Coronavirus Super Thread ( merged )

[redjambo]

Scottish numbers: 8 September 2021

Summary

• 5,810 new cases of COVID-19 reported [+118; down from 6,170 a week ago]
• 57,128 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results [+10,982]
  • 10.8% of these were positive [-2.4%]
• 17 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive [+1]
• 82 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19 [+5]
• 883 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19 [+78]
• 4,130,841 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination and 3,749,767 have received their second dose [+2,349; +6,731]

[Victorian]

Signs of an underlying trend to our advantage?

[Nucky Thompson]

There's an outbreak in 120 care homes in Scotland.

Maybe that's why the hospitalisations are going up if it's happening in that demographic 

[magic roundabout]

19 minutes ago, Nucky Thompson said:

Rumours that the UK government are going to scrap the travel traffic light system on the 1st October.

 

That should make it a lot easier for people to travel abroad.

Good news as I'm going to Lanzarote in February

Hopefully, I'm in Thailand at the moment the area I live in is approx the size of Lothians and under 100cases...yet we are classed are red zone so mandatory quarantine on return to the UK. Ive also received both vaccines. Seems a bit of a farce to be honest 

[redjambo]

The latest trend stats.

 

			7-day per-100,000 cases
Council Area	WHO		Today	Yesterday			7 Sep	6 Sep	5 Sep	4 Sep	3 Sep	...	1 Sep
Scotland	4		809	815	-6		821	763	777	772	774	...	726
North Lanarkshire	4		1236	1250	-14		1284	1219	1260	1278	1292	...	1214
West Dunbartonshire	4		1227	1199	+28		1235	1126	1130	1138	1115	...	1149
Inverclyde	4		1135	1243	-108		1257	1215	1244	1220	1235	...	1132
Renfrewshire	4		1123	1132	-9		1156	1108	1122	1098	1067	...	1037
East Renfrewshire	4		1073	1091	-18		1093	1008	1117	1112	1130	...	997
Glasgow City	4		1032	1046	-14		1062	999	1035	1030	1007	...	954
East Dunbartonshire	4		1006	997	+9		1023	984	1071	1131	1196	...	1171
Clackmannanshire	4		990	990	0		1020	901	815	860	788	...	706
South Lanarkshire	4		981	1006	-25		1015	947	992	1009	1035	...	964
Midlothian	4		905	895	+10		872	794	787	808	831	...	681
North Ayrshire	4		857	836	+21		833	775	801	784	787	...	724
Falkirk	4		838	843	-5		844	749	752	741	733	...	653
Argyll & Bute	4		809	826	-17		824	770	760	768	766	...	756
Fife	4		795	784	+11		770	707	667	642	635	...	563
Dundee City	4		792	827	-35		824	751	764	746	735	...	672
West Lothian	4		778	765	+13		773	729	722	704	709	...	690
East Ayrshire	4		747	722	+25		698	655	711	657	645	...	609
Edinburgh City	4		726	753	-27		753	691	706	708	758	...	710
South Ayrshire	4		706	721	-15		706	646	719	713	701	...	629
Stirling	4		651	664	-13		689	619	608	641	628	...	596
Highland	4		614	612	+2		619	567	559	549	546	...	517
East Lothian	4		606	652	-46		678	620	641	687	689	...	602
Dumfries & Galloway	4		576	573	+3		584	585	610	585	615	...	635
Aberdeenshire	4		568	552	+16		559	497	471	456	442	...	411
Aberdeen City	4		542	549	-7		525	465	450	421	411	...	392
Angus	4		540	567	-27		577	508	509	479	469	...	401
Scottish Borders	4		495	463	+32		471	445	448	436	442	...	445
Perth & Kinross	4		358	352	+6		363	321	325	310	306	...	313
Shetland Islands	4		306	289	+17		302	306	345	284	284	...	227
Moray	4		259	244	+15		225	203	209	200	184	...	194
Na h-Eileanan Siar	4		223	181	+42		185	185	174	177	170	...	192
Orkney Islands	3		129	89	+40		80	67	71	71	67	...	54
7-day averages			Today	Yesterday			7 Sep	6 Sep	5 Sep	4 Sep	3 Sep	...	1 Sep
Tests			53496	53518	-22		53142	49869	50941	49858	48710	...	45041
Cases			6314	6365	-51		6414	5960	6067	6025	6043	...	5668
Positivity rate %			12.6	12.7	-0.1		12.9	12.7	12.7	12.8	13.2	...	13.3
Deaths			10.1	9.0	+1.1		7.7	7.7	7.7	7.3	6.4	...	5.4
All Vaccinations			11576	12093	-517		13042	13162	13684	14134	14397	...	16353
1st Dose			3220	3227	-7		3225	2950	2724	2727	2745	...	2979
2nd Dose			8356	8866	-510		9817	10212	10960	11407	11652	...	13374
All in hospital			732	696	+36		665	633	603	577	553	...	490
Non-ICU			666	633	+33		605	576	547	523	500	...	441
ICU			66	63	+3		60	57	56	54	53	...	49

