Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[Bairnardo]

Good job iv had the firing pin out or Larberts first Pfizer-Astra would be born 9 months from now

[Michael W]

2 minutes ago, G51 said:

Macron and Merkel are a pair of fucking clowns.

To her credit I don't think Merkel trashed it. Germany didn't approve it for over 65s, but an article in Handlesblatt was enough to do the damage. 

Agreed on Macron, however. The man is a maniac. 

[Dan Steele]

9 minutes ago, TheScarf said:

The Pfizer vaccine is reaching for the fat Cubans here lads.  Cubans rolled on the thighs of a virgin with big tits and 4 kids.

I'm guessing they're all called Jesus?

[gav-ffc]

1 hour ago, Steven W said:

Would be intrigued to know the age groups of these 769 (or more to the point have any of them been vaccinated - suspect not). Although case numbers are remaining at the same kind of level (maybe even dipping a bit, albeit very slowly), it would seem that cases aren't translating into hospitalisations. 

I can picture the move to the tier system being advanced at this rate (although I'm happy to stick with it through to end of Apr)

Not today’s cases up average up to 22nd of this month.

[Ron Aldo]

I might suggest that not trashing it out of spite would've been the best course of action. The damage has been done and I doubt it can be reversed. 
A desperate attempt to deflect away from procurement bungling has delivered very real consequences. And it's not just France, either - Germany has seen widespread non-uptake of the AZ vaccine as well. 

Meanwhile in Germany...

[effeffsee_the2nd]

8 minutes ago, gav-ffc said:

Not today’s cases up average up to 22nd of this month.

75 plus skews heavily towards women, is it because they spend so much time yapping in the supermarket or because most of the men don't live to be that auld?

[Louis Litt]

I got the second dose today and my arm does feel heavy as f**k after the first was completely non eventful. 

Not quite as severe as the patient yesterday adamant it could turn you blind, but not far off. 

[The Moonster]

German and French administrations having an absolute mare here. That said, if you're a German or French citizen sitting there watching all the information coming out of the UK and you're still not taking the vaccine then you're a fucking fanny as well.

[superbigal]

22 hours ago, superbigal said:

 

Daily Infections per 100K in 7 days Update:    A very good day in infection land. We drop to under 5% positivity which is a WHO measure.  I also believe we may well break through the 100 cases per 100K barrier tomorrow. Wales has fired ahead into the 70s.

Inverclyde has a 1.7% positivity and only 29 cases as it drops to 37.3 per 100K.    Also just take a look at Grampian Health board. Falkirk remains marooned at the top of the table, the whole area is lit up on the covid map like the flaring at Grangemouth itself.

Scotland peaked at 301.9 for figures 29th Dec to 4th Jan,    Cases that day were 16,496 and test rate was 11.9%

Total cases latest 7 days are down from 5,736 to 5,570 , and the positive test goes from 5.0% to 4.9%  Cases per 100k goes from 105.0 to 102.0 down 2.86%

England 122.7 to 119.9 down 2.28% in last 24 hours.  Wales  82.0 to 78.8 down an impressive  3.90%  in last 24 hours , Northern Ireland 110.1 to 111.1 up 0.91% in last 24 hours.   UK Average is now  119.0 to 116.4  down 2.18%  in last 24 hours.

NHS FIGURES :  Forth Valley 187.2 to 186.2, Lanarkshire 155.6 to 152.9, Greater Glasgow & Clyde 134.1 to 131.6,  Lothian 117.8 to 115.9,  Ayrshire & Arran 126.4 to 113.2,      Fife  68.8 to 69.9, Tayside  56.8 to 55.6, D&G 55.1 to 51.1, Western Isles 41.2 to 48.7, Highland 46.0 to 43.8, Borders 35.5 to 34.6, Grampian 39.8 to 33.6,  Orkney 0.0 to 0.0 & Shetlands 0.0 to 0.0

Council progress in last 24 hours as follows.

Click cases by neighbourhood to see the spread on the geographical map. 

https://public.tableau.com/profile/phs.covid.19#!/vizhome/COVID-19DailyDashboard_15960160643010/Overview

Falkirk  223.1 to 219.4  The undisputed champions and still hardly dropping.

West Dunbartonshire  173.2 to 177.7  A jump up the table to second. Good old Clydebank.

North Lanarkshire  178.4 to 174.9 

West Lothian  179.7 to 174.8

Clackmannanshire 163.0 to 166.9

Glasgow City 142.0 to 144.4   Appear to be on the rise again. 11th to 6th place in no time.  Glaswegians eh !! 

