Wings Over Scotland

Nice one Chris, lets just tilt the machine and end the game.

Needs ‘older couples who don’t go single file to pass you on fenced path’. I have encountered several while going food shopping. On Thursday I had to turn and face the fence after realising they were not going to single file. The woman made some comment about it being terrible. Yes, love, it is and you are not FUCKING HELPING.

I SHOULD not still be infectious. On reaching the supermarket I donned my twin cartridge respirator and gloves just in case I still am. Because I don’t want infecting someone else on my conscience.

Yesterday on my run on a pavement with cars parked on it to avoid a man with a dog I had to sprint outside two cars with a vehicle coming behind me. I survived, just. I don’t want to infect anyone else.

By the time I need to go out again I can be 99.999% sure I’m not infectious and since I ‘should’ be immune I will be fine. So the very uncomfortable PPE can be ditched.

/rant

It must be Saturday. Good one Chris!

Nice one Chris.The site owner wiil like it too I’m sure.

Could’ve sworn it was Sunday today.

I’m going to be the spaceship that zooms along the top from time to time, because in a few weeks I have to drive a distance to pick up a new puppy that was all set up weeks before COV19.

I’ll be a walker, a driver, a dog walker all in one day… I have 4 or 5 weeks to hope the lock down might be lifted, which ought to be plenty, but if these twats with holiday homes and camper vans keep the plague on simmer for the summer, who knows when restrictions will be lifted?

What do I do? Does fetching the puppy count as essential travel? I don’t really see I have a choice. Fines or not, I will have to do it. I can maybe postpone for a week or two at a push, but that leaves a very small window of the 14 weeks for getting a puppy socialised with scary stuff like big machines and stuff.

I know it’s not a big drama beside the immensity of COV19, but like I say, I don’t see I have a choice. It’s the poor wee dogs long term welfare and vital primary development versus an arbitrary definition of non-essential travel. What a shitty choice. I’m currently counting that non-essential travel as essential, but I can readily see some people, particularly those in police uniform, would settle the moral dilemma a different way.

Right now I keep my fingers crossed… tick, tock….

If you want to know the death total in England it’s best to look at foreign media.

If you want to know the death total in Scotland, Wales & NI the BBC have this covered.

If you want to know if Boris Johnson has taken a shit unaided yet, the BBC is recommended as his minute by minute media outlet.

Could each group not do seperate hours,

7am – runners,

8am – cyclists,

9am – walkers,

10am – families,

11am – oap,

12 – dinner time,

1pm – runners,

2pm – cyclists,

3pm – walkers,

4pm – families,

5pm – oap,

6pm – tea time,

7pm – walkers and families,

8pm – cyclists and runners,

9pm> – oaps and teenagers.

clever cairnstoon

initially thought it was a link to one of revstu’s gaming reviews

i’m also wondering where the uk mass burials are taking place

msm are keen to show other countries misery

boris’ resurrection will headline easter sunday, nae doot

What we do is protect all our loved ones for as long as we can giving them all the quality of life we can for all of their natural life.

We don’t become fascists or wild animals who kill for their own benefit.
Hitler wiped out over 400,000 weak and infirm Germans as they would be
Holding back his party’s quest to conquer the world.

I don’t ever want to see a world where we put money in front of our loved ones lives.

I would, just like in world war 2 take up arms and kill people like Dave who want to wipe out the civilised world and one by one kill all of my loved ones for being ill, being old or being unemployed.

People who want to control every aspect of the media to endure their lies are the one and only truth.

Dave would like us to wipe out Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Socialism and humanity to save some money and it can make people like Bojo De Peffle, Greece Mogg, Gideon Osbourne and Ian Universal Discredit Smith even more filthy rich.

So Dave, you could work this Christian Holiday, you could go out and catch the virus and pass it on to all your loved ones, especially the old ones you could finish off quickly, send all your money to any of the above and end it all.
Save your pin up boys time and money having to come and get you.

Sounds like Dave is some psychopathic soldier desperate to kill and serve his masters without question.

A nice position in the 77th could be an on-line haven until the billets can be handed out again.

