Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[sparky88]

2 hours ago, philpy said:

I've had a cold for the last 3 days, but I'm not bothering my fucking arse to do an LFT. f**k having to isolate if it comes back positive.  44 years on this planet Is enough to know what a cold is. Lot of shite.

Say hi to Rangers for me. 

[Dons_1988]

12 minutes ago, Detournement said:

The Chinese way of dealing with it is locking down a city and delivering food and tests to everyone. It will probably last 3 or 4 weeks. We were under restrictions for periods of 5 and 9 months.

The Chinese way of doing it is psychotic. 

[Elixir]

8 minutes ago, superbigal said:

183,037 positive cases in UK

4 home nations now 3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th in the world for infections per 100K

Denmark qualified above us again !!!!!!

The fake SAGE types will have an absolute rager over those figures. Surely Scotland couldn't possibly be that bad, though! Just look at how seriously we take it and how much our government cares!

 

7 minutes ago, LongTimeLurker said:

You can tell he's not the brightest from one of his other recent tweets if he can't immediately tell from how sudden and steep the down slopes are that it's simply an artefact of no official numbers being reported outside of England:

Like I said, a loser. Can only imagine the mentality of someone who would buy one of his books. Having to rely on weaselry like this rather than just being upfront with reality is why these people are a burden to the independence movement.

 

4 minutes ago, Detournement said:

The Chinese way of dealing with it is locking down a city and delivering food and tests to everyone. It will probably last 3 or 4 weeks. We were under restrictions for periods of 5 and 9 months.

I'm well aware of that, but the restrictions in China where you are paraded down the street in a pig truck if you 'break the rules' really isn't comparable to what we have had to endure. Just how long will they actually try to keep this up for? They have backed themselves into this corner by chasing the fantasy of elimination, rather than the reality of mitigation.

[Benjamin_Nevis]

The Chinese way of dealing with it is locking down a city and delivering food and tests to everyone. It will probably last 3 or 4 weeks. We were under restrictions for periods of 5 and 9 months.

Aye very good Citizen Smith [emoji23]

[Clown Job]

2 hours ago, Todd_is_God said:

The replies to this are utterly predictable.

Going to the football and meeting your friends/family isn’t considered living in the real world according to Jim 

[Steven W]

Missed today's announcement / briefing.

When these restrictions were brought in Sturgeon said they'd be in place for "up to three weeks". I think we all know it'll be a whole lot longer but did NS say anything today about them being in place beyond the three weeks? 

[Todd_is_God]

3 minutes ago, Steven W said:

Missed today's announcement / briefing.

When these restrictions were brought in Sturgeon said they'd be in place for "up to three weeks". I think we all know it'll be a whole lot longer but did NS say anything today about them being in place beyond the three weeks? 

Only that they would interrogate the data to decide what was response was proportionate after the 17th.

[Steven W]

Just now, Todd_is_God said:

Only that they would interrogate the data to decide what was response was proportionate after the 17th.

So the slow, steady drip feed of hinting at continuing them beyond the 17th has begun then really...

[Clown Job]

Just now, Todd_is_God said:

 

Hardcore SNP supporters in coming across as c***s. Who knew...

I just had a look on Facebook at the same story for a laugh, it’s even worse than Twitter 

Slightly off topic but I blame this attention a lot on years of petitions demonising football fans 

The common theme seems to be they don’t see individuals who attend games as real people 

[Todd_is_God]

5 minutes ago, Steven W said:

So the slow, steady drip feed of hinting at continuing them beyond the 17th has begun then really...

I'd put money on it being extended till the 30th of January, followed by some levels based pish.

Funded, of course, by diverting money from the healthcare budget.

[vikingTON]

The Venn diagram between those dismissing mental health concerns now and those who were very concerned indeed that school closures would overwhelm the mental health of all the delicate little flowers who couldn't meet their school pals is a perfect circle btw. 

The demographic reality of suicide rates (albeit just one and an extreme outcome of poor mental health) points to the exact opposite being their case. But, as ever, it is all about the morality play of middle-class, presbyterian Scotland rather than rational judgment.