[theshed]

30 minutes ago, Nucky Thompson said:

Rumours that the UK government are going to scrap the travel traffic light system on the 1st October.

 

That should make it a lot easier for people to travel abroad.

Good news as I'm going to Lanzarote in February

Are they doing away with the tests 24 hours or whatever it is before you come home? 
I’m on holiday in two weeks and the testing is what’s stopping me going away as no worth the risk 

[Brighton Jambo]

17 hours ago, weegranty said:

My wife has covid,I'm negative,we are both double jagged.I don't have to self isolate and have to go to work.A work colleague's wife has covid and he is refusing the vaccine and he has to self isolate and not attend work,this doesn't seem right to me.

At my work we have decided that in this scenario he would be paid Statutory Sick Pay only whereas before it would have been full sick pay.  It’s a fraction of the payment.  As you say it’s not right. 

[Footballfirst]

18 minutes ago, Victorian said:

Signs of an underlying trend tovero our advantage?

Let's hope so. It's unusual for the case numbers to fall on a Wednesday.

 

Even if the numbers have peaked it will take another couple of weeks for any fall to be reflected in the hospital numbers which will most likely rise to over 1,000 in the next few days.

[Nucky Thompson]

16 minutes ago, theshed said:

Are they doing away with the tests 24 hours or whatever it is before you come home? 
I’m on holiday in two weeks and the testing is what’s stopping me going away as no worth the risk 

There's not much detail yet, but I'm guessing that with staycation season coming to an end and pressure from the airlines, they'll do away with testing for double jabbed 

 

 

Edited September 8, 2021 by Nucky Thompson

[Victorian]

3 minutes ago, Footballfirst said:

Let's hope so. It's unusual for the case numbers to fall on a Wednesday.

 

Even if the numbers have peaked it will take another couple of weeks for any fall to be reflected in the hospital numbers which will most likely rise to over 1,000 in the next few days.

 

Yep.  

 

It's only even a glimmer of a move in the right direction.  Not yet sustained and only slight.  If the underlying trend continues in the same way then it will be many weeks of 20,000 to 30,000 cases,  which in turn will keep the hospital numbers up.  Universities starting is an obvious input that will endanger any progress.  Hopefully the trend accelerates.

[theshed]

1 hour ago, Nucky Thompson said:

There's not much detail yet, but I'm guessing that with staycation season coming to an end and pressure from the airlines, they'll do away with testing for double jabbed 

 

 

I hope so as I’m on first plane away to Tenerife for some winter sun if they do 

[JimmyCant]

2 hours ago, Nucky Thompson said:

Rumours that the UK government are going to scrap the travel traffic light system on the 1st October.

 

That should make it a lot easier for people to travel abroad.

Good news as I'm going to Lanzarote in February

It only helps fully if other countries scrap their covid immigration rules too of course 

[The Real Maroonblood]

3 hours ago, redjambo said:

The latest trend stats.

