Covid - news and views

really?

Yes, this picture is totally amazing!  Idiots or what???!!!!!!! 

"But a would sticker it more positive? I don't know, maybe, doesn't for me but each to their own. I'm just puzzled by it."

Oh!!! for goodness sake, so many people obviously in the depths of depression, its just a sticker, i was given 2, nice lady stuck one on my coat and i have 1 on my hat, still wearing them, did you never get stickers in your comic as a kid and proudly wear them to school?. If i get 2 more when i have my second jab then i will have 4, maybe stick them on the pooches collar

The lady in the paper shop asks me every morning if i am having a good day today i said

"yes, the sun is up and i am stood up, what more could i ask for" maybe another sticker

We did not get anything but a thankyou from the "admin lady"for having arrived at specfied time with consent form completed

I did get a sticker when i had blood samples taken  "i have been a brave doy"

One of the dog walkers said that our lakes were heaving with people over the weekend when he passed on the way to his PM shift at Police HQ

Erm-the lifesaver is the vaccination. It has nothing whatsoever to do with Rangers fans in Scotland🤷🏻‍♂️🙄. Surprisingly enough when I praised the intelligence of folk(we) taking up the vaccination I didn’t include every single person everywhere ET☹️.

Interesting comment? when it is still essential to keep social distancing ,and as "advised by the experts" the vacine is too new to say for sure that it stops transmission or catching the virus , although they do say if infected the symptoms should not be so severe

I was commenting in regard to common sense and being onboard the program.

I have read criticism of the lack of fines (elsewhere). The police had little chance if they were to avoid a riot I suspect. 

Idiots are idiots; be they of the Football Suporter, the Shopping Centre, the Package Holiday Airport, the 100 mile each way drive for exercise, or any other category that drives people to gather in breach of social distancing, safe conduct etc.

Our next door neighbours on the first floor think themselves superior to everyone and above the law. She has an 'important role with the Red Cross' so has arranged for last year's fad, the dog, to be collected from inside her Apartment; the baby, also last year's fad, is collected by the Nanny [aka Childminder, aka the local Councillor] from inside the flat and taken to a childminding gathering organised via the neighbour's WhatsApp Group etc etc. More comings and goings than before the pandemic, and we wonder why the infection rate for a small region is so high.

The Booster jag in Fife needs to incorporate a stupidity and selfishness antidote if we are to lose our ranking as 4th or 5th highest daily infection cases in Scotland.

Rant over ...

Steve

As i understand it, at the moment the passport being talked about the most is an EU wide passport where countries outside the EU will be invited to participate, and if the EU is as good at rolling out this passport as they are the vaccination programme, dont hold your breath as to when it will be available, hence countries such as Greece, Portugal, Spain are already talking about providing their own in conjunction with the UK, and why wouldnt they so much for a joined up EU community.

But surely the passport is not the holy grail, the vaccine does not stop you becoming infected, it does not stop you infecting others, so the passport is only proof of having had the vaccination which might protect you from the worst of the virus.

So, the scenario, ...when you have had a lovely time in France and you are about to return to the UK where the requirement to enter is still a negative covid-19 test within 72 hours, you dutifully have the test but prove positive, yes you stand a much greater chance of being asymptomatic now you have been vaccinated, where exactly do you go, every possibility you will have to self isolate for 7 - 14 days and provide a negative test,

do you stay on site and politely inform the owner you are covid-19 positive, with all the implications that go hand in hand with your declaration.

if you are holed up on an aires do you now have to find a site for 7 - 14 days again politely informing the owner you are covid-19 positive, sure they are going to be very happy to have you NOT!!!

Must admit i am one of those who says "it will never happen to me"

and how is the vaccination roll out going

UK total doses 21.8M 32.5 pct of population

France total doses 5.0m 7.4 pct of population

Spain total doses 4.2m 9.1 pct of population

Croatia total doses 242,000 5.9 pct of population

yes there is some concern over the total number of deaths in the UK and total number of infections, but there is strong evidence to suggest, that as we are a nation of fatties and covid likes fatties we came off the worst      

So is a passport the answer to all our prayers ???