Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[HK Hibee]

21 hours ago, Detournement said:

Just follow this simple empirical exercise. 

Eat a McDonalds. Put on a mask. Fart. If you smell the McDs fart then your mask is not protecting you from Covid. 

You realise that the main point of masks is to protect other people from you rather than stopping you getting the virus?  Your empirical test should be - Eat McDonalds, Burp and if anyone within 5 feet can smell it than the mask isn’t preventing you transmitting COVID to others. 

[superbigal]

Daily Summary for @oaksoft :   Deaths 37 (31 day before),  ICU cases 86 up from 82  (12 new admissions),  In hospital with confirmed Covid  1057 down from 1076 (111 new admissions).  This is the 2nd day of reduction in hospital numbers albeit quite a few again moved to the morgue.  I think ICU cases may be peaking and hopefully deaths not far behind as 37 is the highest in a while.

Figures for Jags.  1st Vaccines  2,400 to 2,821 ,  2nd vaccines  2,360 to 2,521

Daily Cases Update: 13 days of falls now with  another  drop of 3.73% to 457.8 and I expect similar tomorrow.

Total Cases Scotland 7 days 14th September to 20th September  were  25,990 to 25,021 down 3.73%, Positivity was 9.4% now 9.3%.  Cases per 100K were  475.5 now 457.8

Home Nations Daily Cases per 100K update  :  UK Average   297.6 to 302.0 up 1.48%, England  258.0 to 264.8 up 2.64%, Wales 558.5 to 567.1 up 1.54%, Northern Ireland   437.1 to 431.2 down 1.37%

In Europe for travellers (Countries Population over 3 Million) Serbia 552.4 (weekly change up 9%), Croatia 201.4 (weekly change up 18%), Ireland  189.4 (Weekly change up 6%), Moldova 185.6 (Weekly up 35%), Romania 185.0 (weekly up 82%), Bosnia 165.9 (weekly up 9%), Greece 156.0 (weekly up 5%)

Bulgaria 151.5 (Weekly -8%), ,  These are the only countries over 150 cases per 100K.

Scotland  peaks 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   753.9 to 744.8  Comfortably out in front still

North Lanarkshire   644.6 to 620.0  

South Ayrshire  627.8 to 595.7 

East Dunbartonshire   560.0 to 594.0  Up over 6% and 5 places

East Ayrshire  581.4 to 581.4 

Renfrewshire   608.7 to 575.3  

North Ayrshire   589.9 to 560.1 

Falkirk  522.5 to 525.7   Leap 7 places 

Inverclyde 573.6 to 516.5

Fife   536.7 to 516.1 

Dundee City   511.4 to 512.0  Up 6 places

South Lanarkshire  532.7 to 509.0 

West Lothian  550.0 to 500.5 Down 10%

Stirling  520.8 to 491.9 

Midlothian  532.5 to 490.6 

East Renfrewshire  545.5 to 488.2 Down another 11.60% Fastest faller for 3 days now.

Glasgow City   502.5 to 482.7

Clackmannanshire   444.5 to 475.7 2 days on the rise now

BELOW AVERAGE

Aberdeenshire  461.7 to 436.8 

Argyll & Bute  431.9 to 408.5

Perth & Kinross   375.2 to 381.1  

Aberdeen City   390.7 to 380.2  

Dumfries & Galloway  346.6 to 345.3

City Of Edinburgh   361.6 to 332.8 

East Lothian  327.2 to 306.8   

Angus   291.8 to 303.9 

Highlands    289.3 to 293.1 

Scottish  Borders  302.8 to 282.9 

Moray 204.8 to 206.9

Western Isles    158.5 to 166.0  

Shetland Islands   131.2 to 122.4 

Orkney Islands  89.3 to 107.1  

Edited September 23, 2021 by superbigal

[Lyle Lanley]

45 minutes ago, Elixir said:

Even Sky News are reporting it now! The zealots will be turning on the creator of the Oxford vaccine for this!

Great news but would the SG still expect people to wear face coverings and use vaccine passports? 

[scottsdad]

Don't these people ever get sick of sounding alarms for mutations? Same patter every time - could evade the vaccines, could force us back in to lockdowns.

Switch it off folks

 

[The Moonster]

How can SAGE be so far away from what reality is in almost every case? I don't understand the agenda they clearly have. 

[scottsdad]

Just now, The Moonster said:

How can SAGE be so far away from what reality is in almost every case? I don't understand the agenda they clearly have. 

I reckon they are like the Daily Express. Every year the Express does a story about the winter going to be one of the worst ever recorded. If a bad winter comes along they can say "we told you so". SAGE are doing the same - predicting horrendous stuff knowing that if it is milder than they predict, nobody will bother much.

