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12 minutes ago, ulysses said:

Does anyone know when we’ll get an update on events? Tuesday or Wednesday I’d assume?

The 11th I believe. Which is Tuesday.

Wonder if some stuff will leak out tomorrow.

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11 minutes ago, ulysses said:

Does anyone know when we’ll get an update on events? Tuesday or Wednesday I’d assume?

Tuesday.

Had that meeting with my MSP today, around 2 hours. Will try post a summary tomorrow, prefer to do tasks like that when I'm being paid at work.

As an aside, as someone who often gets incredibly angry looking at the covid stuff (and indeed this thread) I would encourage everyone from the Main Players to the moonhowlers to engage democratically with your MSP on this stuff. Regardless of who they are, as someone who is really struggling with the restrictions continuing, posting of frothing-at-the-mouth paragraphs in this thread actually just makes it worse for me frankly. Get out and speak to the people who represent you - regardless of your views on things - it will make you feel much much better. 

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1 hour ago, WhiteRoseKillie said:

..and if that post does not make the posse/main players/whatever they call themselves take a long hard look at themselves..

"The Covid Thread - endorsed by P&B's most obvious troll". Some achievement, that.

He’s not the only one.  That oaksoft guy was continually making a c**t of himself on the politics thread, he’s now come on to here and found a home by, err, still making a c**t of himself.

 

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17 minutes ago, Big Fifer said:

Tuesday.

Had that meeting with my MSP today, around 2 hours. Will try post a summary tomorrow, prefer to do tasks like that when I'm being paid at work.

As an aside, as someone who often gets incredibly angry looking at the covid stuff (and indeed this thread) I would encourage everyone from the Main Players to the moonhowlers to engage democratically with your MSP on this stuff. Regardless of who they are, as someone who is really struggling with the restrictions continuing, posting of frothing-at-the-mouth paragraphs in this thread actually just makes it worse for me frankly. Get out and speak to the people who represent you - regardless of your views on things - it will make you feel much much better. 

I did write to both my MP and MSP (when the FM made the announcement about restrictions/protections. but still waiting on a reply.

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23 minutes ago, anotherchance said:

Tuesday I think?

Expect veiled threats from Clownshoes and the BST across the media tomorrow.

I look forward to them trying to persuade everyone the peak is still weeks away despite falling reported date, specimen date and test positivity figures, and a levelling off of hospital numbers.

They have an out here that will keep almost everyone happy if they choose to take it. But it will require them to acknowledge their predictions were wrong.

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1 hour ago, anotherchance said:

In terms of “improving” the quality of discourse on thread, it feels as though it’d be far more constructive to challenge the ins and outs of the arguments being made, rather than just complain that you don’t like the posts or the posters, no?

I asked another poster to do this earlier and they effectively said they don’t want to. Nobody has to do anything of course, but it seems counterproductive to moan about the direction of the thread, then refuse to take the chance to change it.

 

Oh aye, that approach is well received on here. :1eye

On 27/12/2021 at 11:14, Clown Job said:

John Swinney said the restrictions on football attendance is about sending a message and not evidence based 

So forgive me if I struggle to give the SG the benefit of the doubt here 

 

On 27/12/2021 at 11:34, welshbairn said:

Not strictly true, he was answering a question about why the number of 500 was chosen, not the restrictions themselves. 

 

On 27/12/2021 at 11:45, Todd_is_God said:

So glad you unresigned from the thread to continue to be a servile simping mess

 

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English hospital numbers also levelled off, and admissions starting to drop.

Looking very much like an unnecessary sore one for Scottish businesses for no measurable gain.

The moonhowlers, of course, called it right again.

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38 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said:

The 11th I believe. Which is Tuesday.

Wonder if some stuff will leak out tomorrow.

Really really hope crowds are back. Selfishly, I’d take another few weeks of obviously nonsense pub and club rules if it meant I could go to the football.

Landlords would disagree, of course 

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1 hour ago, Snafu said:

Edging closer to the end of this -

https://www.novinite.com/articles/213142/South+African+Doctors%3A+The+World+is+about+to+Exit+the+Pandemic

South African Doctors: The World is about to Exit the Pandemic

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It will take a month or so for the British establishment to reach the same conclusion for themselves. We couldn't possibly rely on information from a place like South Africa, could we?

 

1 hour ago, MP_MFC said:

This has already been debunked as nonsense reporting. There is no new 'variant': it was contamination.

 

1 hour ago, Monkey Tennis said:

For God's sake, don't make a further fool of yourself by doubling down and failing to see a funny side.

