tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post3202915221334454346..comments2024-03-28T23:19:34.192+00:00Comments on SCOT goes POP!: Imperial College paper: "managed epidemic" / "herd immunity" strategy would kill quarter of a million people in the UKJames Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01516007141763230886noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-81424538673973958742020-03-19T10:27:59.071+00:002020-03-19T10:27:59.071+00:00Oh, you know that I have only recently retired fro...Oh, you know that I have only recently retired from a high-level professional job in disease surveillance, control and eradication? I think I know more about virology than you do, sweetheart.<br /><br />Actually your post is so confused and internally contradictory that I won't bother typing any more.Rolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16206952819245786811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-35878005235859089852020-03-19T09:05:45.882+00:002020-03-19T09:05:45.882+00:00Every other Saturday is when your direct debit com...Every other Saturday is when your direct debit comes off. Or it used to be.Chic Chickennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-40054990240385357802020-03-19T08:58:58.587+00:002020-03-19T08:58:58.587+00:00You don't think brexit teams should be reassig...You don't think brexit teams should be reassigned to cornoavirus control? You know, negotiating medical supply imports, managing supply chains to keep the UK economy going during lockdown etc? <br /><br />Anyway, thank god we are sourcing supermarket goods from Europe rather than having move this to the far east as part of Johnson's grand plan. Would take months to re-stock shelves.Scottish Skierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10584099659760612109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-38638961830692699202020-03-19T08:32:09.935+00:002020-03-19T08:32:09.935+00:00"What a genius you are Rolfe and a medical ex..."What a genius you are Rolfe and a medical expert to boot who believes that you can have immunity from a virus"<br /><br />Careful. You might just get taken to the cleaners. Or the vets.Chic Chickennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-21000227612153110262020-03-19T00:55:52.543+00:002020-03-19T00:55:52.543+00:00What a genius you are Rolfe and a medical expert t...What a genius you are Rolfe and a medical expert to boot who believes that you can have immunity from a virus<br />Haven't you noticed the common cold every year, haven't you noticed the flu every year, there is no immunity from a virus, vaccines only inactivate virus they don't kill them, that's the whole point, virus's mutate, they learn, they grow, they change shape and even DNA <br />If you could manage to totally isolate an entire population from a virus the minute people step outside off it goes again<br /><br />Corona virus is now with us probably forever like the flu but we will by slow stepping the curve eventually save time enough for a vaccine to be produced thus in future warding off the most severe effects on those with respiratory problems that we ourselves created by being arseholes and inventing crap like diesel fuel that no matter how clean the immission are the carcinogenic properties are not lessened<br /><br />The Wings over idiot Campbell and his sycophants who believe the crap he talks are every bit as bad a Farage and Cummings and Johnson, and who's Wingsy's best pal now George Fkn Galloway, the idiot is even agreeing with Piers Stupid Morgan now<br /><br />Just what does it take for you folk to wake up, does he need to come round your houses to laugh in your faces before you'll get it <br />Campbell is an opportunist charlaton self promoting subversive<br /><br />Please send me £10 to my address in another country so that I can say more shit with your name on it<br /> <br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-17567481101000194612020-03-18T23:28:42.921+00:002020-03-18T23:28:42.921+00:00If you want my opinion, BoJo saw these graphs (the...If you want my opinion, BoJo saw these graphs (the mitigaged and the unmitogated epidemic) and said, well there's not much difference, better go for the one that gets it all over faster and then the survivors will be immune. And that's quite convenient because we don't have to bother spending money on tests and contact tracing and quarantines and businesses can continue to trade uninterrupted. That's where the "take it on the chin" response came from.<br /><br />Then the advisors kicked in and supported him, because that's what government advisors do. If you're not the sort of person who is prepared to tell the PM what he wants to hear and give him reasons why he should do what he wants to do, you don't get that sort of appointment in the first place. So we had that positively criminal line about "herd immunity".<br /><br />But I suspect there were some discussions behind the scenes and people tried to explain to him that the mitigated outbreak was the one to go for. So we then got posturing about "flattening the sombrero" (God could you be any more crass?) without any explanation of what measures were to be taken to achieve that.