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Trump claiming victory but saying that he will be going to court over the results!! 😕
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10 hours ago, Cookie Monster said:
Can you explain how you get to watch Fox for free?Would you want to watch it if it were free? 🤔
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3 hours ago, Yflab said:
Article about how Taiwan (population 23million) have achieved a 200 day local COVID-19 day free record.
"Taiwan holds the world’s best virus record by far and reached the 200-day landmark on Thursday. Its last local case came on April 12; there has been no second wave. On Friday, it reached 201 days without a local case.
What did this island of 23 million people do right? It has had 553 confirmed cases, with only seven deaths. Experts say closing borders early and tightly regulating travel have gone a long way toward fighting the virus. Other factors include rigorous contact tracing, technology-enforced quarantine and widespread mask wearing. Further, Taiwan’s deadly experience with SARS has scared people into compliance."
What do our "let Covid run riot" friends have to say to this?
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2 hours ago, shull said:
Are there really no other news media in the UK and have you forgotten the government's attempts to emasculate the BBC? 😒
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On 10/20/2020 at 1:59 PM, antrin said:
Hmmm.
A TA/REME base used to be behind the red buildings in George Street at the south end of the (now)Uni site.
Entrances from George Street: between the LHS of Paisley Tech (building still standing) and the old church
And at the west end by a passageway (now gated) under the furthest west of the red buildings.
I recall seeing actual tanks in there!
My former French teacher at the JNI was was W Steel Brownlie who landed as a tank commander on the Normandy beaches and advanced through northern France into Belgium and Holland. He was later the CO of the Ayrshire Yeomanry TA Depot in George Street. I remember him taking my class of 30+ boys on an afternoon visit to the depot and letting us crawl all over and inside the tanks. If I remember rightly he had been awarded the Military Cross.
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2 hours ago, shull said:
It appears that the truth is that all of the hospital's intensive care beds are full. No mention of total number of Covid cases in the hospital.
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Russian Saint, have you forgotten this one?
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Well worked goal at 1 min 40 secs.
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1 hour ago, oaksoft said:
And you are basing this on what exactly?
Covid 19 is a serious illness which is likely to tip the balance in people with underlying conditions.
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18 hours ago, branniganm said:
The answer is yes. People have been dieing way before covid 19 turned up. The biggest risk factor for dieing is being old.
If and when "they" can provide true and accurate stats of people who have died of covid 19 ALONE, it will be a small figure.
Yes I'm being a smart arse, but if you ask a stupid question, you get a stupid answer.
18 hours ago, Slarti said:As far as we know, everyone dies. So, yes.
But would they have died at this time? probably not.
18 hours ago, branniganm said:18 hours ago, Slarti said: -
18 hours ago, Slarti said:
As far as we know, everyone dies. So, yes.
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21 minutes ago, stlucifer said:
While I don't accept his claim, it is entirely feasible, as the 1% may have died from something else before being clear of covid.
Would they all have died of something else if they had not developed Covid?
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Dibble starting and on the bench?
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Who is eligible and how you can get an appointment
Children in this group will be identified and the local Pre-School Immunisation Team, will contact the parent/guardian with an allocated appointment for their child.
All parents/carers of 2-5 year olds will receive a letter with an allocated appointment in the next 8-10 weeks.
When schools returned in August all primary school aged children should have received a consent pack to take home and parents / guardians were asked to complete and return completed consent forms to school within seven days. Flu immunisation sessions will be delivered in school from the beginning of October until mid-December. If a child misses their flu immunisation at school, for whatever reason, a flyer will be sent home with information about how the parent / guardian can arrange an appointment for their immunisation.
For all children in the above three groups, we are asking parents/guardians to make every effort to attend their allocated appointment so that we can do everything possible to help maintain physical distancing at clinics and ensure that all children can be vaccinated ahead of this year’s flu season.
Please be aware that GP practices will not be able to arrange appointments for your child, so if an appointment needs to be rearranged, the parent / guardian should call 0141 201 4190 from 23rd September onwards.
