Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[maicoman]

9 hours ago, Dawson Park Boy said:

Trouble is she gets a very easy time of it, especially on here apart from the Covid thread.

Interesting to note that her fans are particularly quiet on the ‘ ferries fiasco’. Hardly a peep.

What is the name of the thread on P and B concerning the "Ferries fiasco" ?

[welshbairn]

[ICTChris]

https://news.sky.com/story/people-who-havent-had-covid-yet-probably-have-no-friends-a-korean-doctor-says-12576199
 

Mr, reading this not having had a covid 

 

[Elixir]

Sridhar in the mud.

 

[Arch Stanton]

23 minutes ago, ICTChris said:

https://news.sky.com/story/people-who-havent-had-covid-yet-probably-have-no-friends-a-korean-doctor-says-12576199
 

Mr, reading this not having had a covid 

 

 

22 minutes ago, Elixir said:

Sridhar in the mud.

 

You two should get together.

[Suspect Device]

2 hours ago, ICTChris said:

https://news.sky.com/story/people-who-havent-had-covid-yet-probably-have-no-friends-a-korean-doctor-says-12576199
 

Mr, reading this not having had a covid 

 

I'm a perfect example of this. 

[Ron Aldo]

Got the shopping delivered earlier today. Picked up the baskets of stuff from the front door to take them in and empty them but not before the delivery driver asked if there was "any Covid in the hoose" while standing about 10ft from the front door.

I had to ask him to repeat what he said as I fail to see why mine or my wife's current medical status is in anyway relevant to an Asda delivery driver. Maybe the lack of meaningful football this weekend has led to me having to find something else to rant about but I'm pretty sure the guy wasn't chapping folk's doors pre-2020 and asking if there was any cold / flu / any other respiratory virus "in the hoose".

[Lyle Lanley]

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NICOLA Sturgeon is being cautioned to keep face mask rules in place for a further period and warned easing the measure could be reckless as she prepares to give her latest Covid update to Holyrood.

Currently, people in Scotland are legally required to wear face coverings in shops, on public transport, in the cinema and in hospitality venues when moving around.

The First Minister was due to ease the mandate on their use in her statement to MSPs two weeks ago and move the measure into guidance, making it a matter of individual choice. But she unexpectedly delayed doing so because of the high rate in infections and said she would wait until just before the end of the month to make the change.

Since then Covid infections and hospitalisations cases have continued to soar to record levels, with public health experts warning against easing the rules when she makes her new announcement next Tuesday. They say she should wait until Holyrood returns from its Easter recess and then make a decision based on the state of the pandemic then.

Professor Neil Mabbott, of Edinburgh University, told The Herald on Sunday he believed the existing rules should continue for the moment. "Personally I think it does make sense to keep the mask mandate for a little while longer," he said. "We should be looking at it on a regular basis. Every three weeks or so. Look at what is happening and then react to the situation." He added: "We know face masks can be very effective in reducing transmissions in certain situations. "I'm not going to say that masks offer 100 per cent protection but they make a difference in those high risk or high impacts areas, where there is lots of crowding of people indoors, limited ventilation and where people might be for a reasonably long period of time. "These are all situations which allow the virus to transmit from one person to another through the air, so if you are wearing a mask, even if it's just a cloth mask, you are giving yourself some protection as well as protecting others. "Given all the other restrictions we've had experience over the past two years, I think you could argue that masks are the least invasive."

Mr Mabbott continued that lifting the legal mandate on the wearing of face mask and making it a matter of individual choice could send out a confused message to the public. "It's about having very clear messaging and when it starts to become guidance people aren't clear whether they need to do something or not," he said, adding that cases could increase further if the requirement is eased.

His view was backed by public health expert Professor Andrew Watterson of Stirling University. He also addressed demands by the Scottish Conservatives to lift the requirement for secondary school pupils and staff to wear face masks in corridors after the rule was lifted for the wearing of masks in classrooms last month. “The evidence base for face coverings and masks is strong and it is one valuable protection against Covid.  “Covid case numbers are still high right across the country and so this is not the time to abandon or further water down that protection in schools and colleges for pupils and staff.  “Removing the protection now would be unwise if not reckless because it will almost certainly lead to many more Covid cases in coming days.” 

During the First Minister’s last Covid update to Holyrood there were around 12,000 new cases of the virus a day. At that time, a total of 1996 people were in hospital with the infection, an increase1,060 three weeks earlier.

The latest figures showed that the number of patients in Scotland’s hospitals with coronavirus had climbed to 2,326.

Ms Sturgeon said in her last update the increase in cases in that period was driven by the BA.2 sub-lineage of the omicron variant, believed to be significantly more transmissible than that of the original omicron. "Given the current spike in case numbers, we consider it prudent to retain that requirement in regulation for a further short period," she said. "I know that that will be disappointing for businesses and service providers such as day-care services, but ensuring the maximum continued use of face coverings will provide some additional protection—particularly for the most vulnerable—at a time when the risk of infection is very high, and it may help us to get over this spike more quickly. We will review the regulation again in two weeks, before the Easter recess, and our expectation now is that that regulation will convert to guidance in early April."

https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/20022252.covid-scotland-easing-face-mask-rules-now-may-reckless/

[Lyle Lanley]

 

[Todd_is_God]

Those headlines don't match the articles.

