Tiers on my pillow

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I thought the ppe diversions were shown to be false twitter bollocks?

I'd have preferred if both governments and their politicians had parked large constitutional issues while this was ongoing. BoJo should have sought a brexit deal extension, and NS should have stopped going on about independence at every opportunity. The focus should have been almost solely on the pandemic. Wherever possible there should have been consistent rules across the nations - having different tier systems in a country with no actual borders is farcical. The lot of them have spent far too much time one-upping each other and not enough doing.

I rarely bother posting here as it seems swamped in SNP bashing with a large helping of COVID denial. Calling people who don't go along with both of those 'cunts' is unlikely to help discussion.

Yes I've had a long break away from Scotsnet. Sadly always found it very cliquey. Still the same.

The SNP bashing I get. They're in power, people feel strongly about it. I get it. The COVID denying / minimising not so much! 🤷🏻‍♀️

I don't think I've seen any covid denial tbh. People who disagree with lockdown, restrictions etc yes but I haven't seen any of the covid is a hoax stuff

Yes but generally these moans come with the suggestion that they're not really needed. It's all an over reaction etc

Yeah I've stayed away a lot because of the SNP bad cliquiness, but sometimes I want to discuss Scottish restrictions with other Scottish people!

It doesn't last long though; the behaviour of some posters on here today has been an absolute minter. As we say in Dundee.

Sorry I wasn't clear there. The moans suggest that the restrictions aren't really necessary and are all an over reaction. We should just be getting on with it. Who died with covid instead of off covid? Etc etc

@IncludeWomenInTheSequel I do have to say though that MN were on the ball yesterday and did delete all the abuse and accusations I received after airing my rather boring and not that controversial opinion!

I think most of them come with a concern that other harms are essentially being ignored, and that as a result sometimes people don't agree with the decisions. Me included. Doesn't mean I don't think covid is very real and serious, just that I'm not always convinced that decisions taken represent the best balance

Why doesn’t someone start a separate political/Scottish politics only thread? Could be useful in the run up to May which hasn’t been cancelled yet, I notice I would do it, but I’m clearly too biased one way to be the OP. Anyone consider themselves somewhere diplomatic in the middle- start a new thread where we can all go on and agree to disagree? It would also stop threads about levels and lockdown being railroaded.

@StatisticallyChallenged fair point and it's horrific that these decisions have to be made but I've always just felt that if you push the NHS over the precipice then the fall out from that is unthinkable.

No, the point I was making is that we've had about 7 or more of these threads, generally more about the restrictions and a bit of a laugh about all sorts. It's only latterly that it's turned into a political argument. I'd also point out that nowhere on this thread have I said anything about the SNP or really anything political, or denied covid.

I also didn't swear at the poster yesterday but they've had my post removed so can't prove it. I think I said they should grow up and take the chip of their shoulder, might have been a fuck in there somewhere.

My cunts reference was not directed to any individual poster.

I wouldn't deny anyone posting anywhere (unlike someone tagging me in a post to tell me not to reply to them...) but an ability to read the room and a sense of humour wouldn't go amiss sometimes.

Anyway back to the thread, I've basically been accused of stuff that isn't applicable to this thread so being stalked by people across threads who hide behind name changes. Obviously everyone is entitled to change their name whenever they want but to then use that to attack someone else is a bit off.

@Bytheloch it's a nice idea but honestly it should be pretty easy just to say you know what I'm going on this chat forum and I'm not going to tell people to fuck off or call them a cunt even if they disagree with me 🤷🏻‍♀️

@WaxOnFeckOff

You did swear at me yesterday. You've admitted it there. It was deleted because you did.

You have called someone or some people on this thread cunts and are now saying you didn't mean anyone in particular. How strange.

Again you are skirting around accusing me of something untoward because I have name changed. I am allowed to name change. It's an anonymous forum.

Oh here we go @Arkadia

I can name change. People do it all the time.

I'm sorry someone posted in your style or used your name or whatever it was but it's nothing to do with me despite these strange accusations yesterday.

Maybe at MN could verify this so I am no longer subjected to these weird comments and can just get on with being a NORMAL POSTER ffs

I think at the moment the big frustration is seeing adverts for vaccinators with applications to be in for 6th January.

Surely to God these folk on the 6th should be needle in hand ready to stab people not sitting on the couch waiting to see if they get an interview.

It's the yes we'll shut the schools and childcare but folk are still meant to work. Kids are meant to teach themselves via Google Classroom, fine if you can WFH. God knows what people are meant to do need to go to work.

Its easy to say furlough but employers still need jobs done. Nobody wants to become surplus to requirements.
People are a year older, a year wiser, a year less naive than they were in March last year.

The lies lies and more lies, short sharp shock lockdown, when did that start??? When's it going to actually end.

The nhs can't go over, no. But some very different actions should have been taken to strengthen it during the relative lull over summer.
I also think understanding the distinction between of covid and with covid is very important because of the population it's attacking and the very high levels of comorbidities. To take an extreme example - let's imagine covid gets in to a hospice. Given the population sadly a fair number of the patients would die within 28 days of the positive tests, but it would often not be covid which was responsible. Understanding the distinction is important for testing and developing treatments and prioritising vaccines.

No disrespect re the hospice example, a much loved family member spent time in and sadly passed on in one.

@StatisticallyChallenged I agree re the inaction during the lull. Vaccination teams should have been in place then just in case and no doubt countless other things. It was wasted wasted time.

Why when there was always a risk of another lockdown was suitable IT equipment not issued every child to enable live teaching?

Why is the argument that teachers can't do online still valid because not all kids could access it? They've had 9mths to sort it.
It really grinds my gears to here the small council areas have issued laptops or ipads but the big councils with probably the most deprevation have done little or nothing.

So don't tell me SG are great.

@Bikingbear yes this seemed to come down to individual schools. Some did great but some did nothing. I think they should be hammered for that and there should have been a clear directive from SG to that effect.

Because not all pupils need equipment? We were surveyed ages ago on what each of ours (secondary school) had access to.