Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[Lyle Lanley]

Just now, Ron Aldo said:

People who want to continue wearing masks can feel free. People who want to stay in the house and avoid social contact can do the same.

My mask will be getting binned and I'll be getting on with my life. I won't try and force this on other people and I don't expect others to try and force their way of living on me.

This. 

Tempted to bin my mask now. 

[TheScarf]

Fuck off Nicola.  Masks will be back as mandatory on the first fucking slither of a hint that a new variant, a wee bit worse than Omicron, hits these shores.

[Abdul_Latif]

Alex Cole-Hamilton asking a very valid question about why the use of vaccine passports just isn’t outlawed as a business could request medical information of you which they don’t have a legal right to.

Essentially told by NS to shut up and that won’t happen. She is broken by this past 24 months and now can’t stand to be questioned at all.

Edited February 22, 2022 by Abdul_Latif

[Lyle Lanley]

Quote

The FM sets out some of the measures that might be used in Scotland if another evasive Covid variant emerged.

She says the Scottish government has guarded against a “one size fits all approach”.

However, it may be that people are asked to limit social contacts for a period and to work from home where possible.

Other temporary measures could be introduced for high risk settings – which recently has impacted hospitality and retail sectors.

There may also be a legal requirement to wear face masks in future, she says.

Absoutley no chance people will listen to any of that if they are bought back. 

Edited February 22, 2022 by Lyle Lanley

[Dawson Park Boy]

5 minutes ago, Lyle Lanley said:

This. 

Tempted to bin my mask now. 

What’s stopping you?

[Miguel Sanchez]

I seem to have been less cynical than most on here while watching that but her piece about the people involved in testing and tracing programs who're going to lose their jobs was pretty fucking rich given the government's contempt for leisure and hospitality over the past year.

[NorthernLights]

There we go with the isolation gaslighting.

[Donathan]

Just now, NorthernLights said:

There we go with the isolation gaslighting.

What’s she said?

[Abdul_Latif]

She’s just gone and fucking done it.

Claimed isolation was only ever guidance.

I’m fucking done. This can be nothing other than a joke on their part now.

[NorthernLights]

Just now, Donathan said:

What’s she said?

Suddenly making it very clear that it was never a legal requirement and was always guidance and that was well understood.

[Captain Saintsible]

Test twice a week before going anywhere?

Has anyone actually been doing this? I didn’t realise this was a thing!

[scottsdad]

This is one of those things where, technically, she is correct but for the public this was never the case. It was the law in England and the Scottish Government did nothing to ever suggest it was different here. 

[budmiester1]

Surely they can’t expect compliance with masks now that they have given a date for stopping the use of them, they would have been better to stop them at the same time as the vaccine passports?

[TheScarf]

I've taken one LFT in my life.  I won't be taking another.

[Abdul_Latif]

1 minute ago, budmiester1 said:

Surely they can’t expect compliance with masks now that they have given a date for stopping the use of them, they would have been better to stop them at the same time as the vaccine passports?

They probably need a few weeks to change the narrative for bedwetters who don’t want to give them up.

[Todd_is_God]

Just now, scottsdad said:

This is one of those things where, technically, she is correct but for the public this was never the case. It was the law in England and the Scottish Government did nothing to ever suggest it was different here. 

Their very own app pinged me and said, very cleary, "Isolate and book a PCR test."

It did not, anywhere, say (but you don't have to if you don't want to).

I didn't anyway as I was able to take daily LFTs instead, but it's rather disingenuous to say that it was "well understood" that it was guidance.

[TheScarf]

2 minutes ago, budmiester1 said:

Surely they can’t expect compliance with masks now that they have given a date for stopping the use of them, they would have been better to stop them at the same time as the vaccine passports?

A boy I follow on Twitter saying there that if they can come off your face in March, they can come off your face in February.

[Elixir]

13 minutes ago, Lyle Lanley said:

Absoutley no chance people will listen to any of that if they are bought back. 

Like I said, the Sword of Damocles. These pitiful c**ts will paralyse Scotland's economy and business confidence if a few more folk each winter might get a slightly worse version of the sniffles. F**k off trying to rewrite human reality that people snuff it in winter, sometimes more than others.

As ever, we can only hope that our neighbours in Europe never consider this and consequently nothing happens here as it would make them look utterly ridiculous. They have had nonsensical trigger points before in their 'levels' bollocks which were a total failure, and they disregarded anyway.

Edited February 22, 2022 by Elixir

[Bairnardo]

I actually paid attention today to what mask compliance at school gates was based on the conversations in here.

Id put it at less than 20%, suspect it will be down to the hardcore who intend to continue indefinitely within the week.

[Scotty Tunbridge]

Why keep the masks until the end of March? She just has to keep that one little bit of power she to show she ‘cares more’ than the Tories. Get fucked.