Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[dirty dingus]

[Detournement]

Also article confirms what I said a while ago that Test and Trace money has been spent on the Vaccine Passport. 

[Bairnardo]

Boris buying a vaccine passport after a one to one meeting with Lyle Lanley IMO

[latapythelegend]

3 minutes ago, dirty dingus said:

 

This applies to the vast majority of posters on this thread. Its getting incredibly tiresome. 

[effeffsee_the2nd]

Presumably because all of the most vulnerable people are NOT already vaccinated. That will happen over the next couple of weeks or so.

I think the upcoming election and the fact that the snp are generally given quite a hard time by most traditional media outlets ( compared to westminster regardless of which party’s in charge) doing worse than England on covid when health is devolved would be the mother of all SNPBAD’s . They’re scared of that, genuinely

[Ron Aldo]

That's all well and good, but a drop of 83.75 (!) means that cases are remaining stubbornly high.
If we're lucky we might be able to visit our pals by August. Any time before then and it'll be far too soon imo.

Can't take any chances. There's too many variants out there which currently don't and might never exist.

[Marshmallo]

1 minute ago, latapythelegend said:

 

This applies to the vast majority of posters on this thread. Its getting incredibly tiresome. 

Don't read it then 

[latapythelegend]

Just now, Marshmallo said:

Don't read it then 

There is plenty good points which makes it worthwhile reading however it's heavily diluted by the usual paranoia.

[The Moonster]

2 minutes ago, oaksoft said:

It's not about germs landing on surfaces.

It's about germs becoming airborne.

And your mask won't stop that because it's neither air tight nor filtered.

Your germs will simply go straight through the mask or come out the sides.

Masks are there as comforters for people and also as a visible reminder people the virus is still around.

They are behaviour adjusting devices more than anything else. There's no real science behind their use at all.

Doctors and nurses wear them at their work as comforting devices?

[latapythelegend]

1 minute ago, oaksoft said:

It's not about germs landing on surfaces.

It's about germs becoming airborne.

And your mask won't stop that because it's neither air tight nor filtered.

Your germs will simply go straight through the mask or come out the sides.

Masks are there as comforters for people and also as a visible reminder for people that the virus is still around.

They are behaviour adjusting devices more than anything else. There's no real science behind their use at all.

This is the problem, there are plenty masks that are suitable, the general public just aren't interested in the effort to realise that though and the long term cost of actual suitable masks is way beyond what most people would be willing to pay as the are no where near as durable and require regular replacement. 

A cloth, which is what 99% of people are wearing - is not making any difference. 

It's a mute point now anyway as this is something that would made a massive difference 12 months ago. Not now. 

[MrWorldwideJr]

3 minutes ago, The Moonster said:

Doctors and nurses wear them at their work as comforting devices?

Doctors and nurses don't tend to be wearing unfitted cloth masks that they bought on Amazon as a general rule.

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This fucking content 

 

 

[Burnieman]

Daily Cases Update:   5 Days of updates.  Well I never.  Cases down 22% and positivity down to 2.2%.  We are now down 83.75% from the peak.

Do we deserve to wait another couple of weeks before only actually returning to shitty level 3 ?   Perhaps the 6 people in total who have Covid in D&G  and Scottish Borders might disagree.   Feel free to quote little sections from below as it is hard to decide what to highlight.   Clearly Clacks needs eradicated of the face of the earth. 

Scotland peaked at 301.9 for figures 29th Dec to 4th Jan, (UK was 642.1)    Cases that day were 16,496 and test positivity rate was 11.9%  

Total Cases 7 days from 28th March to 3rd April  were  3440 now 2680 down 22.09%. Positivity was 2.5% now 2.2%.   Cases per 100k were 63.0 now 49.1

Home Nations Daily update:  UK Average  55.4 to 44.0, England  54.9 to 43.9,  Wales 37.8 to 28.7, Northern Ireland 56.7 to 49.4

NHS Progress  Forth Valley  97.5 to 95.9, Lanarkshire 102.0 to 70.0, Greater Glasgow 78.6 to 62.9,   the rest all under Scottish average.

