Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[Billy Jean King]

So Boris will be announcing vaccine passports are in the bin on Tuesday it seems. Not really a huge surprise. People in England must be pissing themselves at the ongoing theatre nonsense that is still going on in Scotland. Folk I know who live in London say mask use is getting increasingly rare, the Perspex screens and social distancing stickers are gone or going, no farcical track and trace - and yet their cases per head of population are lower than Scotland.
What an embarrassing state our country is in.
 

So a return to masks and WFH this winter instead is the alternative to passports. Stunned at that sort of U-Turn to be honest. If things get that bad I suspect it will be passports over mask mandates, a reintroduction of masks would finish him in England.

[superbigal]

Daily Summary for @oaksoft Deaths 10 (22 day before),  ICU cases 82 to 83  (? new admissions),  In hospital with confirmed Covid 977 to 985 (195 new admissions). 

Daily Cases Update: We may have peaked as cases down 4.5% and I expect something similar tomorrow.  Mongolia had a large decline to 730.9 so we stay on top of the world at 786 per 100K

Figures for Jags.  1st Vaccines   1,723 to 2,381 ,  2nd vaccines   5,030 to 6953

Total Cases Scotland 7 days 2nd September to 8th September  were  44,519 to 42,962 down 4.50%, Positivity was 12.6% now 12.3%.  Cases per 100K were  814.5 now 786.0

Home Nations Daily update  :  UK Average  392.1  to 407.0 up 3.80%, England 338.3 to 352.5 up 4.20%, Wales 534.5 to 568.8 up 6.42%, Northern Ireland  541.0 to 560.6 up 3.63%

In Europe for travellers (Countries Population over 3 Million) Serbia 351.4 (weekly change up 64%),   Switzerland 223.0 (weekly change up 10%), Ireland  193.9 (Weekly change -16%),  Norway 182.5 (weekly change up 2%), Greece 153.0 (Weekly change -21%), Bosnia 137.9 (Weekly change up 24%),  These are still the only countries over 135 cases per 100K   

Scotland  may have peaked in wave 4 at 817.1 for 1st Sep to 7th Sep, (UK was 392.1),. Cases that day were 44,663 and positivity 12.5%

Scotland peaks in Wave 3 at 425.1 for 27th June to 3rd July, (UK was 229.9) . Cases that day were 23,222 and positivity 10.8%

Scotland  peaked in wave 2 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%  

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

West Dunbartonshire  1317.6 to 1256.5 

North Lanarkshire   1198.0 to 1125.1   3rd day falling

Inverclyde   1148.5 to 1109.5  3rd day falling  

East Renfrewshire   1068.1 to 1067.0 

Renfrewshire 1090.4 to 1053.0

Glasgow City   1032.7 to 973.8  3rd day falling

South Lanarkshire  983.1 to 942.3

Clackmannanshire  969.0 to 908.6

East Dunbartonshire   957.2 to 892.0  3rd day falling

North Ayrshire    872.3 to 872.3 

Midlothian   882.4 to 865.3

Dundee City  843.3 to 852.0

Fife   836.3 to 812.3 

East Ayrshire    793.6 to 806.7  

Falkirk   830.2 to 796.0  

West Lothian  814.4 to 786.6

BELOW AVERAGE

Argyll & Bute   781.9 to 748.0  3rd day falling

South Ayrshire  707.2 to 703.6 

City Of Edinburgh  718.7 to 686.1  3rd day falling 

Stirling   688.8 to 673.9

Aberdeenshire   628.5 to 637.3   Fastest climber.

Highlands  608.2 to 571.7

Aberdeen City    570.2 to 570.2 

East Lothian   590.4 to 567.2  Faster dropper 

Dumfries & Galloway   567.8 to 556.3

Angus    542.2 to 537.0    

Scottish  Borders  469.5 to 447.8

Perth & Kinross    383.1 to 382.5

Shetland Islands 310.5 to 323.6

Moray  246.6 to 239.3 

Orkney Islands    147.3 to 200.9

Western Isles    177.4 to 166.0

 

[alta-pete]

Watching TRNSMT on the telly, Liam belting out the Oasis hits, the crowds going wild, crammed in like sardines. Looks fucking awesome although I’m probably now 30+ years beyond their target demographic.

Good job they’ve all had their LF tests and brought their masks to get the lucozade curers from the Spar shop on the way home. 

The pantomime in this country is beyond parody. Poll tax, Trident and countless other causes called for mass civil disobedience with varying successes.

Yet, our generation (25-55, I’m looking at you/me), we’re all cowed behind useless paper face coverings just coz oor Nicola sez.

