tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post5203816015330710336..comments2024-03-28T13:41:46.546+00:00Comments on SCOT goes POP!: The German plan to put the pandemic into retreat: we MUST have a similar plan in place before we even think about ending the Scottish lockdownJames Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01516007141763230886noreply@blogger.comBlogger78125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-72318522493122994532020-04-10T08:27:53.833+01:002020-04-10T08:27:53.833+01:00Yes, poor Covidia. So angry. So bitter. So very, v...Yes, poor Covidia. So angry. So bitter. So very, very funny.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-61446553081276577062020-04-10T00:49:09.677+01:002020-04-10T00:49:09.677+01:00I suppose if he met you he would return your compl...I suppose if he met you he would return your compliment. GWCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-42430331935113186732020-04-09T22:31:46.556+01:002020-04-09T22:31:46.556+01:00Well said, Alt Clut. I was hoping we had heard the...Well said, Alt Clut. I was hoping we had heard the last from the troll.<br /><br />It's not as bad as the btl on wings here. Not yet anyway. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-73085609060794627332020-04-09T21:02:43.558+01:002020-04-09T21:02:43.558+01:00Stuart Campbell fights for the basic things that w...Stuart Campbell fights for the basic things that we believe in.<br /><br />I was healed after sending him money and touching the screen.Wings Listerine Party Hicknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-91374198465836892212020-04-09T20:51:34.439+01:002020-04-09T20:51:34.439+01:00Seems Johnson is oot o intensive care.
I think he...Seems Johnson is oot o intensive care.<br /><br />I think he's complete fucking wanker, but I'm glad he's no died.Scottish Skierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10584099659760612109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-70672404291473203992020-04-09T16:52:21.348+01:002020-04-09T16:52:21.348+01:00Poor Covidia. She has no-one to talk to. That'...Poor Covidia. She has no-one to talk to. That's why she's always on here pretending to be a rapid Britnat. Poor lonely, isolated Covidia.Pandysharknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-63174544186971107392020-04-09T15:46:38.877+01:002020-04-09T15:46:38.877+01:00The police don't enforce advice, they enforce ...The police don't enforce advice, they enforce the law, when they tell you to move or not to do something even if they do it nicely they don't do it to amuse themselves and they don't get up in the morning thinking of ways to annoy idiots like Stuart Campbell<br /><br />Campbell will go right on telling other folk to do what he wouldn't do himself then he can be faux outraged on their behalf on his wee blogAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-4815585715077385702020-04-09T14:38:06.078+01:002020-04-09T14:38:06.078+01:00New Welsh poll out earlier .. fkn Tories are well ...New Welsh poll out earlier .. fkn Tories are well up! <br /><br />Any news of a Scottish one, James? Mac1314https://www.blogger.com/profile/04064483975661032256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-6275258108373231542020-04-09T12:27:40.326+01:002020-04-09T12:27:40.326+01:00Covidia's started withdrawing its more bitter ...Covidia's started withdrawing its more bitter screams of rage, then.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-70501714513452696902020-04-09T11:55:55.172+01:002020-04-09T11:55:55.172+01:00Don't be absurd, Christian, nobody is talking ...Don't be absurd, Christian, nobody is talking about a "coup d'etat". Was the formation of a government of national unity in 1940 - when the Tories had a clear majority in the Commons - a coup? Self-evidently not. All parties just voluntarily decided it was the only way forward.<br /><br />If you dislike the idea, you'll have to come up with a more convincing objection than the "coup" nonsense.James Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05264559835025144323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-75047704153142051832020-04-09T11:49:28.275+01:002020-04-09T11:49:28.275+01:00It'll be interesting to see if that's a fa...It'll be interesting to see if that's a factor (and let's hope it is, for our sake). In both cases though, they are island nations with very low overall population density and, even in the big cities, much lower population densities than Asian and European countries. They were also able to close their borders at very short notice to non-residents. Colin Lnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-81900669508692349742020-04-09T11:37:42.763+01:002020-04-09T11:37:42.763+01:00Note the lockdown in Scotland was implemented at a...Note the lockdown in Scotland was implemented at around 9 days earlier (14 dead) than the UK (1020 dead). Even more so if you consider the earlier banning of large scale events. The data suggests this has notably reduced infection rates in Scotland, and hopefully death rates. As the days pass, the impact becomes clearer.