Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[TheScarf]

I’ve never been in a fan zone and they look absolutely fucking shite. Give me a packed pub watching the football any day.

[SlipperyP]

28 minutes ago, superbigal said:

Angus   87.8 to 126.5  Over 200% rise in 2 days.  and Kirriemuir now Scotland's most rabid neighbourhood.

There even a song about this.

Edited June 6, 2021 by SlipperyP

[Dawson Park Boy]

The question I find difficult to reconcile is why, being part of a liberal democracy, most of us are just so compliant?

I could understand it if we were living in China or North Korea but here in Scotland, the UK, it really is just so depressing how the vast majority of our citizenry go along with all the diktats from on high.

Okay, to get into most shops, you need a mask but to see people walking about in the open air in a muzzled state is like watching zombies in some sci-fi film.

Dreadful.

[TheGreenElves]

31 minutes ago, superbigal said:

Daily Cases Update:   Graph continues to rocket  again today in infection land.   This time up another 9% and positivity up 2 ticks to 3.3%   Rest of UK bar Northern Ireland may have joined the party. At 88.1 cases per 100K Scotland would rank 6th worst major nation in Europe.

Angus  are the 1st council to break ranks in the levels system and now has in Kirriemuir the plague centre of Scotland. South Ayrshire is congratulated on leaping from Cigars to top spot in 14 days with a 1485% increase in cases.

Scotland has 9 0f the 15 councils in the UK with cases over 125  per 100K

Some significant changes in the major countries in Europe.   Denmark now tops the charts at a pretty respectable 117 cases per 100K. Netherlands 116 & Belgium 112 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 28th May to 3rd June  were 4419 now 4813 up 8.92%.  Positivity was 3.1% now 3.3%.   Cases per 100k were 80.9 now 88.1

Home Nations Daily update:  UK Average  32.1 to 35.9 up 11.84%, England  30.9 to 34.5 up 11.65%,  Wales  8.0 to 9.4 up 17.5%, Northern Ireland 27.0 to 24.7 down 8.52%

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 RED 

South Ayrshire  158.1 to 171.4 Cigars to  top spot in a week.

Dundee City   140.6 to 162.1  Continues it's surge another 15%

Clackmannanshire  116.4 to 151.3 Everyone in Alva has been infected at least twice. What a hole.

City Of Edinburgh    134.1 to 149.7 continues charge upwards and jumps Glasgow.

East Renfrewshire    162.3 to 149.7  Basically spread throughout the area. No hotspots.

Glasgow City  143.1 to 147.0   On the rise again. Public health in control

Renfrewshire     134.0 to 133.4  3rd daily drop.

Angus   87.8 to 126.5  Over 200% rise in 2 days.  and Kirriemuir now Scotland's most rabid neighbourhood.

East Ayrshire   103.3 to 126.2   Up 50% in 2 days.

Midlothian    93.0 to 114.6 Up over 20%

East Dunbartonshire   101.3 to 106.8  

Stirling    80.7 to 95.5  20% rise for 2nd day.

North Lanarkshire    83.2 to 84.1

South Lanarkshire 76.7 to 82.1

North Ayrshire   82.4 to 80.9

OFFICIAL  LEVEL 1 BLACK

Perth & Kinross  49.4 to 68.4 Up near 70% in 2 days.

West Dunbartonshire   54.0 to 66.3  

West Lothian    53.0 to 62.3 Up near 20% after 30 yesterday.

East Lothian    50.4 to 57.9  

Falkirk   49.7 to 52.8

Fife  47.7 to 49.0

Highlands    44.1 to 35.2

Aberdeen City   22.3  to 28.0  Possibly kicking off now as up 70% in 2 days from low levels.

Inverclyde    23.1 to 27.0

Scottish  Borders    17.3  to 22.5

Moray   14.6 to 17.7

Argyll & Bute   15.1 to 14.0

Shetland Islands 4,4 to 13.1

Aberdeenshire   11.5 to 12.6

Dumfries & Galloway  9.4 to 9.4 

OFFICIAL LEVEL 0  Teuchters in Green

Orkney Islands  4.5 to 9.0 

Western Isles  3.7 to 7.5

 

 

 

Not surprised at the Alva numbers, mass outbreak at my local. They've been ordered to shut down for 2 weeks for a deep clean, would be better just burning it down tbh

[RandomGuy.]

14 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said:

It's going to be an incredibly frustrating three months or so waiting for everyone over 18 to get double dosed so the "we just don't know" brigade have nothing to cling to.

I've not read it, as it's thoroughly depressing reading anything these days, but the BBC has an article up claiming there's "research" going on into whether everyone actually needs 3 jabs instead of 2.

[101]

1 minute ago, RandomGuy. said:

I've not read it, as it's thoroughly depressing reading anything these days, but the BBC has an article up claiming there's "research" going on into whether everyone actually needs 3 jabs instead of 2.