Biggest compliant shitebag population ever. Shite state of affairs. 

[Billy Jean King]

It really would be the icing on the cake if it turned out that our mask obsession is what is causing the extra cases up here (if the case numbers can even be trusted in the first place).
Imagine if instead of flying past our faces, scientists discovered that the extra suction produced by reducing the gap through which the same pressure of intake breath has to go, sucks in covid soaked particles through the sides of masks which would normally have passed us by.

Detournment has hacked your account. Tin foil hat stuff.

[Todd_is_God]

21 minutes ago, Elixir said:

So Boris will be announcing vaccine passports are in the bin on Tuesday it seems. Not really a huge surprise. People in England must be pissing themselves at the ongoing theatre nonsense that is still going on in Scotland. Folk I know who live in London say mask use is getting increasingly rare, the Perspex screens and social distancing stickers are gone or going, no farcical track and trace - and yet their cases per head of population are lower than Scotland.

What an embarrassing state our country is in.

 

Playing NS like a fiddle

[Guest mr_malcolm]

Has there been any further update on the passport shambles ?

[Elixir]

We don't deserve to be an independent country as things stand. At least England will eventually draw the pant wetting losers in the diddy government up here into line like they have for everything else. Just tragic that it will be so drawn out.

England:

Scotland:

Shameful. Pathetic.

Edited September 11, 2021 by Elixir

[PedroMoutinho]

25 minutes ago, Elixir said:

We don't deserve to be an independent country as things stand. At least England will eventually draw the pant wetting losers in the diddy government up here into line like they have for everything else. Just tragic that it will be so drawn out.

England:

Scotland:

Shameful. Pathetic.

But what you’re forgetting is that masks and vaccine passports are in place to ‘keep people safe’ and NS makes no apologies for that. 

Which explains why our case rates are so much lower than England whose policy is a ‘threat to the world’ according to independent sage.

Oh wait…

[UsedToGoToCentralPark]

But what you’re forgetting is that masks and vaccine passports are in place to ‘keep people safe’ and NS makes no apologies for that. 
Which explains why our case rates are so much lower than England whose policy is a ‘threat to the world’ according to independent sage.
Oh wait…

Think it's been proven that the jump in cases in Scotland is due to the wind coming up from the south blowing all the covid particles from England into Scotland,

Apparently Boris said 'these things happen'.

[Dawson Park Boy]

1 hour ago, TheBruce said:

Nicola is correct to be cautious and following the science. Not that any of it puts anyone out. A bit mask wearing, who gives a f**k? 2 or 3 clubs have an extra bit of admin to do, so what? Hardly a fucking major infringement of civil liberties ffs. Cases are surging, deaths on the up, You cant just do f**k all.

Meanwhile, court jester Boris, is just being the populist and climbing down because he is under threat yet again from his backbench.  He's just the spineless incompetent c**t that gives priority to his popularity than people's health.

Don’t agree with that.

Scotland is the case capital of the world with strict mask wearing.

What does that prove? They’re useless and probably part of the problem.

Deaths are quite minimal when you consider 150 people die every day in Scotland.

Although cases are high but starting to drop not many people are getting seriously ill.

The solution is vaccinations and once completed that should be it. Stop the nonsense, get GP’s back to seeing patients and treat Covid just like a normal, nasty disease that we need to live with (or give up living).

If the reports are correct, I agree with Boris.

 

[sparky88]

7 hours ago, oaksoft said:

It really would be the icing on the cake if it turned out that our mask obsession is what is causing the extra cases up here (if the case numbers can even be trusted in the first place).

Imagine if instead of flying past our faces, scientists discovered that the extra suction produced by reducing the gap through which the same pressure of intake breath has to go, sucks in covid soaked particles through the sides of masks which would normally have passed us by.

I have been surprised how little we seem to know about whether masks prevent transmission or not.  Amazed that more research hadn't been done pre-COVID into how masks affect transmission.

[Granny Danger]

7 hours ago, PedroMoutinho said:

But what you’re forgetting is that masks and vaccine passports are in place to ‘keep people safe’ and NS makes no apologies for that. 

Which explains why our case rates are so much lower than England whose policy is a ‘threat to the world’ according to independent sage.

Oh wait…

Yeah, Sturgeon and the SG totally screwing this up, that’s why they’re plummeting in the polls.

Oh wait…

[craigkillie]

Granny Danger presumably realising he has nothing to offer in the way of meaningful discussion after his 5 million cases a day fiasco, so just resorting to posting irrelevant polls.

