Coronavirus

[RUL]

7 minutes ago, Sooper-hanz said:

Announcement at 6pm. More regions to have restrictions no doubt . 

Surely stricter restrictions for the west?

[thedandydon]

More and more of the opinion that this whole virus shit show is an exercise in futility. Sticking a plaster over a gaping wound wont work. As we’ve opened up more, the cases have increased. The severity (so far) has not. It’s inevitable. No amount of mask wearing, social distancing, local lockdowns or sanitising will eradicate it because let’s face it, folk just can’t or won’t adhere to the rules. We’re social by nature.  I’ve had a cold for the last week, another less severe type of coronavirus. They’re not terribly enjoyable, more inconvenient but the point is, despite sticking to all the measures, I have it. It broke my defences somehow. If we want to return to normality, we’ll have to accept it is a risk in much the same way as the common cold or flu are regularly circulating virus, which for the overwhelming majority of us will pass through with little drama. A vaccine will supress its potency towards the vulnerable but probably wont make them immune. It wont be some miraculous cure when it does arrive and it’ll still be responsible for thousands of deaths in much the same way seasonal flu is. Bottom line is we best get used to it being around.

[Zeus]

8 minutes ago, thedandydon said:

More and more of the opinion that this whole virus shit show is an exercise in futility. Sticking a plaster over a gaping wound wont work. As we’ve opened up more, the cases have increased. The severity (so far) has not. It’s inevitable. No amount of mask wearing, social distancing, local lockdowns or sanitising will eradicate it because let’s face it, folk just can’t or won’t adhere to the rules. We’re social by nature.  I’ve had a cold for the last week, another less severe type of coronavirus. They’re not terribly enjoyable, more inconvenient but the point is, despite sticking to all the measures, I have it. It broke my defences somehow. If we want to return to normality, we’ll have to accept it is a risk in much the same way as the common cold or flu are regularly circulating virus, which for the overwhelming majority of us will pass through with little drama. A vaccine will supress its potency towards the vulnerable but probably wont make them immune. It wont be some miraculous cure when it does arrive and it’ll still be responsible for thousands of deaths in much the same way seasonal flu is. Bottom line is we best get used to it being around.

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[RUL]

7 minutes ago, thedandydon said:

More and more of the opinion that this whole virus shit show is an exercise in futility. Sticking a plaster over a gaping wound wont work. As we’ve opened up more, the cases have increased. The severity (so far) has not. It’s inevitable. No amount of mask wearing, social distancing, local lockdowns or sanitising will eradicate it because let’s face it, folk just can’t or won’t adhere to the rules. We’re social by nature.  I’ve had a cold for the last week, another less severe type of coronavirus. They’re not terribly enjoyable, more inconvenient but the point is, despite sticking to all the measures, I have it. It broke my defences somehow. If we want to return to normality, we’ll have to accept it is a risk in much the same way as the common cold or flu are regularly circulating virus, which for the overwhelming majority of us will pass through with little drama. A vaccine will supress its potency towards the vulnerable but probably wont make them immune. It wont be some miraculous cure when it does arrive and it’ll still be responsible for thousands of deaths in much the same way seasonal flu is. Bottom line is we best get used to it being around.

Problem I guess for government is once winter is out way how do you keep people engaged until a vaccine is found? Most of us like you say are losing belief in what they are telling us. I can't see a second lockdown being tolerated by the public.

[aberdeen1970]

Aye.  The fact that we are testing more people and finding more positives but the hospital numbers aren't rising is a good sign that the vast majority of positive cases are asymptomatic or mild cases. 

 If you tested 10000 people every day for the cold then you'd return a fair few positives there too. 

 

[Don Fonte]

38 minutes ago, manboobs109 said:

Och I'm on the case for new shit. Might just bite the bullet and get a job in a care home. I reckon I'd be good at it. 

You'd end up getting sacked for shagging an old dear's corpse.

[NEM]

1 hour ago, Zeus said:

"pubs are full across the country" 

Are they fuck 

Why should the entire country suffer cause the weegies have had a spike in cases?  Different fucking story when she couldn't wait to shut us down

[NEM]

34 minutes ago, manboobs109 said:

How many people died from the Aberdeen 'cluster' that caused all the pubs to get shut? 

None.  Handful of folk admitted to hospital, none in ICU

[manboobs109]

7 minutes ago, Don Fonte said:

You'd end up getting sacked for shagging an old dear's corpse.

I'd give lick outs for cash to them likes. Old dears deserve a wee pud licking. Probably suck a few old bobbies too if the money was right. 