You simply said with disapproval that Covid was an obsession for certain people. That made some of us laugh because it's quite clearly a huge obsession of your own.

If you can't concede that, then you're being a bit ridiculous and just look foolish I'm afraid.

I'll refer you back to my previous response until you get it. I don't deny I've been 'obsessed' with the ongoing ramifications of the covid response. I'm not, and never have been, a pots and pans banging, banana bread baking, 'I'm all right, Jack, and think we should keep people safe with restrictions that don't impact me' tosser.

 

27 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said:

English hospital numbers also levelled off, and admissions starting to drop.

Looking very much like an unnecessary sore one for Scottish businesses for no measurable gain.

The moonhowlers, of course, called it right again.

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All over bar the shouting in the UK epicentre. I'd be shocked if there isn't concrete plans in place in Whitehall to roll pretty much everything back by Easter. Even if they deny things like scrapping LFTs because of screeching from the likes of the 'Independent SAGE' cult.

 

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1 hour ago, Granny Danger said:

He’s not the only one.  That oaksoft guy was continually making a c**t of himself on the politics thread, he’s now come on to here and found a home by, err, still making a c**t of himself.

 

This is the worst of cowardly snide behaviour. Call @oaksoft out if you want but at least ‘@‘ him so he’s got the right of reply. 

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Just now, alta-pete said:

This is the worst of cowardly snide behaviour. Call @oaksoft out if you want but at least ‘@‘ him so he’s got the right of reply. 

I’ve got him on ignore so little point.  If folk didn’t keep quoting him I wouldn’t know he was posting so much.

BTW this isn’t real life, just the internet.  Maybe you’re taking it a we bit too seriously.

HTH.

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5 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:

I’ve got him on ignore so little point.  If folk didn’t keep quoting him I wouldn’t know he was posting so much.

BTW this isn’t real life, just the internet.  Maybe you’re taking it a we bit too seriously.

HTH.

Brave enough to put him on ignore but still making the effort to run him down, riiight….

 

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1 hour ago, Big Fifer said:

Tuesday.

Had that meeting with my MSP today, around 2 hours. Will try post a summary tomorrow, prefer to do tasks like that when I'm being paid at work.

As an aside, as someone who often gets incredibly angry looking at the covid stuff (and indeed this thread) I would encourage everyone from the Main Players to the moonhowlers to engage democratically with your MSP on this stuff. Regardless of who they are, as someone who is really struggling with the restrictions continuing, posting of frothing-at-the-mouth paragraphs in this thread actually just makes it worse for me frankly. Get out and speak to the people who represent you - regardless of your views on things - it will make you feel much much better. 

That's good to hear if your local MSP is engaging. I contacted ours a couple of times last year and it was party line central, every response could have come straight from a government press release. When he told me that fast food outlets were more important to keep open than gyms and sports centres I decided to stop wasting my time. 

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47 minutes ago, Elixir said:

 

I'll refer you back to my previous response until you get it. I don't deny I've been 'obsessed' with the ongoing ramifications of the covid response. I'm not, and never have been, a pots and pans banging, banana bread baking, 'I'm all right, Jack, and think we should keep people safe with restrictions that don't impact me' tosser.

Why are you overcomplicating this? Nobody else is saying anything about banana bread or pots and pans.  You didn't either in the relevant post. You simply said that Covid was an obsession of the middle classes.  That's funny because you're clearly obsessed by it more than most.

Stop wriggling.  It's not helping you.  

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1 hour ago, Big Fifer said:

Tuesday.

Had that meeting with my MSP today, around 2 hours. Will try post a summary tomorrow, prefer to do tasks like that when I'm being paid at work.

As an aside, as someone who often gets incredibly angry looking at the covid stuff (and indeed this thread) I would encourage everyone from the Main Players to the moonhowlers to engage democratically with your MSP on this stuff. Regardless of who they are, as someone who is really struggling with the restrictions continuing, posting of frothing-at-the-mouth paragraphs in this thread actually just makes it worse for me frankly. Get out and speak to the people who represent you - regardless of your views on things - it will make you feel much much better. 

My MSP acknowledged my EMail to her which followed up the points I made earlier - See my remarks in my entry of 31 December on this thread, but she has not replied further. Too busy I guess with her Ministerial duties but I do need to know whether the full vaccination programme ( two plus a booster plus a winter flu shot for my wife and myself ) will  suffice to give us a good chance of keeping us clear of exposure to the virus. I would hate to think we have been misled again.

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