[Abdul_Latif]

13 minutes ago, Lyle Lanley said:

Great news but would the SG still expect people to wear face coverings and use vaccine passports? 

They’ll make no apology for keeping us safe from viruses yet to exist.

[The Moonster]

1 minute ago, scottsdad said:

I reckon they are like the Daily Express. Every year the Express does a story about the winter going to be one of the worst ever recorded. If a bad winter comes along they can say "we told you so". SAGE are doing the same - predicting horrendous stuff knowing that if it is milder than they predict, nobody will bother much.

That's not their job though. The Daily Express put those type of articles out to sell papers, what are SAGE selling that they need to be so OTT in their assessment? Is it purely to keep themselves in the press? I just don't see what a supposed team of experts gain from being so spectacularly wide of the mark on the very issues they're supposed to be experts in. 

[Michael W]

I can't help but think SAGE are in essence covering their arse with estimates that are overly pessimistic. 

The scars of March and April 2020 when it became apparent we'd fucked it live on. 

[GiGi]

That's Romania piling on a good few thousand cases a day now as well and new restrictions imposed. Haven't read through them all yet but sounds like masks everywhere again and most public places restricted unless vaccinated. 

Better hope the certification from here works since I'm due over there soon. 

[superbigal]

Home Nations Daily Cases per 100K update  :  UK Average   297.6 to 302.0 up 1.48%, England  258.0 to 264.8 up 2.64%, Wales 558.5 to 567.1 up 1.54%, Northern Ireland   437.1 to 431.2 down 1.37%   Scotland 457.8

 

 

So Wales goes number 2 in the World and is in Wave 4.

England possibly about to hit their Wave 4, that we and NI have gone through.

Cases reported today quite high and rising at 36,710

Deaths: 182    England 131, Scotland 37, Wales 8,  Northern Ireland 6

[superbigal]

50 minutes ago, GiGi said:

That's Romania piling on a good few thousand cases a day now as well and new restrictions imposed. Haven't read through them all yet but sounds like masks everywhere again and most public places restricted unless vaccinated. 

Better hope the certification from here works since I'm due over there soon. 

Highest rising country in Europe.  Doubled in 10 days.

Deaths quite high  at near 100 a day for relatively low case numbers in a country of 20 million.  One of the lowest testing countries in Europe so cases are probably 4-5 times as advertised with those death rates.

Edited September 23, 2021 by superbigal

[Todd_is_God]

1 minute ago, oaksoft said:

If they DON'T predict disaster and disaster happens then everybody will bother a lot and all of their members will be facing an end to funding, power and influence.

So giving a wide range of predictions but always emphasising the worst case may be seen as a good strategy for them in some respects.

I wouldn't be surprised if this was at the root of it.

Said fairly early on that having such predictions etc made public isn't really helpful.

[Elixir]

2 hours ago, Lyle Lanley said:

Great news but would the SG still expect people to wear face coverings and use vaccine passports? 

Don't give them any ideas...

The psycho brigade at 'Independent SAGE' and their cultists have already decreed that anyone getting the sniffles is morally unacceptable.

 

2 hours ago, scottsdad said:

Don't these people ever get sick of sounding alarms for mutations? Same patter every time - could evade the vaccines, could force us back in to lockdowns.

Switch it off folks

Especially when you literally have vaccine creators telling them it's not going to happen. Science has been so badly damaged by this period.

 

2 hours ago, The Moonster said:

How can SAGE be so far away from what reality is in almost every case? I don't understand the agenda they clearly have. 

The folk on SAGE etc should have to divulge political and business interests.

[Robin.Hood]

Just got phone call from NHS to get my oldest who is 12 his vaccine on.. monday.

 

[Elixir]

Tegnell the absaloot boi.

 

[Suspect Device]

3 hours ago, Elixir said:

Tegnell the absaloot boi.

 

 

There is the slight problem that Swedes are in general a lot fitter and healthier than us.

A lot of the deaths are down to our own fucking fault. Hard as that is for people to hear.

Edited September 23, 2021 by Suspect Device

[Wee Bully]

11 minutes ago, Elixir said:

Tegnell the absaloot boi.

 

I’m struggling - how can Sweden be lifting restrictions when we were told they didn’t have any?

[Bairnardo]

1 hour ago, Robin.Hood said:

Just got phone call from NHS to get my oldest who is 12 his vaccine on.. monday.

 

Giving him it?

ETA tell me to mind my own if you so wish btw

Edited September 23, 2021 by Bairnardo

[Robin.Hood]

43 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:

Giving him it?

ETA tell me to mind my own if you so wish btw

I dont actually know tbh. He wasn't want it. Even with him being Autistic it certainly is a bit more challenging as he may be 12 but his mind and body is not of a 12 year old. He is only of 3 Kids in his class who are 12 ( kept him back a year )