flyingscot Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 3 minutes ago, RiG said: CON + 3. Just the 3? Sure the flag twitter will point our that Boris is one of us and those Labour commys would have destroyed freedom much earlier! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elixir Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 2 hours ago, craigkillie said: It's very easy to "abandon" something you never had in the first place, Mr Tory shill that runs that wretched account. Are we just pretending this wasn't something she was regularly trumpeting from summer last year until early spring this year? Or are we redefining what 'elimination' and/or 'Zero Covid' actually means again - a bit like Devi Sridhar? 1 hour ago, The Moonster said: I mean, Tory twitter account linking you to a Tory newspaper to read a story about Nicola Sturgeon which is behind a pay wall, I can't see any ulterior motive with that tweet at all, just good ol' honest reporting. What does the article actually say? It summarises what she was pressed about in yesterday's briefing - where she quite clearly climbed down from this position, short of actually admitting 'yes, we have abandoned elimination as our strategy'. 57 minutes ago, The Moonster said: Cheers. I'm not sure these journalists know what they're on about. An elimination strategy involves bringing case levels down to very low levels (like they are now) which makes small outbreaks more manageable. With vaccines meaning that these small outbreaks are not going to cause strain on the health services, there is no need for large scale restrictions across the nation. I think they might be confused between eradication and elimination tbh. No quote from Sturgeon there talks about her ditching any sort of strategy. 46 minutes ago, The Moonster said: 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. So have we 'eliminated' Covid-19 now, have we? Since cases are at 'very low levels'... as we conveniently head into northern hemisphere summer? This is revisionist nonsense. You can 'eliminate' viruses like polio and measles for which there are sterilising vaccines - you quite clearly cannot 'eliminate' Covid-19 in the same way you cannot 'eliminate' influenza, short of massive worldwide NPI's and restrictions on movement. Case numbers will rise when these are released, more so in winter months, but be inconsequential. The hospitalisations and deaths that follow will now be within healthcare capacity thanks to the (non-sterilising) vaccines breaking this link. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Michael W Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 7 minutes ago, Hedgecutter said: ... 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. I look forward to that one being put to Chris Whitty at the inquiry! It is quite something when the cabinet sidelining the PM is the best course of action. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elixir Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 Are we just forgetting that Cummings is a snake, and also the fact the Scottish Government were going along hand in glove with the UK Government at this point? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunning1874 Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 2 minutes ago, RiG said: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PWL Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 27 minutes ago, craigkillie said: Do you know what will happen as a result of this? Nothing. Yup. This should bring the entire Government down. Obviously it won't. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 Live footage of Hancock, Raab etc 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madwullie Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 44 minutes ago, RiG said: Some wild stuff coming out of this Cummings thing today. Fucking hell. That thread is absolutely bonkers 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiG Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 First time I have agreed with Cummings. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mizfit Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 What the f**k [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Ferrino Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 Should we get him back after lunch? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elixir Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 How has this not been posted yet? Meme gold. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left Back Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 Well that was fun. Restored my faith in the operation of government. We're in safe hands 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mizfit Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 How has this not been posted yet? Meme gold. The look on his face before legging it is brilliant. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thane of Cawdor Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 I don't know what to make of this. Is Cummings: a disgruntled ex-employee; a heroic maverick speaking truth to power; a Kremlin asset; or a reincarnation of Loki? Maybe he's all of the above. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeAreElgin Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 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.NHS Highland appear to be making a c**t of it. I've been referred to Raigmore for mine as I'm one of the young c***s and the GP can't or won't do the Astrazeneca vaccine. Called up yesterday as I've had the silent treatment for 6 weeks and they said they haven't been able to get to me yet as I live too far away. Clueless. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Jean King Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 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. It's at times like these you realise just how brilliantly observed The Thick of It actually was !!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left Back Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 Is anyone else getting the impression that Hancock has shagged cummings bird? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Jean King Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 NHS Highland appear to be making a c**t of it. I've been referred to Raigmore for mine as I'm one of the young c***s and the GP can't or won't do the Astrazeneca vaccine. Called up yesterday as I've had the silent treatment for 6 weeks and they said they haven't been able to get to me yet as I live too far away. Clueless.Under 40s were turned away from a vaccination centre down here at the weekend due to failure in supply of alternative vaccines to AZ. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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