Off Topic Coronavirus

It's not a case of conforming to propaganda Uber, just assessing a measured response. I do not think it would be possible to claim that all the governments of the World are simultaneously lying to us, in collusion with all the World's health authorities - and what motive would they have to enter a propaganda war in this way. A pandemic is there - it is not a fabrication. Assuming the German death figures to be correct because they are so much lower than the British ones then 9,000 have died and there have been 200,000 cases - multiply that to account for half the population getting it (which would be the case if there had been no response) and you arrive at around 1.8 million deaths - enough to bring the German health system to its knees.

 

It wasn't her rules, but the SPFL rules, that they broke. The footballers are supposed to stay within their "social bubble", not go out to celebrate a 1-0 defeat to Rangers in a city centre pub in groups of 8.

 

I believe the excess deaths figures. If, by the end of the year, it’s net zero, it will be interesting - could be argued that distancing, lockdown etc kept it to that.

I’ve never felt the daily positive test numbers were helpful, the accuracy of the deaths numbers has been debated ad nauseum on here, probably far from precise but certainly directionally useful. I tend to believe that if someone is on a ventilator and being treated for the symptoms of COVID and the body’s response to it and they sadly die, then COVID played a role. I also believe that if someone dies of a heart attack because they did not access health services because of COVID, that death should also be attributed to the virus, but recorded in a different way. If, as I assume you suspect, the latter type of deaths outweigh the direct COVID ones, all those in the decision making system, both political and administrative, and possibly scientific, should be strung up from lampposts and pelted with dog turds and wasps nests.

But to be totally frank I don’t think much about this stuff any more, certainly not enough to argue about it.

 

Me neither. I enjoy Odie getting all serious about it, though.

 

Not strictly true

It was the Scottish government that had to approve the rules....which they did. Hence the players broke government sanctioned rules

 

Clutching a bit here aren’t we lads?

 

I'm just surprised they went to a pub - most Aberdonians would rather go to the local barn and do a bit of sheep shagging - that's probably where they caught it anyway

 

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Only my cock when I see Ms Sturgeon.

 

It's the Finance Secretary you want to be looking at....

 

you could at least post some pictures

 

Quite.

 

Kate Forbes

 

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No photos of her in blue and white hoops then??

 

If spikes in England are the fault of the incompetent Conservative Government, who is to blame for the spike in Aberdeen?

 

Coronavirus: Oxford study says hydroxychloroquine can not be 'ruled out' as preventative measure, study says

https://t.co/d4QSNhAvgN?amp=1