If a child / young person in this age range has an eligible health condition they should telephone 0141 532 8768 from 23rd September onwards to make an appointment for their flu vaccination.
Individuals in this group will be contacted by your GP practice or the Health Board with appointment information. If you have not been contacted by the end of October with details of an appointment for your flu vaccination, you should contact your GP practice.
All pregnant women will be offered flu from maternity services. If you are pregnant, please speak to your midwife for more information about getting a flu vaccination.
Housebound
If your GP practice has identified that you are permanently housebound and are aged 65 years or over, you do not need to attend your allocated appointment. It would be very helpful if you or your support worker / carer telephone 0141 201 4180 from the 23rd September onwards and advise that you will not be attending you appointment so that the slot can be released.
If you are in this group, you will receive a letter with an allocated appointment within the next 8-10 weeks.
Please make every effort to attend your allocated appointment so that we can do everything possible to help maintain physical distancing at clinics and ensure that we can vaccinate all eligible individuals in a timely and safe way.
There will be no drop-in clinics as we need to manage the number of people at each clinic to ensure physical distancing. Please do not contact your GP practice, as they will not be in a position to give you an appointment.
If you are aged 18-64, you can get your free flu vaccine from one of the participating Community Pharmacies.
Look up the list of participating pharmacies, choose a pharmacy and call them to make an appointment.
If you are aged 12-17, you (or your parent/guardian) should telephone 0141 532 8768 to make an appointment for your flu vaccination.
If you are aged 18-64 and live in the same house as someone who is shielding, you can get your free flu vaccine from one of the participating Community Pharmacies.
Look up the list of participating pharmacies, choose a pharmacy and call them to make an appointment.
If you are aged 12-17 years old and live in the same house as someone who is shielding, telephone 0141 532 8768 to make an appointment.
If you are a Social Care worker who provides direct personal care in: Adult Care Homes Children’s residential or sec...
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Community Vaccination Centres – where will I get my vaccination?
If you are to have your vaccine at a community vaccination centre, you will be assigned a venue within your Local Authority area. Please remember that a drop-in service will not be in operation at any of the sites as they will be appointment only. The venues are as follows:
East Dunbartonshire
- Kirkintilloch Town Hall
- Milngavie Town Hall
- Bishopbriggs War Memorial Hall
East Renfrewshire
- Eastwood Health & Social Care Centre Avenue Shopping Centre, Newton Mearns
- Barrhead Health & Social Care Centre Glen Community Hall, Neilston
Glasgow City
Utilising Health & Community Centres at:
- Springburn
- Bridgeton
- Shettleston
- Easterhouse
- Baillieston
- Drumchapel
- Maryhill
- Possilpark
- Woodside
- Pollock
- Govan
- Thornliebank
- Pollockshaws
- Govanhill
- Gorbals
- Castlemilk
Inverclyde
- Port Glasgow Town Hall
- Greenock Town Hall
- Gourock Gamble Hall
- Kilmacolm Community Centre
Renfrewshire
- St Mirren Park
West Dunbartonshire
- Alexandria Community Centre
- Concord Community Centre, Dumbarton
- The Hub, Clydebank
Only one centre for all of Renfrewshire.
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And there's a huge gap between August 26 and Sept 15. Do you suggest they sopped counting during this time.
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41 minutes ago, Long John Baldy said:
So Sweden has had no increase in cases for 2 months.
The death rate has all but dropped to zero.
What are the Swedes doing that we, and other countries, aren't?
Are the public more sensible as they are still having a fairly normal life.
New Zealand, averaging single figures in cases for 5 MONTHS with, and no real surprise, 7 fatalities.
I could easily dig up other countries who have managed to control this deadly virus but that doesn't suit the agenda of the scaremongers who would have us all live in a cave as the only solution.
The statistics for the last week in Sweden suggest something different.
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41 minutes ago, Sue Denim said:
255 “cases” in Scotland today and “Interim chief medical officer Dr Gregor Smith said the number of Covid cases was now doubling every 7 to 9 days in Scotland.”
