Every day the vaccine rolls out

[JamesMcClean]

Meanwhile in Scotland we can't sit outdoors at the football.

You can pack into an ageing, poorly ventilated church with loads of other vulnerable groups though.

[tHeArAb]

Personally, I think this is going to happen every winter season from now on unless we invest properly in our NHS to make sure they don't ever get overwhelmed!

For me, this is going to happen every winter until we make a solid effort to help out the poorer countries of the world. These variants will just keep appearing, year after year. South Africa is vaccinated to 27% for example. That's no fcuking use to anyone. I'd like to see the richer countries push on with vaccinating the rest of the world. There's no point spending millions on boosters etc when they aren't actually stopping the spread. Fight the source of the problem and try to stop these new variants getting here in the first place.

[TerryTheTerror]

For me, this is going to happen every winter until we make a solid effort to help out the poorer countries of the world. These variants will just keep appearing, year after year. South Africa is vaccinated to 27% for example. That's no fcuking use to anyone. I'd like to see the richer countries push on with vaccinating the rest of the world. There's no point spending millions on boosters etc when they aren't actually stopping the spread. Fight the source of the problem and try to stop these new variants getting here in the first place.

It'll mutate in this country too over time. The flu jab each year has vaccines against the 2 or 3 strains that are predicted to be most prevalent. It's hard to see why this will be any different.

[tHeArAb]

It'll mutate in this country too over time. The flu jab each year has vaccines against the 2 or 3 strains that are predicted to be most prevalent. It's hard to see why this will be any different.

There's surely less chance of it mutating within this country the more we are vaccinated though, no? Some of these other countries have awful vaccination rates and until that's sorted we're fighting a never ending battle.

[offshore_arab83]

The rules regarding Covid in the Bedsit are truly baffling mate,me and my partner are both triple vaccinated she works in a doctors surgery and i as you know work outdoors.

If someone in the Bedsit tests positive i must close down my fresh air outside business for 10 days even if i produce a negative PCR test however she MUST attend her NHS job on the back of negative less reliable LFT and is allowed to mix with sick patients.

It is possible for me to work an 8 hour shift and have no contact with any of my customers but i must on the shielding list stay in the same house as a person infected with Covid 19.

this is absolutely outrageous

[offshore_arab83]

This is lockdown in all but name. Folk are, for the most part, avoiding going out to shops, restaurants, et cetera. But the Scottish government are expecting this to happen with no furlough. I really feel for those working in these businesses. Meantime the cost of living is skyrocketing and interest rates are going up.

thats the thing mate, this little devious chunt has said table service only so she's not actually closing any businesses, so she doesnt need to give them money (beg and borrow fae the idiot boris) so she limits the businesses hitting them in the pocket in their busiest time of the year rather than wait a week and do it from January

I'm out of pocket with the little prick too, was meant to be doing Edinburgh for Hogmanay so the street party is cancelled i'll get my refund on that, but i've lost my hotel money if i dont go as the hotels are open so cant get any money back from them and the party of 6 of us have all paid deposits on a meal at night, again shes kept them open so either we go or lose the money

little sly *******

[offshore_arab83]

NS and the SNP Government are pretty easy targets as they are the ones who have call the shots, but does anyone think it’d be a different scenario with someone else in charge?

aye well Boris has done f uck all, the welsh have stopped spectators going to sporting events and closed nightclubs but havent hit the pubs with table service only like we have and the N. irish have done same as boris - f uck all but are expected to announce something today.

so aye, i do think it would be better, its well known she hates football and people drinking and enjoying themselves

real life grinch

[offshore_arab83]

And 3,000 drunken fans pack into the Ally Pally for 4 hrs each day & night for the darts. Meanwhile in Scotland we can't sit outdoors at the football.

this ^^^

[TerryTheTerror]

There's surely less chance of it mutating within this country the more we are vaccinated though, no? Some of these other countries have awful vaccination rates and until that's sorted we're fighting a never ending battle.

I have no idea but, as I say, this type of thing happens with flu every year.

[Chick A Saw]

I would love it to be a possibility, but might it be that Omicron has mutated in someone who is vaccinated to create a milder strain?

For some reason, i have it in my head that through all the mutations, the Deltas of this world will come along and hit hard, then the Omicrons while highly transmissible will not be as deadly. Seem to remember reading or hearing that early in the Pandemic.