Scot Finlayson 12:08

you forgot;

10pm – Showers

(or would that be gas I smell??)

Rocket.

Breeks:
Scotgov guidelines say you can travel to look after someone else’s animal, or collect it. I looked into this as the breeder of my dog lives in Ayr, and as we have no family she would come over to the east coast to collect him if we are ill or worse. Guidelines are on the Scotgov website. My solicitor thought the journey would be OK, and as long as the distancing guidelines are observed there shouldn’t be a problem. I would think your journey would be OK, I would do it. A puppy will cheer you up :-).

When we get around to counting the dead – I hope all those fully supportive of the house arrest, changes in Law, lock-down, stopping life in general, killing businesses – are prepared to take account of their actions for killing people?

The virus will account for itself and is largely outwith our control. These current measures, however, are within our control and tantamount to murder. Those cheering it on are an affront to humanity and should be first in the dock.

All the dummies clapping may just get away with our pity.

I tried googling video to see if there was anything out there for social unrest in Italy – 38 pages of MSM. London Real is under siege – the man may actually be in danger.

‘and the freedom that you sought, drifting like a ghost amongst the trees……this is what will be, this is what will be’ – Bruce Springsteen

Breeks, I feel your pain. After losing our dog in November we were not having another. We got it to February and we so missed getting out that we made the trek from Fife to Dogs Trust. We became the owners of two Chihuahuas at the end of February. The previous owners failed to keep their vaccinations up to date so forward another four weeks, just about to get them out of the house then bang the lock down.
We are keeping to one walk a day, they haven’t been socialised so no problem keeping away from other people but many are forgetting they should keep their dogs on leash.
Good luck with the puppy, you will be house bound for a few more weeks after you get it.

Re. jfngw,

RTN for news mate, the bullshit that comes from British media is fkn spun to fk.
If it was asbestos flying about masks and protective clothing would be mandatory.

Asbestos disease takes fkn years to kick in, Coronavirus fkn instant, no fkn definitive advice on masks other than rsholes saying no proof of protection. If you sneeze with a fkn mask there is a great chance of not spreading.

It seems like there is a ploy to reduce pension pay outs. The powers that be have saved Billions to date.
We are not being looked after, to tell someone to isolate rather than take the contaminated out of society is mind blowing.
WE are being fed shit from the media.
I know more about the USA covid 19 than fkn local Alloa.
Fkn media bstrds.

Sensibledave @11:44

you ask how do we get back to normal.

The answer is simple, we need politicians to be more like rugby players, put their hand in the air, admit they fucked up, and declare everything open Tuesday morning and everyone back to work – EVERYTHING.

Politicians aren’t rugby players though are they? – they’re narcissistic sociopaths who have already WON.

You, me, the neighbours, old people in particular, we’re the losers. Some people just haven’t realised it yet.

and COVID? – we need to face the awful truth and take it on the chin, accept the NHS will triage admissions and show each other a wee bit more love. Death smiles at us all – all we can do, is smile back.

Pete says:
11 April, 2020 at 12:20 pm
Sensible Dave
Your analysis is correct.
I’ve been espousing that for some time and, as you would imagine, been branded a nazi, murderer, you name it.
Experts are now predicting that the hit to the economy, with the resultant unemployment, poverty, depression, alcoholism, ill health, will produce far more premature deaths than corona virus….

What utter shite.

COV19 in Scotland is currently killing 9.4% of those it infects, and yet you’d happily see it unleashed upon the whole population in addition to the ‘normal’ background death rate, and you’d do it for the sake of the ignorant economic madness which has left the NHS both in Scotland and England deprived of the money it needs to maintain core services.

The same vile, skinflint Tory instincts which would still rather save some pennies than invest in Ventilators and Virus testing equipment which are vital for containment of the virus, knowing where it proliferates, and how many people are carrying it.