 

			7-day per-100,000 cases
Council Area	WHO		Today	Yesterday			7 Sep	6 Sep	5 Sep	4 Sep	3 Sep	...	1 Sep
Scotland	4		809	815	-6		821	763	777	772	774	...	726
North Lanarkshire	4		1236	1250	-14		1284	1219	1260	1278	1292	...	1214
West Dunbartonshire	4		1227	1199	+28		1235	1126	1130	1138	1115	...	1149
Inverclyde	4		1135	1243	-108		1257	1215	1244	1220	1235	...	1132
Renfrewshire	4		1123	1132	-9		1156	1108	1122	1098	1067	...	1037
East Renfrewshire	4		1073	1091	-18		1093	1008	1117	1112	1130	...	997
Glasgow City	4		1032	1046	-14		1062	999	1035	1030	1007	...	954
East Dunbartonshire	4		1006	997	+9		1023	984	1071	1131	1196	...	1171
Clackmannanshire	4		990	990	0		1020	901	815	860	788	...	706
South Lanarkshire	4		981	1006	-25		1015	947	992	1009	1035	...	964
Midlothian	4		905	895	+10		872	794	787	808	831	...	681
North Ayrshire	4		857	836	+21		833	775	801	784	787	...	724
Falkirk	4		838	843	-5		844	749	752	741	733	...	653
Argyll & Bute	4		809	826	-17		824	770	760	768	766	...	756
Fife	4		795	784	+11		770	707	667	642	635	...	563
Dundee City	4		792	827	-35		824	751	764	746	735	...	672
West Lothian	4		778	765	+13		773	729	722	704	709	...	690
East Ayrshire	4		747	722	+25		698	655	711	657	645	...	609
Edinburgh City	4		726	753	-27		753	691	706	708	758	...	710
South Ayrshire	4		706	721	-15		706	646	719	713	701	...	629
Stirling	4		651	664	-13		689	619	608	641	628	...	596
Highland	4		614	612	+2		619	567	559	549	546	...	517
East Lothian	4		606	652	-46		678	620	641	687	689	...	602
Dumfries & Galloway	4		576	573	+3		584	585	610	585	615	...	635
Aberdeenshire	4		568	552	+16		559	497	471	456	442	...	411
Aberdeen City	4		542	549	-7		525	465	450	421	411	...	392
Angus	4		540	567	-27		577	508	509	479	469	...	401
Scottish Borders	4		495	463	+32		471	445	448	436	442	...	445
Perth & Kinross	4		358	352	+6		363	321	325	310	306	...	313
Shetland Islands	4		306	289	+17		302	306	345	284	284	...	227
Moray	4		259	244	+15		225	203	209	200	184	...	194
Na h-Eileanan Siar	4		223	181	+42		185	185	174	177	170	...	192
Orkney Islands	3		129	89	+40		80	67	71	71	67	...	54
7-day averages			Today	Yesterday			7 Sep	6 Sep	5 Sep	4 Sep	3 Sep	...	1 Sep
Tests			53496	53518	-22		53142	49869	50941	49858	48710	...	45041
Cases			6314	6365	-51		6414	5960	6067	6025	6043	...	5668
Positivity rate %			12.6	12.7	-0.1		12.9	12.7	12.7	12.8	13.2	...	13.3
Deaths			10.1	9.0	+1.1		7.7	7.7	7.7	7.3	6.4	...	5.4
All Vaccinations			11576	12093	-517		13042	13162	13684	14134	14397	...	16353
1st Dose			3220	3227	-7		3225	2950	2724	2727	2745	...	2979
2nd Dose			8356	8866	-510		9817	10212	10960	11407	11652	...	13374
All in hospital			732	696	+36		665	633	603	577	553	...	490
Non-ICU			666	633	+33		605	576	547	523	500	...	441
ICU			66	63	+3		60	57	56	54	53	...	49

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[Victorian]

Greater Glasgow health board and government having discussions regarding mass events.

 

[The Mighty Thor]

20 minutes ago, Victorian said:

Greater Glasgow health board and government having discussions regarding mass events.

 

Meltdown incoming. 

[Victorian]

90% of London hospital covid cases are not vaccinated.  With obvious exceptions,  I'm not seeing much of a moral case for these people being entitled to be a profound burden on everyone else and getting FOC treatment.  

