12-02-2020, 11:50 AM
I'd let the Russians stick their one in me right now if it meant getting back to the football and being able to see my own parents in a private setting again. Will miss having an excuse to avoid the in-laws tho.
12-02-2020, 11:50 AM
I'd let the Russians stick their one in me right now if it meant getting back to the football and being able to see my own parents in a private setting again. Will miss having an excuse to avoid the in-laws tho.
12-02-2020, 01:35 PM
The First Minister confirms the first vaccine will be administered on Tuesday.
12-02-2020, 01:39 PM
12-02-2020, 01:46 PM
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12-02-2020, 06:52 PM
12-02-2020, 07:06 PM
As long as it's televised on bbc one or two then I completely agree. No point starving the elderly of news for political reasons. Just broadcast the parliament announcements live instead of these briefing things
12-02-2020, 07:13 PM
I'm sure Mags will also highlight his concern at the UK Health Secretary releasing the news on the morning show of Sky News rather than before Parliament.
12-02-2020, 07:16 PM
12-02-2020, 07:31 PM
(Edited 12-02-2020, 07:33 PM by ElTelAsboFiasco.)
I was in Home Bargains today in Livingston, the woman behind the checkout didn't have a mask on and was coughing like fuck, she was touching her mouth and then touching everything i had bought, I was like ohh ffs, then the woman behind me starting coughing as well!
I'm no usually paranoid about all this shit but i literally cleaned everything when i got back home. I fully expect the numbers of covid related cases to shoot up in Livingston, anytime now.
12-02-2020, 07:48 PM
Maybe they were just heavy smokers.
12-02-2020, 07:55 PM
(12-02-2020, 07:13 PM)Jeff Resnick Wrote: I'm sure Mags will also highlight his concern at the UK Health Secretary releasing the news on the morning show of Sky News rather than before Parliament. Yeah he should doing that before Parliament, no doubt. But unlike the majority of folk on here I tend to focus on the Scottish government's response - rather than Westminster's - because that it what affects me. The situation up here is completely different as well - Sturgeon has been televised daily and constantly goes off piste and delivers non covid commentary - which is completely inappropriate when opposition parties have no right of reply and the journalists questioning is severely restricted. Its outrageous. The bbc agreed as well that's why they wanted to pull it - before they were pressured by the Nats to get it back on.
12-02-2020, 08:00 PM
(12-02-2020, 07:55 PM)theMAGANATOR Wrote: Yeah he should doing that before Parliament, no doubt. But unlike the majority of folk on here I tend to focus on the Scottish government's response - rather than Westminster's - because that it what affects me. (12-02-2020, 07:55 PM)theMAGANATOR Wrote: The situation up here is completely different as well - Sturgeon has been televised daily and constantly goes off piste and delivers non covid commentary - which is completely inappropriate when opposition parties have no right of reply and the journalists questioning is severely restricted. Its outrageous. As someone who regularly watches the briefings, many of the journalists tend to ask non-Covid questions, despite repeatedly being asked by the FM not to do so. Indeed, any time I have watched, she never answers non-Covid questions, often saying 'this isnt the forum'. (12-02-2020, 08:00 PM)Jeff Resnick Wrote: My retired parents (both over 70, one with major respiratory problems and dont support independence or vote SNP) find them really useful. I'm talking - alleviating anxiety and distress - levels of useful. They were raging when it was taken away. I think this pandemic has been transformative for a lot of people, including myself so I'm not going to get hung up on how people want to frame public health crises to push their own narrative. The briefings (whether they should be daily, or every few days) have been really helpful to alot of fellow Scots who arent on the internet all the time. I take solace that it has helped this thing be less scary for a lot of people who live alone and feel that if they get it, then they are in deep trouble.
12-02-2020, 10:50 PM
I have two questions:
1/. How did the UK govt manage to get this vaccine approved irst before the Germans/Swiss, who you'd think are way more smart than us with science and shit? 2./ Have they looked into what might happen if the virus goes tonto and mutates a bit and then latches onto that RNA thingy they've just injected into us, and turns it against us and kills us all? I've never been one to use anythng really to help me with gettng on with my life. Rejected headache pills despite getting absolute banging heid hangovers. Very rarely have I ever taken anything for pain relief, and I've had some killer flus before. Would really like to know if I've had it already, and if so when, and if I had it back last New Year, becuase if it was that one I'll be first in the queue when it's by cohort's turn. Nahh, seriously it was brutal but if I've had it since then then I'd be a bit sceptical tbh, a bit like getting the flu vaccine when I don't fall into the categories of folks than can get it. I'm all for getting stuff like that however, once I reach the average life expectancy of Scots, before modern medicine, which I'm sure must have been around the 60yrs of age mark. Then I'm entering into the realms of modern assisted life tools. Och, I don't know. Alls I'm saying is that if I was in my 20-40s I probably wouldn't be desperate t take it in all honesty.
12-02-2020, 10:56 PM
I welcome death so if the vaccine is a bogey then fuck it tbh. Did some good posts.
Pondy i'm with you on this to a large extent. I don't really want the vaccine at this moment in time. They are going to make it a condition to fly though so it looks like I'll need to have it.
Not a conspiracy thing, just weighing up the risks of taking an experimental vaccine when the numbers of folk my age, fit and healthy dying from it are neglible. I think almost all the people who have died young from it have had pre-existing health issues. Obviously I dont want to spread the virus to others if I have it, but maybe if enough of the high risk populations are vaccinated it will be sound?
12-02-2020, 11:21 PM
also because of 5G
12-02-2020, 11:47 PM
SJ has it been confirmed that the vaccine will be a mandatory requirement for travelling? I read that Quantas will expect it for long haul flights but not sure about European airlines
12-02-2020, 11:58 PM
12-03-2020, 12:28 AM
(12-02-2020, 11:20 PM)S.J. Wrote: Pondy i'm with you on this to a large extent. I don't really want the vaccine at this moment in time. They are going to make it a condition to fly though so it looks like I'll need to have it. I don't blame you, Scott. If it can be shown to prevent folks getting the disease (or at the very least severley ill) then that will put a lot of those skeptical about it more at ease. At least it's protecting the vulnerable. I don't think they genuinely know yet whether the vaccine stops transmission (was reading that ony the astraZanatec one hints at it) so in effect you could have been vaccinated but still be spreading asymptomatically; an issue, when it's obvious that not all can be vaccinated at once. Seems they won't really know until a period of time after mass vaccination, which I guess isn't really a surprise. I suspect they'll know a lot mre about it all by the time your age group has its opportunity. |
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