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31 minutes ago, Left Back said:

Nothing to see here move along will be the answer.

COP26 should be quite a laugh as all the Hotels and Pubs in Glasgow are massively short staffed at the moment, I can only assume that they'll have to be offering big incentives or getting some "super agency" staff brought in.

Of course, they're still using covid as an excuse to not clean the rooms or change the towels daily when the real reason is that the majority of their staff have gone back to Eastern Europe and they've nobody to do the job.

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7 minutes ago, Detournement said:

That's weird because in the UK positive tests for Covid are higher amongst vaccinated people in all ages over 29.

 

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But when you look at hospitalisation and death, unvaccinated folk have much higher rates at every age group

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5 hours ago, superbigal said:

I land at 1.50am on the 24th October so nice timing.  Should be able to book some cheap shite on the 22nd.

Albeit "Rogue outfit" Expert Medicals are only £28 for the day 2 PCR anyway.

I used ExpertMedicals earlier this year for a PCR.  It took 5 days from posting royal mail priority and finally emailing them before I got my negative result.  During the same time, to be on the safe side I had come home, did a drive through PCR from NHS and got my result.

Did Randox for PCR a few weeks back.  More expensive but result back after a few days.  I also did the NHS result and I got the all clear before Randox got back to me a day or so after NHS.

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7 minutes ago, Sugar_Army said:

I used ExpertMedicals earlier this year for a PCR.  It took 5 days from posting royal mail priority and finally emailing them before I got my negative result.  During the same time, to be on the safe side I had come home, did a drive through PCR from NHS and got my result.

Did Randox for PCR a few weeks back.  More expensive but result back after a few days.  I also did the NHS result and I got the all clear before Randox got back to me a day or so after NHS.

It doesn't really matter how long it takes now though as people are only interested in getting the number for their locator form, what happens after that is inconsequential.

The cynic in me would say that's all the Government are interested in also, so as they can fulfill their contractural obligations to their chosen few and as such gain a seat on the board at a later date or at a minimum being booked as a "guest speaker" for a few well paying seminars etc.....

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35 minutes ago, WATTOO said:

It doesn't really matter how long it takes now though as people are only interested in getting the number for their locator form, what happens after that is inconsequential.

The cynic in me would say that's all the Government are interested in also, so as they can fulfill their contractural obligations to their chosen few and as such gain a seat on the board at a later date or at a minimum being booked as a "guest speaker" for a few well paying seminars etc.....

Pretty much agree with you.  Although if I pay £30-40 I would like a wee bit of reassurance that I am not positive and the company is actually providing a service.  Unfortunately I doubt this is actually the case with some companies.  Licence to print money.

Part of the reason I get a PCR when I think I might need one is I do not trust LFTs enough (and by the latest news not sure PCR companies can be trusted either).

Yet as I mentioned in a previous post, no matter how careful we are it just takes that moment if letting your guard down and you can set off a domino effect in various directions.

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Just now, oaksoft said:

How do you ever find time for actual work? Seriously. 🤣

Easy - I have time off at the moment. Off today, and no teaching for the next week. 

(even so, I have reviewed two papers today and zapped a few emails which I shouldn't have done as it's my day off)

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Daily Summary for @oaksoft :   Deaths 32 (29 day before),  ICU cases 45 down 5  (8 new admissions),  In hospital with confirmed Covid 851  down 57  (67 new admissions).    Our deaths are still a disproportionate 23% of UK today.  Other numbers are good.

Figures for Jags.  1st Vaccines   5,112 to 3,669  2nd vaccines  2,797 to 2,337

Daily Cases Update: A 3rd day decreasing again down 0.92%   Looks like another fall tomorrow.  Still think we are stuck at 300+ for a while yet.  

Carse of Stirling with a 500% increase this week is Scotland's current plague number one. Assume the fermers have been wife swapping, or totty picking is hazardous.

Cases certainly back on the rise in the UK in all nations. Another 45K cases today.

Total Cases Scotland 7 days 6th October to 12th October  were  17,078 to 17,921 down 0.92%, Positivity was 8.4% now 8.4%.  Cases per 100K were 312.4  now 309.6

Home Nations Daily Cases per 100K update  :  UK Average  381.4 to 387.9 up 1.70%, England  376.1 to 383.8 up 1.78%, Wales 538.5 to 538.0 down 0.09%, Northern Ireland   459.9 to 466.4 up 1.41%

In Europe for travellers (Countries Population over 3 Million) Serbia 496.6 (weekly change -8%), Romania 494.8 (weekly up 15%), Bulgaria 245.9 (Weekly up 20%),  Moldova 232.4 (Weekly up 9%), Ireland  227.5 (Weekly up 43%), Croatia 224.4 (weekly up 3%), Ukraine 220.9 (Week up 35%), Slovakia 190.6 (weekly up 24%)These are the only countries over 155 cases per 100K.   The Baltic states Lithuania 561, Latvia 597 & Estonia 527 with smaller populations are in a bad way 

At the other end for holiday makers  Canary Islands 16.9, Spain 22.9,  Italy 29.4, Portugal 45.8, France 46.4, Cyprus 88.7, Greece 153.5, Turkey 249.0

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

Stirling  470.9 to 487.9  Back on the increase and opens up a fair gap to 2nd.

West Lothian   441.2 to 433.0

Dundee City  436.8 to 409.9  Down excellent 6%

Fife  395.0 to 395.9

East Renfrewshire 388.3 to 389.3 Rising all 3 days as country falls. 

Aberdeenshire  388.8 to 384.2  

East Ayrshire  378.3 to 368.4

Falkirk  366.2 to 362.5

North Ayrshire    361.3 to 349.3  

North Lanarkshire   354.7 to 346.2

Clackmannanshire  304.2 to 341.2    up 40% in 3 days for the wee county.

Renfrewshire 309.4 to 327.2   Rising all 3 days as country falls.  

Moray    330.2 to 326.0 

South Lanarkshire   318.6 to 318.2

BELOW AVERAGE  

Angus  301.3 to 309.1

Scottish  Borders  322.8 to 306.3

East Lothian   291.9 to 301.2  Up over 20% in 2 days

East Dunbartonshire     291.5 to 292.4

West Dunbartonshire  306.8 to 290.9

Dumfries & Galloway 276.5 to 269.7

Midlothian  246.9 to 265.8  Up 5 places

Perth & Kinross   289.0 to 258.0

Aberdeen City    255.0 to 257.1

Glasgow City  255.5 to 252.8

Argyll & Bute   249.3 to 245.8

City Of Edinburgh   245.3 to 242.2

Inverclyde    255.6 to 238.8

South Ayrshire  245.2 to 238.1

Highlands   215.8 to 224.3

Western Isles   124.5 to 132.1

Shetland Islands    113.7 to 96.2

Orkney Islands    71.4 to 75.9

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Anyone else been absolutely floored by this b*****d of a cold / flu that's going around?
I feel genuinely worse than I did when I had the 'Rona.

You mean the one that lasts for about 2 weeks, ends with howking up litres of gunk n coughing like f**k?

Aye. Aye I have.
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2 hours ago, peasy23 said:

 

Upper elites buying into the mass hysteria of taking basic actions to prevent covid spread amongst their peers.

And who has been most damaged by covid in the govt report. The working poor, who have been inundated with media telling them that these basic actions are unnecessary.

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