[Nucky Thompson]

4 minutes ago, The Mighty Thor said:

Meltdown incoming. 

It sounds like your pleased that they might be soiling their pants, so you can mock a few randoms on a fans forum.

[Boab]

Just now, Nucky Thompson said:

It sounds like your pleased that they might be soiling their pants, so you can mock a few randoms on a fans forum.

I don’t think anyone is happy about any of this but, looking at the numbers, there may well be a case of going down the gears soon.

Hope not but we’ll see.

[The Real Maroonblood]

16 minutes ago, Nucky Thompson said:

It sounds like your pleased that they might be soiling their pants, so you can mock a few randoms on a fans forum.

[TheOak88]

The way hospitalisations/ICU numbers are going, combined with Uni’s getting back into full swing over the next few weeks - surely a decision is going to have to be made over the next week or two. 

[The Mighty Thor]

1 hour ago, Nucky Thompson said:

It sounds like your pleased that they might be soiling their pants, so you can mock a few randoms on a fans forum.

I might start posting memes or random articles from dubious Facebook accounts to celebrate. 

 

Is that not how it's done?

Amirite?

[Nucky Thompson]

29 minutes ago, TheOak88 said:

The way hospitalisations/ICU numbers are going, combined with Uni’s getting back into full swing over the next few weeks - surely a decision is going to have to be made over the next week or two. 

The decision will be made for the SG when furlough ends in 3 weeks.

No WM money means that they can't go it alone anymore.

Better looking at what Bojo does from now on to get an idea what's going to happen up here 

[The Real Maroonblood]

9 minutes ago, The Mighty Thor said:

I might start posting memes or random articles from dubious Facebook accounts to celebrate. 

 

Is that not how it's done?

Amirite?

[Enzo Chiefo]

1 hour ago, Nucky Thompson said:

The decision will be made for the SG when furlough ends in 3 weeks.

No WM money means that they can't go it alone anymore.

Better looking at what Bojo does from now on to get an idea what's going to happen up here 

Yip. Only limited options for SG. Lockdown,  obviously,  is not one of them, for so many reasons.

It's an issue for hospitals to address, in the main, but possibly the SG could look at something around increased use of vaccine passports, nudging the non-vaccinated towards a syringe etc. 

We're living with this virus and any decisions that are made will have to work around that principle. 

 

[manaliveits105]

1 hour ago, Nucky Thompson said:

The decision will be made for the SG when furlough ends in 3 weeks.

No WM money means that they can't go it alone anymore.

Better looking at what Bojo does from now on to get an idea what's going to happen up here 

As it should be 

[Victorian]

Anti-vax lunatics have been sticking razor blades on the back of anti-vax propagandist fly-posters.

 

Razor blades aye?  Ok you win.  Your opinion must be right.

Edited September 9, 2021 by Victorian

[redjambo]

Scottish numbers: 9 September 2021

Summary

• 6,836 new cases of COVID-19 reported [+1,026; up from 6,400 a week ago]
• 67,701 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results [+10,573]
  • 10.8% of these were positive [=]
• 12 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive [-5]
• 87 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19 [+5]
• 928 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19 [+45]
• 4,133,606 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination and 3,757,337 have received their second dose [+2,765; +7,570]

[Victorian]

Total way up but rate slightly down.  Meh.

[redjambo]

The latest trend stats:

 