European (Above 2 Million Population) Shockers: Serbia 494 to 515, Hungary 499, Poland 470, France 415, 

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
Area that even the rat catchers avoid club
Clackmannanshire  196.0 to 240.6  Up another 22.76% the Grimmest area in the UK by a factor of over 75%
Under 100 Club could do better club
Renfrewshire  105.5 to 94.9 
West Lothian 133.3 to 89.6   Down 32.78%
North Lanarkshire  131.5 to 89.1  Down 32.24%
Glasgow City   80.7 to 72.8
Falkirk   92.0 to 70.2
East Ayrshire  61.5 to 68.0  A blot on the landscape up 10.57% 
Stirling  53.1 to 60.5 Another blot on the landscape up 13.94%    
South Lanarkshire 70.5 to 49.6 
Under Scottish Average club 49.1
Dundee City 77.0 to 48.2  Down 37.40%
Fife  43.9 to 47.7  
Midlothian  53.0 to 47.6
North Ayrshire 85.3 to 43.0  Down virtually 50%
Angus 40.4 to 42.2 
Perth & Kinross  42.1 to 38.8
East Lothian  43.9 to 37.4
West Dunbartonshire  69.7 to 37.1  Down close to 50%
Moray 67.8 to 34.4  Down close to 50%
East Dunbartonshire  74.6 to 34.1 Down well over 50%
City Of Edinburgh   53.9 to 34.1  Wow a huge city down 36.73%
East Renfrewshire   69.1 to 31.4  Down well over 50%
Aberdeen City 41.5 to 30.2
Havana & Malt Whisky club Sub 30.0
Aberdeenshire   30.2 to 26.8
Highlands  8.9 to 18.2
South Ayrshire 26.6 to 17.8
Inverclyde 24.4 to 15.4
Argyll & Bute   7.0 to 9.3
Shetland Islands  13.1 to 4.4
Scottish  Borders   12.1 to 3.5   4 people with covid !!!
Dumfries & Galloway 12.8 to 1.3  2 people with covid !!!
Western Isles   0.0 to 0.0
Orkney Island  0.0 to 0.0  

89.6, back of the net.......

[D.V.T.]

Daily Cases Update:   5 Days of updates.  Well I never.  Cases down 22% and positivity down to 2.2%.  We are now down 83.75% from the peak.

Do we deserve to wait another couple of weeks before only actually returning to shitty level 3 ?   Perhaps the 6 people in total who have Covid in D&G  and Scottish Borders might disagree.   Feel free to quote little sections from below as it is hard to decide what to highlight.   Clearly Clacks needs eradicated of the face of the earth. 

Scotland peaked at 301.9 for figures 29th Dec to 4th Jan, (UK was 642.1)    Cases that day were 16,496 and test positivity rate was 11.9%  

Total Cases 7 days from 28th March to 3rd April  were  3440 now 2680 down 22.09%. Positivity was 2.5% now 2.2%.   Cases per 100k were 63.0 now 49.1

Home Nations Daily update:  UK Average  55.4 to 44.0, England  54.9 to 43.9,  Wales 37.8 to 28.7, Northern Ireland 56.7 to 49.4

NHS Progress  Forth Valley  97.5 to 95.9, Lanarkshire 102.0 to 70.0, Greater Glasgow 78.6 to 62.9,   the rest all under Scottish average.

European (Above 2 Million Population) Shockers: Serbia 494 to 515, Hungary 499, Poland 470, France 415, 

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
Area that even the rat catchers avoid club
Clackmannanshire  196.0 to 240.6  Up another 22.76% the Grimmest area in the UK by a factor of over 75%
Under 100 Club could do better club
Renfrewshire  105.5 to 94.9 
West Lothian 133.3 to 89.6   Down 32.78%
North Lanarkshire  131.5 to 89.1  Down 32.24%
Glasgow City   80.7 to 72.8
Falkirk   92.0 to 70.2
East Ayrshire  61.5 to 68.0  A blot on the landscape up 10.57% 
Stirling  53.1 to 60.5 Another blot on the landscape up 13.94%    
South Lanarkshire 70.5 to 49.6 
Under Scottish Average club 49.1
Dundee City 77.0 to 48.2  Down 37.40%
Fife  43.9 to 47.7  
Midlothian  53.0 to 47.6
North Ayrshire 85.3 to 43.0  Down virtually 50%
Angus 40.4 to 42.2 
Perth & Kinross  42.1 to 38.8
East Lothian  43.9 to 37.4
West Dunbartonshire  69.7 to 37.1  Down close to 50%
Moray 67.8 to 34.4  Down close to 50%
East Dunbartonshire  74.6 to 34.1 Down well over 50%
City Of Edinburgh   53.9 to 34.1  Wow a huge city down 36.73%
East Renfrewshire   69.1 to 31.4  Down well over 50%
Aberdeen City 41.5 to 30.2
Havana & Malt Whisky club Sub 30.0
Aberdeenshire   30.2 to 26.8
Highlands  8.9 to 18.2
South Ayrshire 26.6 to 17.8
Inverclyde 24.4 to 15.4
Argyll & Bute   7.0 to 9.3
Shetland Islands  13.1 to 4.4
Scottish  Borders   12.1 to 3.5   4 people with covid !!!
Dumfries & Galloway 12.8 to 1.3  2 people with covid !!!
Western Isles   0.0 to 0.0
Orkney Island  0.0 to 0.0  