<br /><br />Now we've had a fairly substantial re-think, but everyone has lost a full week, when all the modelling shows that even a day's delay in implementing the necessary measures significantly increases the number of people who will die. And there still isn't any testing and contact tracing going on. There's a firm in England making huge quantities of these tests and they're all being exported because they've had no orders from the NHS.<br /><br />And this after we had all the warnings from China, and the awful warning of Italy, right there in front of us. It's criminal.<br /><br />And what I think about a First Minister who essentially went along with all of this, put up no protest or opposition, and didn't use the devolved powers to the max to do as much as possible of what needed to be done A WEEK AGO is not fit to print.Rolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17849975010197698907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-26807118625760230882020-03-18T22:58:39.830+00:002020-03-18T22:58:39.830+00:00The lowest pension in western Europe .. the Tories...The lowest pension in western Europe .. the Tories are wanting to kill you auld yins off and you still sycophantically tongue their arses. Want you stuck in your bedroom for weeks in hope you peg it, using a flu bug as an excuse..<br /><br />No matter if you're in good health or not .. they're always banging on about how an ageing population is draining the countries resources ..<br /><br />But, still ..<br /><br />👅👅👅👅👅👅👅👅👅Mac1314https://www.blogger.com/profile/04064483975661032256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-23514171967209053062020-03-18T22:37:56.711+00:002020-03-18T22:37:56.711+00:00Every other Tuesday is pension day for us muppets....Every other Tuesday is pension day for us muppets. GWCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-41016518394627933752020-03-18T22:30:12.259+00:002020-03-18T22:30:12.259+00:00Wings is a bit like the national newspaper .. both...Wings is a bit like the national newspaper .. both pretend to be pro independence, but are only motivated by the gullibles money.<br /><br />GWC .. away and look at the pictures in your daily mail in your farty old bedroom.<br /><br />It's pension day ra morra!<br /><br /><br />Mac1314https://www.blogger.com/profile/04064483975661032256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-61853577399850531042020-03-18T21:57:23.983+00:002020-03-18T21:57:23.983+00:00Brexit is an administrative issue. It can all be q...Brexit is an administrative issue. It can all be quickly negotiated by video link. Millions are still working so the politicians and beaurocrats can work. GWCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-26783720804368596622020-03-18T21:52:11.486+00:002020-03-18T21:52:11.486+00:00The left are dinasaurs, extinct. The left are dinasaurs, extinct. GWCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-68741326129151288152020-03-18T21:41:12.733+00:002020-03-18T21:41:12.733+00:00The left wing thickos helped tham gain power. The left wing thickos helped tham gain power. GWCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-38310704648782803712020-03-18T21:38:18.943+00:002020-03-18T21:38:18.943+00:00Wisnae that long ago you Nat sis were funding his ...Wisnae that long ago you Nat sis were funding his court costs. GWCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-40252725313712857262020-03-18T20:10:19.873+00:002020-03-18T20:10:19.873+00:00That infant self obsessed wee numptie Wings Stuart...That infant self obsessed wee numptie Wings Stuart Campbell is crediting himself with predicting there'd be no referendum this year<br /><br />Corona virus had nothing to do with that, I expect the silly wee man will claim he predicted that tooAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-57096873161802988182020-03-18T20:05:04.756+00:002020-03-18T20:05:04.756+00:00You can't beat gubbin doctorsYou can't beat gubbin doctorsGWCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-85109111797524633722020-03-18T19:50:45.451+00:002020-03-18T19:50:45.451+00:00Johnson has already announced Brexit goes ahead no...Johnson has already announced Brexit goes ahead no matter what, he's finished as a leader so has to at least pacify the right wing into still supporting him and cross his fingersAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-8926089645998004462020-03-18T19:27:16.487+00:002020-03-18T19:27:16.487+00:00I don't really disagree, but when do we get th...I don't really disagree, but when do we get the brexit delay announcement?Scottish Skierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10584099659760612109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-76576562314045764032020-03-18T19:22:34.149+00:002020-03-18T19:22:34.149+00:00Athanius: I disagree, and I don't think that w...Athanius: I disagree, and I don't think that would be feasible anyway. Once you commit to a suppression strategy, you can't just tell people two or three or six months down the line to go to work and get infected en