But no, British Tory exceptionalism knows best, and will shun the offer of life saving equipment and cooperation with Europe, not because the UK can cope on it’s own, when it clearly cannot, but because accepting help from Johnny foreigners would require Tories to admit they are useless imbeciles who have no enthusiasm for owning up to the theft of the UK’s public resources over decades. Accepting they have wrecked the UK to the extent it needs emergency help would be an embarrassing climb down, which Tory entitled arrogance simply could not live with, yet as always, it’s not the well healed parasites who suffer. It’s the poor and the infirm who will pay the price.

Own it, you Tory shit bags, own it all. People are now dying in their thousands because your insatiable greed has left the corporeal body of the whole UK anaemic, malnourished, understrength and emaciated to the point it’s muscles have atrophied. And here you are, Pete, even now amidst a global pandemic, greetin’ about your fucking economic gravy train.

Get fucked. Consider yourself now branded a snivelling Tory prick in addition to being a murderous Nazi. If the cap fits, wear it, now take that half empty glass of Tory piss you drink somewhere else.

May the cure for COV19 when it comes, also cure and immunise us all from the lust of Tory greed which put a bigger, bell-end psycho-clown than Pennywise in charge of a UK already broken by Brexit and decades of Tory austerity.

I see someone called Jack Foster, a reporter for Global radio, is livid that we named a hospital after a Scottish nurse. Anyone who has listened to Global radio news will not be shocked, it is the epitome of BritNat xenophobia, their reports just drip of anti Scottish/SNP propaganda. It’s a sort of verbal Scotsman/Herald.

link to crooksandliars.com

Breeks

This is simple problem solving and the current solution will do more harm than good, in my opinion. Your Political rant is entirely justified, people should be angry about austerity, but its so small in the rear view mirror, people can hardly see it.

The ‘cure’ if ever there is one btw, is 12 to 18 months away – this current situation cannot be extended that long – or are you suggesting that it should?

I have always been pretty good with numbers, the UK Governments 80% position re wages cannot be sustained for anymore than a month (and I am being generous here) before its burst – and I am not talking 2008 burst, I am talking burst burst.

Ask yourself why there has not been an economic impact analysis on how much damage is being done to the economy, week by week.

All that is being proposed at the moment – wait for it – is that Facebook does it………Facebook.

Nice one Chris , I always look forward to seen your cartoon nas currently it’s the only way ai know it’s a Saturday! Thanks Chris.

A realistic piece from Kevin McKenna, on how nothing will really change after Covid-19 is defeated. Though the ruling class will say it has, and for the better.

link to archive.fo

– missed the comment … duh …

newsreader learns how capitalism works, film at 11 …

and by synchronicity, jesus is just throwing the moneylenders out of the temple in tv film
– was jesus bailing out the usurers?
we need a new beatitudes for the times
blessed are the creditors, for they shall be bailed out
blessed are the zero hours gigs, for they shall receive reward in THE NEXT WORLD
blessed are the anti-social misanthropes, for they shall maintain social distance
blessed are the lewd and lascivious, for they shall have pornhub, may their arms grow strong

It’s going to be hard for the Tories to deny the existence of the magic money tree now. They’ll also find it difficult to justify a five week wait before receiving Universal Credit in the future.

I want to see how the furlough payments pan out. If they’re not paid when they said they would be paid, there may well be trouble. I won’t be surprised if the promises are reneged upon.

That’ll certainly bring people onto the streets.

I can count at least four ‘revolutionary’ moments which have bypassed Scotland within the last ten years. This Corona thing is yet another where Scotland has failed to take the initiative.

Did you ever see Michael Gove when he was pissed in the Houses Of Parliament? If not, you can see it here at the YouTube link below:

link to youtube.com

@SensibleDave

New Zealand has complete control of its borders. Which is part of their success. Post the lockdown situation they can test, test, test. All arrivals at their border who are forewarned that anyone carrying the virus will be quarantined. They can even insist all travellers get tested and cleared prior to arrival or no boarding.

They can step up marine patrols which are already very good at noting yachts arriving from the Pacific Islands, Australia and ensure they comply with requirements.

These measures need not go on forever, only until the vaccine is avaiable then deployed. NZ is good at ensuring vaccinations for the population. Then those who are immune compromised etc need to stay away from tourists until this thing burns itself out and immunisation is enough worldwide.

