Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[mizfit]

Ah, apologies, I’d seen a few people blaming it on queuing

[superbigal]

Daily Cases Update:  Cases up now for the 50th day in a row 12.6% to 257.5 per 100K and infectivity flying to 7.1% 

East Lothian in Level one has the enviable position of the most infected council area in the UK.  Musselburgh South within that area enjoys being Scotland's most plagued neighbourhood.  Somehow it manages to have less restrictions than most of Scotland.

Dundee also manages to climb above Blackburn. 

New European figures today.   Scotland 257.5, England 111.8, Russia 83.7, Portugal 80.3, Northern Ireland 59.7, Spain 51.6, at other end we have Poland 2.8, Germany 6.2, Italy 10.9, France 20.7 all still dropping. 

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1139048/coronavirus-case-rates-in-the-past-7-days-in-europe-by-country/

Scotland peaked at 301.9 for figures 29th Dec to 4th Jan, (UK was 642.1)    Cases that day were 16,496 and test positivity rate was 11.9%  

Total Cases 7 days from 16th June to 22nd June  were  12,491 to 14,066 up 12.60%.  Positivity was 6.5% now 7.1%.   Cases per 100k were 228.6 now 257.5

Home Nations Daily update (2 Days) :  UK Average  100.8 to 114.0 up 13.10%, England  101.5 to 111.8 up 10.15%,  Wales 39.5 to 47.5 up 20.25%, Northern Ireland 53.1 to 59.7 up 12.43%

Council progress in last 24 Hours as follows.

Click cases by neighbourhood to see the spread on the geographical map. 
https://public.tableau.com/profile/phs.covid.19#!/vizhome/COVID-19DailyDashboard_15960160643010/Overview

 LEVEL 2 RED

East Lothian   480.0 to 550.0 LEVEL 1 and top spot  in the UK.  Also Mussleburgh South Scotland's no go area.

Dundee City  448.1 to 521.  Up to number 2 spot in the UK

Midlothian  395.8 to 466.1   Up  to 4th in UK

City Of Edinburgh  402.7 to 445.0 Up to 5th spot in the UK

West Dunbartonshire 308.1 to 340.7  LEVEL 1 Up to 8th in the UK

East Ayrshire  313.9 to 336.0   

East Dunbartonshire  257.7 to 299.2

East Renfrewshire  232.4  to 279.5 

Glasgow City  247.2 to 273.1 

Perth & Kinross   248.8 to 273.1  LEVEL 1  

Renfrewshire 237.9 to 273.0  

 South Lanarkshire   222.1 to 241.8 

West Lothian   202.1 to 236.5   LEVEL1 

North Lanarkshire     213.6 to 232.6

Angus   191.0 to 227.2  LEVEL 1

 North Ayrshire   214.5 to 227.1 

Aberdeen City    200.7 to 222.2 LEVEL1 

Scottish  Borders 215.6 to 221.6  LEVEL 1 

Argyll & Bute  195.6  to 217.8 LEVEL 1 

Fife  155.0 to 194.1  LEVEL 1

Falkirk   161.6 to 191.4  LEVEL 1 

Inverclyde  174.8 to 188.9  LEVEL 1 

South Ayrshire    178.5 to 185.6

Clackmannanshire 166.9 to 174.6

Stirling   132.7 to 150.7 

OFFICIAL  LEVEL 1 BLACK

Aberdeenshire   109.9 to 123.7  

Dumfries & Galloway  100.8 to 115.5 

Highlands  70.4 to 97.5  Trebled in 3 days.

Shetland Islands   56.7 to 65.4 

Orkney Islands    26.9 to 40.4

Moray  31.3 to 38.6

OFFICIAL LEVEL 0  Teuchters in Green

Western Isles   0.0 to 0.0

Edited June 26, 2021 by superbigal

[Detournement]

29 minutes ago, mizfit said:

If anyone’s curious how the rugby chasers are getting on at Murrayfield they’ve just stopped selling alcohol due to the lack of social distancing in the queues.

He's back on top. 

[vikingTON]

Scotland having 5x the number of cases per capita than the vowel-haters is ridiculous. If the SG delay any lifting of restrictions as a result then they should be held culpable for this failure. 

Trying to ban cruise ships and travel to Manchester, while baulking at the fallout of telling Hamish Husband and the gang to not go to London has been an exercise in clown running across a minefield decision-making. 

[Jim McLean's Ghost]

39 minutes ago, mizfit said:

If anyone’s curious how the rugby chasers are getting on at Murrayfield they’ve just stopped selling alcohol due to the lack of social distancing in the queues.

Only seen that they had ran out of booze. Nothing about social distancing.

 

[Jim McLean's Ghost]

8 minutes ago, virginton said:

Scotland having 5x the number of cases per capita than the vowel-haters is ridiculous. If the SG delay any lifting of restrictions as a result then they should be held culpable for this failure. 

Trying to ban cruise ships and travel to Manchester, while baulking at the fallout of telling Hamish Husband and the gang to not go to London has been an exercise in clown running across a minefield decision-making. 

So they should have had more restrictions, i.e. banning trips to London so we can open up quicker?

[vikingTON]

Just now, Jim McLean's Ghost said:

So they should have had more restrictions, i.e. banning trips to London so we can open up quicker?

