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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
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Sturgeon sticking up for Johnson! Who's wearing the Sturgeon suit?
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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.
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Levels criteria not being announced until mid-march.
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27 minutes ago, 101 said:
I don't remember her expressly saying it and if it's the parliament that published that then I think @Billy Jean King is probably right I had a look there and there are some opinion pieces saying it's what we are doing but it has as far as I can see never been a policy announcement.
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18 hours ago, Sergeant Wilson said:
What would've happened after this temporary structure?
Hearts might have been relegated again. Falkirk and Partick would have issued statements galore. Why did we not do this?
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2 minutes ago, Gaz said:
Are there actually any countries that are entirely self-sufficient, and could (theoretically) close their borders and cut off all contact with the outside world for an indefinite period of time?
yep.
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4 minutes ago, Bob Mahelp said:
Leitch still banging on today about 'unknown new variants' is enormously frustrating.
Planning policy around 'known unknowns' (thank you Donald Rumsfeld) is no way to run a fucking country.
planning anything around an unknown is no way to do anything. unknown variants that can defeat the vaccine are what contingency plans are for.
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8 minutes ago, Big Fifer said:
Not sure. But Johnson yesterday said "There is therefore no credible route to a zero Covid Britain or indeed a zero Covid world. And we cannot persist indefinitely with restrictions that debilitate our economy, our physical and mental well-being, and the life chances of our children." I think it's important that we hear something similar from her today.
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.
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What time is the announcement today? Managed to miss yesterdays.
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43 minutes ago, Elixir said:
I distinctly remember seeing the scenes from Italy and thinking 'boomers and chubsters, seems about right', tbh.
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.
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1 minute ago, Glen Sannox said:
So who should we believe then?
Ad lib obviously.
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4 minutes ago, Detournement said:
Given that barely any supermarket workers wore facemasks until they were mandatory and they seemed to get on ok Pozbaird wasn't exactly wrong was he?
And has he says barely anyone in the UK wears a mask with a safety rating. Every single cotton mask is utterly pointless and the vast majority of surgical style masks are unrated. That's why Germany has switched to real surgical masks on transport.
Apparently NHS Tayside are now insisting on surgical masks on their premises. Haven’t seen the report but it was mentioned to me earlier.
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6 minutes ago, Gaz said:
I get why folk are relieved and delighted to be given a bit of positive news but why the f**k is anyone believing a word Johnson says?
The c**t could tell me today was Monday and I'd check my newspaper.
Does the device you’re using not tell you what day it is?
Newspapers are so “old normal”
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17 minutes ago, invergowrie arab said:
Feel bad for ITV. Obviously signed Peston up on a long term deal and can't afford to get rid.
He used to be a decent journalist. Perhaps BBC saw what was coming and offloaded the lunatic at the optimum time.
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1 minute ago, djchapsticks said:
I can't see it. Whitty explained quite comprehensively why 5 weeks per step is in place.
It’s a lot easier to accept when there is a clearly described reason for the policy.
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2 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said:
Do you think Johnson might just think fūck it after Easter and open everything?
St. George’s day would be my guess.
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4 minutes ago, Donathan said:
Apparently Devi has penned an article in the guardian praising the roadmap. That’s a curveball.
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.
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Peston banging on about R rates
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9 minutes ago, PWL said:
As per link - stats complied by Oxford Uni.
If we take excess deaths as gospel then we have to accept that no one died of Covid in Norway last year as their excess deaths actually fell.
Clearly a combination of the two will provide the correct answer. But has been the case throughout - it's easy to produce a graph to defend just about any position with regards to Covid.
Except to prove that it was over as a crisis last autumn.
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.
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2 minutes ago, PWL said:
Hey. I can do graphs too.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/uk-covid-death-rate-coronavirus-b1788817.html
While I don’t disagree we’ve been dreadful this is simplistic. Are all these countries measuring death by Covid in the same way?
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I’d assume those threatening to not vote SNP won’t be lending their vote to the Greens then?
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3 minutes ago, effeffsee_the2nd said:
Sounds like me and my ego when I’m trying to tell my mrs that I’m still kind of right even after I’ve conceded and admitted that she is in fact, right^^^ Doing it very wrong.
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19 minutes ago, TheScarf said:
Breaking -
Vaccine designed, and proven effective in wide ranging clinical trials, to vaccinate humans against virus appears to be doing just that.
FTFY
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They didn’t. I’ve just been through the transcript of last mights press conference. “New normal”. Wasn’t used.