M-m-m-my Corona…

[57vintage]

“Don’t you think she looks tired?”

[mondo_notion]

More pant pishing from Boris and Mrs Krankie.

Meanwhile flu is currently killing 12 times more people than covid. Boris isn't peeing his pants about that and Mrs Krankie isn't holding daily press conferences about flu. It seems that hundreds of flu deaths a week are perfectly acceptable but even one covid death is a calamity.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...-show-12098893

[57vintage]

Good to hear our avuncular medical expert Prof Leitch give some non-zoomer professional input to Radio *Scotland’s phone-in today. His was input devoid of the “I’m nae going to get political here” SNP plant from Forfar, who did, of course, give the impression that she was clarted in woad whilst sooking on a refreshing bridie. This after a zoomer was correctly sent packing with a flea in his lug for saying that people in pubs were referring to the FM as Hitler, and some fruitcake subliminally comparing the ailing hospitality industry to INEOS, Halliburton, Exxon Mobil and Vesteys in his assertion that the exploitative nature of G postcode-based small hospitality business people was an unfettered arch-capitalist affront to his sensibilities. Top tin-foil hattery, sir.
The good prof, when asked, admitted that advice might be ambiguous, and when pressed on the guideline to stay within one’s own health board area if one was domiciled in the Central Belt, said that there was no ban, that if someone needed to visit an ageing relative needing care, or a grandchild to support, that was OK, but to think about it in terms of the 16 days after which a review will take place. Quite at odds with the blanket five-mile travel restriction placed on Aberdeen city residents in August, where the virus spike was traced to a single pub initially, and other licensed premises in the city, far easier to track and trace than the initial household-originated (an MP too, like) virus spread in the Greater Glasgow area. Any political element to this variance in treatment is debatable, even if the unfairness seems real to some. Politically though, I would question why none of the two nationalist MSPs representing Aberdeen Central (Kevin Stewart, once runner-up to Brian Twoshortplanks in Brain of Northfield) and Maureen Watt (Doric oath-taking hypocrite given the family’s teeth-grinding affected accent during school) in Aberdeen South, as well as their fellow traveller careless texter ‘independent’ in Abedeen Donside raised not a phoneme nor a syllable questioning the original August measure applied to the city’s residents. Maybe they ‘forgot’ whose interests they were elected to represent. Forgetfulness seems to be new and current acceptable answer to difficult questions, a new Party line, if you will. Some cynics might say (viz New Labour spin-doctoring on 11.09.2001) that this is a good pandemic to bury bad news or political chicanery. Not me, of course.

*my arse

[sheepcrooky]

That’s my local in Cove shutting the bar for 16 days. Having a pub not selling alcohol is like a sweet shop not selling sweets or a whorehouse not selling ***. What’s the point in opening.

So whilst these measures have been more stringent on the Central Belt, they will effectively be the same for everyone.

[Aldo1983]

Queen Nicola has my support despite having to endure stricter measures myself. It's not been perfect but thankfully we have her in charge and not Labour and in the not to distant future Scotland will be free of the Tories as well. I just hope I avoid the flu before it happens.

[andoplzcumbak]

Playing devils advocate here.

Some of you guys are saying that what the government did in Aberdeen after that issue, was wrong, and should have been done differently. Then, when a similar issue happens in another part of Scotland, that they should do the same, even though you think that what they did in Aberdeen was wrong.
Surely it’s better that they’ve learnt and tried a different approach?

The tin foil hats up there must be in short supply!

[afc1903mad]

Playing devils advocate here.

Some of you guys are saying that what the government did in Aberdeen after that issue, was wrong, and should have been done differently. Then, when a similar issue happens in another part of Scotland, that they should do the same, even though you think that what they did in Aberdeen was wrong.
Surely it’s better that they’ve learnt and tried a different approach?

The tin foil hats up there must be in short supply!

Actually the opposite.
It shows that what they did in Aberdeen worked. so if they learned any lessons, they should have been as strict in the central belt.

Here's how effective their actions have been

[Mason89]

You’re all aware the central belt gets shut down this evening?

[afc1903mad]

You’re all aware the central belt gets shut down this evening?

I am, yet the restrictions are still less strict than applied to Aberdeen, which incidentally, had a lower rate of infection than the central belt currently has.

Do you accept yet that it is a politically motivated decision?

[Mason89]

What difference does it make? That’s just flat out nitpicking

If she, as First Minister, chooses Weetabix over Shreddies for breakfast, is that a political decision?