This will ensure tested safe tourists for the tourist industry and enable the export industries to restart with the ships and planes travelling again.

The UK could try the same thing but it won’t and isn’t. People continue to arrive from overseas without testing, without anything being done to isolate or restrict their movements.

The Scotland; N Ireland; Wales figures clearly visible on the BBC web sites for each country.

No BBC UK web site or BBC England web site show any England only figure.
Only a UK total figure. 🙁 Surprised not.

Anyhoo!

Scotland ….Today…47….Total…542… BBC
Wales……..Today…36….Total…351… BBC
N. Ireland…Today…15….Total…107… BBC
England……Today…832*..Total…8397* *Sun Newspaper.
—————————————-
UK ……….Today…917″..Total…9875″ “BBC values.

It doesn’t add up but that’s the best I can find. 🙁

England is now the global Red Zone for Covid19.

How could that happen?

Was it just bad luck, the way the wind was blowing?

Or is it some acts or omissions on the part of Her Mejesty’s government?

Must’ve been the wind,obviously.

Not possible HMG could ever get anything wrong.Is it bbc or Sky?

Very, very clever – not easy to find something to laugh about in all this.

Police Scotland has handout out 537 fines during this crisis compared to 1087 in England and Wales (in today’s briefing). What are Police Scotland up to, by population this should only less than 90 in Scotland.

Either Scots are particularly not law abiding or Police Scotland seem to be over zealous. As the spread and deaths are better in Scotland it would seem the latter. I hope someone in power is asking Police Scotland why they are fining so many people.

Sorry, last comment should say ‘should be less than 90’.

Yesterday, apparently, the NHS England Chief Nurse refused to answer a question on how many NHS staff have died of coronavirus. She’s called Ruth May and is married to Nigel Beverley who has links with various companies involved in health. Pure coincidence, of course.
link to twitter.com

The follow the money link:
link to twitter.com

breeks, Dakk

… what’s up chaps… surely, after all your bluster, you actually have an alternative, well thought out plan that you can share?

I’m calling you out. Put up or shut up.

Has tory cabinet minister robert jenrick resigned yet?. Thought not, usual double standards for the unionist scum.

So its only snp baaad people that have to resign or be maligned. Not people like tory mp robert jenrick or paedo apologists like willie rennie. You know what you unionist trolls, you can take your double standard union and shove it right up your lying a***holes.

Prof (retired) explaining on BBC news there that every ‘non hospital’ death in England and Wales will all end up in time with the Off Nat Stats. (ONS)

If on the death certificate (which has two parts) covid#19 is mentioned for any reason it will end up as a death from the virus.

He went on to say it all depends on who fills in the certificate.

@Capella

That’s the trouble – they’re rich parasites.

… on here (not on heat!)

BBC and Sky still dumbing down their ‘news’ despite England being the world’s hot spot death zone.

Not that I will ever expect any different.

I’ll give up.

Stick to Al Jezeera and Euronews.

The thing about the propaganda soft soaping treatment of England’s Red Zone tragedy that’s different from their usual modus operandi is this.

This time the great british media are not covering up a few thousand deaths in far off places where brown people are just collateral damage in their warmongering adventures.

It’s thousands of their own folk including decent hardworking civilians working in the NHS who the media are letting down just to protect their masters and peers.

Some political satire for youse:

The Unionist’s Sovereignty.

The people of Scotland are sovereign?!! Don’t make me laugh. Your claim of sovereignty and Scottish constitution is based on documents and laws that come from history: Declaration of Arbroath and Claim of Right. And daftest of all: you are sovereign because you declare yourselves sovereign? What utter tosh!

When will you people in North Britain learn: UK Parliament is sovereign. And I will tell you why:

Crown in Parliament. Did you hear me? CROWN IN PARLIAMENT!

In England the monarch is sovereign but lends their sovereign power to parliament so that makes parliament sovereign.

So what makes the monarch sovereign? asks the Scot.

The monarchs said so. That goes way back into ancient times. It’s ancient law. That’s why it’s right.

But, I thought in the 1600’s Cromwell’s Parliament chopped Charles I’s head off, and declared parliament sovereign? asks the Scot.