I would be prepared to have a significant wager on 4th jag being talked up once the 3rd is well through its roll out. 

[O_Kahn]

41 minutes ago, superbigal said:

 

Some significant changes in the major countries in Europe.   Denmark now tops the charts at a pretty respectable 117 cases per 100K. Netherlands 116 & Belgium 112 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%  

 

Denmark's higher case stats might be down to the extremely high numbers of tests they are carrying out, over 100,000 per day  https://www.sst.dk/en/English/Corona-eng/Status-of-the-epidemic/COVID-19-updates-Statistics-and-charts

They carried out more PCR tests on one day (161k) than we did in the whole week (156k), but their positivity rate is much lower than ours, under 1%.  I think you have to show a negative test over there to go into bars/cafes etc if you haven't been vaccinated.

 

 

[Todd_is_God]

13 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:

I've not read it, as it's thoroughly depressing reading anything these days, but the BBC has an article up claiming there's "research" going on into whether everyone actually needs 3 jabs instead of 2.

Of course there is - the UK Gov have already ordered tens of millions of doses during the initial "BuT tEh VaRiAntZ!" phase.

[Johnny van Axeldongen]

12 minutes ago, O_Kahn said:

They carried out more PCR tests on one day (161k) than we did in the whole week (156k), but their positivity rate is much lower than ours, under 1%. 

 

 

How many PCR test cycles are Denmark using? How many are we using?

[djchapsticks]

41 minutes ago, oaksoft said:

Those two numbers are estimates.

In reality it appears protection is significantly higher.

Either that or prevalance of that variant is too low (which it absolutely is despite all the moon howling) to cause a problem.

Given we are being told by certain moonhowlers that the vaccines are staggeringly ineffective against the Indian variant, Covid must have mutated to just wilfully not bother it's hole infecting those in age groups that are double dosed then, even though it can any time it wants of course.

 

 

Compare this to the cumulative total of people per 100k in the country who have caught covid since the start and it really does begin to build a picture of how ineffective the vaccines are, eh?  

Edited June 6, 2021 by djchapsticks

[Guest Bob Mahelp]

27 minutes ago, Dawson Park Boy said:

The question I find difficult to reconcile is why, being part of a liberal democracy, most of us are just so compliant?

I could understand it if we were living in China or North Korea but here in Scotland, the UK, it really is just so depressing how the vast majority of our citizenry go along with all the diktats from on high.

Okay, to get into most shops, you need a mask but to see people walking about in the open air in a muzzled state is like watching zombies in some sci-fi film.

Dreadful.

The UK population is the most compliant in the western world. Government's could literally inflict anything on us and we would accept it. 

It never used to be like that. The 1980's were full of violent protests over all kinds of things, and the UK was comparatively a quite anarchaic society......but along came Thatcher, and then Blair, who legislated the shite out of legal protesting. 

Protests in the UK tend to be left wing orientated. Given that our media is overwhelmingly right wing, they've succesfully managed to make lawful protesting look like nutcase extremists causing chaos in the streets. 

There's little impetus amongst the general population for mass protest. We just sit at home and do what we're told. 

[Inanimate Carbon Rod]

More people have died over the last 48hrs in Scotland in road traffic crashes then covid. 
 

[Scosha]

5 minutes ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said:

More people have died over the last 48hrs in Scotland in road traffic crashes then covid. 
 

Keep the roads shut IMO. 

[Elric]

1 hour ago, Detournement said:

The SNP hate football fans. 

and drinkers and anyone who enjoys themselves.  Egotistic, megalomaniac b*****ds.

[Inanimate Carbon Rod]

2 minutes ago, Scosha said:

Keep the roads shut IMO. 

We just dont know. There are all different variants of road also. 

[Dawson Park Boy]

Just watched Hartlepool v Bromley.

Not too many fans in the ground but no sign of SD when they were celebrating the goals.

Great to see!!

[sparky88]

5 minutes ago, Dawson Park Boy said:

Just watched Hartlepool v Bromley.

Not too many fans in the ground but no sign of SD when they were celebrating the goals.

Great to see!!

Utterly disgusting that this sort of thing is allowed but nursery graduations are banned 

[engelbert_humperdink]

5 minutes ago, sparky88 said:

Utterly disgusting that this sort of thing is allowed but nursery graduations are banned 

Nursery graduations being a thing is just as disgusting 

[gav-ffc]

29 minutes ago, sparky88 said:

Utterly disgusting that this sort of thing is allowed but nursery graduations are banned 

Graduating nursery ffs.

[Billy Jean King]

Fan zones should be scrapped, get down your local and give them all your money rather than some "events company" charging at least £5 a pint.

They are all booked solid for every Scotland game. If you haven't booked already forget it.