Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[Melanius Mullarkey]

17 minutes ago, NorthernLights said:

Question is are those 10 children in hospital because they require treatment for Covid or have they tested positive in hospital or within 28 days and are in hospital for any other number of things unrelated to Covid.

I reckon its probably because they tried to climb up a slide in their socks.

[Elixir]

5 hours ago, Bob Mahelp said:

Swinney is a competent administrator but a hopeless communicator.  He can't possibly become the voice of the Scottish government on a daily basis. 

I'd rather listen to and watch Jackie Baillie eat crisps. 

Is he, though?

1 hour ago, Pie Of The Month said:

Don't do something you're allowed to do parents or you'll hospitalise children.

What an absolute fucking minter that is. He should already be sacked just moments into the post. These clowns are genuinely humiliating Scotland.

[Bairnardo]

Why the f**k would kids mixing in a soft play be any different to kids mixing at school? Jesus Christ man.... The competition to care harder!!! is getting tough now. Having to come out with ever more outlandish shit to get how hard you care noticed....

[Michael W]

If we're genuinely worried about the rate at which children are catching the virus and being ill enough to require hospitalisation, then schools need to be moved back onto MS Teams. 

Birthday caird pish from Yousaf about soft plays that have been shut for months. Fucking hell. 

 

[effeffsee_the2nd]

• 677 new cases of COVID-19 reported
• 26,258 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results
  • 2.8% of these were positive
• 1 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive
• 10 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 114 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 3,286,261 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination and 2,106,177 have received their second dose

Could be better tbh

[Wee Bully]

1 minute ago, effeffsee_the2nd said:

• 677 new cases of COVID-19 reported
• 26,258 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results
  • 2.8% of these were positive
• 1 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive
• 10 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 114 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 3,286,261 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination and 2,106,177 have received their second dose

Could be better tbh

It could be.  However, you might be in danger of introducing nuance into this echo chamber, so no point examining why it could be better, or what the increases actually mean.  

[scottsdad]

2 minutes ago, effeffsee_the2nd said:

• 677 new cases of COVID-19 reported
• 26,258 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results
  • 2.8% of these were positive
• 1 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive
• 10 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 114 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 3,286,261 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination and 2,106,177 have received their second dose

Could be better tbh

It could indeed be better - but 2.8% positivity is still a good thing. We're well away from it bursting past 5%.

The hospitalisations are my concern here - how low did we get these? 60ish?

[Wee Bully]

8 minutes ago, scottsdad said:

It could indeed be better - but 2.8% positivity is still a good thing. We're well away from it bursting past 5%.

The hospitalisations are my concern here - how low did we get these? 60ish?

58 on 7 May (47 in hospital and 11 in ICU).

Pretty much doubled in 3 weeks.  You can argue it is from a low base, but it is certainly going up significantly.  If it is going to have an impact on deaths remains to be seen, but if so, there is a lag.

The good thing is that it is generally among the unvaccinated / single dosed, so it has a clear end-point for me.  It’s jus getting to that end point, which may only be a few weeks / month or so away

[Mallo_Madrid]

The minute the UK recorded no deaths in a 24 hour period they should have scrapped every ounce of restrictions. 66 million people on this Island and there's a handful of people getting seriously ill. Its mind blowing.

 

[superbigal]

Daily Cases Update:   No change to the upwards trajectory.  This time another 4.40% and positivity up to 2.6%   

Scotland has 18% of the UKs cases while Wales has 1.3%  More cases in Renfrewshire than in Wales.

As like the SPFL we now have a split I have colour coded the councils. As of yet nobody passing each other. 

Some significant changes in the major countries in Europe.   Netherlands now tops the charts at a pretty respectable 122 cases per 100K. Denmark, Belgium & Greece are the only other countries above 100.

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 24th May to 30th May  were 3476 now 3629 up 4.40%.  Positivity was 2.5% now 2.6%.   Cases per 100k were 63.6 now 66.4

Home Nations Daily update:  UK Average  28.6 to 30.3 up 5.94%, England  27.2 to 28.9 up 6.25%,  Wales  8.7 to 8.3 down 4.60%, Northern Ireland 27.8 to 27.4 down 1.44%

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

HELD BACK AT SCHOOL LEVEL 2 

East Renfrewshire    164.3 to 165.4  

Renfrewshire  152.4 to 159.7  Renfrew West 1051.2 Scotland's most ravaged neighbourhood.