			7-day per-100,000 cases
Council Area	WHO		Today	Yesterday			8 Sep	7 Sep	6 Sep	5 Sep	4 Sep	...	1 Sep
Scotland	4		817	809	+8		815	821	763	777	772	...	726
West Dunbartonshire	4		1296	1227	+69		1199	1235	1126	1130	1138	...	1149
North Lanarkshire	4		1196	1236	-40		1250	1284	1219	1260	1278	...	1214
Inverclyde	4		1168	1135	+33		1243	1257	1215	1244	1220	...	1132
Renfrewshire	4		1102	1123	-21		1132	1156	1108	1122	1098	...	1037
East Renfrewshire	4		1075	1073	+2		1091	1093	1008	1117	1112	...	997
Glasgow City	4		1036	1032	+4		1046	1062	999	1035	1030	...	954
South Lanarkshire	4		987	981	+6		1006	1015	947	992	1009	...	964
Clackmannanshire	4		975	990	-15		990	1020	901	815	860	...	706
East Dunbartonshire	4		956	1006	-50		997	1023	984	1071	1131	...	1171
Midlothian	4		888	905	-17		895	872	794	787	808	...	681
Falkirk	4		848	838	+10		843	844	749	752	741	...	653
Dundee City	4		845	792	+53		827	824	751	764	746	...	672
North Ayrshire	4		837	857	-20		836	833	775	801	784	...	724
Fife	4		830	795	+35		784	770	707	667	642	...	563
West Lothian	4		822	778	+44		765	773	729	722	704	...	690
Argyll & Bute	4		784	809	-25		826	824	770	760	768	...	756
East Ayrshire	4		781	747	+34		722	698	655	711	657	...	609
Edinburgh City	4		723	726	-3		753	753	691	706	708	...	710
South Ayrshire	4		721	706	+15		721	706	646	719	713	...	629
Stirling	4		695	651	+44		664	689	619	608	641	...	596
Aberdeenshire	4		621	568	+53		552	559	497	471	456	...	411
Highland	4		611	614	-3		612	619	567	559	549	...	517
East Lothian	4		608	606	+2		652	678	620	641	687	...	602
Aberdeen City	4		588	542	+46		549	525	465	450	421	...	392
Dumfries & Galloway	4		566	576	-10		573	584	585	610	585	...	635
Angus	4		544	540	+4		567	577	508	509	479	...	401
Scottish Borders	4		462	495	-33		463	471	445	448	436	...	445
Perth & Kinross	4		384	358	+26		352	363	321	325	310	...	313
Shetland Islands	4		310	306	+4		289	302	306	345	284	...	227
Moray	4		254	259	-5		244	225	203	209	200	...	194
Na h-Eileanan Siar	4		189	223	-34		181	185	185	174	177	...	192
Orkney Islands	3		147	129	+18		89	80	67	71	71	...	54
7-day averages			Today	Yesterday			8 Sep	7 Sep	6 Sep	5 Sep	4 Sep	...	1 Sep
Tests			54395	53496	+899		53518	53142	49869	50941	49858	...	45041
Cases			6376	6314	+62		6365	6414	5960	6067	6025	...	5668
Positivity rate %			12.5	12.6	-0.1		12.7	12.9	12.7	12.7	12.8	...	13.3
Deaths			9.4	10.1	-0.7		9.0	7.7	7.7	7.7	7.3	...	5.4
All Vaccinations			11496	11576	-80		12093	13042	13162	13684	14134	...	16353
1st Dose			3228	3220	+8		3227	3225	2950	2724	2727	...	2979
2nd Dose			8268	8356	-88		8866	9817	10212	10960	11407	...	13374
All in hospital			776	732	+44		696	665	633	603	577	...	490
Non-ICU			705	666	+39		633	605	576	547	523	...	441
ICU			71	66	+5		63	60	57	56	54	...	49

[The Real Maroonblood]

12 minutes ago, redjambo said:

The latest trend stats:

 

