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While out on the Lang Whang today taking state-sanctioned exercise, I saw half a dozen MX-5 two-seater sports cars, all with the top down and most with two people on board.
An explanation for this is that these were taxis from Carnwath taking key workers to hospitals in Edinburgh...
Boris Johnson: workers will return to offices in 'a few short months'
Prime minister dismisses idea that lockdowns will lead to permanent shift towards working from home
Government seeks to retain lockdown limits on protests
Priti Patel obtains advice on ensuring post-Covid demonstrations do not impact on ‘rights of others to go about their business’
Saw those photos they are incredible.
The field the other side of the path looks safer but presumably it was the farmer called the cops?
Wow, that's a brave camp spot!!
Maybe that "brave" needs the quote marks around it. There was a kid in the tent too...
Lot of landslides on those cliffs too
Staithes and north is relatively quiet as people don’t know that bit of the country is beautiful.
Bob Mortimer doing his best to show off the countryside around Middlesbrough on his fishing programme
Covid-19: Brazil 'variant of concern' detected in UK
A coronavirus "variant of concern" first detected in Brazil has now been found in the UK. Three cases have been detected in England and separately three in Scotland.
In England, officials are still trying to track down one of those who tested positive for the new variant. Meanwhile the three Scottish residents had flown to north-east Scotland from Brazil via Paris and London, the Scottish government said.
Aye, the third person in England left without completing the forms
Aberdeen has low rates at the moment......
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He told BBC Wales: “I did nothing between March and September at all. I got a job with Deliveroo – I went around on my bike giving takeaways to people in London. I’m usually fairly fit but the first lockdown turned into a lock-in. So I was very grateful to be able to get on my bike every day.”
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"Paul Fleming, Equity’s general secretary, has said the struggles of actors and others employed in the arts is likely to lead to an “ever more elitist creative industry”, because those in hardship and forced to work in other sectors are disproportionately more likely to be from working-class backgrounds or marginalised groups."
That's the real lesson from lockdown for this sector. The pandemic is accelerating the retrenchment of the arts and media industries to the preserve of the already wealthy, a process that has been in train since the election of the coalition government in 2010.
Back to the 1930s!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/26/vaccine-etiquette-vomo-and-judging-the-unjustly-jabbed
When someone jumps the queue and gets vaccinated, do you condemn their selfishness, admire their chutzpah, ask for tips? When a friend or relative is way ahead of you in the queue, are you happy for them or resentful? Is yearning for vaccines a legitimate existential response or is it just a symptom of Vomo – fear of missing out on a vaccine?
These and other questions came to the fore this week as stories emerged of subterfuge, queue-jumping and tension along humanity’s new faultline, the jabbed and not-jabbed.
“You’ve stolen a vaccine from somebody that needs it more than you,” an Orange County sheriff’s deputy in Florida told two women, aged 33 and 44, who had put on bonnets, gloves and fake glasses to try to appear older and dupe their way to a second vaccine dose.
Sir Richard Leese, the head of Manchester city council, said people were “fiddling the system” – some have pretended to be social care staff – to cheat their way into priority categories. “People should not go before they are called to go as you are taking a slot away from someone in greater need,” he said.
The ethical failure of such behaviour is obvious, but less clear is what you do or say to someone who you know gamed the system – a topic that has hummed on social media and in advice columns.
Full disclosure: A skiing friend (possibly soon to be ex-friend) of mine down south gleefully reported on our Whatsapp group that he had done something along these lines - even quoting the URL that he had been given "by his hairdresser". Another friend in the group checked out the URL and found that it clearly stated that you should only proceed if you met one of a number of conditions - none of which the first guy met: he's not in the current priority age range, not involved in the Covid response effort, and he doesn't have any underlying complications. First guy had ignored that and continued to successfully book his two appointments.
Now, I know it's pretty poor of the NHS not to have better screening/validation on their booking system but when, in the midst of a global pandemic in which older and/or more vulnerable people are still falling seriously ill and dying, you are specifically requested to act honestly and honourably and you choose not to do so then I do believe that a lot of the fault lies with you. It's a bit like blaming people for being burgled if they leave their front door open: they may be guilty of a degree of contributory negligence, but the burglar didn't have to walk in and steal their TV - he could have chosen to walk on by. (A truly honest person might even have gone to check whether the householder was at home, and if not then alerted the police to the apparently insecure property.)
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Criticism of how four Covid-19 “tsars” were put in place has been voiced by an independent watchdog, as a new spotlight also fell on appointments of as many as 19 Tory-linked figures over the past 12 months.
“Greater clarity” about the terms on which the four were appointed in areas such as PPE and vaccine procurement “might have helped”, said the head of the public appointments watchdog, who recently expressed concern that the government was presiding over a new wave of political cronyism.
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News update on that tent/cliff edge story.
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Covid: Family camping on cliff edge fined for lockdown breach
Police said the 27-year-old woman and 30-year-old man had travelled from Doncaster and Middlesbrough.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-56239268
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Middlesborough is over 22 miles away, and Doncaster 88 miles...
about "the" vaccine, then
i'm currently of the view that the pfeizer jab was a great thing for the boomer generation
but that's all tanned for now and gen x and previous are being punted AZ OX vax for limited returns
for that reason i'm out and will rely on my natural defences until such time as it is proven that any or all covid vaccines prevent transmission
discuss
@bax, not 100% conclusive but maybe encouraging?
damn you @crowriver, dis spin does not fit my nascent narrative
as a functional alcoholic, i reserve the right to remain irrational
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Tourism hotspots hit hard by Covid-19 jobs crisis
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Areas with the highest proportion of claims open six months later include London, north and west Wales, north-east Yorkshire, Scotland and parts of Cumbria
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As predicted on here the schools are all going back March 15th
Could be stricter lockdown need to wait, ah now you can all go back, huge relief. Nicely managed.
Then three weeks til Easter.
Not all. S1-S3 at back of the queue, might get some "blended learning" before Easter.
My eldest (S4) is in tomorrow for a Drama practical. Youngest is in full-time from 15th (P7).
Basically nowt has changed since last announcement, except the framing...
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Joggers should wear face masks when running outside - according to scientists
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Probably should have numberplates too...
Devil in the detail, as ever.
Notice the FM has cleverly tweaked the new Cover restrictions Levels system so that Glasgow and Edinburgh will be in the same Level, whereas in old money Embra would have been Level 2 and Glesca Level 3. Crafty way to improve the "optics", though of course ScotGov claim this is based on WHO guidance. Aye, right. Nowt to do with an election coming up, oh no.
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Covid in Scotland: Tighter rules will be used to decide on levels
@crowriver: That's still a way off yet, though, I think - late April, no?
According to the PHS Daily Dashboard Edinburgh is a whole lot closer to the level 2 threshold than Glasgow. Not that that seemed to help Edinburghers much the last time the protection levels were in place - the question was even raised at Holyrood, why Edinburgh was kept at level 3 when by all the quantitive measures it appeared to qualify to be in level 2.
What's actually concerning me a bit more at the moment is that NHS Lothian is the worst performing health board in Scotland terms of coronavirus vaccination coverage to date, and within that Edinburgh is the worst local authority area.
@ejstubbs, yes a while off yet. I wasn't being entirely serious, just in case you hadn't guessed. OTOH it is odd how Edina continues to be (apparently) punished for the sins of the Westies.
On the vax rate front, this was initially ascribed to a high proportion of care home residents within the city boundaries. However I'm not sure what the excuse is now, maybe they just need to catch up?
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The cycling-to-car parts retailer has benefited from a boom in cycling demand during lockdowns.
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