Detournement Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 6 minutes ago, PauloPerth said: Yes that's my take on what's happening as well. Let enough of the population get infected and recover at a rate which the NHS can deal with, whilst protecting the most at risk members of society. Still allowing flights to land here as well. If we were going for getting the number of cases down to zero, surely we'd have stopped all travel into the country. One thing that limits the effectiveness surely is having no adequate testing, as if you don't know how many people have had it, how do you know what percentage of the population has built up the immunity? It did seem to be a conscious decision to stop testing. I remember 3-4 weeks ago in Scotland there were drive through testing stations covered on the news. There could well be testing we don't know about and a Virology professor from Oxford uni seems to think that the real infection rate is far higher. The only way to do HI in the UK is to trick people into thinking there is still a good chance they can't get it or there would be hysteria. This is not a rational country. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 The wife is just back from Asda where she said there was loads of couples in doing their shopping. She had to shoe a lady from one of the couples away from her at the till as she kept walking towards her even though the wife was stood paying. Fucking idiots honestly. A couple of about 60 she reckoned. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 I think the number of folk following the ‘rules’ are significantly outweighing the idiots and selfish folk. That said if we see major breaches this weekend I would be happy to see very punitive alternative penalties being introduced. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 The guys who stuck up for herd immunity are on channel four now getting telt. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 34 minutes ago, WATTOO said: She was on Clyde taking questions this morning and was saying that the four nations within the UK would be working together for the most part, however there were times when she thought that the UK weren't doing enough / slow to act, so Scotland acted on their own with things such as closing the schools before the rest of the country and banning large gatherings ,again, a few days before the rest of the UK, which she reckoned may have helped us. Schools in Scotland closed on the same day as the rest of the UK: the Scottish government announced that they would close before the UK Government did - as did Wales - and it's possible that their announcements ultimately bounced Westminster into taking the same approach. But the actual date of closure was the same on either side of the border. It's also worth remembering that the 'banning mass gatherings' only took force from March 16 and that the SG was quite happy to let an Old Firm game batter on 24 hours earlier. There's been much more of a difference in the quality of messaging from Sturgeon compared to Westminster rather than policy (which would sow further public confusion anyway). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennett Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 9 minutes ago, TheScarf said: The wife is just back from Asda where she said there was loads of couples in doing their shopping. She had to shoe a lady from one of the couples away from her at the till as she kept walking towards her even though the wife was stood paying. Fucking idiots honestly. A couple of about 60 she reckoned. I was in aldi yesterday and they had a security guy on the door who shouted at a couple " one trolley per customer ", they simply took a trolley each and walked in. 22 minutes ago, Raidernation said: If only we’d built a moon base in 1999! Anyway UFO Space 1999 Thunderbirds Captain Scarlet Stingray Terrahawks Joe 90 Supercar Terrahawks should be at the top of the list for Windsor Davies part alone. Captain Scarlet second. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thereisalight.. Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 5 hours ago, WATTOO said: I just unfortunately encountered the not so nice side of the NHS down at AYR hospital. Taking my 81 year old mother for an eye appointment I let her off at the door while I parked the car, however when i entered i got stopped by a torn faced bitch of a nurse who asked what i was doing, i explained i was down with my mum who I pointed to sitting alone in a waiting room through a locked door. The response was "you can't come in here, get out", I then asked where I should go, the response was "outside". Next question I explained that she was waiting on me appearing and would be worried if I didn't, response, "I'll tell her". Next I asked how I'd know when she was out as she didn't have a phone, response was "don't know", I then asked when she "might" be out, response "don't know". Finally I asked what she thought I should do then ? Was told "don't know, that's your problem" as I say, a total bitch. I get shes under pressure (although the hospital was empty) but so are most of us and personally I could be doing without the serious attitude problem. Sounds about right for Ayr Hospital tbh. When my Dad was in there was quite a few bitches. The morning we were told he wasn’t going to live much longer one berated my mum and I for not having the flu jab, my Mum said we didn’t fall into the category of needing it and she snapped “you can pay to get it done, it doesn’t cost much”. Fucking heartless cow 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 (edited) 35 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said: Over 3 weeks since lockdown ??? Sorry you are right. Exactly 3 weeks since lockdown. Happy now? Edited April 3, 2020 by Todd_is_God 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 This Guardian article states what is obvious. It also argues for measures that only yesterday the Guardian said would be terrible for Russia to adopt. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 30 minutes ago, PauloPerth said: Yes that's my take on what's happening as well. Let enough of the population get infected and recover at a rate which the NHS can deal with, whilst protecting the most at risk members of society. Still allowing flights to land here as well. If we were going for getting the number of cases down to zero, surely we'd have stopped all travel into the country. One thing that limits the effectiveness surely is having no adequate testing, as if you don't know how many people have had it, how do you know what percentage of the population has built up the immunity? It did seem to be a conscious decision to stop testing. I remember 3-4 weeks ago in Scotland there were drive through testing stations covered on the news. Herd immunity is the hope globally, they're just using social isolation to try to slow the infection rate down enough so health services can cope, not to stop it outright. Stretching the curve as they call it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshmallo Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 24 minutes ago, TheScarf said: The wife is just back from Asda where she said there was loads of couples in doing their shopping. She had to shoe a lady from one of the couples away from her at the till as she kept walking towards her even though the wife was stood paying. Fucking idiots honestly. A couple of about 60 she reckoned. @pozbaird -2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Moomintroll Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 As I said I'm not getting at Wattoo, it's nothing to do with him, merely the message he was given and others are getting fed by silly staff who are in their own wee bubble. Obviously I don't have a clue what's going on but if there are departments not helping others then that is pretty shite. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thereisalight.. Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 Some musings from today * the local supermarket now has an SIA person at the door to flex muscle....and give out trolleys * I was able to get toilet roll for the first time in 3 weeks. No hand wash or hand sanitiser though * People were wearing masks. 99% of those people were also wearing gloves to shop, then the same gloves to drive and probably to go into other shop with * I noticed a police van drive around about 4 times in the hour I was out. It failed to stop when there was 2 middle aged couples standing chatting not 2 metres away from one another 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 1 minute ago, Marshmallo said: @pozbaird He has been missing on here since he was rightly rinsed for blatantly ignoring the social distancing and staying at home rules. Travelling up to Inverness it seems. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 2 minutes ago, Thereisalight.. said: I noticed a police van drive around about 4 times in the hour I was out. It failed to stop when there was 2 middle aged couples standing chatting not 2 metres away from one another Disgraceful, they probably left their police ruler in the station. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snobot Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 Yesterday evening, from my front window in Glasgow’s leafy West End I witnessed a jakey being issued one of the numerous Glasgow Covid violation tickets by the police, who were keeping their distance whilst doing their bit. At one point a jogger came along the pavement and actually ran between said jakey and police. The police would have been better served tazering the jogger tbqhwy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 1 hour ago, bennett said: You're probably loving all this doom and gloom. I’ll be honest, It’s fair cheering me up, Benny. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted April 3, 2020 Author Share Posted April 3, 2020 People going to parks more in the US and U.K. compared to France, Italy and Spain. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 17 minutes ago, Snobot said: Yesterday evening, from my front window in Glasgow’s leafy West End I witnessed a jakey being issued one of the numerous Glasgow Covid violation tickets by the police, who were keeping their distance whilst doing their bit. At one point a jogger came along the pavement and actually ran between said jakey and police. The police would have been better served tazering the jogger tbqhwy. Joggers and cyclists are confirming themselves as arseholes during this. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 It depends on how many parks you have close to your home. Spain in my experience is not hoaching with parks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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