Tiering up the Covid elimination strategy

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Sadly the end was not as close as we thought so new thread required ....

More’s the pity @SoMuchForSummerLove 😃

If I wanted to do a LFT for any reason I would be unimpressed if my dh tried to veto it!

RCPCH has released an official statement on the children in hospital with COVID barefaced lies 'controversy'. They couldn't be clearer that parents should not worry about their children getting COVID.

I wonder what if any fallout there will be for Humza and Swinney, or whether they'll try to front it out.

They'll front it out, they don't give a shit anymore!

JL on Reporting Scotland right now talking about it, missed the beginning but will see what he has to say!

Well that was annoying as fuck; a paediatrician saying there's no meaningful numbers of kids in hospital, then the BBC wrapped up by saying 'but this is a reminder that COVID has not gone away'

That's ok then. Politicians can make shit up to give us a reminder about a fucking global pandemic.

Thanks for the summary @SoMuchForSummerLove - I just can’t watch!

It’s really crap. Politicians should be held to account for trying to scare people like this.

Wtaf, COVID will never go away! No-one seriously thinks it will any more, but with the vaccines we have now turned it into something much less serious. Surely the point of the story should be that children are not at increased risk, and the frankly disgraceful misrepresentation of data to cause unnecessary distress to parents in an attempt to manipulate behaviour. Do the BBC work for Nicola or something?

@Y0uCann0tBeSer10us

RCPCH has released an official statement on the children in hospital with COVID barefaced lies 'controversy'. They couldn't be clearer that parents should not worry about their children getting COVID.

I wonder what if any fallout there will be for Humza and Swinney, or whether they'll try to front it out.

I thi k it's ffffiiing disgusting and disgraceful of them to try and scare monger like this and think they should issue a full apology and be straight!

Call me cynical but this seems like a convenient way for vaccination of kids to be promoted.

@titsintiers

Call me cynical but this seems like a convenient way for vaccination of kids to be promoted.

Yes, this and a precursor to a ‘don’t travel far’ (read: outside Scotland) message for the end of school term / make people feel guilty for travelling with children when they can spread it and children can end up in hospital etc, etc.

@SoMuchForSummerLove

Well that was annoying as fuck; a paediatrician saying there's no meaningful numbers of kids in hospital, then the BBC wrapped up by saying 'but this is a reminder that COVID has not gone away'

That's ok then. Politicians can make shit up to give us a reminder about a fucking global pandemic.

That is outrageous! No. No it's not a reminder of that. It's a reminder that our government ministers see fit to tweet such scaremongering nonsense that the medical professionals feel compelled to counter it. How do they think that's a reasonable thing for ministers to do to further whatever agenda they are trying to further?! I'm sick of it all.

I think I'm massively looking forward to our next trip to England to escape SG broken record and scare mongering for a bit! Even though its not til July!

Statement from royal college of paediatricians and child health workers
@ RCPCHtweets on Twitter.
Anyone worried should feel reassured by reading their statement, just ignore anything the Health Secretary said yesterday- who’s not so keen to talk to the media today for some reason

Humza blames parents for wanting to “ignore rules” in a tweet but then rethinks it

He's an absolute fucking balloon of a man.

Thing is it's not ignoring the rules is it? The roadmap clearly says you can travel freely throughout level 0-2 areas.

But then, his posting of the admissions table as justification for his comments indicates that he doesn't actually understand the definition of a COVID admission despite that being his brief much less the difference between 'with COVID' and 'because of COVID', so I wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't familiar with the restrictions at various levels either. Absolutely useless waste of space. He must have something really big on Sturgeon to keep getting the important roles.

I appreciate he probably said it because he’s so stupid, but the SG should have leapt in to set the record straight not to justify it.

Either that or it is deliberate scare tactics. Neither is a good look.

Thing is it's not ignoring the rules is it? The roadmap clearly says you can travel freely throughout level 0-2 areas.

Come on now, @Y0uCann0tBeSer10us.

Just because you CAN, doesn't mean you ... ?

He changed it to take out the ignoring the rules part.

It might be The Sun, but at least Chris Musson is pressing them on this.

Oh another dilemma... youngest ds does drama and every so often gets casting calls for various productions. Very rarely gets anything buT did a voiceover before Christmas. Anyway, call had just come in for a "Scottish Government campaign".

Definitely going to be covid related, isn't it? Telling them not to play with their pals over the summer or something?

Now I’m imagining a child catcher carriage containing ‘the covid monster’ and Mr Tumble Leitch in brightly-coloured dungarees, telting the wee ones how playing on the park can harm their friends. How to eat an ice cream between the hours of 12-3 only. How to paddle in the Loch so covid doesn’t know you’re swimming. Plus any other summer holiday activities you might irresponsibly take part in.
Stay safe, stay away from each other, kids.

Meh, I’m not even joking

@Bytheloch your image of JL/Mr Tumble has caused me far more damage than any virus 😂

@RaspberryCoulis do the government pay for their propaganda campaigns? That might sway me if I were a youngster.

Fee is £300. Which is a fortune when you're 12. At the moment it's just at the "would you be available " stage, not holding my breath. And yes, he'd gladly take their money.