			7-day per-100,000 cases
Council Area	WHO		Today	Yesterday			8 Sep	7 Sep	6 Sep	5 Sep	4 Sep	...	1 Sep
Scotland	4		817	809	+8		815	821	763	777	772	...	726
West Dunbartonshire	4		1296	1227	+69		1199	1235	1126	1130	1138	...	1149
North Lanarkshire	4		1196	1236	-40		1250	1284	1219	1260	1278	...	1214
Inverclyde	4		1168	1135	+33		1243	1257	1215	1244	1220	...	1132
Renfrewshire	4		1102	1123	-21		1132	1156	1108	1122	1098	...	1037
East Renfrewshire	4		1075	1073	+2		1091	1093	1008	1117	1112	...	997
Glasgow City	4		1036	1032	+4		1046	1062	999	1035	1030	...	954
South Lanarkshire	4		987	981	+6		1006	1015	947	992	1009	...	964
Clackmannanshire	4		975	990	-15		990	1020	901	815	860	...	706
East Dunbartonshire	4		956	1006	-50		997	1023	984	1071	1131	...	1171
Midlothian	4		888	905	-17		895	872	794	787	808	...	681
Falkirk	4		848	838	+10		843	844	749	752	741	...	653
Dundee City	4		845	792	+53		827	824	751	764	746	...	672
North Ayrshire	4		837	857	-20		836	833	775	801	784	...	724
Fife	4		830	795	+35		784	770	707	667	642	...	563
West Lothian	4		822	778	+44		765	773	729	722	704	...	690
Argyll & Bute	4		784	809	-25		826	824	770	760	768	...	756
East Ayrshire	4		781	747	+34		722	698	655	711	657	...	609
Edinburgh City	4		723	726	-3		753	753	691	706	708	...	710
South Ayrshire	4		721	706	+15		721	706	646	719	713	...	629
Stirling	4		695	651	+44		664	689	619	608	641	...	596
Aberdeenshire	4		621	568	+53		552	559	497	471	456	...	411
Highland	4		611	614	-3		612	619	567	559	549	...	517
East Lothian	4		608	606	+2		652	678	620	641	687	...	602
Aberdeen City	4		588	542	+46		549	525	465	450	421	...	392
Dumfries & Galloway	4		566	576	-10		573	584	585	610	585	...	635
Angus	4		544	540	+4		567	577	508	509	479	...	401
Scottish Borders	4		462	495	-33		463	471	445	448	436	...	445
Perth & Kinross	4		384	358	+26		352	363	321	325	310	...	313
Shetland Islands	4		310	306	+4		289	302	306	345	284	...	227
Moray	4		254	259	-5		244	225	203	209	200	...	194
Na h-Eileanan Siar	4		189	223	-34		181	185	185	174	177	...	192
Orkney Islands	3		147	129	+18		89	80	67	71	71	...	54
7-day averages			Today	Yesterday			8 Sep	7 Sep	6 Sep	5 Sep	4 Sep	...	1 Sep
Tests			54395	53496	+899		53518	53142	49869	50941	49858	...	45041
Cases			6376	6314	+62		6365	6414	5960	6067	6025	...	5668
Positivity rate %			12.5	12.6	-0.1		12.7	12.9	12.7	12.7	12.8	...	13.3
Deaths			9.4	10.1	-0.7		9.0	7.7	7.7	7.7	7.3	...	5.4
All Vaccinations			11496	11576	-80		12093	13042	13162	13684	14134	...	16353
1st Dose			3228	3220	+8		3227	3225	2950	2724	2727	...	2979
2nd Dose			8268	8356	-88		8866	9817	10212	10960	11407	...	13374
All in hospital			776	732	+44		696	665	633	603	577	...	490
Non-ICU			705	666	+39		633	605	576	547	523	...	441
ICU			71	66	+5		63	60	57	56	54	...	49

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[Ray Gin]

18 hours ago, Nucky Thompson said:

The decision will be made for the SG when furlough ends in 3 weeks.

No WM money means that they can't go it alone anymore.

Better looking at what Bojo does from now on to get an idea what's going to happen up here 

 

Bojo is threatening bringing back restrictions.

[manaliveits105]

less than 11500 vaccinations - as Anas said Holyrood today virus is out of control - way to go SG 

Sturgeon oot 

Harvie oot 

[Nucky Thompson]

45 minutes ago, Ray Gin said:

 

Bojo is threatening bringing back restrictions.

Source please Ray 

[Unknown user]

21 hours ago, Nucky Thompson said:

It sounds like your pleased that they might be soiling their pants, so you can mock a few randoms on a fans forum.

Mon Nucky we're all in the gutter here

[Enzo Chiefo]

58 minutes ago, Ray Gin said:

 

Bojo is threatening bringing back restrictions.