Yes, parliament was sovereign.

But, you said the Crown was sovereign and it’s Crown in Parliament that makes parliament sovereign. So parliament wasn’t sovereign when there was no Crown and England was a republic? asks the Scot.

Yes, parliament was sovereign then also.

But you said sovereignty comes from the Crown. So, where did parliament’s sovereignty come from when there was no Crown? asks the Scot.

Parliament declared itself sovereign.

So, now there is a monarch again, doesn’t that make the monarch sovereign? asks the Scot.

Oh no, parliament is sovereign.

But how is parliament sovereign? asks the Scot.

Crown in parliament! Is that so difficult to understand?

It seems we’re going round in cirles here, says the Scot. I cannae follow that at all. So, what makes the monarch sovereign to make the parliament sovereign, even though the English parliament was sovereign without a monarch to make it sovereign?

The monarch of England is sovereign; that’s just the way it is, going back hundreds of years.

Now you see why England’s constitution of parliamentary sovereignty became Britain’s supreme constitutional principle? Our constitution makes sense; its modern, not based on history or tradition. It makes sense, doesn’t it?

Does it? asks the Scot. Seems to me youse just make it up as you go along.

The flexibility of the UK constitution is one of the great things about it but, of course that’s not just making it up as we go along. It’s based on English legal principles dating back hundreds of years. That’s why it’s superior.

Some funny stats I saw reported by the BBC.
Apparently, on analysing the deaths it appears that there is a much larger proportion of Black and Asians than White people dying from this disease.
Maybe it’s because London and Birmingham are the hot spots and there is a bigger proportion of ethnic minorities in these two centres.
Anyway, very interesting.

Breastplate says:
11 April, 2020 at 1:51 pm
Breeks,
I think it’s important that you do not overreact and lose sight of facts.
Covid 19 does not kill 9.4% of those infected, we actually don’t know how many people are infected….

link to travellingtabby.com

Right now, the TravellingTabby site I follow is quoting a fatality rate of 9.7% of total cases in Scotland. That the Tories are now privately discussing ‘everybody’ catching the virus, is nothing short of a scandal on top of a disgrace.

Granted, there’s a chance the figure is high because patients dying might have underlying medical conditions, but these are also patients who are lucky enough to be getting medical care. If the numbers keep growing, the system will eventually be overstretched and the current access to care and ventilators will be more difficult and have it’s own impact on fatalities.

I don’t believe that I am overreacting. 9.7% Fatality is the figure quoted and the trend is up.

The fact we don’t know how many people have the virus is precisely the point I’m making. Testing is a vital component of the lock down, otherwise you are blind to where the virus actually is, and we’ll living with unnecessary lockdowns which don’t do anything, or see stubborn new infections breaking out whenever lockdown is eased.

To
Sensibledave
Pete
Thehundredthidiot

You are the three stooges

Farcical nonsense day in and day out

Covid19 is killing 1000 a day in U.K. and will continue to do so for weeks to come
This weekend it killed more than were killed in 9/11
Each day more die from covid19 in U.K. than we’re killed each day in the Iraq war

And here we have the three stooges saying everyone should go back to work to school to uni back to normal life all shops pubs restaurants schools open from Monday

The original three stooges merited a laugh

These three stooges are just laughable for their idiocy

Earlier today on BBC News 24, I managed to watch the BBC anchor taking to a BBC correspondent based in Spain, about the countries latest figures for deaths due to Covid 19.

He was explaining why the figures should be treated with a ‘pinch of salt’.

His logic was very reasonable, and no doubt he was correct.

However, would the BBC dare to say the same about the UK’s figures for deaths due to Covid 19?

The figures for England are only in respect of those people who were hospitalised and tested positive for Covid 29 when they died.

The figure for Scotland is also in respect of deaths in hospitals, but it now also includes deaths in the community.

I have been unable to find the figure for deaths that occur in hospital. It appears the Scottish Government does not provide a breakdown of their new method of counting deaths in Scotland.

