SFA have written to Scottish Championship clubs to ask if they wish to keep playing. Hearts keen to continue as obviously they want out of the Championships. Not selfish as of course they were relegated at last lockdown when they were locked to the bottom. Not selfish. No.
CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Debate!
Do we need a coronavirus thread?
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they'll keep it going long enough for sevco and the jambos to claim their respective titles
eisern union
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Feckin masons @bax san
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you are dangerously close to the truth, gembo-san
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Had a look at the local figures with that zoom-and-click map Public Health Scotland provide.
Seems we are back to the depressing pattern of large numbers of cases in areas where the working poor live, and relatively little where the WFH massive reside.
Except for Corstorphine. Huge anomaly there. I hear there was an outbreak at a primary school but that was a while back. Maybe all the parents were visiting one another's gardens for a glass of prosecco?
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Potential further travel restrictions to drive down Covid levels have been signalled by the Scottish Government as its own figures confirmed car journeys increased after the start of the lockdown last week.
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"figures confirmed car journeys increased after the start of the lockdown last week."
Everyone getting in the takeaway food, coffee, pints and click-and-collect non-essential shopping before it came to an end? Tradesmen building new conservatories sharpish before it's illegal?
Then they all piled in the cars again to take their dogs for a walk at the "local" reservoir/beach seven miles away?
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@crowriver - your last paragraph is definitely supported by the state of Cramond Brig car park this morning.
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Streets busy with cars today on my trip to Hermitage Park to collect an item fair few cyclists out too.
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Holyrood Park road closed between Pollock and Rockstar and so busy with people I diverted through Dumbiedykes instead of dragging the children right round the hill as planned.
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Low-paid shun Covid tests because the cost of self-isolating is too high
Deprived areas see very low take-up of coronavirus testing – and no wonder, say campaigners, when taking time off work can have dire consequences
“Who’s checking if an Uber driver or a Deliveroo person is positive or not? It’s not in their interests to know. And even if they do know, they might carry on working. What incentive do people have to take a test that might deprive them of their income?”
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Two drivers reportedly broke lockdown rules to travel from Scotland to Wales to 'see friends'.
https://news.stv.tv/scotland/drivers-travelled-from-scotland-to-wales-to-see-friends
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Driving without insurance too, apparently.
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So, I can't deny, I can't figure out whether a planned cycle tomorrow is breaking the rules, and no-one I speak to is clear on it either. The rule regarding exercise, in terms of what is an acceptable excuse to leave your home, is:
local outdoor recreation, sport or exercise, walking, cycling, golf, or running that starts and finishes at the same place (which can be up to 5 miles from the boundary of your local authority area) as long as you abide by the rules on meeting other households
So, I read this to mean that, so long as I start/finish no more than 5 miles outside my area (Edinburgh), I can therefore go as far as I want. I'm actually planning on starting/finishing within my own local area, and I can see nothing about not being allowed into other areas for exercise. Therefore, if I wanted to cycle over to Fife and back, I'm thinking this is ok. I'm not planning on going to shops or cycling with anyone.
Or, have I missed something?
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@kenny that is certainly how the regs can be interpreted.
Stay local though in case you get a repair you can’t fix is another way of looking at things. See my decision upon exact advice from @wingpig to put new tyre on as old one has a tear in the sidewall. If it blows and I am out in the boondocks. Long walk home.
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“Or, have I missed something?“
Yes no.
I think your interpretation is correct, but that could be about the last restrictions, or the ones before...
Debate on here is always about letter and spirit and ‘intention’ of rules & possibilities of consequences.
Will you get nicked?
No
Does the chance of mishap resulting in ambulance or car journey rescue increase with mileage?
Yes
Personal choice past legal niceties.
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Do people who stay at home, trip over the dog & fall down the stairs necessitating in a visit to A&E? It’s only since COVID began that I’ve realised just how risky cycling is.
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I’d need an ambulance and/or car journey if I stuck within Edinburgh too, though, as I’d just head east to Joppa and back, meaning I’d be going the same distance.
Glad I hadn’t missed the obvious. I’m not planning on going far anyway, not least because I’m terribly unfit, having been injured and unable to run for months and it has been too cold and icy to cycle.
Thanks.
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‘It was horrendous’ - the reality of covid critical care in a smaller hospital
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The force’s rural crime team lambasted the owners of more than 200 cars who drove to the top of Snake Pass, a trans-Pennine road between Sheffield and Manchester on Saturday, and then expected the police to rescue them with their “magical snowmobiles”.
“We’ll deal with what we can, but our underpants aren’t on the outside and we can only knock so much common sense back into society,” the team said on its Facebook page.
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NO2 emissions at legal level for first time ever due to lockdown. For reasons known only to themselves the Scot Gov claims levels were falling before lockdown as if (oh yes they are also paid by shell and Nissan)
Salamander Street, Leith, great name but dirtiest for particulates in Scotland. The Lochee and Irvine.
NO2 city centres Particulates less so?
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UK Gov Information for Healthcare Professionals on:
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NO 2 Particulates!
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That is a winning Slogan @jdanielp
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Salamander Street very canyonesque, though a lot more open since half of one side of it became a huge open building site. Lots of NWH trucks rattling down it every five minutes on their way to whizz along Marine Esplanade.
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some of my worst hangovers have featured salamander street
when i lived on the corner of bernard street and the distant garage was the only thing open
grimey times
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what was that pub up the road a bit, the pond ?
the future sound of portobello
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