<br /><br />I know some people who have had coronavirus too. Although I don't know anyone who has died, friends/family of colleagues are not so lucky.Scottish Skierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10584099659760612109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-12472870272090459762020-04-09T11:19:48.716+01:002020-04-09T11:19:48.716+01:00My father-in-law's best friend died of Covid-1...My father-in-law's best friend died of Covid-19 on Saturday. He lived in London. My grandfather's brother died of Covid-19 yesterday. He lived in Clackmannanshire. <br /><br />Many of us have been looking at what was happening in Italy and shouting for the UK government (and indeed the Scottish government) to lockdown weeks before they did.<br /><br />But they didn't. After about turning on their crazy "herd immunity" plan, they finally asked people to stay home at around about the same stage in the pandemic that Italy did. At this point we knew - with mathematical certainty that we would suffer at least as badly as Italy has done.<br /><br />The UK governmment told us that the WHO guidance was only for poor countries (that wasn't true). The UK governmment told us that NHS England was better able to cope than the healthcare system in Italy (despite no evidence for this).<br /><br />And now we see, yesterday, a daily death toll that exceeds any that happened in Italy. And if there has been any delay in NHS reporting of deaths compared to the reporting in other European countries, then the UK data will have underestimated the scale of this tragedy. We could end up *much worse* than Italy.<br /><br />It didn't have to be this way. The Italian doctors were screaming at us to lockdown for a week before we did. <br /><br />But because the government didn't react - whether through incompetence or by prioritised the economy and their stupid f*cking "herd immunity" nonsense (and Scotland's own "yes I'd go to the Lewis Capaldi concert" box-ticker takes a share of the blame in that too) - thousands of people will die who *didn't have to die*. Maybe tens of thousands. <br /><br />Honestly, I can barely control my rage at this. People should be sent to prison over this. Clap the PM? I've never been so angry in my life. <br /><br />And for those Trumpian "it just like flu" idiots - how will you feel when it's *your* grandmother, or *your* father who dies alone? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-74342867165649749432020-04-09T10:04:20.326+01:002020-04-09T10:04:20.326+01:00New Zealand has been praised. But Australia also s...New Zealand has been praised. But Australia also seems to have low rates of deaths and cases. Any thoughts on a Southern Hemisphere seasonal effect (which might begin to work in our favour)?Alba Lounnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-17323687375514112732020-04-09T09:32:27.426+01:002020-04-09T09:32:27.426+01:00Except the infection rate is much lower in Switzer...Except the infection rate is much lower in Switzerland than it is in the UK. Switzerland is more like Scotland which, incidentally, is testing at a 50% higher rate than the rUK. <br /><br />https://www.newstatesman.com/2020/03/live-data-coronavirus-crisis-all-you-need-know<br /><br />You can see in the first graph that at day 25, Switzerland's first 10 deaths (representing say 1000 injections ~3-4 weeks earlier) had expanded to 821. Buy contrast, for the UK, 10 had become 6159, showing a much higher infection rate. In the UK the infectious 1000 had infected a lot more people, resulting in many more deaths a few weeks later. <br /><br />I agreed death rates are key; they show how the problem is a lot worse in the UK than it is in Switzerland.Scottish Skierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10584099659760612109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-3089085334052693152020-04-09T08:55:06.841+01:002020-04-09T08:55:06.841+01:00If people wish to play with pretty meaningless sta...If people wish to play with pretty meaningless statistics, Switzerland has one of the densest testing schemes in Europe, UK has the sparsest testing in Europe and they both have the same death rate for the infected, but Switzerland has a far higher rate of infection. Presumably they both report death of people 'with' covid-19, rather than 'from' the virus.<br /><br />However, with a virus where most people don't show symptoms, and aren't tested, statistics become pretty meaningless. Probably the most pertinent comparison is overall death rates before, and after. And before / after, it's pretty much the same.