[manboobs109]

23 minutes ago, thedandydon said:

More and more of the opinion that this whole virus shit show is an exercise in futility. Sticking a plaster over a gaping wound wont work. As we’ve opened up more, the cases have increased. The severity (so far) has not. It’s inevitable. No amount of mask wearing, social distancing, local lockdowns or sanitising will eradicate it because let’s face it, folk just can’t or won’t adhere to the rules. We’re social by nature.  I’ve had a cold for the last week, another less severe type of coronavirus. They’re not terribly enjoyable, more inconvenient but the point is, despite sticking to all the measures, I have it. It broke my defences somehow. If we want to return to normality, we’ll have to accept it is a risk in much the same way as the common cold or flu are regularly circulating virus, which for the overwhelming majority of us will pass through with little drama. A vaccine will supress its potency towards the vulnerable but probably wont make them immune. It wont be some miraculous cure when it does arrive and it’ll still be responsible for thousands of deaths in much the same way seasonal flu is. Bottom line is we best get used to it being around.

Totally agree. It's what most people have been saying all along. 

[Don Fonte]

Hahaha fuck sake.

[Fridge]

29 minutes ago, Don Fonte said:

You'd end up getting sacked for shagging an old dear's corpse.

@poodler

[Don Fonte]

34 minutes ago, NEM said:

Why should the entire country suffer cause the weegies have had a spike in cases?  Different fucking story when she couldn't wait to shut us down

Hopefully they get Glasgow open and it kills off a few of the cunts. Most of them definitely in at risk categories.

[maryhilldon]

1 hour ago, minijc said:

Good, hopefully teach people how to behave.

^  Get back under the bed you tedious shite bag. 

[aberdeen1970]

7 minutes ago, Don Fonte said:

Hopefully they get Glasgow open and it kills off a few of the cunts. Most of them definitely in at risk categories.

The big hoose must open 

[NEM]

6 minutes ago, Don Fonte said:

Hopefully they get Glasgow open and it kills off a few of the cunts. Most of them definitely in at risk categories.

Ha ha aye - a diet of deep fried pizza and buckfast not conducive to fighting off Covid 

[minijc]

6 minutes ago, maryhilldon said:

^  Get back under the bed you tedious shite bag. 

LOOOOOOL woofter.

[Don Fonte]

2 minutes ago, NEM said:

Ha ha aye - a diet of deep fried pizza and buckfast not conducive to fighting off Covid 

Most of them die by about 55 anyway so just shaving a few years of their life.

[aberdeen1970]

That's what they mean by going for 55 I think. 

[aberdeen1970]

Union Street has been dead as a shopping street for years. Started when the bon accord centre opened followed by the death knell when union Square opened. 

Not helped by the council's refusal to cut rates meaning that independents can't afford to move into the smaller stores or even share the bigger spaces with other independents. 

 

 

 

[Redforever86]

26 minutes ago, rocket_scientist said:

Yes I know Union Street has been going backwards for decades. It's just in recent weeks, the whole city centre is starting to appear dead beyond recovery. We were in the Bon Accord and St Nicholas centres and John Lewis etc. 2 or 3 weeks ago on a Saturday morning and we were shocked at how bad it has become. It's accelerating at an alarming pace. There are businesses even in the centres who have been there for years going under now.

Such as?

[Fridge]

The city centre is a disgrace (folks businesses going bust all over the place which is a shame ) but it is a joke 

Who knows how we will get out of this .

[Parklife]

High streets have been dying for years. Walk through any town in Scotland and it's the same. 

An increase in non-retail staff working from home will be hitting them just now too though. 

[Howard Marks]

Come back. Baby come back.

[daytripping]

3 hours ago, rocket_scientist said:

Yes I know Union Street has been going backwards for decades. It's just in recent weeks, the whole city centre is starting to appear dead beyond recovery. We were in the Bon Accord and St Nicholas centres and John Lewis etc. 2 or 3 weeks ago on a Saturday morning and we were shocked at how bad it has become. It's accelerating at an alarming pace. There are businesses even in the centres who have been there for years going under now.

Sir Iain Wood foresaw this and offered to help, the people of Aberdeen voted in agreement, the left wing did everything they could to destroy it, they have blood on their hands, utter cunts, it was a democratic vote to save the centre. Where are they now as it's dying?

[sheepcrooky]

My in-laws were in Liverpool last week for 5 days. They said the city centre there was absolutely packed every day. 
 

 

[daytripping]

I bet Aberdeen is the only City in the World to ignore a democratic referendum from its own people to accept a £50 Million investment to revitalise the City Centre, Dundee must look at us and chuckle. Oil dying on its arse, chance of investment and change........we like UTG, don't change it, millionaire trying to rip us off et al. UTG  meanwhile had a couple of junkies, with a pit bull, odd rape at night, shit hole.

[Fridge]

I was involved with that DT. Fucking utterly ridiculous that we turned down £50m free cash and the Scottish Government were going to back it also.

Totally bizzare. 

[daytripping]

1 minute ago, rocket_scientist said:

Did you think it through? Did you consider WHY the proposal didn't go ahead?

I agree that it was a disgrace but I can't help thinking that your history has been revised.

The will of the people should never have been ignored, it was the left who ruined it, couldn't face taking the guys money. Last nail in the coffin.

[daytripping]

People thinking he wanted to profit from it, he'd have been dead by the time it was finished, it was giving something back.