[sparky88]

7 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:

Yeah, Sturgeon and the SG totally screwing this up, that’s why they’re plummeting in the polls.

Oh wait…

Polls don't t tell you if a politician is doing a good job or not. They might suggest that a substantial section of the population disagree with you, but that doesn't mean they are doing a good job. 

Since you like comparing the SNP with the Tories, I can only assume you think 'Boris' is doing a great job.

[sparky88]

1 minute ago, craigkillie said:

Granny Danger presumably realising he has nothing to offer in the way of meaningful discussion after his 5 million cases a day fiasco, so just resorting to posting irrelevant polls.
 

Like posting the results of the Brexit referendum - remember not everyone who voted for Brexit actually wanted Brexit.

[Elixir]

8 hours ago, PedroMoutinho said:

But what you’re forgetting is that masks and vaccine passports are in place to ‘keep people safe’ and NS makes no apologies for that. 

Which explains why our case rates are so much lower than England whose policy is a ‘threat to the world’ according to independent sage.

Oh wait…

The 'enforcement' of this up here for the football and nightclubs will be laughable. Yet more theatre simply to placate the Lovejoy's and to polish and protect Sturgeon's massive ego.

I also do love how many of the mitigations the iSAGE weirdos pine for are in place in Scotland but aren't in England, and yet simply look at how things are playing out. Remember when clowns like TheJTS98 was giving it big licks over their 'unethical experiment' nonsense?

 

2 hours ago, TheBruce said:

Nicola is correct to be cautious and following the science. Not that any of it puts anyone out. A bit mask wearing, who gives a f**k? 2 or 3 clubs have an extra bit of admin to do, so what? Hardly a fucking major infringement of civil liberties ffs. Cases are surging, deaths on the up, You cant just do f**k all.

Meanwhile, court jester Boris, is just being the populist and climbing down because he is under threat yet again from his backbench.  He's just the spineless incompetent c**t that gives priority to his popularity than people's health.

Take your shan trolling elsewhere, champ.

 

1 hour ago, sparky88 said:

I have been surprised how little we seem to know about whether masks prevent transmission or not.  Amazed that more research hadn't been done pre-COVID into how masks affect transmission.

It has simply become the political and moral nonsense that it was always destined to be.

 

12 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:

Yeah, Sturgeon and the SG totally screwing this up, that’s why they’re plummeting in the polls.

Oh wait…

Of course, a truly shocking revelation when you see the state of lickspittles like yourself. 

[Granny Danger]

14 minutes ago, craigkillie said:

Granny Danger presumably realising he has nothing to offer in the way of meaningful discussion after his 5 million cases a day fiasco, so just resorting to posting irrelevant polls.
 

I’m just pointing out, yet again, that the rabbit hole dwellers on here do not speak for the majority of people in Scotland in their condemnation of Sturgeon’s handling of the Covid issue.

I’m sure there are some who fully understand this, but equally there are others who genuinely seem to believe that they are the voice of the people.  It’s Trumpian.

[djchapsticks]

3 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:

I’m just pointing out, yet again, that the rabbit hole dwellers on here do not speak for the majority of people in Scotland in their condemnation of Sturgeon’s handling of the Covid issue.

I’m sure there are some who fully understand this, but equally there are others who genuinely seem to believe that they are the voice of the people.  It’s Trumpian.

So I'm guessing if you are using this as the bar of how well SNP are governing, you'll also subscribe to the view that the Tories are doing well given voting intentions UK wide follow a similar pattern for them?

A truly ridiculous stance to take GD.

[williemillersmoustache]

6 minutes ago, sparky88 said:

Polls don't t tell you if a politician is doing a good job or not. They might suggest that a substantial section of the population disagree with you, but that doesn't mean they are doing a good job. 

Since you like comparing the SNP with the Tories, I can only assume you think 'Boris' is doing a great job.

He's neck and neck with a quiche, that's how good a job he's doing. If folk are going to cite polls, it's best not to be wrong about them.

 

 

[strichener]

32 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:

Yeah, Sturgeon and the SG totally screwing this up, that’s why they’re plummeting in the polls.

Oh wait…

I thought this was a public health issue not a case of have we managed to dupe more of the population. 

With the likes of you signing their praises it is no wonder that they are winning the popularity contest whilst imposing needless and no doubt costly impositions on people.  Oh, and allowing more of their population to die than other developed nations.

Never mind, it is only really killing the old and they are more likely to be unionist.  Win win.

What an arse you are making of yourself over this.  Day after day, post after post.