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[tinseltitsbumfannythelot]

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Morning all.

But then there will be fewer asymptomatic people being tested or testing just because of reassurance reasons as people have been trying to enjoy their Christmas. The positive "cases" figure is the most easily manipulated just by natural behaviours or by specific action.

fluffyugg I assume the routine Pillar 1 has been concertinaed to take account of Christmas. That could be distorting the positivity rate (?)

Yep. That too wax

@WaxOnFeckOff
I don't think so, it could be the opposite. I think more people could have been getting tested as they wanted to go to relatives for Christmas or worried that they had caught it from families.
It's the biggest daily positive ever so I think that reflects more testing? The positivity rate is
Still waiting for travelling tabby to be updated.

No, this is the 29th December, people getting tested prior to Christmas will have already been reported.

Public Tableau reporting a positivity rate of 7.7% presumably that is over a few days since their last update.

I think there are so many potentially conflicting distortions to the Christmas stats that it's pretty hard to draw conclusions from them tbh.

Yes @StatisticallyChallenged I agree. plus they are often inaccurate and we aren't measuring (or maybe just not reporting?) the most useful figures anyway.

Travelling Tabby has been updated

I feel quite sorry for Nicola Sturgeon really. She leads a fake family life, I think, and she and her husband are just focussed on power.

I cannot imagine her having a rave of any kind. Not dancing in her kitchen after some Sherry.

@hilbil21

Travelling Tabby has been updated

I saw that, I think he is right to caution with the number of days it relates to.

I get what you're say @WouldBeGood but nobody has forced her to live that life.

@tinseltitsbumfannythelot Definitely. Here in Argyll and Bute things don't look too bad. Highland has really started going up recently

I think we will see the statistics better after Hogmanay as they will even put. But it's still a huge number of positive cases compared to the start of December.
Still thinking about NS going berserker. We could have some PR photos done to rival Boris with his five guys takeaway and his feet up on the desk.
I think NS has a very ordinary boring home life, she's just like loads of overachieving people and won't have much time for a life outside work.

I usually just track the .gov PHE figures by specimen date to have a comparable figure for UK and to get rid of some of the reporting date distortion.

Just looked at Travelling Tabby out of curiosity. It's saying only 6k of the 14k tests carried out were on people being tested for the first time. So that does indeed point to almost 60% of the testing being Pillar 1. On a "normal" day testing is about 20k with about 30% being Pillar 1. Gives a bit of context to above comments.

What like Boris you mean ikswobel

Yes I'm glad to have amused - the berserker comment related to their maximum chaos for the uk strategy rather than their raucous private lives as I'm sure you understood.

I can't help thinking higher infection areas of the UK should be looking at later school returns and here the numbers don't justify wholesale late school returns or any further restrictions but we'll see what happens. I suspect a Boris u turn on schools, we'll see.

Here's the breakdown for the past 5 days. Glasgow still high. Inverclyde catching up fast. Increases almost everywhere.

On the travelling tabby map...is that the number of cases for just the last 24 hours? Over 500 in Grampian, way higher than it's been here before or do we think these figures would've been catch ups from over the Christmas week?

Just noticed it says at the top...covers 5 days of data

I know it’s her/their choice.

It just makes me glad I am not seeking power but have a lovely time.

Tier 4 is s*it but needed. Today's figures for all of the UK attached.. grim.

It. Makes. No. Difference.

Aren't Wales doing so much better than the rest of us? That locking the borders, not leaving your village and covering up the shelves of non-essential goods in Tesco really did the trick, didn't it?