[Steven W]

11 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said:

I'd put money on it being extended till the 30th of January, followed by some levels based pish.

Funded, of course, by diverting money from the healthcare budget.

Sounds about right. 

[Abdul_Latif]

14 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said:

I'd put money on it being extended till the 30th of January, followed by some levels based pish.

Unless the current restrictions are significantly strengthened I’m not sure how they could use any levels system to come out of them.

 

[Todd_is_God]

8 minutes ago, Abdul_Latif said:

Unless the current restrictions are significantly strengthened I’m not sure how they could use any levels system to come out of them.

Plenty room to slowly increase capacities at indoor and outdoor events.

25% > 50% >75% > 100% in three week intervals, for example.

I can't see the game at Celtic Park being allowed 60,000, nor can I see them allowing bars filled to the brim with vertical drinkers watching it.

Same with Murrayfield for the England game.

Regardless of the hospital numbers, they will baulk at lifting restrictions when case numbers are high.

Edited December 29, 2021 by Todd_is_God

[Bert Raccoon]

2 hours ago, Todd_is_God said:

The replies to this are utterly predictable.

See tbh, I've enough going on in my life that missing a few games won't be the end of the world for me but there's plenty of folk out there who need that release, who only see people on match days, who's only bit of happiness is going to the football. The same as if they closed the bingo and restricted the wee old woman or man who'd only day out a week and see folk is going to bingo. You take these things away from people and it's obviously going to affect people 

[jagfox]

[accies1874]

I just had a look on Facebook at the same story for a laugh, it’s even worse than Twitter 
Slightly off topic but I blame this attention a lot on years of petitions demonising football fans 
The common theme seems to be they don’t see individuals who attend games as real people 

What a disheartening group of comments. These people are dreadful.

[Michael W]

I wouldn't be going to the football anyway because I live 400 miles away, but this is frankly irrelevant. The point is that there was no rationale for limiting attendances to 500 anyway; Leitch and Swinney admitted it as such.

For the benefit of twitter commenters, people working in the NHS or in key worker roles having a tough time is not a reason to stop people going to the football. Indeed, I'm sure a lot of those people are also football fans. 

[Inanimate Carbon Rod]

6 minutes ago, Bert Raccoon said:

See tbh, I've enough going on in my life that missing a few games won't be the end of the world for me but there's plenty of folk out there who need that release, who only see people on match days, who's only bit of happiness is going to the football. The same as if they closed the bingo and restricted the wee old woman or man who'd only day out a week and see folk is going to bingo. You take these things away from people and it's obviously going to affect people 

My wee dad is disabled, the only time he gets out the house without my mum really is when I take him to football. Of course I try get him other places, but because he’s in a mobility scooter he (in my opinion needlessly) gets embarrassed and thinks people stare etc. So I get him to as many Bankies games as possible. The benefit for him is amazing, no one judging him or giving him grief for having a mobility scooter (people in shops etc have made comments in the past and eroded his confidence and in turn his independence). Obviously we had a season where he couldnt get to a game along with everything else and the toll on him was enormous. 
To get back to getting out, his wee escape from the world meant a lot to him and to have it snatched away potentially beyond the 17th Jan is disgraceful as there is absolutely no evidence to support it. 
Im sure there will be people all over Scotland in a similar position to my dad, where getting out to the game is their wee escape. All these sneering arseholes who say ‘oh go a walk up a hill instead’ or ‘watch it on tv’ and think just because life is easy for them that their solutions should be everyone else’s solutions can genuinely go and take a f**k to themselves. 
These people propelling themselves to a self professed superiority, oh how better they are. Whats the point in living if you can’t have a life? Erode everything and just sit in the house getting your kicks being all superior to people with concerns? f**k the lot of them. If this is the ‘righteous fair welcoming wee country’ that the SNP want to create they can go shove it right up their farter because they’ve fucked it. If you cant even get basic compassion right then you dont have a righteous fair welcoming society. 
 

[Dons_1988]

This is why football is targeted. 

The pro-restrictions mob are absolutely delighted to see football yobs kept at home whilst they’re free to carry in with whatever it is they do, safe in the knowledge they’re being kept safe.