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2 hours ago, Detournement said:

What a surprise it was a black women getting man handled when brave Police Scotland officers raided a restaurant for the crime of dancing. 

Utter scum.

 

 

The polis are getting awfy chunky these days, even I could run away from most of them.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/02/britain-got-it-wrong-on-covid-long-lockdown-did-more-harm-than-good-says-scientist

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“We did serious harm to our children and young adults who were robbed of their education, jobs and normal existence, as well as suffering damage to their future prospects, while they were left to inherit a record-breaking mountain of public debt,” he argues. “All this to protect the NHS from a disease that is a far, far greater threat to the elderly, frail and infirm than to the young and healthy.

“We were mesmerised by the once-in-a-century scale of the emergency and succeeded only in making a crisis even worse. In short, we panicked. This was an epidemic crying out for a precision public health approach and it got the opposite.”

 

Indeed, but there's one very important question that Professor Mark Woolhouse fails to address. 

Why the f**k are you only stating this now; what the f**k were you doing 12 months ago, when the UK went into yet another ruinous lockdown? 

This aftertiming of perfectly obvious facts of the pandemic from a scientist who could actually have shaped government policy and smacked down the Gurdasani brigade is absolutely risible. His silence at the time amounts to culpability along with the rest of them. 

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11 minutes ago, virginton said:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/02/britain-got-it-wrong-on-covid-long-lockdown-did-more-harm-than-good-says-scientist

Indeed, but there's one very important question that Professor Mark Woolhouse fails to address. 

Why the f**k are you only stating this now; what the f**k were you doing 12 months ago, when the UK went into yet another ruinous lockdown? 

This aftertiming of perfectly obvious facts of the pandemic from a scientist who could actually have shaped government policy and smacked down the Gurdasani brigade is absolutely risible. His silence at the time amounts to culpability along with the rest of them. 

This is an article that wouldn't have been anywhere near the media 12 months ago.

You can, of course, read what you want to read into anything, but the more of this kind of thing I see, the more I feel the UK Gov are getting the message out that lockdowns aren't happening, restrictions aren't happening, and personal responsibility for managing risk is now their position.

The sooner the SG get on board with that the better. Well done on getting the vaccines rattled out, but get on with getting restrictions punted.

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3 minutes ago, Big Fifer said:

This isn't a secret as they publish these stats.

But this...

Analysis is ongoing to determine which hospital patients are being treated for a Covid-related illness and which patients have tested positive but do not have symptoms.

Takes the piss. How long does that take?

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24 minutes ago, virginton said:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/02/britain-got-it-wrong-on-covid-long-lockdown-did-more-harm-than-good-says-scientist

Indeed, but there's one very important question that Professor Mark Woolhouse fails to address. 

Why the f**k are you only stating this now; what the f**k were you doing 12 months ago, when the UK went into yet another ruinous lockdown? 

This aftertiming of perfectly obvious facts of the pandemic from a scientist who could actually have shaped government policy and smacked down the Gurdasani brigade is absolutely risible. His silence at the time amounts to culpability along with the rest of them. 

Woolhouse said pretty much the exact same thing when he was at the Scottish Parliament giving evidence last February. 

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53 minutes ago, Lyle Lanley said:

Clearly we don’t know the full story here but it doesn’t seem to have been well handled at all by the police.

I’d have thought they’d have other priorities at 11pm on Hogmanay than demanding to see licence details from pubs (especially when we’re being told they’re hugely short staffed).

They’ve effectively managed to turn a harmless event into a full police incident with probably 20+ police present going by the video.

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16 minutes ago, PedroMoutinho said:

Clearly we don’t know the full story here but it doesn’t seem to have been well handled at all by the police.

I’d have thought they’d have other priorities at 11pm on Hogmanay than demanding to see licence details from pubs (especially when we’re being told they’re hugely short staffed).

They’ve effectively managed to turn a harmless event into a full police incident with probably 20+ police present going by the video.

Glad we are limiting football crowds to allow them to concentrate on core policing duties, though, like tackling dancing and ordering drinks at a bar.

6 vans to an incident they could easily have turned a blind eye to / gently have reminded the patrons on the current rules and fucked off seems like a great use of supposedly stretched thin resources.

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22 minutes ago, Detournement said:

Woolhouse said pretty much the exact same thing when he was at the Scottish Parliament giving evidence last February. 

Woolhouse has been one of the good guys through this and had a fairly level headed view, even though in the very early days he did say that facemasks and social distancing would possibly have to remain in place for decades. I think he reneged on that standpoint pretty quickly though.

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43 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said:

Glad we are limiting football crowds to allow them to concentrate on core policing duties, though, like tackling dancing and ordering drinks at a bar.

6 vans to an incident they could easily have turned a blind eye to / gently have reminded the patrons on the current rules and fucked off seems like a great use of supposedly stretched thin resources.

Real life consequences of the ridiculous rules. 

Whilst a huge number of people will have binned off gathering at a bar due to it being illegal to enjoy yourself and gone and gathered at house parties, the police are causing a rammy over a few folk dancing on Hogmanay.  

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5 hours ago, DeeTillEhDeh said:

On what basis?

Gibbering shite wasn't a criminal offence the last time I checked.

I may or may not have been entirely serious...

 

1 hour ago, virginton said:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/02/britain-got-it-wrong-on-covid-long-lockdown-did-more-harm-than-good-says-scientist

Indeed, but there's one very important question that Professor Mark Woolhouse fails to address. 

Why the f**k are you only stating this now; what the f**k were you doing 12 months ago, when the UK went into yet another ruinous lockdown? 

This aftertiming of perfectly obvious facts of the pandemic from a scientist who could actually have shaped government policy and smacked down the Gurdasani brigade is absolutely risible. His silence at the time amounts to culpability along with the rest of them. 

While Woolhouse has flip-flopped a fair bit over the course of the pandemic, there is going to be *a lot* of revisionism like this in the coming months and years.

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5 minutes ago, Detournement said:

I would love to see a journalist ask Nipoleon if people should dance in their houses. 

The BST would surely argue that such behaviour was against the spirit of the covid restrictions

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