While the UK Government are happy to accept the new Scottish figures that include deaths that occurred in its communities, they are reluctant to include figures for deaths due to Covid 19 in England’s communities.

I am not sure what the ‘benefit’ is for Scotland to break ranks, but I have noticed the ‘benefit’ for the UK Government.

The mainstream media almost always invariably fail to report their headline for the UK’s deaths due to Covid 19 are people who were hospitalised.

By not providing a very important caveat to the UK total, that when deaths in the community are included, the UK total will be much higher.

It is right for the Scottish Government to count deaths in the community, but they should keep this figure, and the figure for deaths in hospital entirely separate.

Hi Brian dtt
I’m watching it on VirginTV ch622,so not sure about computer version sibtitles.

I’m not tech savvy, but will try on my android phone.

Richard Murphy says that Modern Monetary Theory has won the day. He has other interesting articles on the far reaching consequences of the current collapse of normal behaviour.

Radio Scotland interviewed a behavioural scientist today from Edinburgh University, a Dr. Bauld. She opined that governments should begin talking about getting back to work and school and going out shopping again like good little consumers.

But I think a long pause for reflection will do us no harm. Wildlife is reclaiming the countryside again. Deer are wandering down motorways and peering over garden fences. Beavers are splashing about in pools less than 2 miles from Stirling. All sorts of bees and birds and insects are thoroughy enjoying the respite from man’s dominion.

Sadly, Richard Murphy doesn’t think it possible to introduce Universal Basic Income atm. Pity. I don’t see why not. It would remove all the glaring anomalies of the current lopsided, piecemeal, ham-fisted method of keeping people alive. As someone on twitter pointed out, we should pay the front line workers £65,000 a year plus bonuses and pay the bankers £25,000

link to taxresearch.org.uk

@ BDTT – I don’t know what you’re watching euronews on but on my laptop it’s all in English. There’s a drop down arrow at the top left of the home page which gives you an option to choose the language.
https://www.euronews.com

Seen a report that a UK private plane was turned back by France containing a number of older men and women in their twenties. First thought, obviously not Prince Andrew.

I hope folks are ignoring the two Tory clowns, who are ideologically opposed to a scientific world view. They obviously also lack practical experience of government.

The rational approach to this situation is to adopt a “precautionary” approach. Tories are ideologically opposed to this approach to government and public health.

@Pete & Dave
You’re a couple of bigoted morons and a threat to public health. Chase yourselves.

The precautionary principle:
protecting public health, the environment
and the future of our children
link to euro.who.int

Numbers…

link to realclearpolitics.com

Hi peeps.

Dakk and Capella mentioned ‘language’.

I’m on the Euronews English site. But… I usually have a news channel on my second monitor, with the sound muted and sub-titles on, so I can glance at it every so often, while I’m doing the really important stuff on my main monitor.

That’s why I want sub-titles; not to translate what’s being said.

Tories are ideologically opposed to the precautionary principle. The precautionary principle is strongly linked with evidence based medicine. Evidence based medicine is not possible without a legal respect for biology.

The Precautionary Principle, Evidence-Based Medicine, and Decision Theory in Public Health Evaluation
link to frontiersin.org

The most depressing thing about this fuckin ‘crisis’, for me anyway, is seeing people I respect and have known for years (some of them are right here in this place) succumbing to bog-standard hysteria.

For the best part of a decade we’ve been learning how to watch the msm, how to read it. We’ve developed antennae when it comes to nailing bullshit, ‘fake’ news, misdirection, distraction, straw-man arguments, circular reasoning, ad hominem, non sequiturs etc.

But here we are, arguing about whether or not it’s ‘responsible’ to follow whatever dictat-de-jour emerges from Westminster?

We’ve lost our fuckin minds.

Literally.

Neighbours spying on each other. People terrified to sit on park benches. Loved ones separated for weeks, months, not knowing if they’ll ever get to see each other again. And worst of all – our own parents, siblings, children, left alone in hospital wards to die without seeing us.

It is despicable what is happening. No, despicable isn’t strong enough…it’s fuckin diabolical.

We’re already under ‘voluntary’ house-arrest and curfew could well be imminent – how long before we require a passport to go out of our own front doors?

