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6 minutes ago, Governor Tarkin said:

 

Did you ever doubt that this would be the case?

If I’m honest I hadn’t really thought about it until now. Not a fan of the snp, tories, labour the Lib Dem’s or the greens. Politicians are all total arseholes is the problem with politics. Might just not bother the next time there’s an election 🙁

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11 minutes ago, redjambo said:

 

I noticed with pleasure that one of the U.S. States had this option on their ballot papers for the recent Presidential election. :) 

It would be brilliant if it got the most votes 

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6 minutes ago, The Real Maroonblood said:

I wish I had hair.

 

Is that not you in your profile picture then? :wink:

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Governor Tarkin
8 minutes ago, Pasquale for King said:

Haircuts all round by Xmas, should help the economy. 

 

Get along to Tony in Dalry. 👍

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4 minutes ago, GinRummy said:

Mine can be dealt with in 2 minutes flat with some clippers ☹️

2nd this. 0.5 all over for me now. :sadrobbo:brutal. 

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I think the tiers are a shambles so this is no defence. Just to say though that I live in aberdeen area and the spread is very focused on certain outbreaks and there isnt real evidence of community spread. The political leaders have also strongly opposed any move to tier 3 after aberdeen was so poorly treated earlier this year. Trust me the snp are deeply unpopular in the north east just now.  I do agree though Edinburgh should be tier 2. 

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She has mucked it up with the tiers to be honest and is now trying to justify her actions.

 

I get the decisions are not easy but as I have said before she needs to take the public with her and from the reaction today ( and not just on kickback) I think she has finally lost a  number of them some of whom have been SNP supporters for years.

 

 

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1 hour ago, CJGJ said:

The Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine is safe and effective, giving good protection, researchers have confirmed in The Lancet journal.

Most in the study were younger than 55, but the results so far indicate it does work well in older people too.

The data also suggest it can reduce spread of Covid, as well protect against illness and death.

The paper, assessed by independent scientists, sets out full results from advanced trials of over 20,000 people.

Regulators, who will have seen the same data, are considering the jab for emergency use.

But there are still important questions about what dose to give, as well as who it will protect.

When the interim trial results were made public in a press release about a fortnight ago, the researchers reported three efficacy levels for the vaccine - an overall effectiveness of 70%, a lower one of 62% and a high of 90%.

That's because different doses of the vaccine were mistakenly used in one part of the trial. Some volunteers were given shots that were half the planned strength in error. Yet that "wrong" dose turned out to be a winner.

 

Fantastic news, this one could be the real game changer, simply because it's cheap and easy to store, meaning every country in the world can afford it and store it easily in a normal fridge.

 

Over to the regulators now.

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Seymour M Hersh
2 hours ago, coconut doug said:

 

Personal abuse from the Tory boys. Change the record, educate yourself, learn some manners and debate the points up for discussion. Oh and difficult though that is, don't give up.

 

Smug, patronising and so typical of your posting style. If anyone should change the record and educate themselves it you. 

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Heartsmad1874
10 minutes ago, Lord BJ said:

If Edinburgh was t be moved to tier 2, so that change would take place on 18 Dec. Less than a week before Christmas easing, where you can travel where you want. 
 

Even with a bit of kickback about today’s decision, I find it hard to see a way it moves to tier 2 this side of the year, 


Would be interesting if Edinburgh made it to Level 2 a few weeks ago whether they would be moving it to Tier 3 just because it's Christmas time. 
 

Hope they get voted out next year but honestly can't see it.

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7 minutes ago, Jambo-Jimbo said:

 

Fantastic news, this one could be the real game changer, simply because it's cheap and easy to store, meaning every country in the world can afford it and store it easily in a normal fridge.

 

Over to the regulators now.

Even if you used this for '55 and unders' it would help greatly

 

Of course if finally it proves the 90% rate after 2 jabs that would be great as well especially as it seems to help re future infection as well

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9 minutes ago, CJGJ said:

Even if you used this for '55 and unders' it would help greatly

 

Of course if finally it proves the 90% rate after 2 jabs that would be great as well especially as it seems to help re future infection as well

More Importantly and a good reason to give it to younger folk is that there is some evidence is stops the onward spread. 

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1 hour ago, Pasquale for King said:

No ****ing danger is that shitehole ever being made capital. We are on course to be the biggest city in the near future it seems and the after effects of Covid/Brexit on the economy will see even more people live here. 

:rofl:

You'll never be bigger than Glasgow. They diced Glasgow up to almost the city centre and its still bigger than the than Edinburgh and everything else in a ten mile  circle. Glasgow is Scotland only real city. The rest are towns and villages. 

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2 minutes ago, ri Alban said:

:rofl:

You'll never be bigger than Glasgow. They diced Glasgow up to almost the city centre and its still bigger than the than Edinburgh and everything else in a ten mile  circle. Glasgow is Scotland only real city. The rest are towns and villages. 

Size isn’t everything. 

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1 minute ago, GinRummy said:

Size isn’t everything. 

