Tiering up the Covid elimination strategy

[dancemom]

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

@SoMuchForSummerLove

The ads I've seen on our health board Facebook say you can walk in if it's 10 weeks past your first vaccine.

Thank you @SoMuchForSummerLove

• 1,030* new cases of COVID-19 reported
• 26,650 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results
◦ 4.1% of these were positive
• 2 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive.
• 3,477,378 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination and 2,402,700 have received their second dose.
*PHS are aware of an ongoing delay in the laboratory processing of specimens in the Glasgow Lighthouse lab, similar to that which was reported yesterday. This delay may lead to a smaller number of tests and cases reported during the previous 48 hours as compared to the figures reported prior to that period.
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@Pootle40 I'm in Lothian and the walk in clinics here are for if you're 8 weeks post 1st jag - but it's AZ jags only

I don't quite understand this but my friend's 18 year old DD got her first vaccine last week and she has a date for her second which is 3 weeks after her first. She's in East Ren.

My DS had his first jab a week ago, he's 18 too. It was a bit jungle telegraph though, a friend of his had been there with his mum, heard there were excess Pfizer needing used up, texted all his friends who were old enough and told them to get down there.

I don't think he's had an appointment through for his 2nd though.

I'm late 20s and waiting for my first appointment to come through - DTwin who is only half an hour away (and same health board) has got their appointment for their first jab next week but I still haven't heard anything. Bit annoyed as they said on Facebook appointments would be issued in the order people registered and we both registered the morning it opened! I just want to know when my first one will be 😆

Here’s what the SNP thinks about our children and their milestones

That's so disappointing. I went onto Twitter In the hope that she'd been misconstrued but no. I'm not remotely in favour of the p7 prom nonsense with the limos, etc, but celebrating milestones with your friends is important, and another one of the natural human behaviours that people are so desperate to suppress during this pandemic. We are social animals.

She's a total fuckwit.

On what basis is she thinking this? I'm not into the limos etc either but people have a right to celebrate the milestones in life with their friends and family.

@WouldBeGood wow. This is so sad

@jennyfromtheblock22 it’s really horrible

The problem is A: what she says, it shows no compassion for kids and parents and just no social awareness, and B: the way she says it, this is an elected representative on a salary paid by the public purse at a level most folk in Scotland can only dream of, and the language used is not really fitting is it? Maybe needs someone to vet her tweets.

No-one I know with actual DC celebrating milestones has any respect for KB's ill considered hot takes and nor should they.

The more fundamental problem for her is that none of the 20 somethings she is hoping to woo with her edgy language agree either.

It's strange as she has wee ones herself.

That is strange @StarryEyeSurprise. I’d kind of assumed she must be child free.

Those milestones are so special; even to a cynical old bat like me.

Perhaps she suffers from absent working parent guilt. Her DC are usually at home with her DH in Aberdeen while she is away in Westminster. If so an unfortunate example of why working parents are not always the best advocates for children and families.

I don’t think that @SempreSuiGeneris. I’m for women being in Parliament.

Though wish that particular one wasn’t!

I disagree, as a working parent, making time for these milestones is even more important. You might not manage to be there everyday but if you can manage some of the graduations/sports days/concerts etc then it helps imo. Therefore the more of these things that there are, gives you more opportunity to be at some.

My DCs P7 leaving ceremony was one of my most emotional memories of their childhood. I'm sad for the folks that didn't get this last year and again this year.

When my oldest had his nursery graduation I did kind of roll my eyes a bit initially, but then after going to it and seeing the work the children had put in to their show and how proud they were that their families had come to see them I've completely changed my mind. It's so important for the children to celebrate those milestones as well as parents and grandparents etc., so Kirsty Blackman can 'get in the bin'. Truly awful individual.

Get in the bin? She's an absolute clown.

I didn't restrict my comment to women or mothers. It applies equally to men and fathers who are absent all week from the family home.

I am in favour of far more family friendly policies in general for the workplace and for politicians in particular. The current set up for Westminster is antiquated and out of step. A couple of MSPs resigned from the Scottish Parliament this time round citing the problems. Westminster is much worse and especially so for Scottish politicians.

If the politicians can't sort out their own work arrangements to create work / life balance it doesn't inspire confidence in their approach to the rest of us.

• 1,036* new cases of COVID-19 reported
• 22,856 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results
◦ 5.0% of these were positive
• 0 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive (noting that Register Offices are now generally closed at weekends)
• 3,497,287 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination and 2,425,825 have received their second dose
*PHS are aware of an ongoing delay in the laboratory processing of specimens in the Glasgow Lighthouse lab, similar to that which was reported yesterday. This delay may lead to a smaller number of tests and cases reported during the previous 48 hours as compared to the figures reported prior to that period.
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5% positivity rate. Is that not officially classed as out of control?

I THINK 5% is classed by WHO as out of control if it's 5% of random tests for sampling purposes.

Ah ok thanks, I knew I'd heard something about 5% but wasn't sure