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Scotland- Enough is enough

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Bytheloch · 19/06/2021 10:10

Starting this thread for those of us who are done. I don’t want to just rail or fight about it with those who still believe that government messaging is in our best interest. Enough is enough.

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WouldBeGood · 05/07/2021 10:06

England getting an update on lifting restrictions today. Hmph! Jealous

BirdsandBeesmakinghay · 05/07/2021 10:51

NS just has to make sure she's doing something different to Boris. Whether or not that is good for the people of Scotland .

AlphabetAerobics · 05/07/2021 11:25

I'm so fucking sick of it - it's all utter BS. I'm moving house and the removals people aren't allowed to pack my clothes - because COVID! ... and if I want them to pack the entire house they have to do it over the course of 2 days because they're not allowed in the house together. Let's ignore the fact they'll be sat next to each other in the fucking lorry.

Have YOU ever caught Covid from someone's sock drawer?

I got flung out of the Post Office van last week for not having a doctor's letter detailing my exemption. Only went in to drop off a prepaid parcel returning my router... literally drop it on the counter and walk out. A fucking VAN! At no point did I lick the counter, the door handles or other people.

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Bytheloch · 05/07/2021 13:53

Meh, currently away in England on holiday, sounds like a good time to be away. Scotland is scunnered because we were made to lock up in fear for months on end, no natural mixing over the winter where we could have given our community-level immunity a wee boost.
I’ve no intention of playing the doom and gloom game when we are home. It’s time to realise that to the majority of us this will be no worse than a summer cold/bad hayfever. I have also no intention of wallowing in positive test results and isolating with barely any symptoms over the only months we see a bit of light (for vitamin D) and sometimes warmth. I’m envious of my friends here who will be back to taking personal responsibility for their/their family’s health from mid July, I fear we’re only in for more messages of gloom in Scotland.

We need to start asking what the plan is for this winter, can NHS Scotland cope with an increase in respiratory illnesses over the winter months?

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Bytheloch · 05/07/2021 13:56

Have YOU ever caught Covid from someone's sock drawer?

Grin there will be someone on here soon to say yes to this!

Moving is stressful enough without all these BS ridiculous rules, given that they do travel in the lorry together. Jeez. Good luck @AlphabetAerobics

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ResilienceWanker · 05/07/2021 14:28

Well, I'm pretty sure that everyone diagnosed with covid has been in their sock drawer in the previous week. So going by NSs arguments for closing shops, all sock drawers should be closed because covid positive people go there ConfusedWink. Because nothing the fuck else is allowed...of course people will be going to shops

Yes, hope things start looking up alphabet! Keep it up on the not-licking-vans front...

Also, yes, very fed up of the nannying. Would like to be considered adult enough to decide how to behave for myself too - but, hey. When do we get told if we've been good enough to be put down to level zero on the 19th? Odds on that actually happening vs "just another couple of weeks... precarious time... high numbers... Protect the NHS..."?

frasersmummy · 05/07/2021 14:32

I have just returned from a week in London and I have to say there is a definitive difference between there and here

At tourist attractions we were encouraged to remove masks for photos and social distancing didn't happen

Taxi drivers said ..you can take that mask off if you want ..

We even travelled on the tube without when staff said.. I can't hear you behind that mask..take it off and ask ...

It seems to me that Nicola sturgeon likes a nanny state and I'm always surprised how many people agree with it

The science can't be that different either side of the border can it?

And having just traveled there and back by train are Aventi west coast going to announce .. good afternoon you are now across the border , please put your mask on to protect the people you have been sitting with for the last 2 hours without a mask

And on a different but related note .I could have half price cocktails in London

Everything is just so much more govt controlled up here and we just accept it

readsalotgirl63 · 05/07/2021 15:10

There was an announcement several weeks ago that the CDC had changed it's guidance on the risk of transmission from contact with surfaces is practically zero. I work in libraries and the guidance from SG around the need to quarantine items returned is changing - we are about to stop quarantining returned books as there is no evidence to suggest the virus can be transmitted this way. Also the evidence was always that it persisted for less time on organic surfaces anyway so socks should be really safe

AlphabetAerobics · 05/07/2021 15:19

I've got to take books back this week - they've finally asked for them. Borrowed in Feb 20!

Have lost one. Although actually tbf, I've never lost a book in my life - but my bastard children have lost it!

