Guilt Free Railing 14

[WouldBeGood]

😱 I think we will need this thread.. could it be the last?!

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Always the optimist @WouldBeGood.

Hopefully we will at least stop needing to rail about Covid restrictions soon but I'm sure we can always find something to rail at :o

Pretty optimistic given we are going into Winter @WouldBeGood!

Thanks again wouldbegood! Settling my arse in for some more railing. My bet is it'll be railing about the train strike in a week or so.

I think we can dream on about this being the last.

I can easily see us reaching 20 threads. As much as I enjoy the chat it would be nice not to have to rail

Railing that the delegates to COP26 are getting Oyster card things for public transport despite these being promised to us plebs since 2012 but NS saying “there’s still work to do on these”

Free transport.😂

Anyone see this gem:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-59034619

The SG really are hopeless @casinoroyale4ever !

But hardly any Glasgow binmen taken to hospital as a result of contact with rats 🤣 That woman, the SNP Glasgow council boss, I despair

I'm sure I read something at the weekend that SG are selling people's information from the vaccine passport database to people like Amazon. Have been trying to find it again, would be much happier if it was something I just imagined.

No, that was correct @Tomorrowisanewday. I think it was on one of the threads here already but might have imagined that. It was certainly all over twitter at the weekend.

here's what google brought up:

www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/vaccination-passport-app-shares-personal-25285887

Whaaat?! On what grounds? Isn't that a bit of a GDPR issue? From the article it sounds like it's something to do with the operation of the passport itself... not that they're selling our health data for amazon to decide to market us some weight loss stuff or exercise equipment when we're next online or anything - but it's not great if you can't opt out from the data sharing. Why wasn't the app designed without the need for all these various data services? Given it doesn't seem to work anyway for lots of people, surely they could have done something simpler that actually worked, but without relying on all these 3rd parties. Piss ups and breweries spring to mind...

Yes it’s appalling

I don't have the app as I have no need at the moment. In fact I don't have any evidence of being vaccinated.

I just think that there is easily a full time job just looking at SNP/Scot Gov screw ups and yes, the Tories in Westminster blah blah blah....but when you look at the state of woke Labour down South and that general shit show, it's really not hard to see why folk vote for them. And we know that indy lovers will vote for the SNP regardless so we can't talk.

It's just all so depressing.

I'm also very suspicious of them continuing to track people going for coffee etc.

Oh yes. I keep forgetting that is still, strictly speaking, required. I've not been asked to scan in for ages. I also haven't even noticed the code things to scan recently either, though they may well still be there, granted. It seems utterly pointless now. If we don't have to isolate when a family member is infected, I really don't want to know that someone who sat two tables away from me in Costa an hour after I left is infected, thanks!

Yep, it’s nuts, but not been asked to do it in ages.

The whole thing is ludicrous. I went to a local comedy night, sitting in theatre, no one masked. It was cosy! Few masked in bar/toilet where contact is fleeting anyway.

DS masked all day every in school 🤷🏻‍♀️

Also, I really want an oyster card type thing. That would be fab. Finally Lothian buses have started capping fares daily and weekly if you use their contactless payment, so you don't need to decide how many journeys you're going to make before you get on the first bus in the morning (and whether you have the correct change). Great. Except that doesn't apply if you have a child with you, so have to buy both tickets using the same debit card. A child's oyster that you could preload, and would take off child's fares, capped to the price of a day-ticket would be gamechanging.

Roll on January when children will travel free so won't need a ticket, I assume...

I generally don't play along with track n trace. And ignore it most of the time. I just see it as an information gathering exercise on what people are doing, how they are spending money.

I’ve never done it

I don't tend to bother unless it's a physical pen and paper place! Nothing is done even if there is a positive case in that premises unless it's a high risk (care homes) I know this full well from DH so it's completely pointless!

Thanks for the new thread. Railing will never stop. Our DCs, DC will still be starting new Scotsnet railing threads, the way things are going…

Morning railers.

DS got on the Eurostar without the vaccine passport app thing at the weekend. He has a paper certificate though. He's flying back as it was so much cheaper than the train, which I think is appalling. The German uni is funding the travel mercifully. His travel (with his 'very large instrument') has cost them more than the American guy's, what with the 'very large instrument' and all the expensive PCR tests.

Surely it can't be legal for the vaccine app to disclose personal data? Surely?

I predict that the UK's positive covid tests are peaking now. Talk of plan B (I know that's for England, but it'll likely result in SG oneupmanship) is really annoying/depressing me. The media is full of reports that start by saying cases are rising. There was a (in my opinion) disgraceful piece on the R4 news this morning from a covid ward in the north west of England ending with Nick Robinson telling us to be careful, or words to that effect. We all know hospitals are busy. It's not news and I'm sick of coverage of hospitals. It's propaganda. The government will use it as justification for further privatisation of the broken NHS and it frightens people.

Thank you for starting another thread wouldbegood