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Were you comfortable with Witty, Valance and BJ using the exact same language last night. We even had a discussion about it. Kinda suggests to me if both UKG and SG mention it as part of their routemaps that there is every chance it's still going to be a thing. I also pointed out to you last night BJ using the phrase "new world" They didn’t. I’ve just been through the transcript of last mights press conference. “New normal”. Wasn’t used.

Domestic vaccine passports the lead item on BBC news. imagine coming up to your 18th birthday, all your pals asking where are we going on the lash big man? Nowhere boys, not been jagged yet, letter not arrived so staying in for a bit

Sturgeon sticking up for Johnson! Who's wearing the Sturgeon suit?

Does anyone know what the criteria were previously for the different levels? i.e. case numbers, hospitalisations etc, not what you could actually do in the levels. What you could do in level 3 was a bit shite tbh. https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/strategy-plan/2020/10/covid-19-scotlands-strategic-framework/documents/level-3-measures/level-3-measures/govscot%3Adocument/level-3-measures.pdf

Levels criteria not being announced until mid-march.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/nicola-sturgeon-scotland-not-far-away-total-elimination-coronavirus-2896480

Hearts might have been relegated again. Falkirk and Partick would have issued statements galore. Why did we not do this?

yep. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-46286215

planning anything around an unknown is no way to do anything. unknown variants that can defeat the vaccine are what contingency plans are for.

tbf there is a route to zero covid Britain. Close the borders etc, get everyone vaccinated and eventually we'll eradicate the virus. It will take months though and would require the borders to remain pretty much closed until we have a zero covid world (hence it isn't credible while we have a CTA with Ireland which allows free movement from the continent). A zero covid world would take a global concerted effort of years.

What time is the announcement today? Managed to miss yesterdays.

A year ago to the day you posted this I flew out to Italy to watch the rugby. Great trip. when I got home my work had banned anyone that had been to Italy from being in the office. Government guidelines at the time were that Northern Italy was taboo, Rome was fine. i didn’t know a single person that thought this situation was that serious at the time.

Ad lib obviously.

Apparently NHS Tayside are now insisting on surgical masks on their premises. Haven’t seen the report but it was mentioned to me earlier.

Does the device you’re using not tell you what day it is? Newspapers are so “old normal”

He used to be a decent journalist. Perhaps BBC saw what was coming and offloaded the lunatic at the optimum time.

It’s a lot easier to accept when there is a clearly described reason for the policy.

St. George’s day would be my guess.

Hopefully Sturgeon administers a public boot to the pie for being full of shit and clearly having no real conviction in her batshit mental nonsense.

Peston banging on about R rates

So in the absence of a yes I have to assume you agree it’s a no then. Oxford may have compiled the stats but each individual country measures this in different ways. You can show anything you want with individual statistics. It doesn’t necessarily mean you’re arriving at a fact.

While I don’t disagree we’ve been dreadful this is simplistic. Are all these countries measuring death by Covid in the same way?

I’d assume those threatening to not vote SNP won’t be lending their vote to the Greens then?

^^^ Doing it very wrong.

FTFY