OK, OK... you're all saying my socks drawer is PROBABLY covid-free... but what about my jumpers eh? Eh? Eh? Yeh, thought so.

hilbil21 · 05/07/2021 15:33

@frasersmummy I was thinking this yesterday, mainly about how nowhere up here is allowed to do bottomless brunches. She really treats us like children. So annoying.

RaraRachael · 05/07/2021 18:41

My OH has been in London over the weekend and says it's much better there than the Scottish nanny state. I wouldn't mind if the restrictions were making any difference, but they're not and there isn't any point in having them any more. If people want to wear masks, carry on but mine will be going on a ceremonial bonfire as soon as they're not needed.

As for the ridiculous phrase - "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should" - really gets on my tits. It actually makes no sense. Either we can do something or we can't. Just more silly waffle.

It will be interesting to see how much further behind England's liberation day, we are going to be.

BirdsandBeesmakinghay · 05/07/2021 19:25

I think that poster which is everywhere you look about ‘Not giving in’ is just so annoying. What on earth does that even mean?

rookiemere · 05/07/2021 19:37

@BirdsandBeesmakinghay yes it is a very cringy poster and - much like the "Be careful, Plan Ahead" road signs - completely meaningless.

osbertthesyrianhamster · 05/07/2021 20:02

@RaraRachael

My OH has been in London over the weekend and says it's much better there than the Scottish nanny state. I wouldn't mind if the restrictions were making any difference, but they're not and there isn't any point in having them any more. If people want to wear masks, carry on but mine will be going on a ceremonial bonfire as soon as they're not needed.

As for the ridiculous phrase - "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should" - really gets on my tits. It actually makes no sense. Either we can do something or we can't. Just more silly waffle.

It will be interesting to see how much further behind England's liberation day, we are going to be.

Yeah, I was in England last week. Was pretty much business as usual.
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Bytheloch · 05/07/2021 20:25

[quote rookiemere]@BirdsandBeesmakinghay yes it is a very cringy poster and - much like the "Be careful, Plan Ahead" road signs - completely meaningless.[/quote]
From the same SG copywriter who brought you ‘Plan ahead. Stay safe’ on the road signs. What does it even mean? More aligned to a safe sex campaign🤣

‘We’re not giving up. Oh, but we are
Is my proposal for a new ad campaign.

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charliebrown59 · 06/07/2021 15:58

At least that would make people chuckle, at this point. The faux-'motivating' is getting quite old.

RaraRachael · 07/07/2021 10:51

So it would appear that England is being set free on July 19th but we're not, although we're moving to level zero. Then on August 9th, we're moving beyond level zero but will still have to wear bloody masks!! If they're so good at stopping transmission, why are rates in Scotland rocketing atm Hmm

My local page is torn between "FFS let us get on with our lives and stop all this shit" and "Well done Nicola. Thanks for keeping the country safe"

ElephantOfRisk · 07/07/2021 10:56

New phrases for campaigns:

The game's a bogey
Oh FFS dae whit yous want

osbertthesyrianhamster · 07/07/2021 11:37

@RaraRachael

So it would appear that England is being set free on July 19th but we're not, although we're moving to level zero. Then on August 9th, we're moving beyond level zero but will still have to wear bloody masks!! If they're so good at stopping transmission, why are rates in Scotland rocketing atm Hmm

My local page is torn between "FFS let us get on with our lives and stop all this shit" and "Well done Nicola. Thanks for keeping the country safe"

I've noticed more and more people not wearing masks.
readsalotgirl63 · 07/07/2021 12:34

@AlphabetAerobics well the safety of your jumpers will depend on how organic they are Grin

RaraRachael · 07/07/2021 12:37

I must live in a very compliant region as I've only seen one person without a mask since all this began and he had a sunflower lanyard.

AlphabetAerobics · 07/07/2021 12:51

I liked the signs driving in to Glasgow:

TURN BACK NOW! SNIPERS ACTIVE!

Kirkintilloch's never been so exciting!

RaraRachael · 07/07/2021 13:09

I'm going on a train trip to England in a few weeks, so will we have a claxon sounding and a voice coming over the tannoy to tell us to don masks as soon as we pass Berwick?

WouldBeGood · 07/07/2021 15:56

Seems the oft lauded for mask wearing Japan is having a massive surge in positive tests… 🤔

Pootle40 · 08/07/2021 09:22

I won't be wearing a mask after the 19th.