Why would he threaten that? Cases are stable, hospitalisations are rising at a lower rate and numbers in hospital are a fraction of the peak level. Things are settling down south of the border.

[Ray Gin]

12 minutes ago, Nucky Thompson said:

Source please Ray 

 

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/winter-lockdown-covid-warning-downing-street-boris-johnson-b953942.html

Not BoJo personally, but his spokesperson

 

 

[Enzo Chiefo]

Now we're sucking diesel

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58491245

[Ray Gin]

37 minutes ago, manaliveits105 said:

less than 11500 vaccinations - as Anas said Holyrood today virus is out of control - way to go SG 

Sturgeon oot 

Harvie oot 

 

Still more than England.

BoJo oot

[Nucky Thompson]

6 minutes ago, Ray Gin said:

 

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/winter-lockdown-covid-warning-downing-street-boris-johnson-b953942.html

Not BoJo personally, but his spokesperson

 

 

Here's a different report on the same thing quoting the 'spokesperson'

 

Covid: No plans for October lockdown, says government - BBC News

[JudyJudyJudy]

5 hours ago, Nucky Thompson said:

Here's a different report on the same thing quoting the 'spokesperson'

 

Covid: No plans for October lockdown, says government - BBC News

Some drama kings on this really ! 

[JudyJudyJudy]

5 hours ago, Nucky Thompson said:

Here's a different report on the same thing quoting the 'spokesperson'

 

Covid: No plans for October lockdown, says government - BBC News

Some drama kings on this really ! 

[Ked]

6 hours ago, manaliveits105 said:

less than 11500 vaccinations - as Anas said Holyrood today virus is out of control - way to go SG 

Sturgeon oot 

Harvie oot 

5 hours ago, Ray Gin said:

 

Still more than England.

BoJo oot

 

😂😂😂

[Ray Gin]

8 minutes ago, JamesM48 said:

Some drama kings on this really ! 

 

[ri Alban]

6 hours ago, Ray Gin said:

 

[Savage Vince]

On 08/09/2021 at 19:08, Nucky Thompson said:

It sounds like your pleased that they might be soiling their pants, so you can mock a few randoms on a fans forum.

 

It sounds like you're bricking it. 😁

[The Mighty Thor]

9 hours ago, JamesM48 said:

Some drama kings on this really ! 

James wait until you wake up to how this all actually works. It'll blow your mind.

 

You see the government only ever had a suite of really blunt instruments to deal with the pandemic, making you stay at home, restricting travel etc, that's all they could realistically control. The only people who could really control the virus spread has always been the individual, through good hygiene, mask wearing, social distancing and ultimately vaccine take up.

 

It's like the time not long ago the government still mandated mask wearing in indoor spaces, to try to control the spread of airborne particles, fairly sound logic (or not depending in which twitter/Facebook page you read). The day you 'sashayed' past the minimum wage security guard at St James centre sans mask, you weren't 'getting one up the government' you were actually making their blunt strategy fail and making it more likely that we would all have to go back under restrictions again. 

You see if you, applying your supreme critical thinking skills, decide to not wear a mask, I can't wear two to cover for you not wearing yours, or if you didn't keep 2 metres away from others, me standing 4 metres away would make no difference. It doesn't work like that. It's the collective actions of individuals. It always has been. 

 

 

So when you read about the government thinking about a fire break or something else, ask yourself why, it's not the government's fault any more, they've given the advice (the card carrying commies in public health that is), they've procured the vaccines and got them into arms and most importantly they've opened everything back up and said over to you, the individual. If it goes sideways now it'll be because individuals made it go sideways. 

[Roxy Hearts]

18 minutes ago, The Mighty Thor said:

James wait until you wake up to how this all actually works. It'll blow your mind.

 

You see the government only ever had a suite of really blunt instruments to deal with the pandemic, making you stay at home, restricting travel etc, that's all they could realistically control. The only people who could really control the virus spread has always been the individual, through good hygiene, mask wearing, social distancing and ultimately vaccine take up.

