Covid-19 Virus

The problem is you repeat it but don’t engage brain.

If you did you wouldn’t be ready to think the worst of your fellow citizens all the time.

 

Errrrrrm you do realise that we have to be carrying out tens of millions tests per week* for it to be a proper weapon in WWC.

 

Just got back from my local Morrison's which for some unknown reason has gone from extremely professional in midweek to an absolute shambles today.

Clearly far, far too many people in there, security guard stood with his head down on his phone clearly monitoring **** all, no queue. Just ridiculous.

Had a moan at the manager who tried telling me all the guidelines were being followed, to which I insisted he was talking crap as the main person who is meant to be controlling the crowds is stood out on his phone letting everyone in with the queuing system completely abandoned.

Madness.

 

Item limits have already gone in most major supermarkets on all but a few product lines.

 

I've sent an email. It was an absolute joke in there. Couldn't believe it when I pulled in and saw the big car park almost entirely full and no queue at all.

 

Good. There are doubtless a few in this Country who would also like to dig a mass grave and be done with it.

 

Rubbish trailer for The Crown on telly just now. No twists at all.

 

Boris admitted to hospital for ‘routine tests’ and will stay overnight. Raab in charge tomorrow.

 

Sounds fishy. He's looked awful, people 'ITK' are saying he's been coughing his way through meetings. I can only imagine the tests are for pneumonia.

 

Morrison's are clearly one step beyond stupidity.

 

Listen to these 2 idiots.

 

Ruskie state media reporting he's on a ventilator.

 

If true he’s beneath contempt.

 

Dominic Cummings’ uncle has died after contracting the virus.

 

Surprising they haven’t claimed he has died already and we’ve just been pretending he was still alive. It’s the first thing the Russian state would do if Putin died.

 

Can't believe a thing out of Russian media, obviously.

Having said that, there's almost no way Boris is going to the hospital right now unless it's really bad so it wouldn't be surprising if it turns out to be the truth. I'll wait for a reputable source before I believe it, though.

 

It's not great when a footballer like Grealish travels unnecessarily right after publicly urging everyone to stay at home, but it's even worse when you do it twice and you're Scotland's Chief Medical Officer lol:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...flouting-lockdown-advice-catherine-calderwood

Unsurprisingly she's been forced to resign.

 

Conspiracy nutters are out in force on social media. The 5G one made me laugh, how do these people manage to hold down a normal job?

 

It’s rare for a TV trailer to be so patronising. Get through this and one may revise one’s opinion that today’s generations are a bunch of millennial and boomer wasters.

 

Watching GMB this morning over the Scottish Chief Medical Officer going to her 2nd home, I thought the usual treatment of Nicola Sturgeon was poor.

I don't like Sturgeon, but I thought her initial plan to take Calderwood out of public view, whilst listening to her expertise and experience in the background could have made sense, as it demonstrates that Calderwoods advice is still the right advice, and that a continuity of advice is important. It may have been the right thing to do, it may have been the wrong thing to do. I don't think it was an easy decision to make, and she made no defence, whatsoever, of Calderwood.

But Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid were only interested in getting their "gotcha" moment, not listening to Sturgeon's explanation, instead attacking her for defending Calderwood, something she just didn't do.

PM like others, try and justify ridiculous interviewing as "relevant scrutiny" but they are, in many cases, just being hacks after a story.

 

Boris has been dead for over a week and we have been watching deep fake vids of him. Queens speech lastnight preparing us for worse news.

 

The point is it doesn't matter what the advice is, when it becomes so undermined by the hypocrisy of the person proclaiming it that the public will no longer listen to and follow it.

 

I know what the point was, Piers Morgan went on, and on, and on, and on about it. And it wasn't as you say, it was that he thought Calderwoods behaviour was disgraceful (and I agree) and that she should have been fired immediately (which I disagree with), regardless of the consequences.

Do you not consider that, had Sturgeon just sacked Calderwood outright, that that could imply that her advice was also wrong? Sturgeon's decision was difficult, but I thought her intinial action was the right one.

I think you are wrong, the advice matters more than anything else, it is the credibility of the advice that is important, Calderwoods punishment for being hypocritical, is secondary.

 

Gove and Hancock have been studying Weekend at Bernie’s as a guide to how to play this.

 

Weirdly completely agree.

 

I don't watch Piers Morgan.

It's possible that the next CMO could give the same advice.

People often listen to things purely based on the credibility of the messenger though.

 

It's become a favourite hobby of the unimaginative to become Social Distance Warriors.

It usually starts with announcing that they were out, purely on a permissible outing (shopping or daily exercise) and then an assumption that everyone else they saw out, was not taking their sole exercise of the day, but are just flouting safety. People sharing pictures from the Aquadrome or Cassio Park are all there legitimately, but everyone they are shaming is not.

Also, people who block pavements and alleyways, always have underlying health issues, but are furious that someone else had to get by them and passed 1.8m. 'Why didn't the other person back up and climb a tree? I have asthma and diabetes!'

For the record, I haven't left the house apart from walk/run or shopping, and when I have been running, I've run down the middle of the road where necessary, to allow walkers to have the pavement, but I don't have enough knowledge of everyone else's going's on to spend all day calling everyone idiots or calling for the army to summarily execute anyone who cannot justify their presence in the outdoors.

It seems people are very nasty and judgmental given the slightest justification or opportunity.

 

So, just to clarify (as I'm not clear), are you disagreeing with me, or not, as I am not sure whether I need to respond.

 

The very worst seem to be the ones on social media who (claim they) have stayed inside now for at least two weeks solid. Usually because they have a medical condition, but in some cases just because they've decided it's their moral obligation. Their fury at anyone else being outside and then worse still giving the impression they're enjoying themselves knows no bounds.

 

I think that Sturgeon probably made the right decision in that both the message and the messenger are important for such an issue.

I'd be surprised if the next CMO Sturgeon brings in delivers a message or advice which is that different from what Calderwood was saying, but them at least following the own advice they were giving out would be advantageous in actually ensuring whatever they were saying is followed by the public.

 

I think it’s important to emphasise how well most people are doing in often personally difficult circumstances.

A lot of health and care staff, like my niece who is working on a Covid ward, are really anxious about what they read. She comes off a hard shift exhausted, reads that people are taking the piss and her mood drops through the floor. She’s imagining nightmare without end.

I’m telling her the truth, which is 95% are right behind the effort and a lot of the stories are exaggerated or even false. People are mostly civil and friendly. The fact that there are some examples of people not getting it or flouting it doesn’t negate this nor that we will need to guard against complacency.