East Ren [emoji41]

Open the Barrhead boozers

[Left Back]

35 minutes ago, Detournement said:

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/04/covid-certificates-on-the-cards-for-use-in-england-since-december

It's all in the media but the vast majority of the population seems to have an unshakeable conviction that it's impossible that the nature of our society can fundamentally change so they ignore anything that contradicts that. It's a strange phenomenon.

Zuhlke were contracted in November 2020.

 

Research into whether something is feasible/possible is a lot different to actually rolling it out.  Back in November they awarded contracts  to build prototype apps to prove your testing status (i.e. that you'd had a recent negative test).  It was nothing to do with vaccination status.

[Elixir]

This guy and his field.

[Frankie S]

3 hours ago, Paco said:

Scotland also plans to open indoor hospitality, minus alcohol, a full three weeks earlier than England. Tends to get skimmed over but given we’ve been told indoor hospitality is such a big risk, it’s interesting to see.

There’s a lot of tit-for-tat on reopening stuff, you could play it all day. Outdoor gyms opened weeks earlier in Scotland, but indoor will wait two weeks longer, for example. England is probably ever so slightly faster overall but then their data at this stage is better too.

I’ve said this for months but anyone trying to read anything into any of these changes is running a fool’s errand. They’re pretty much on the same page, doing slightly different things at slightly different stages, at least up until that June 21st date where Johnson promised virtual normality and there was no such promise from Scotland (or Wales, or NI) - and at this stage, Sturgeon will come out on top there as I’m not sure England thought of vaccine passports, social distancing, face coverings and limited capacities when they heard the words ‘removal of restrictions’.

Always annoys me when it’s suggested that ‘indoor hospitality’ has been given the green light to restart from 26th April, when what has actually been given the green light is the option to trade as a cafe, coffee shop or alcohol-fee restaurant until 8.00pm. My Edinburgh outlet (for instance) is a bar, restaurant and live music venue with overheads to match, not a glorified ****ing cafe. 

So, we’ll be permitted to trade under such onerous restrictions that no-one (other than dedicated cafes or coffee shops) can conceivably cover their costs, and this is coinciding with the end of the Strategic Framework grants for hospitality (which provided grants to businesses that were required to close by law, or required to significantly change their operations due to Covid-19 restrictions - the final 2 week grant will be issued on 19th April), so other than furlough there will be no ongoing support for the industry, even though restrictions including curfews, social distancing etc will continue for the foreseeable future. So the grants will have been removed completely, but the raison d’etre for the grants is still very much in place, given the ongoing onerous restrictions, which have (as yet) no end date. Operating under illogical and often counter-productive restrictions without financial support is the place where the hospitality industry will be left marooned by the Scottish government at the end of this month.

I know of very few outlets (other than those lucky enough to have outside spaces, which are at a premium in city centre outlets) that are planning to reopen on 26th April. We’ll be reopening on 17th May with a pointlessly damaging and (as we saw last time) completely counter-productive 10.00pm curfew, while our English counterparts can reopen on the same date with no curfew, trading with normal licensing hours. English outlets can open their outside spaces from 12th April, 2 weeks ahead of Scotland btw.

Whatever arguments can be made in favour of Sturgeon’s approach, going easier on hospitality compared to England is definitely not one of them.

[Lyle Lanley]

34 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:

Boris buying a vaccine passport after a one to one meeting with Lyle Lanley IMO

[Elixir]

More junk input = more junk modeling = more junk headlines. Fantastic stuff all round.

 

[Detournement]

7 minutes ago, Left Back said:

Research into whether something is feasible/possible is a lot different to actually rolling it out.  Back in November they awarded contracts  to build prototype apps to prove your testing status (i.e. that you'd had a recent negative test).  It was nothing to do with vaccination status.

The screenshot I posted says a report from 17 December discusses restrictions based on vaccination status.