 

3 minutes ago, ri Alban said:

:rofl:

You'll never be bigger than Glasgow. They diced Glasgow up to almost the city centre and its still bigger than the than Edinburgh and everything else in a ten mile  circle. Glasgow is Scotland only real city. The rest are towns and villages. 

 

2032 the projected change to Edinburgh having a bigger population than Glasgow. Economic factors could make it quicker. 

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.scotsman.com/news/environment/edinburgh-could-overtake-glasgow-biggest-scottish-city-2032-252603%3famp

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The Real Maroonblood
28 minutes ago, Barack said:

Should be a Tier 10 for bald folk.

 

Let the rest of humanity continue without their dead weight.

:wacko2:

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Pasquale for King
13 minutes ago, ri Alban said:

:rofl:

You'll never be bigger than Glasgow. They diced Glasgow up to almost the city centre and its still bigger than the than Edinburgh and everything else in a ten mile  circle. Glasgow is Scotland only real city. The rest are towns and villages. 

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/edinburgh-to-be-bigger-than-glasgow-by-2032-n06k58v67

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32 minutes ago, Barack said:

Should be a Tier 10 for bald folk.

 

Let the rest of humanity continue without their dead weight.

DP.

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Fxxx the SPFL

is it true that when calculating positive cases in City of Edinburgh that punters in hospital are counted in our head count well there are people in the Royal infirmary who live outside Edinburgh seems to me that they should be counted in the region where they live. 

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17 minutes ago, **** the SPFL said:

is it true that when calculating positive cases in City of Edinburgh that punters in hospital are counted in our head count well there are people in the Royal infirmary who live outside Edinburgh seems to me that they should be counted in the region where they live. 

 

Case, testing and death stats are attributed to the council area in which the affected person lives, i.e. where their residence is.

 

https://public.tableau.com/profile/phs.covid.19#!/vizhome/COVID-19DailyDashboard_15960160643010/Overview

 

Hospital admission stats are not, as far as I am aware, broken down into council areas.

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Fxxx the SPFL
1 minute ago, redjambo said:

 

Case, testing and death stats are attributed to the council area in which the affected person lives, i.e. where their residence is.

 

https://public.tableau.com/profile/phs.covid.19#!/vizhome/COVID-19DailyDashboard_15960160643010/Overview

 

Hospital admission stats are not, as far as I am aware, broken up into council areas.

cheers interesting

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Scottish news programmes  let Krankie off lightly 

Edinburgh not happy but understandable - blah blah blah 

Mcvey suddenly realising the people of Edinburgh are not at all happy and saying he can’t understand why no level 2 - he will soon be reigned in by the “party” 

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1 minute ago, **** the SPFL said:

cheers interesting

 

No problem. In saying that, it does get a bit complicated in some areas. As far as I know, for example, Orkney and Shetland covid-positive patients requiring specialist hospital treatment are flown to Aberdeen, while some Argyll covid-positive patients needing specialist treatment are transported to Greater Glasgow, or at least they were at one point. Of course, I could be wrong about this. I would imagine in these cases however that when the Tiers are being decided, the "local" hospital beds and intensive care beds indicators would refer to the actual location(s) where the pool of such beds are available and regularly used for a council's residents, whether "local" or not. That in itself can get complicated though - if someone gets seriously ill from Covid then the idea would be to get them to the nearest bed available, no matter which NHS board or council area it is in, or I would hope so anyway. So, the official "pool" of beds may not equate exactly to those which will be used in critical situations.

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5 minutes ago, jonesy said:

No, no, no. It's not about cases. It's about...

 

Justifying Tier status playbook - Pick one or more from the following and repeat ad nauseum:

O Protecting the NHS

O Saving lives

O Staying safe

O Er, did we say protecting the NHS already?

O Hmm... did we say proximity yet?

O Think we're running out of reasons...

O Please?

O Because I'm in charge

O Nobody invited me to parties when I was a teenager and now I'm getting my revenge on those who have social lives beyond attending local SNP chapter meetings / The pandemic is an opportunity to mould society into a shape that I believe in

😀😀 i think its the last option.  She needs to go and see a shrink about her adolescent trauma. ! :) 

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Everyone in Edinburgh should remember this next May. A political decision to put the city in tier 3 on tier 2 numbers. An attack on our city by a Glasweigan politician who cannot even bring herself to stay in the First Minister's official residence.

 

She's a vile cow.

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1 minute ago, pablo said:

Everyone in Edinburgh should remember this next May. A political decision to put the city in tier 3 on tier 2 numbers. An attack on our city by a Glasweigan politician who cannot even bring herself to stay in the First Minister's official residence.

 

She's a vile cow.

:rofl:

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3 hours ago, husref musemic said:

it's very similar to an spfl decision. everything is via a glasgow lens. 

Spot on.

People up here (Highlands) notice it too.  Has there been anything on BBC ‘Scotland’ about the disquiet and frustration in Edinburgh?

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14 minutes ago, pablo said:

Everyone in Edinburgh should remember this next May. A political decision to put the city in tier 3 on tier 2 numbers. An attack on our city by a Glasweigan politician who cannot even bring herself to stay in the First Minister's official residence.

