salmonbuddie

Yeah, can't be many managers who have an unbeaten record. [emoji14]

That's probably the best written one yet.

Aye, so I'm not an eejit for clicking the link then, thanks. 
PS Not rich yet but got to lose a little to win a lot, so I was told. 

That's probably the best written one yet.

That's probably the best written one yet.

I was aware, when getting my Astra Zeneca jags that it wasn’t as potent v Covid, as Pfizer and others, yet I went ahead, knowing it was FAR better than nothing: for me and society at large.
when younger, I was aware - as were parents at the time - that many diseases that killed and maimed kids, were now being wiped out by vaccinations.  My brother and I had everything going - FREE from our wonderful NHS.
The current annual flu jag is always acknowledged to “maybe” not be the precise jag to curb each year’s wave of flu infection, yet it is dispensed, and taken up by grateful, intelligent recipients who have all, probably, suffered a flu in their younger years.  You don’t need to be vulnerable, cause we ALL are…  And the government only offers it free to the older generations, as there is a mitigation of costs….
there is no cut-off for covid jags, yet.
An analogy: I guess that the hard-of-thinking would simply keep running between speeding trains instead of using the slightly safer railway bridges.
We’re still finessing our already amazingly swift response to this new threat to humanity.  Just like we have done with polio, Ebola, aids etc….
There is no magic answer.

Our family are completely St Mirren fans , yet we’ve been to several hundred Leeds United games

My kids all have Leeds kits , but they always support St Mirren first and anyone who knows us ALL know about St Mirren, despite us watching Leeds also.

WGAF if Jim was watching or supporting them ? Our only concern should be the job he does with Saints.

Not everyone who works at any club will always support they club they work at, but will want to be good at their job therefore want that team to be successful.

Shite thread

Tell you what. If I was the manager of Celtic and St Mirren were playing Hibs in the cup final, and my boy wanted to wear his Saints scarf. Then I couldnt be more proud. Regardless of who was paying my wages.

This team the team has lost a lot of early goals and fought back.
I remain optimistic.  

Hope you all have a safe and great xmas you bunch of losers. Draws are ok sometimes. 🤣

This is an interesting read... Shared by the Manager of a number of musicians and artists ... ...

"So... since last weekend I've been part of an interesting experiment (altho TBH I'd rather not have been!). This is my direct Covid experience, FWIW.

Last Friday was supposed to be the 1st night of a (sold out) series of 4 gigs by Dean Owens & Friends.

Fri was great - amazing to have the live music experience with that magical interaction that happens between musicians and audience.

Sadly, on the way home, one of our musicians started to feel slightly unwell, and by Sat morning came out with the chilling words "I've got 2 lines" (on LF test). He'd been negative on previous 2 days followng a flight to Scotland, and feeling fine.

We made the painful decision to cancel the remaining 3 gigs, to err on the side of caution.

Within 2-3 days 7 of us (all directly connected to the band "bubble") tested positive for Covid.

The 2 who've had booster jabs (older, and inc 1 with asthma) have had very mild cold-like sympoms.

The rest (all double vaxxed) have had varying degrees of flu-like effects, with some being completely poleaxed, vomiting, raging temperature etc.

None of us however, has (so far) been ill enough to need hospitalisation. 40-50 yrs old, fit and with no previous underlying health conditions.

I'm delighted (and hugely relieved) to say that none of the audience has reported succumbing. They were socially distanced in the seating layout, observing masks and hand sanitsiing, LF testing protcols etc.

What am I saying here?

In my experience -

1. The vaccines work - stop serious illness and hospitalisation

2. The boosters add a huge extra layer of protection

3. Social distancing, masks, sanitising etc - especially in combination - all work

4. This is not about Boris or Nicola "stealing our freedom." This is a virus FFS! Seeing healthy people succumb to it in hours is chilling. This isn't fear, it's pragmatism. To protect us all in the long term we need to curtail activities in the short term
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5. Anti vaxxers often claim a superior immune system - we can't all be that lucky. Do the rest of us therefore deserve to be culled? Is that not an attitude more alligned with fascism? Surely that's not their intention?

Giving up 3 nights of income was a painful thing to do. But it was the right thing to do.

Making and sharing music (and arts generally) is a wonderful, joyful, soul-filling thing. Please remember that musicians (along with artists, performers of all sorts) have lost their way of earning their living in the last 20 months or so. If music, the arts and live performance give you any pleasure at all, please support them now. Buy merch - a CD, a Tshirt - directly from their websites. Support them thro Bandcamp. If they have a Patreon account, consider throwing a small amount/month towards them. In fact, in general, support your local traders, and craftspeople.

If everyone gives a little, they might just make it out of this pandemic alive, to bring you their unique gifts of joy and music going forward.

God knows we are going to need it!

And finally, a HUGE thank you to our NHS workers
Get well soon Dean, Jim, Amy and friends.

Huge thanks also to everyone who has been so concerned about my health, offered help and support, and general kindness. You're all great"

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They're both young and healthy and Omicron's done that to them when the other variants had no effect on them whatsoever. What's it going to do to old diabetic stroke victims like me if one of us gets it?

Not saying that, and I get what's being suggested by the data, just pointing out that nothing definite is known yet so, imo anyway, we're better erring on the side of caution. But I'm old and risk averse so I would say that...

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They're both young and healthy and Omicron's done that to them when the other variants had no effect on them whatsoever. What's it going to do to old diabetic stroke victims like me if one of us gets it?

Not saying that, and I get what's being suggested by the data, just pointing out that nothing definite is known yet so, imo anyway, we're better erring on the side of caution. But I'm old and risk averse so I would say that...

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They're both young and healthy and Omicron's done that to them when the other variants had no effect on them whatsoever. What's it going to do to old diabetic stroke victims like me if one of us gets it?

They're both young and healthy and Omicron's done that to them when the other variants had no effect on them whatsoever. What's it going to do to old diabetic stroke victims like me if one of us gets it?

Not sure what they were given but my son didn't get his second jag, it was due in September but he got Covid so it was postponed. And rearranged for yesterday...

This is actually the third time the dil's caught it (think she's going for a record) and I know she's had both and the booster (for work reasons). She first caught it July last year and lost taste and smell which hasn't come back but this is the first it's floored her.

You say that, faraway, but my son and dil caught Covid in September, both were completely asymptomatic. The two of them picked up Omicron last week (confirmed by NHS), both confined to bed completely f**ked.

Not sure what they were given but my son didn't get his second jag, it was due in September but he got Covid so it was postponed. And rearranged for yesterday...

This is actually the third time the dil's caught it (think she's going for a record) and I know she's had both and the booster (for work reasons). She first caught it July last year and lost taste and smell which hasn't come back but this is the first it's floored her.

Not sure what they were given but my son didn't get his second jag, it was due in September but he got Covid so it was postponed. And rearranged for yesterday...

This is actually the third time the dil's caught it (think she's going for a record) and I know she's had both and the booster (for work reasons). She first caught it July last year and lost taste and smell which hasn't come back but this is the first it's floored her.

Not sure what they were given but my son didn't get his second jag, it was due in September but he got Covid so it was postponed. And rearranged for yesterday...

This is actually the third time the dil's caught it (think she's going for a record) and I know she's had both and the booster (for work reasons). She first caught it July last year and lost taste and smell which hasn't come back but this is the first it's floored her.

You say that, faraway, but my son and dil caught Covid in September, both were completely asymptomatic. The two of them picked up Omicron last week (confirmed by NHS), both confined to bed completely f**ked.

Every bit as bad as every other KFC ?