Tiers Of A Clown

[Bytheloch]

Thread #3456

Released from our dirty T4, but still bamboozled. Let’s keep each other sane on here...

The “evil furrin” stuff reminds me of Trump and the China virus 😃

"I call it the English Virus...because it comes from Blackpool"

@Dinnafashyersel

Fair makes you wonder just how closely they've been tracking our movements and via what mechanisms....

Sigh. It's derived from genomic sequences of the virus from people who have got sick. Nothing sinister.

Oh a group of people my parents know brought it back from Blackpool in the summer and then where I live was rife with it!

See! It's been proven to pass from bats to humans in the unsanitary Blackpool wet markets. They should crack down on it, really. (That, or its been manufactured in the alleged "Heysham power station"... yeah, right... and released into the wild).

Loads of people seemed to bring it back from Blackpool at September weekend. But there again did they get it on the private buses that didn't need masks

Nope. Absolutely definitely caught it by eating the bats. It may have been sold as a kebab, but you can't trust those sleekit English bastards.

Yeah bus trips. The wet markets of Blackpool

Did no-one remember to check Glasgow bats all had their passports in order? According to google it could have been them all off to hook up in Blackpool before coming home to cosy down.

I’d heard it was caught from the giant light up faces of Coronation Street stars.

@WouldBeGood

I’d heard it was caught from the giant light up faces of Coronation Street stars.

Now I need to take a trip to see those🤣

Was on team meeting today and team member was saying he was listening to a convo in supermarket (suitably distanced) about 2 retired locals trying to go to Liverpool for lunch from a (just over the border Tier3) and they got escorted off the train and told to go home! Rest of the train weren't even questioned and presumably they were honest about their intentions.

Well at the moment it’s not just cross border travel that’s limited. Currently in a dirty tier 4 area, but not supposed to travel to another equally dirty authority for a lunch next week with my dh. However if I stayed in my own dirty authority I could go for lunch, and even go with another couple .
Even the daily record found itself confused and out of its depth regarding local authorities when it reported braehead Glasgow would be open for 36 hours from Friday, shame its in Renfrewshire. So unless Primark clothing is essential only Renfrewshire residents should be shopping there, unless I’ve read tier 3.875 version 15000 wrong.

Sweet potato that's the bit that is ludicrous. I could almost understand if T3 was only allowed to travel within T3. But it's just ludicrous.

I remember overhearing a conversation back in the summer among a bunch of old guys about how the bats in the woods out the back of our house had it and were spreading it by pooing in people's gardens in the night. That explains why Edinburgh is stuck in 3. No matter how hard we try the bats will keep crapping on our efforts.

Am also amazed that its taken until today for the allergy news to come out. Seriously? It just gets crazier by the day.

Most shocking thing about the allergy thing is the 2 affected were NHS workers who carry epi-pens. Allergy sufferers were excluded from the trials AFAIK.

Doesn't really say much for the due diligence of the vaccinating staff nor the precautionary principle. At the very least I would have expected allergy sufferers not to be at the front of the queue.

Not really surprised though. My DC have non-standard risk profile for vaccines which means I always have to read all the paperwork. Like banging head off a wall trying to explain why to most practice nurses (despite the exceptions being listed in the leaflets).

People are seriously blaming Bats, I guess they did say early on in the whole thing Bats or mink may be carriers.

The allergies could just be luck or it could be they didn't test on people who'd previously reacted to vaccines.

The thing about traveling between two T3 areas is that if one is going down in cases and the other isn't, the higher infection rate area will keep reseeding the lower, so it makes it hard to get any areas down to a lower tier.

TheMShip there is so much essential travel between many of the T3 areas anyway that it's a nonsense to say non essential travel is going to increase spread.

I can legally meet my DMum in some parks but not others.
I can legally got for lunch with my MIL who lives further away than my DMum.
My kid goes to nursery about 3 miles from my DMum.
I bet 1000s of folk couldn't tell you where the M74 crosses from South to North Lanarkshire.

It's a absolute farce.

It's ridiculous. Most of the main routes "through" East Dunbartonshire actually cross borders. You go through Glasgow between Torrance and Bearsden, North Lanarkshire between Lenzie and Bishopbriggs. Twechar might as well be in North Lanarkshire, kids from Milton of Campsie and Lennoxtown go to High School in Kilsyth (North Lanarkshire). Then Strathblane / Killearn (Stirlingshire) are very much commuter belt for Glasgow too, and very much need Glasgow/East Dunbartonshire for food shopping!

The more I think about it the angrier I get about Edinburgh
And I don't even live there
All this guff about being honest with us and following the science,total bullshit
It is political and shows the total lack of integrity at the heart of the Scottish government
And I think they will pay for it

Best thing I’ve read today is Queen Nicola is now advising that we shouldn’t be booking any holidays abroad for next year. She must have referenced it in the daily show?
“So it may still be the case we would advise against travel, for the same reasons that we wouldn't want people to bring it back into Scotland.”

It’s the overreach I can’t stand. Maybe it will be mandatory to holiday only in Scotland next year- that could be the recovery plan for the decimated hospitality industry?
No English, especially royals, would be allowed to travel in for that though

Oh good god, holidays only in Scotland in 2021? Where is the poison? Argggghhhh!

My parents rang me at the weekend (from England) suggesting a week at Easter in the lovely Scottish countryside and I said I had to pass because after a week of drizzle in august in the same place the thought was not enticing!

I have no idea why we'd still be facing travel restrictions in 2021.

But if you were truly, properly Scottish, @anon444877, you'd be happy with a week in Millport. Why would you ever want to leave wonderful, SNP-governed Scotland? In fact, choosing to holiday in Scotland only is the best way of demonstrating your Scottish-ness.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, normal people are desperate to get on a plane ANYWHERE sunny.