in the local area, and likewise that most Celtic fans stay in the local area. Which anyone who knows anything about Scottish football would tell you isn't the case.

The point about St Mirren and Langbank is laughable too. Stirling has the highest rates of infection in the country at the moment, so I can only assume that the Binos are to blame for that one. Just because a town close to a football stadium has high rates doesn't make there a link. Bizarre stuff.

I was reading that thinking exactly the same thing. Is the region of Ibrox itself not an industrial estate anyway?  Can't imagine there's many houses there.

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1 hour ago, Have some faith in Magic said:

There is an article in The Times linking Scottish football grounds to high covid death rates. 

It's probably the worst article I have read over the last year, truly unbelievable shark jumping stuff. 

No mention of the time of deaths given no one has been to a football match in one whole year. 

My favourite but was linking St Mirren with its rural hinterlands of Langbank and Howwood. 

 

The correlation with poverty is only mentioned at the bottom of the article. 

Screenshot_20210312_064807_uk.co.thetimes.jpg

The most annoying thing about that article is it almost certainly wasn't a good idea for that Leverkusen match to go ahead with a capacity crowd and it would have been useful to see some proper impact analysis on that. But making up tenuous links to infection rates is just daft, scaremongering nonsense. 

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