 

It's like the time not long ago the government still mandated mask wearing in indoor spaces, to try to control the spread of airborne particles, fairly sound logic (or not depending in which twitter/Facebook page you read). The day you 'sashayed' past the minimum wage security guard at St James centre sans mask, you weren't 'getting one up the government' you were actually making their blunt strategy fail and making it more likely that we would all have to go back under restrictions again. 

You see if you, applying your supreme critical thinking skills, decide to not wear a mask, I can't wear two to cover for you not wearing yours, or if you didn't keep 2 metres away from others, me standing 4 metres away would make no difference. It doesn't work like that. It's the collective actions of individuals. It always has been. 

 

 

So when you read about the government thinking about a fire break or something else, ask yourself why, it's not the government's fault any more, they've given the advice (the card carrying commies in public health that is), they've procured the vaccines and got them into arms and most importantly they've opened everything back up and said over to you, the individual. If it goes sideways now it'll be because individuals made it go sideways. 

I like your posts MT. Well said.

[Malinga the Swinga]

27 minutes ago, The Mighty Thor said:

James wait until you wake up to how this all actually works. It'll blow your mind.

 

You see the government only ever had a suite of really blunt instruments to deal with the pandemic, making you stay at home, restricting travel etc, that's all they could realistically control. The only people who could really control the virus spread has always been the individual, through good hygiene, mask wearing, social distancing and ultimately vaccine take up.

 

It's like the time not long ago the government still mandated mask wearing in indoor spaces, to try to control the spread of airborne particles, fairly sound logic (or not depending in which twitter/Facebook page you read). The day you 'sashayed' past the minimum wage security guard at St James centre sans mask, you weren't 'getting one up the government' you were actually making their blunt strategy fail and making it more likely that we would all have to go back under restrictions again. 

You see if you, applying your supreme critical thinking skills, decide to not wear a mask, I can't wear two to cover for you not wearing yours, or if you didn't keep 2 metres away from others, me standing 4 metres away would make no difference. It doesn't work like that. It's the collective actions of individuals. It always has been. 

 

 

So when you read about the government thinking about a fire break or something else, ask yourself why, it's not the government's fault any more, they've given the advice (the card carrying commies in public health that is), they've procured the vaccines and got them into arms and most importantly they've opened everything back up and said over to you, the individual. If it goes sideways now it'll be because individuals made it go sideways. 

Hard to disagree with this.

[Konrad von Carstein]

11 minutes ago, Malinga the Swinga said:

Hard to disagree with this.

I've got a feeling there'll be a few who offer a rebuttal...

[escobri]

48 minutes ago, The Mighty Thor said:

James wait until you wake up to how this all actually works. It'll blow your mind.

 

You see the government only ever had a suite of really blunt instruments to deal with the pandemic, making you stay at home, restricting travel etc, that's all they could realistically control. The only people who could really control the virus spread has always been the individual, through good hygiene, mask wearing, social distancing and ultimately vaccine take up.

 

It's like the time not long ago the government still mandated mask wearing in indoor spaces, to try to control the spread of airborne particles, fairly sound logic (or not depending in which twitter/Facebook page you read). The day you 'sashayed' past the minimum wage security guard at St James centre sans mask, you weren't 'getting one up the government' you were actually making their blunt strategy fail and making it more likely that we would all have to go back under restrictions again. 

You see if you, applying your supreme critical thinking skills, decide to not wear a mask, I can't wear two to cover for you not wearing yours, or if you didn't keep 2 metres away from others, me standing 4 metres away would make no difference. It doesn't work like that. It's the collective actions of individuals. It always has been. 

 

 

So when you read about the government thinking about a fire break or something else, ask yourself why, it's not the government's fault any more, they've given the advice (the card carrying commies in public health that is), they've procured the vaccines and got them into arms and most importantly they've opened everything back up and said over to you, the individual. If it goes sideways now it'll be because individuals made it go sideways. 

James is a bad lad, his sashay has doomed us all 🙈 whereas the government's and their lieing, thieving, corrupt, power grabbing ****'s have done all they can to look after our health and wellbeing throughout. Good morning all,let's enjoy the ride as its just warming up still. All aboard.