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-44563656878205165782020-04-08T21:01:35.037+01:002020-04-08T21:01:35.037+01:00The US fracking industry is a gigantic ponzi schem...The US fracking industry is a gigantic ponzi scheme that was barely making money at $100 a barrel, was hemorrhaging cash at $60 a barrel, with many of the shale players heading for bankruptcy. All that covid has done is speed things up.<br /><br />The geology of shale and exponential well decline rates mean it needs $100 a barrel type prices to make it work on any large scale. Which is what got the bubble inflating in the first place.<br /><br />While demand for transport is likely to decline over the next couple of decades, oil is too valuable to burn anyway, so production will continue apace. The world is full of people who want stuff and we need a versatile raw material like oil to make it for them. We can't cut down forests or replace food crops etc for this. Scottish Skierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10584099659760612109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-12094540306486131122020-04-08T19:48:16.745+01:002020-04-08T19:48:16.745+01:00Queue jumper.Queue jumper.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-14479621776921898362020-04-08T19:33:01.609+01:002020-04-08T19:33:01.609+01:00"New YouGov polling finds
56% saying they wo..."New YouGov polling finds <br />56% saying they would support extending the Brexit transition. 27% say they would oppose."<br /><br />Once again I have scooped Kelly.Mike Smithson Popsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-65892974368067581662020-04-08T18:33:08.957+01:002020-04-08T18:33:08.957+01:00Naw goat a delivery fae Tesco. Naw goat a delivery fae Tesco. GWCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-32482387227079890532020-04-08T18:25:05.663+01:002020-04-08T18:25:05.663+01:00Coronavirus and oil:
https://www.independent.co.u...Coronavirus and oil:<br /><br />https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/coronavirus-oil-gas-industry-climate-change-renewable-energy-a9453756.html<br /><br />Price spike and boost to renewables predicted.<br /><br />"The wells most vulnerable to being shut down and never opening up again are those in North America and Russia, says Currie: “It’s going to require a lot of money to be spent to fix the industry.” "Alba Lounnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-31636981484025650482020-04-08T18:15:29.828+01:002020-04-08T18:15:29.828+01:00wis the matta GWC. Yeev been aw angry fur the last...wis the matta GWC. Yeev been aw angry fur the last two days.<br /><br />Hiv you ran out of alcohol?Govan young team.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-35968203678237628062020-04-08T18:07:21.844+01:002020-04-08T18:07:21.844+01:00Yes but we would expect a larger country like Engl...Yes but we would expect a larger country like England to have had proportionately more infectious people arriving from infection areas than we did? So they would have more points of infection to move outward in the same manner and thus reaching more people? It seems logical to me that in the previous open border world populations would be expected to become infected at about the same rate per head of population?Donald McGregorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01864655355153560863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-63843984078212863032020-04-08T17:32:09.057+01:002020-04-08T17:32:09.057+01:00I am aware of all this, but was trying to seek som...I am aware of all this, but was trying to seek some positives.<br /><br />I see the spike in US unemployment data but understand not to compare it to past events because of the federal government is sending out cheques en masse, including large boosts to unemployment payments, instead of the wage support approach here / in Europe. This means the US is going to seem more registered unemployment by comparison, although hopefully much of this will be temporary. <br /><br />You said yourself this isn't a normal situation, which means it's wrong to compare the current spike with past spikes where the government didn't act like it is now. The government has never sent most workers home and told them it will send out cheques to everyone. Instead, people lost their jobs because the jobs disappeared due to a collapsing economy, and zero cheque followed.<br /><br />There is no doubt this is going to cause pain, but we need to be careful about drawing comparisons with very different situations.<br /><br />Yes, the longer it goes on, the worse the crisis. Of course. Scottish Skierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10584099659760612109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-11298474941582486072020-04-08T17:02:01.431+01:002020-04-08T17:02:01.431+01:00Away back to self-isolation, snivelling troll. Away back to self-isolation, snivelling troll. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com