Banning 20,000 plus TA fans from going to London would have been a more effective measure than stopping a cruise ship from docking or banning individuals from going to Manchester, as the past week's events demonstrate. 

Which means that any subsequent delay to lifting society-wide restrictions is on the SG. 

[Donathan]

5 hours ago, Zetterlund said:

It's frightening how often I see comments like this. How can anyone who wants to live a free and dignified life think this way?

I think because it has been a gradual mission creep over the last 15 months or so, it's easy for people to forget how ridiculous all this would have sounded at the start of just last year. Governments have learned a lot about how much control over the public they're able to get away with.

That’s a piss take comment btw 

[Jim McLean's Ghost]

Just now, virginton said:

Banning 20,000 plus TA fans from going to London would have been a more effective measure than stopping a cruise ship from docking or banning individuals from going to Manchester, as the past week's events demonstrate. 

Which means that any subsequent delay to lifting society-wide restrictions is on the SG. 

but on what basis would individuals be banned from travelling to London? Covid rates in London were not as high as other places.

seems like you would have been happy for the Scottish Government to once again victimise football fans.

[Detournement]

3 minutes ago, virginton said:

Banning 20,000 plus TA fans from going to London would have been a more effective measure than stopping a cruise ship from docking or banning individuals from going to Manchester, as the past week's events demonstrate. 

Which means that any subsequent delay to lifting society-wide restrictions is on the SG. 

Travel for me but not for thee

[Lyle Lanley]

17 minutes ago, virginton said:

Scotland having 5x the number of cases per capita than the vowel-haters is ridiculous. If the SG delay any lifting of restrictions as a result then they should be held culpable for this failure. 

Trying to ban cruise ships and travel to Manchester, while baulking at the fallout of telling Hamish Husband and the gang to not go to London has been an exercise in clown running across a minefield decision-making. 

I wonder if they will ban travel to England with areas who aren't on the ban list like Manchester in the coming week. 

[vikingTON]

15 minutes ago, Jim McLean's Ghost said:

but on what basis would individuals be banned from travelling to London? Covid rates in London were not as high as other places.

On what basis have individuals been banned from traveling to Manchester? 

The SG knew that a tiny fraction of Scotland fans actually had a ticket to the event - almost none of them had a ticket for a fanzone. Which meant that the rest were planning to gather en masse in breach of dispersal orders. That's ample reason to allow fans going to the event to attend and for the rest to be held back, in the context of the past 15 months. But Sturgeon, Leitch and the gang shat it. 

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seems like you would have been happy for the Scottish Government to once again victimise football fans.

I'd have been happier for the SG to take a rational prioritisation of risks, rather than chuck random bans at a dartboard and end up with the worst case rates in western Europe one week later. 

We know fine well that the rest of society will pay the price for this with longer restrictions, regardless of their attempted pivot. 

Edited June 26, 2021 by vikingTON

[Left Back]

Be funny if the English ban us.

[vikingTON]

5 minutes ago, Detournement said:

Travel for me but not for thee

Well no, because I'm neither a cruise ship passenger nor have any desire to visit Manchester (including the airport right now).

That these activities were restricted while the SG not only allowed the London exodus to happen but positively encouraged it in a fit of tournament patriotism is an objectively ridiculous policy. 

[Michael W]

Matt Hancock pulls out. 

I know a lot of people don't like this account, but there's a few other Matt Hancock skeletons in the closet as well that have been unveiled. 

[Left Back]

Best outcome.  Boris backs him, says he considers the matter closed then Hancock resigns to make Boris look stupid as well.  Now for the wife to do the decent thing.

[superbigal]

 
East Lothian isn't that far behind Manchester in rate per 100000 as is Dundee and Edinburgh. I find it bizarre that the SG applies one set of rules for Manchester and another for areas within Scotland when we are all trying to avoid going into another lockdown or reverse in restrictions and that the SG have already figured out that the vaccines work and high cases don't mean hospital's packed and patients in ICU fighting for their lives.
If there is any consistency then there would be areas within Scotland thrown back down a few levels or all bans lifted traveling from Scotland to areas in England with high cases.
The Manchester ban and same goes for other areas are certainly politically motivated rather than anything to do with a genuine health risk.

East Lothian cases are far higher than Manchester as are Dundees. How East Lothian has fewer restrictions than Stirling is just bizarre.
Everyone in Scotland should be in same level.

[Elixir]

53 minutes ago, Michael W said:

Matt Hancock pulls out. 

I know a lot of people don't like this account, but there's a few other Matt Hancock skeletons in the closet as well that have been unveiled. 

[Michael W]

40 minutes ago, Left Back said:

Best outcome.  Boris backs him, says he considers the matter closed then Hancock resigns to make Boris look stupid as well.  Now for the wife to do the decent thing.

He's already binned her as well. 

Now, there's absolutely no "good" way to do something like this, but what a scumbag. 

[Left Back]

7 minutes ago, Michael W said:

He's already binned her as well. 

Now, there's absolutely no "good" way to do something like this, but what a scumbag. 

Hopefully the tory press go after him and expose all his shite.  Wonder how many of them are asking Cummings for the dirt at the moment.

I wouldn’t normally take pleasure in someone being hounded like this but he’s one of the few I’d make an exception for.