Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[Honest Saints Fan]

6 minutes ago, TheScarf said:

Hearing of folk under 30 from all over the UK getting booked in for their vaccine is highly frustrating.  I was told last week Inverness are still doing the 40-50s.

I think the problem you here is that it's mostly GPs doing the vaccine. Dingwall are only doing vaccines on Saturday's so they don't interrupt the normal clinics. They try to do about 600 every Saturday though.

[The Moonster]

5 minutes ago, PedroMoutinho said:

It certainly was her policy 2 months ago 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-56347695.amp

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said Scotland's objective must be "to eliminate" coronavirus.

"You can't just say you'll accept X number of cases a year and X number of deaths and X number of hospitalisations a year. The virus won't behave, it won't play ball with you like that.

She added: "You have to have an approach, in my view, where our objective has to be to eliminate. Even if you don't quite achieve elimination it is the act of trying to get it as low as possible that keeps it under control."

 

 

Where has she said she's ditched her strategy?

Her last line in that paragraph you've quoted quite literally says "Even if you don't quite achieve elimination it is the act of getting it as low as possible that keeps it under control". We've got it pretty low, she's opening up and vaccines are doing their bit that means we don't have to lockdown again. Seems pretty in line with her strategy. 

[Dunning1874]

Another trial event being planned in England. Download are running a 10K capacity camping festival from 18 to 20 June, having previously cancelled their usual 80K+ which was scheduled for 4-6 June. No distancing or masks, but a negative LFT result is required to get in and you also need to do a PCR test before and after:

https://downloadfestival.co.uk/download-pilot/

I did wonder how festivals with camping would be managed with the general reopening of society and if they would be held back even at the point everything else is normal due to the hygiene implications of firing tens of thousands of people into fields using portaloos, either not showering or using a communal shower block and possibly getting absolutely bogging in the mud, but glad to see a trial being carried out that will hopefully allow them to be normal.

On one hand I am absolutely choking to get back to a festival again, on the other I already have tickets for a festival in August which hopefully won't require testing any more and crucially doesn't clash with England v Scotland at an international tournament.

[Left Back]

Anyone else watching Cummings giving evidence to the select committee?  He's going in two footed on the government.  Jeremy Hunt fighting back on behalf of the government.

[Moomintroll]

Second jag just been moved forward from the 19th June to the 6th so must be firing through well ahead of schedule down here.

[Florentine_Pogen]

11 minutes ago, Left Back said:

Anyone else watching Cummings giving evidence to the select committee?  He's going in two footed on the government.  Jeremy Hunt fighting back on behalf of the government.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2021/may/26/uk-covid-news-live-dominic-cummings-boris-johnson-covid-evidence-pmqs#block-60ae16648f086d71cc15b0eb

Cummings says at one point cabinet secretary told PM to use TV interview to describe coronavirus as like chicken pox

Cummings says there was a meeting where Mark Sedwill, the cabinet secretary, told Boris Johnson that he should go on TV and explain that the herd immunity plan was like chicken pox parties.

Cummings says he told Sedwill not to use that analogy. Sedwill queried why. Cummings says he said coronavirus was not like chicken pox, it was spreading exponentially, and thousands of people were dying.

Edited May 26, 2021 by Florentine_Pogen

[RiG]

Some wild stuff coming out of this Cummings thing today. 

 

[Left Back]

3 minutes ago, RiG said:

Some wild stuff coming out of this Cummings thing today. 

 

It's a car crash.  I'm guessing Cummings won't be getting a Christmas card from Hancock or Johnson this year.

[101]

4 minutes ago, RiG said:

Some wild stuff coming out of this Cummings thing today. 

 

Hope he reflects on his own conduct rather than just throwing people under the bus because let's face it Boris and his handler isn't going anywhere, sadly.

[Hedgecutter]

Just now, 101 said:

Hope he reflects on his own conduct rather than just throwing people under the bus because let's face it Boris and his handler isn't going anywhere, sadly.

Whilst they're currently trying to point out that the govt was more interested in saving the economy than the lives of Britons, your typical Tory voters will be like:

[craigkillie]

Do you know what will happen as a result of this? Nothing.

[Michael W]

Amusing though it is that everyone that maligned Cummings is now hanging onto his every word, I suspect that much of what he's saying is entirely correct. There's been no discernable change in approach from No.10 since Cummings left and it appears that much of the ire aimed at him was misplaced. 

[101]

5 minutes ago, craigkillie said:

Do you know what will happen as a result of this? Nothing.

There will be another royal baby if the story lingers more than a day

[Hedgecutter]

"any system that ends up making people choose between the two (Johnson or Corbyn) has clearly gone very, very wrong"

"What is it about Whitehall that promotes so many people who are out of their depth?"

Ooft.

[Michael W]

Cummings' statement that Johnson was sidelined to prevent the cabinet following his assertions that this was all a scare story is the most damming one so far. 

And yet, is anyone surprised? 

[Distant Doonhamer]

It's a car crash.  I'm guessing Cummings won't be getting a Christmas card from Hancock or Johnson this year.

No but he’ll be getting one from Gove.

[The Moonster]

You're always led to believe that those in power have a hold on things, and there's reasons for everything they do, but then you hear the Cabinet Secretary said in the middle of fucking March 2020 "We are absolutely fucked. We're going to kill thousands of people". Fucking hell

What a country we are.

[RiG]

CON + 3.

[Hedgecutter]

6 minutes ago, Michael W said:

Cummings' statement that Johnson was sidelined to prevent the cabinet following his assertions that this was all a scare story is the most damming one so far. 

And yet, is anyone surprised? 

... and was supposedly willing to have Covid injected on live TV (the actual virus, not a vaccine) to help prove it was nothing more than a scare story.

Edited May 26, 2021 by Hedgecutter

[Left Back]

18 minutes ago, 101 said:

Hope he reflects on his own conduct rather than just throwing people under the bus because let's face it Boris and his handler isn't going anywhere, sadly.

tbf he has about the initial stages saying he failed as well.  I'm a bit behind so don't know if he's said anything about the Barnard Castle thing.