masse. But what may happen instead is the kind of on/off approach suggested by the Imperial College paper, whereby restrictions are temporarily eased if and when the numbers fall back a bit. James Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05264559835025144323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-79407096258576564812020-03-18T19:14:30.147+00:002020-03-18T19:14:30.147+00:00The pause on an indyref was a statement of the obv...The pause on an indyref was a statement of the obvious and the unavoidable. Having said that, if and when things ever get back to normal, there'll be less room for excuses on all sides, because a lot more time will have elapsed since Indyref 1 in 2014.James Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05264559835025144323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-45623687782356520612020-03-18T19:08:27.083+00:002020-03-18T19:08:27.083+00:00Scottish government has announced iref2 is on hold...Scottish government has announced iref2 is on hold.<br /><br />https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-51944044<br /><br />We need the UK government to officially announce that brexit is on hold too. They cannot put politics before lives.Scottish Skierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10584099659760612109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-83427456422676686242020-03-18T19:00:25.615+00:002020-03-18T19:00:25.615+00:00Johnsons handling of the Corona virus has finished...Johnsons handling of the Corona virus has finished him and Trump will go the same way<br />The right wing thickos who voted these world class clowns into office to smash the left wing got what they wanted but the problem is they're too stupid to actually govern because they don't understand how to, they only know how to dominate<br /><br />As soon as this crisis is done it's over for Johnson and support for Independence in Scotland will shoot through the roof and no matter how hard the haters try with their crappy little websites by inviting every weirdo and misfit onto it like Internet clown Stuart Campbell and his buddies Nicola Sturgeon will emerge as the politician to support and Campbell and his crew will be off the air and onto whatever channel George Galloway can get himself onAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-61628656232999926812020-03-18T18:55:44.606+00:002020-03-18T18:55:44.606+00:00A Govan Doctor can't find a job in a Hospital ...A Govan Doctor can't find a job in a Hospital in Edinburgh, so he opens a clinic and puts a sign outside 'GET TREATMENT FOR £20 - IF NOT CURED GET BACK £100.'<br />An Edinburgh lawyer thinks this is a great opportunity to earn £100 and goes to the clinic.<br />Lawyer: "I have lost my sense of taste."<br />Govan doctor: "Nurse, bring medicine from box No. 22 and put 3 drops in patient's mouth."<br />Lawyer: "Ugh. this is kerosene."<br />Govan doctor: "Congrats, your sense of taste is restored. Give me £20."<br />The annoyed lawyer goes back after a few days to recover his money.<br />Lawyer: "I have lost my memory. I cannot remember anything."<br />Govan doctor: "Nurse, bring medicine from box no. 22 and put 3 drops in his mouth."<br />Lawyer (annoyed): "This is kerosene. You gave this to me last time for restoring my taste."<br />Govan doctor: "Congrats. You got your memory back. Give me £20."<br />The fuming lawyer pays him, and then comes back a week later determined to get back £100.<br />Lawyer: "My eyesight has become very weak I can't see at all."<br />Govan doctor: "Well, I don't have any medicine for that, so take this £100."<br />Lawyer (staring at the note): "But this is £20, not £100!!"<br />Govan doctor: "Congrats, your eyesight is restored. Give me £20"<br />You can't beat govan Doctorsgovan young teamnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-8854777648392443082020-03-18T14:30:33.925+00:002020-03-18T14:30:33.925+00:00If only people who greedily panic buy, leaving not...If only people who greedily panic buy, leaving nothing for others, were more likely to succumb to it.Scottish Skierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10584099659760612109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-63670803254900246722020-03-18T13:39:05.197+00:002020-03-18T13:39:05.197+00:00President Jamez has used his powers to cancel the ...President Jamez has used his powers to cancel the Eurovision Song Contest.<br /><br />Now he has achieved a mystical expression of the Will Of The People.<br /><br />Viva President Jamez!Border Guardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-64868666486077978612020-03-18T13:02:42.443+00:002020-03-18T13:02:42.443+00:00It wouldn't surprise me if Johnson quits, and ...It wouldn't surprise me if Johnson quits, and not that long from now.<br /><br />I hope plans are in place to form some sort of national unity cabinet to replace him when that happens.<br /><br />He wanted to be a wartime PM like Churchill. Well, he's been handed that on a plate but looks like a rabbit in headlights.Scottish Skierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10584099659760612109noreply@blogger.com