 

She's a vile cow.

No need for the last sentence, the rest is fair comment. 

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It's criminal the way the people and the businesses of Edinburgh are being treated.

 

Anyone from Edinburgh caught voting for these crooked *******s come May should be taken up the Tollbooth!

 

Absolutely shameless. Them and their supporters.

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7 minutes ago, Pasquale for King said:
22 minutes ago, pablo said:

Everyone in Edinburgh should remember this next May. A political decision to put the city in tier 3 on tier 2 numbers. An attack on our city by a Glasweigan politician who cannot even bring herself to stay in the First Minister's official residence.

 

She's a vile cow.

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No need for the last sentence, the rest is fair comment. 

 

We need more well targeted invective imo. 

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8 minutes ago, Pasquale for King said:

No need for the last sentence, the rest is fair comment. 

 

It's all fair comment. Poster's showing a fair amount of restraint if you ask me.

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22 minutes ago, jonesy said:

I used to go out with a girl who had been pretty straight laced all the way through her life and then, upon reaching her mid-twenties, decided to become a bit of a slag and a drinker. Sturgeon reminds me of her, although she hasn't had the opportunity to go a bit nuts and so takes it out on others.

Reminds me when I was having massive issues with a female colleague who was hard work to say the least.. my line manager asked me what do you think she needs to help be less " difficult".. I said probably a good **** as she was so uptight and repressed. Hence her interactions with others. I did ask him to strike my response off the minute of the supervision session :) 

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Pasquale for King
1 minute ago, JyTees said:

 

It's all fair comment. Poster's showing a fair amount of restraint if you ask me.

Happy to call her a weegie ***** today, the name calling defeats the point though. I’m still raging 5 hours later. 

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Just now, JamesM48 said:

Reminds me when I was having massive issues with a female colleague who was hard work to say the least.. my line manager asked me what do you think she needs to help be less " difficult".. I said probably a good **** as she was so uptight and repressed. Hence her interactions with others. I did ask him to strike my response off the minute of the supervision session :) 

I think we all know folk like that to be honest, I haven’t described someone as that for a while though 😆

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43 minutes ago, manaliveits105 said:

Scottish news programmes  let Krankie off lightly 

Edinburgh not happy but understandable - blah blah blah 

Mcvey suddenly realising the people of Edinburgh are not at all happy and saying he can’t understand why no level 2 - he will soon be reigned in by the “party” 

 

The council have been completely abject in this .. putting no pressure on her at all. All of a sudden Ian Murray is making waves but this should have happened yonks ago

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Pasquale for King
15 minutes ago, the general said:

 

The council have been completely abject in this .. putting no pressure on her at all. All of a sudden Ian Murray is making waves but this should have happened yonks ago

Nobody listens to that wee ***** though, or the council for that matter. 
It’s up to those that give them their vote to put pressure on them, they might actually listen. I will see what my MP has to say, I would get in touch with my MSP but baroness brass neck doesn’t usually respond. 

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4 minutes ago, the general said:

 

The council have been completely abject in this .. putting no pressure on her at all. All of a sudden Ian Murray is making waves but this should have happened yonks ago

There isn’t any history of Sturgeon having experienced having a family member with a drink problem in the past, is there? She seems to have an attitude against alcohol consumption which goes further than just a desire to keep people healthy and safe.

Makes me think that she, or someone close to her, may have suffered some bad experiences as a result of someone having a drink problem.

I can easily live without pubs and restaurants, but the damage to Edinburgh’s, and Midlothian’s, economy is going to be massive if some kind of workable arrangement can’t be made to help them trade.

It’s fairly obvious that she doesn’t trust Glaswegians not to come through to Edinburgh for open pubs, when their pubs are closed.

 

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11 minutes ago, the general said:

 

The council have been completely abject in this .. putting no pressure on her at all. All of a sudden Ian Murray is making waves but this should have happened yonks ago

 

Probably wouldn't have made any difference, because down here in the Borders our council has been campaigning to have us moved from tier 2 to tier 1, which is where we should have been in the first place, but the SG deemed that because the Scottish Borders had bounderies with Midlothian & South Lanarkshire who were both in tier 3 at the time the Borders would have to be moved to tier 2.

 

On Friday both Midlothian & South Lanarkshire will be in tier 3 and the Borders will be moved down to tier 1, which just proves that we should have been in tier 1 many weeks ago because there was no need for us to be in tier 2.

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26 minutes ago, the general said:

 

The council have been completely abject in this .. putting no pressure on her at all. All of a sudden Ian Murray is making waves but this should have happened yonks ago

 

Edinburgh council are complicit. As are the supposed opposition. I said it weeks ago, Aberdeen councillors didn't take it lying down. Stuck up for their local businesses and citizens and made themselves heard. Seems to have worked out a bit better for them than it has for us.

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37 minutes ago, Pasquale for King said:

Happy to call her a weegie ***** today, the name calling defeats the point though. I’m still raging 5 hours later. 

 

Don't think I've ever been so surprised and angry in response to an action from the SG. Which is really saying something!

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