Glasgow City  129.5 to 130.0   

South Ayrshire   92.4 to 114.6 Up  600% in last week

Dundee City  99.1 to 99.8 

City Of Edinburgh   82.7 to 89.3 

Midlothian  89.8 to 86.5

North Lanarkshire  72.9 to 82.3 

South Lanarkshire   76.7 to 78.0 

East Dunbartonshire   64.4 to 71.8  

Stirling   65.8 to 67.9 

East Ayrshire   61.5 to 65.6

North Ayrshire   63.1 to 61.6

Clackmannanshire   56.3 to 58.2

OFFICIAL  LEVEL 1 Good Guys

Fife  43.4 to 44.2

Falkirk  41.6 to 43.5

Perth & Kinross  38.8 to 39.5

Angus  30.1 to 36.1 

West Lothian  32.8 to 35.0

Inverclyde   32.1 to 33.4

Highlands  29.7 to 33.1  

West Dunbartonshire   27.0 to 30.4

East Lothian   24.3 to 27.1 

Aberdeen City   16.6 to 15.7  

Argyll & Bute   15.1 to 14.0

Moray   13.6 to 9.4

Aberdeenshire  8.8 to 8.0

Dumfries & Galloway   6.7 to 7.4 

Scottish  Borders   4.3 to 4.3

OFFICIAL LEVEL 0  Teuchters

Western Isles  3.7 to 0.0

Orkney Islands  9.0 to 0.0 

Shetland Islands 0.0 to 0.0

[Elixir]

19 minutes ago, Wee Bully said:

It could be.  However, you might be in danger of introducing nuance into this echo chamber, so no point examining why it could be better, or what the increases actually mean.  

Nuance like: why cases are more likely to rise when we're pissing about with vaccines in storage and pretty blue envelopes for a generation of smartphone users?

We know this ends once the vaccines are administered up to a certain threshold. So just fucking get on with it, all while everything else is clearly well within hospital capacity.

[GiGi]

Do we know why Scotland is literally twice the UK average at the minute? It seems like a lot of pish that we're surging while the rest of the island plus the failed statelet are doing so much better. 

[effeffsee_the2nd]

1 minute ago, GiGi said:

Do we know why Scotland is literally twice the UK average at the minute? It seems like a lot of pish that we're surging while the rest of the island plus the failed statelet are doing so much better. 

because we are the people ?

wait nah that would sure affect TFS too

Edited June 2, 2021 by effeffsee_the2nd

[Elixir]

6 minutes ago, GiGi said:

Do we know why Scotland is literally twice the UK average at the minute? It seems like a lot of pish that we're surging while the rest of the island plus the failed statelet are doing so much better. 

A large part can likely be put down to less immunity from natural infection than England and less immunity from vaccination than Wales.

[Dan Steele]

5 minutes ago, Elixir said:

Nuance like: why cases are more likely to rise when we're pissing about with vaccines in storage and pretty blue envelopes for a generation of smartphone users?

I've heard this about blue envelopes and a generation of smartphone users quite a lot and I can't quite follow that reasoning. Why would getting a letter be a problem? Unless there's a huge percentage of us trying to open them with both thumbs.

[Elixir]

1 minute ago, The Skelpit Lug said:

I've heard this about blue envelopes and a generation of smartphone users quite a lot and I can't quite follow that reasoning. Why would getting a letter be a problem? Unless there's a huge percentage of us trying to open them with both thumbs.

Younger people typically change address more regularly without updating their relevant details, hence letters ending up at any c**ts gaff.

[Dan Steele]

Just now, Elixir said:

Younger people typically change address more regularly without updating their relevant details, hence letters ending up at any c**ts gaff.

Ah, fine, that makes sense 

[Michael W]

18 minutes ago, GiGi said:

Do we know why Scotland is literally twice the UK average at the minute? It seems like a lot of pish that we're surging while the rest of the island plus the failed statelet are doing so much better. 

Indoor mixing was permitted in Scotland before it was in England, which is almost certainly the highest risk setting. It is still banned in Wales unless it's with your bubble.

There have also been proportionately more cases in England than in Scotland, so immunity a factor too. I doubt vaccines account for the impact - Scotland around 1% ahead on first doses and England around 1% ahead on second doses. 

Despite all of this though, we have not seen death rates in Scotland surging. Hospitalisations are up, yes, but the vaccines are proving themselves. 

 

Edited June 2, 2021 by Michael W

[WeAreElgin]

I propose calling in an airstrike on Fort William. It would do the area no harm whatsoever and would do wonders for the Highlands' case numbers.

[Gaz]

1 minute ago, WeAreElgin said:

I propose calling in an airstrike on Fort William. It would do the area no harm whatsoever and would do wonders for the Highlands' case numbers.

I've been to Fort William a few times and assumed this had already happened.