Michael W Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 3 minutes ago, Snafu said: Main story flying around this morning is the rumour about the UKG scrapping free LFT's. Already NS is not happy. Been said that SG could fund LFT's in Scotland if this comes to pass UK level. Is the correct answer. Sturgeon wants it? Sturgeon finds the budget for it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left Back Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 4 minutes ago, Snafu said: Main story flying around this morning is the rumour about the UKG scrapping free LFT's. Already NS is not happy. Been said that SG could fund LFT's in Scotland if this comes to pass UK level. Zahawi playing it down on the politics shows this morning. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sophia Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 22 minutes ago, throbber said: What a disgraceful performance from Granny Danger last night. Is it to the undernoted post that you refer? 12 hours ago, Granny Danger said: Most of the people who post on this thread are moon howlers who are not in the least bit representative of the wider public. I know this is stating the obvious but sometimes it’s necessary. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abdul_Latif Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 1 minute ago, Michael W said: Is the correct answer. Sturgeon wants it? Sturgeon finds the budget for it. Maybe they could end free prescriptions to fund the much more important health concern of controlling covid. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moomintroll Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 20 minutes ago, throbber said: I suppose not - I’m not in this thread very often but it does seem pretty intimidating. It is a shocking thread where any deviation from the groupthink is met with outright hostility and insults, this post will get at least 6 reddies and I could confidently predict where 5 of them will come from. We are in a world where TiG is consistently the most greenied poster weekly for no other reason than the echo chamber which is this thread. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Empty It Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 It is a shocking thread where any deviation from the groupthink is met with outright hostility and insults, this post will get at least 6 reddies and I could confidently predict where 5 of them will come from. We are in a world where TiG is consistently the most greenied poster weekly for no other reason than the echo chamber which is this thread. It's funny because you're describing exactly what's happened for years whenever anyone has had the audacity to question or criticise Sturgeon or the SG. 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trogdor Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 19 minutes ago, Jacksgranda said: Thankyou, Rev Flannel... Keep reading private eye. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eez-eh Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 49 minutes ago, Honest_Man#1 said: Yeah I’m not sure why lots of people seem to use this as an insult/way to to get under the skin of a poster. Anyone who feels they haven’t been affected by Covid is either lying or mentally unhinged. I am absolutely heavily affected by Covid (not the virus itself, the restrictions we’ve been living under for nearly 2 years). I’ve definitely become angrier at times (whenever anyone mentions restrictions really, and especially when they try to argue that they are good and they work based on no evidence) and incredibly down at times. Why posters think that is something to use to attack other posters with baffles me. Except in this instance the poster in question regularly trawls through Twitter trying to find people he can get raging at for being “broken” by COVID. I don’t think I’ll be shedding any crocodile tears. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Jean King Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 So the UKG yet again "leaks" a policy notion to the press to gauge reaction followed swiftly by the full denial it's even being considered and the same minister then complains about panic stockpiling of LFTs. He really couldn't see that coming apparently [emoji2957] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elixir Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 (edited) 15 hours ago, Bert Raccoon said: This is the last I'll say on the matter as I genuinely think this is a hugely important thread and don't want it to be sidetracked with petty squabbles (I know) but the last few pages, think certain posters need to take a break. You know who you are Reveal hidden contents Yet another cutting edge contribution! 15 hours ago, Am Featha *****h Nan Clach said: Says the man who posts about Covid hundreds of times a week. You're as broken as the weirdo doing 3 LFT a day and you don't even realise it. Err, 'broken' to the degree that I am furious at the continued meddling in our lives when we should be back to normality by now, with it being reassuring that there are many who share this view. No surprise a boot licking clown like yourself would be unable to grasp this. 13 hours ago, DeeTillEhDeh said: I don’t think those things were peculiarly middle-class things though. It's easy to throw in stereotypes when we all know that everyone has had a different experience of the pandemic. Even within the same household the experience may be quite different depending on the job you do etc I think it's dangerous to pin the blame on one group in society - apart from the politicians that is. It's not pinning the blame on one group, though. There's just really no argument that can deny who the covid response disproportionately impacted. 6 hours ago, itzdrk said: This is fair. Elixir and the 8 mask folk are sharing the top tier and the rest of us filter down from there. So many banana bread makers on here it seems. Edited January 9, 2022 by Elixir 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elixir Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 9 minutes ago, eez-eh said: Except in this instance the poster in question regularly trawls through Twitter trying to find people he can get raging at for being “broken” by COVID. I don’t think I’ll be shedding any crocodile tears. I don't think you know how Twitter works. No surprises there really. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 12 hours ago, Glennie said: why has covidmania made so many mentally ill middle class women I'd be pro vax and mask if I looked like the Joker without make up too. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moomintroll Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 18 minutes ago, Empty It said: 21 minutes ago, Moomintroll said: It is a shocking thread where any deviation from the groupthink is met with outright hostility and insults, this post will get at least 6 reddies and I could confidently predict where 5 of them will come from. We are in a world where TiG is consistently the most greenied poster weekly for no other reason than the echo chamber which is this thread. It's funny because you're describing exactly what's happened for years whenever anyone has had the audacity to question or criticise Sturgeon or the SG. Fair point, well made, good luck. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Am Featha Taigh Nan Clach Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 9 minutes ago, Elixir said: Err, 'broken' to the degree that I am furious at the continued meddling in our lives when we should be back to normality by now, with it being reassuring that there are many who share this view. No surprise a boot licking clown like yourself would be unable to grasp this. I want all restrictions lifted. However, I, like many others who share this view are able to do so without wasting hours and hours a week reading about Covid, trawling through Twitter for people to laugh at, posting Jose Mourinho meme faces like a small child etc. This all began because the xenophobic, immigrant hating SNP made it hard for girlfriend to fly to Poland to see her family so you could get 2 weeks of Tennent's Lager and wanking. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 8 hours ago, scottsdad said: I think I get where you are going here. There is a middle class thought that you can shut the schools, work from home and it will all be super and lovely. I have said before that many (mostly middle class) people view the first lockdown the same way that some view the blitz - a jolly good time with everyone banding together and forgetting the tough stuff like the fear and the deaths. For many Covid was all rainbows in Windows, Captain Tom, clapping on Thursdays and forgetting the illness, mental health impacts, domestic violence, lost education, destroyed economy, jobs lost and so on. But the wording of the first post doesn't convey that well. The safety hysteria is also elevated among the middle class, because like the cholera epidemics of Victorian Glasgow and London, the comfortably off can't cope with an invisible threat that pays little* regard to their current wealth or status. The Victorian bourgeois solution was to both invest in large public health projects (aqueducts/sewers) and also to flee to emerging suburbs as far as way from the disease-ridden plebs as possible. At the moment it is perpetual safety theatre but once the middle class find a more effective way to shield themselves as a class, then they'll be happy to overlook the unchanged life expectancy of those who lived in Calton and Shettleston before, during and after the pandemic. * though not zero, as both then and now the poor made up a disproportionate number of victims. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eez-eh Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 18 minutes ago, Elixir said: I don't think you know how Twitter works. No surprises there really. I don’t think you know how life works. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Jean King Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 My 10 boxes of LFTs I was sent as a "reward" for getting to all 4 Hampden Euros games will be gold dust on ebay by the summer although I suspect most households will be the same. There must be enough unused LFTs in existence that any charge for them would have zero effect for years and that will only become more prevalent as obsessive testers will start stockpiling given they can be picked up for free in any village, town or city for months yet. Won't this simply force those seeking a test (and let's face it testing numbers show there are millions of them) to book PCRs instead thus probably rendering any savings on LFTs meaningless ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 I want all restrictions lifted. However, I, like many others who share this view are able to do so without wasting hours and hours a week reading about Covid, trawling through Twitter for people to laugh at, posting Jose Mourinho meme faces like a small child etc. This all began because the xenophobic, immigrant hating SNP made it hard for girlfriend to fly to Poland to see her family so you could get 2 weeks of Tennent's Lager and wanking.And we thought it was because Covid relegated Hearts. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 The reaction from NS to hearing such "news" on LFTs is understandable, in as much as she knew nothing about it. But the follow up about "we'll just need to fund it ourselves" is where she really needs to step back and think about what she says and when she says it. As well as diverting funds again from different budgets to fund the tests themselves, there would (I assume) be additional funding required to support staff and businesses who lost out on income from having to isolate as a result, as well as sustaining the impact on the NHS of staff absences. NS might not feel that March / April is the right time to scrap such a system, but she must also recognise that the current mass testing approach cannot continue indefinitely. When does she envisage people can stop testing themselves before meeting someone else? If this does come to pass, and NS does decide to rob other budgets to keep the system in place up here, then the onus is on her to demonstrate the benefit of doing so over following WM's lead. Their recent attempt to do similar was a bit of a disaster, which gives me no confidence at all that they would be able to do so. Cherrypicked data, outdated data, conjecture and spin will be used to show that, once more, they were right and the "reckless toarrrries" were wrong. In short, I can already see the car crash response from the SG to England scaling back testing (and essentially getting on with it) whenever that comes to pass. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mizfit Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 This is the second time you've been on about this but don't appear to have booked a PCR test, which would've been the obvious course of action?Apologies if I've got this wrong but this is how it comes across.New govt guidelines seem to suggest it’s not a requirement now? Just going to start doing LFT’s from Thursday night and see how it plays out I think. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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