Here are the number of “cases” in Scotland over the past number of days:
19th - 222
18th - 256
17th - 264
16th - 280
15th - 238
14th - 186
13th - 178
12th - 213
10th - 216
9th - 231
s://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/cases
Either Dr Gregor Smith is innumerate or he is lying.
I suspect it’s both.
If you had looked at the figures on the gov.scot website you would have seen that the number of positive tests in the 7 days leading up to Sept 8 was 1087 out of a total of 67290 first tests; in the 7 days to Sept 14, 1206 positives out of 48165 tests; in the 7 days to Sept 21, 1877 positives out of 41850 tests - a marked increase in both the number and the percentage of positive tests.
https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-trends-in-daily-data/
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1 hour ago, ALBIONSAINT said:
Listened to a very strange conversation on the radio coming home from work, BBC Scotland had a Scottish research worker on. She works for a big pharmaceutical company in the states that is close to having a vaccine ready. When asked who would get the vaccine first she said, NHS staff (makes sense) I expected her to then say the elderly and health compromised, but no she said the next in line would be delivery drivers, shop workers, etc. I found this very strange given that in general terms older health comprised people are in a high risk group and your delivery driver etc in a lower risk group. It sounded like she was saying that the economy was more important than older people?
The logic is that people in essential services such as shop workers, delivery drivers, police and emergency services are exposed to frequent contact with many members of the public and, if unvaccinated, are much more liable to spread the virus.
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6 hours ago, Sue Denim said:
New paper out which demonstrates that social distancing can INCREASE the number of deaths
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2018.0296
A long and complicated paper which concludes
"However, the aim of our paper is to show, in a theoretical context, that rational individual-level preventive measures can have counterintuitive consequences for the population-level. Public health interventions that aim at changing individual behaviour through social distancing could have adverse consequences, for example, school closures could reduce social contacts between children in the school classes but may (partly) be replaced by social contacts outside of school. But similarly, these measures could be beneficial for the population. As our results show, it is not necessarily straightforward what effects such behaviour may have at the population level, where much may depend on the disease and population under consideration. These findings highlight the importance of understanding the properties of disease-specific contact networks and modelling individual-level behavioural changes in response to an epidemic to understand infectious disease dynamics."
I love your stress on the word INCREASE wheras the paper says that rational individual-level preventive measures can have counterintuitive consequences for the population-level.
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6 hours ago, Sue Denim said:
And then
When he returned two months later with the same problems and rectal bleeding he was given more antibiotics and told he was unable to be referred to a hospital specialist “because of Covid-19”.
but you missed this out because it doesn’t fit your agenda
Utter nonsense. If he presented with abdominal pain and rectal bleeding, any GP worth his salt would not have diagnosed prostatitis but would have referred him for investigation under the 2 week rule which is still in existence. Covid was not to blame for the delayed diagnosis.
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17 minutes ago, Sue Denim said:
Ironic that a post devoid of any argument in favour of independence should ask someone if he has any argument 😃
What will be will be and if independence is the best option then it’ll be good for all of surely?
Do you really believe that the Union is good for "all of"(sic)?
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A runny nose is not part of Covid.
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7 hours ago, Sue Denim said:
Apart from the fact that most positives when there is low prevalence are actually false positives, there is also the issue that there are hundreds of respiratory viruses out there and they all start increasing from this point on.
And people are exposed to all these viruses all the time. If someone has a cold - and colds become more common after the schools go back - then they will have symptoms. They then get tested for Covid and they get back a positive test. Leaving aside that the test might actually be false, it’s the cold that is giving them the symptoms and not Covid.
The test cannot tell if you if it’s Covid that making you ill or whether it’s another virus that’s making you ill.
So raw Covid numbers of hospitalisations and deaths are going to increase from this point onwards.
What really matters is the excess death numbers. Problem is that excess deaths will include casualties if the elderly being thrown out of hospitals, the NHS leaving a third empty beds, cancelling cancer screenings, etc, etc.
The symptoms of a head cold(runny nose, stuffy nose, sneezing and catarrh0 bear no relation to the symptoms of Covid 19 and people with head cold symptoms are not being advised to have a Covid test.
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From his previous posts I think he probably lives under a stone.