Nicola grim message today …

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Oh dear. Do you think we’re going to have restrictions in? I feel like I’ve got Stockholm syndrome and I don’t remember how bad it was or how it all starts!?
She looked pretty unhappy in the announcement..

We can't afford, whether UK or Scotland, to keep putting people on furlough though, what about money for education and health etc? can we afford to keep going into furlough every winter or every variant for the next 5 or 10 years? Kate Forbes needs to get real, but its the typical 'blame everything on westminster' mentality. (not that I'm a Tory)

She looked absolutely done in today

Awwww, poor wee Nicola, my heart bleeds. Poor wee Nicola who has carried on exactly as normal through all of this, going to work, seeing her mates, not wearing a mask at work, travelling from Glasgow to Edinburgh every day, gadding about at Cop26, not dealing with homeschooling.

Poor wee Nicola.

Until we know that this new strain is more dangerous, it's an overreaction.

I am in NHS Grampian and the booster roll out seems to be shambolic. While other areas offer over 40s walk in s , I have several friends in their 50s & 60s who have been unable to get an appointment.

Long queues when I had mine on Wednesday. By the time DH went for his on Friday, the British Army had been drafted in to help.

Poor wee Nicola wasn’t stuck at home with two rapidly growing children unable to get them nee shoes fitted and earning just £100 over first lockdown.

Poor wee Nicola never had to worry how she was going to feed her clothes and kids. Ocado/housekeeper was putting food on her table and I’m guessing her clothes are tailored and delivered.

Poor wee Nicola isn’t sat there waiting for brain surgery.

Forgive me if I feel little sympathy - but the big jobs come with big decisions and big implications and if you can’t handle it…

Poor wee Nicola indeed. When you take on a job, you know what that entails - good and bad.

@MLMshouldbeillegal
grin] * spots the Gers fan

Well her poll ratings have dropped since she stopped doing her daily PPBs so we all need a reminding of how much the Chief Mammy cares for us.

Meanwhile she could divert the £300 million being spent on independence planning to compensating the hospitality industry she has just screwed.

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Eh? Don't like Nicola Sturgeon = someone who supports a football team?

Lazy

Not everything is about the ugly sisters

She's lost a lot of support since teaming up with the Greens and cancelling the dualling of the A96. Their push for everyone to use public transport is fine in the Central Belt but not here .

I don't support ANY football team!

Not Rangers, not Celtic, not Partick bloody Thistle.

@MajorCarolDanvers

Well her poll ratings have dropped since she stopped doing her daily PPBs so we all need a reminding of how much the Chief Mammy cares for us.

Meanwhile she could divert the £300 million being spent on independence planning to compensating the hospitality industry she has just screwed.

To borrow the chief mammy’s words

Just because she could, doesn’t mean she should

They need the money for spring, to launch campaign. After the sheep are released from the winter lockdown that devastates the Scottish hospitality industry and finishes off any reserves of decent mental health. They will free the sheep into the spring sunshine and say you should be thankful for her saving you all. Nobody will have the energy or fight left to reject the inde campaign. Grim, grim, grim times ahead.

Or we could all speak up and say no? Please do fuck off trying to micro manage our lives, councillor Sturgeon and your fellow numpty councillors. Get back on the day job with sorting out the NHS, Education, Justice system and every other thing about Scotland that you’ve arsed up over 14 years.

Round of applause, @OnceUponAWhine. Sums up my feelings on her completely.

I think there will be some increased restrictions announced this week but nothing like a full lockdown.

@Double3xposure I think they’ll be a briefing at 1 or 3 , then bojo later in the day

@OnceUponAWhine perfectly put

Swinney’s been on today saying can’t rule out restrictions on numbers for Christmas dinner etc

@WouldBeGood

Swinney’s been on today saying can’t rule out restrictions on numbers for Christmas dinner etc

F that. I have a tiny family so I don't think that will affect me but if I was due 20 round for dinner I'd be going ahead.

Only me and DH going to my parents, so only two households. I won't be staying away (unless someone gets unwell)

And Larry Flanagan of the EIS calling for a firebreak pre-Christmas school closures…

If our family are still prepared to travel up, we'll have them in our house, all 12 of us. I'm not prepared to sacrifice again this year, regardless of the consequences for other people - there I've said it.

Larry Flanagan can forget that. I'm looking forward to being in school to the 23rd and not going back till the 10th. Firebreakers or circuit breakers or whatever bloidy breakers didn't make much difference last time

@Tomorrowisanewday

From today, even if you're double vaccinated and test negative, you have to isolate for 10 days if someone in your household tests positive

If you look at the page on the Scotgov website it says 'should' not 'must' so its not law to isolate if there's a positive case

Household contacts

The household of a positive case should self-isolate for 10 days.. If a household contact develops symptoms while self-isolating, they should book a PCR test and if positive, continue to self-isolate for 10 days from their own symptom onset.

You're right @dementedpixie , it says "advised" to self isolate if you're in a household with a positive case, but not required to.
The reality is if one of use did test positive, the others would certainly not be going along to social events, but the dog still needs walked.

Well exactly. If one of the kids tests positive this week, I'll probably not go to see my parents next weekend. But we need to eat so will still have to go to Asda etc.