The notion that she'd be bringing in more covid restrictions is absolutely laughable, and not something I imagine anyone thought was on the table.

As, to be fair, are these wet wipes who would push for face masks being retained ahead of every review forever regardless of any data.

Edited March 27, 2022 by Todd_is_God

[UsedToGoToCentralPark]

Those headlines don't match the articles.
The notion that she'd be bringing in more covid restrictions is absolutely laughable, and not something I imagine anyone thought was on the table.
As, to be fair, are these wet wipes who would push for face masks being retained ahead of every review forever regardless of any data.

There's a ferry difficult issue needing attention diverted away from though.

[Elixir]

1 hour ago, oaksoft said:

Parts of China back in strict lockdown again.

And to think, some influential scientists in this country think this is the country to follow on covid response. 

Reality finally arriving. We've already seen in Hong Kong what happens when you bottle a problem up, coupled with shan vaccines.

 

40 minutes ago, Lyle Lanley said:

https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/20022252.covid-scotland-easing-face-mask-rules-now-may-reckless/

I just cannot take these *utter psychopaths* seriously. I mean really, who are they trying to fool when looking at *1 in 11* people in Scotland having Covid and then think 'masks work'. Just take yourself so far to f**k.

[gav-ffc]

5 hours ago, ICTChris said:

https://news.sky.com/story/people-who-havent-had-covid-yet-probably-have-no-friends-a-korean-doctor-says-12576199
 

Mr, reading this not having had a covid 

 

Worked in social care during the whole pandemic, never had to isolate, never tested positive yet worked with someone directly while he was positive.

 

[Melanius Mullarkey]

I’m kind of getting the feeling that Edinburgh University is full of shit. They should probably hand the badge in and give Napier a go.

 

[Jan Vojáček]

50 minutes ago, Lyle Lanley said:

 

Judging by my Scotrail experience yesterday 'we' is an increasingly small group.

Pretty busy train to and from Dumbarton and could count on one hand the number of people still wearing them. People have already started to make their own minds up. Removing or extending the legal mandate is going to have a fairly limited impact on overall mask use.

I suspect the Scottish Government know that by this stage though.

[Trogdor]

1 hour ago, Ron Aldo said:

Got the shopping delivered earlier today. Picked up the baskets of stuff from the front door to take them in and empty them but not before the delivery driver asked if there was "any Covid in the hoose" while standing about 10ft from the front door.

I had to ask him to repeat what he said as I fail to see why mine or my wife's current medical status is in anyway relevant to an Asda delivery driver. Maybe the lack of meaningful football this weekend has led to me having to find something else to rant about but I'm pretty sure the guy wasn't chapping folk's doors pre-2020 and asking if there was any cold / flu / any other respiratory virus "in the hoose".

I was getting that from the Sainsburys delivery drivers a couple of months back but not had anything since. One officious driver told me I couldn't take the basket inside the house and so I had to empty it at the front door. First world problems right enough, but a pain in the arse.

[Melanius Mullarkey]

9 minutes ago, Trogdor said:

I was getting that from the Sainsburys delivery drivers a couple of months back but not had anything since. One officious driver told me I couldn't take the basket inside the house and so I had to empty it at the front door. First world problems right enough, but a pain in the arse.

I hope when you were taking the things out the basket you coughed profusely all over  it.

[Left Back]

12 minutes ago, Trogdor said:

I was getting that from the Sainsburys delivery drivers a couple of months back but not had anything since. One officious driver told me I couldn't take the basket inside the house and so I had to empty it at the front door. First world problems right enough, but a pain in the arse.

Still Tesco policy.  Drivers won’t come into the house anymore and you have to empty the baskets at the front door.  They’ve also stopped putting the stuff in bags as well which they did for a while during the pandemic.

Pain in the fucking arse.

[PedroMoutinho]

1 hour ago, Lyle Lanley said:

https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/20022252.covid-scotland-easing-face-mask-rules-now-may-reckless/

Watterson is part of the ‘zero covid Scotland’ group so I suspect he’d have us in total lockdown if it was up to him.

[Todd_is_God]

6 minutes ago, Left Back said:

Still Tesco policy.  Drivers won’t come into the house anymore and you have to empty the baskets at the front door.  They’ve also stopped putting the stuff in bags as well which they did for a while during the pandemic.

Pain in the fucking arse.

Our guys must be sound then as they let us take the baskets in to empty.

The bags thing is annoying, they didn't introduce the bags during the pandemic, but stopping them in the middle of it was daft.

I've also noticed you now only get an emailed receipt too, which makes identifying and rejecting short dated / bizarre replacement items a lot harder.