East Ayrshire  177.9 to 144.3  The expected plunge continues down 18.89%

Stirling 139.1 to 140.1   

Renfrewshire  149.6 to 131.8  What a day down 11.90%

South Lanarkshire  131.3 to 129.5 

Midlothian 131.9 to 127.6

East Renfrewshire   127.7 to 120.4  Decent day down 5.72%

North Ayrshire 126.9 to 121.0 Decent near 5% drop

East Lothian  108.3 to 109.3

City Of Edinburgh 94.9 to 93.7 

East Dunbartonshire 93.9 to 93.0 

LARGE GAP

Fife  68.8 to 69.9

South Ayrshire 69.3 to 69.3

Dundee City  54.9 to 58.9 

Perth & Kinross  59.9 to 55.3   Good day down 7.68%

Moray 71.0 to 54.3 Great day down 23.52%

Highlands 53.9 to 52.2  

Dumfries & Galloway  55.1 to 51.1  Good day down 7.26%

Angus  54.2 to 50.8  Good day down 6.27%

Western Isles  41.2 to 48.7

Inverclyde 50.1 to 37.3  Amazing for the deprived. Have a beer. Down over 25%

Scottish  Borders 35.5 to 34.6

Aberdeenshire  37.1 to 34.1  Down another 8%

Aberdeen City  27.1 to 24.1 

Argyll & Bute  24.5 to 21.0

Orkney Island   0.0 to 0.0

Shetland Islands   0.0 to 0.0

[The Moonster]

Dirty, smelly, Bankie b*****ds. 

[true_rover]

75 plus skews heavily towards women, is it because they spend so much time yapping in the supermarket or because most of the men don't live to be that auld?

Women live longer so all else being equal you would expect more women in that age group.

As a snapshot, it doesn't show much in terms of effect of vaccine, you would need to look at the percentage in each age group over time - you would now expect to the proportion of over 75s to decrease.

[NotThePars]

1 hour ago, Tynierose said:

Second jag received.  Boom.

Get pubs open...

Greedy b*****d 

 

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Congrats tho

 

[Rizzo]

What is actually going on in falkirk that infection rates remain so high? Was there a cluster event or something that I missed?

[WhiteRoseKillie]

35 minutes ago, Honest_Man#1 said:

What are you on about? I responded to the conversation specifically talking about the NHS impact, asking why we should care (other than obviously hoping that people don’t have a shite time, which is blatantly obvious) if the NHS isn’t overwhelmed. You responded with irrelevant mewling about being energy drained and ignored the question of what you propose we do, and then post the above suggesting it’s nothing to do with the NHS?

I actually quoted the post of yours which i was replying to. Yes, you posted earlier about the NHS, but I was not replying to that post.

Maybe you need a lie down.

[Gaz]

Just now, Rizzo said:

What is actually going on in falkirk that infection rates remain so high? Was there a cluster event or something that I missed?

Outbreak at the First Bus depot between Camelon and Larbert, amongst others.

[GiGi]

4 minutes ago, superbigal said:

Inverclyde has a 1.7% positivity and only 29 cases as it drops to 37.3 per 100K.  

[8MileBU]

1 hour ago, D.A.F.C said:

I think that people are so desperate now they only want to hear one thing.

As long as it means freedom then everything else is wrong. Same people spent months slagging off the experts they are now praising and following because it sounds like a way out.

Don't blame them tbh. It just annoys me that I get criticised for being objective and if we go back to last March the same folk criticised me when I said it was disgraceful that people were ramming pubs full before lockdown. People get blinkered when it comes to self interest and forget the facts or past events. Again I can see why. It will be interesting to revisit this in a few months.

Yeah you’re certainly not wrong or without foundation in that first bit I’ve made bold. Usually you see the analogy  used for football fans, but on the whole, people are fickle. 

Like you say, don’t blame them and easy to understand why.

[8MileBU]

23 minutes ago, Rizzo said:

What is actually going on in falkirk that infection rates remain so high? Was there a cluster event or something that I missed?

I’m unsure it’s as bad as the figures suggest but then I’m not entirely sure how the figures are calculated.

If hospital admissions with Covid are factored in then it’s possible that it’s the same thing as per a few months ago where Falkirk’s figures are being skewed and are slightly misleading due to the “Stirling effect” again.

22 minutes ago, Gaz said:

Outbreak at the First Bus depot between Camelon and Larbert, amongst others.

Small cluster at Whyte & Mackay in Grangemouth too though I think that was only 5 (?) people. 

There has also been murmurings amongst the full-time maws on Facebook of a few husbands and mini Covid clusters coming out of Ineos at Grangemouth but the big-wigs are wanting to keep it hush-hush because their manpower/shifts are stretched as it is. 

ETA - FWIW I’d imagine the likelihood is that the Ineos talk is bollux and I would imagine at least one of a few mates that work there probably would’ve let slip if true.

Edited February 25, 2021 by 8MileBU

[Steven W]

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-uk-alert-level-downgraded-as-threat-of-nhs-being-overwhelmed-recedes-12228748

I could have sworn they weren't expecting the threat of the NHS to drop for a while yet (middle of March maybe?)

[Todd_is_God]

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