We’re being played like a penny whistle.

🙁

Ian Brotherhood
You are quite correct and I need say no more.
My wife and I are going for dinner tomorrow to our daughter and husband’s farm.
Need I say anything else.
According to people on here I’m a fascist and nazi.

Hi Ian B at 9:43 pm.

“We’re being played like a penny whistle.”

Those who don’t read WOS or Craig Murray or Wee Ginger Dug or Peter A Bell, no doubt.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m ragging at this enforced limitation on my liberty. This situation should have been better prepared for, and handled more rationally. Unfortunately, nailing the bastards responsible will unlikely in Brexitania, detached as it is from the justice of the natural law tradition.

Scot Finlayson says:
11 April, 2020 at 10:21 pm
Does anyone know if the Coronavirus Bill allows the establishment to monitor your phone to see if you are in or out and if out where you are going and for how long.

I don’t go out much, but when I do I leave my phone at home.

Intensive care consultant’s interview was the coronavirus message we all needed to hear

link to archive.is

Here’s the interview.

No comment needed

link to youtube.com

@ ahundredthidiot

Nope. The ‘Attestation De Deplacement Derogatoire’ doesn’t say anything about which specified hours you are permitted to leave your house.

It says you’re allowed one hour exrecise but doesn’t say when you have to take it. On you go if you fancy a walk at 3am in the morning.

BTW, I have never seen a single policeman anywhere here apart from the first day the restrictions came into force, which would have been March 16th.

Not being able to play golf 3/4 times a week has certainly reduced my vitamin D intake. 15 mins sunshine a day normally allows individuals to top their Vitamin D up. You would have to eat a hell of a lot of meat( so I’m told) to make up the loss of that 15 min walk in the Sun. Bernie Saunders wanted the U.S. gov to supply every household with a supplement and I’ve read at least 1 fb article calling on the Scot Gov to do the same.

I did a frozen food run to my son the other day, felt almost criminal driving there.

Silly me.

We exchanged gifts, spoke over the car for 10 mins,then I left.

Is felt weird,but then again it’s what’s needed then I’ll do it.

BDDT

Euronews:

Here in Frankfurt I have Unity media as my TV provider.

I’ve about 400 useable channels and Euronews has roughly about 6-7 channels of the same programme but each with its own language. Have a look through your list of channels for Euronews EN.

That way you don’t need to dabble with the settings..! 🙂

I have as standard for foreign channels
CNN
Euronews
France24
Al Jazeerra
RT
BBC Worldwide (Know thine enemy)

Ian Brotherhood,
I do feel as a society, we are making things very difficult for ourselves.

@ Capella.

Here’s a wee health tip you might care to try.
Apple cider vinager ( with Mother ) its non pasteurized and the mother is the mother of bio cultures. A half teaspoon( proper measure into glass of water 3 times a day, before meals. Taking the mother culture has obvious benefits as your obviously aware, but the Apple cider vinager ups the acid in your tum, and that acid is what helps your digestive system get the vitamins from your food. The three glasses of water also makes sure your hydrating. If you try it, don’t buy it at the health section, its a fiver, go to the condiments, you’ll get it there for half the price. I go for the Italian which is marked Negro, about £2:99,the bottle lasts about 3 months.

Ian Bruvverhood

“We’re being played like a penny whistle.”

Yes Ian, we ARE the penny whistle, we’re playing to their tune.

Not a shred of sovereign will or backbone from the “Scottish” government.

Ahhh reminds me of the the halcyon puggies of misspent youth…

Well, unless this thing mutates into a more benign variant – this is our life for a long time to come.
The containment is just to prevent a massive spike until everyone is inured to a certain level of Covid19 deaths’and we all.go back to work; in the same way we are inured to hundreds of thousands of deaths from Seasonal Flu globally every year.
Being pretty much of that ilk, Covid19 is a now a thing, it now exists and will be around alongside Seasonal Flu all the time.

Sure there may be a vaccine, eventually (holding of breath optional) but that is liable to be of the same nature as Seasonal Flu vaccines. It’s doesn’t eradicate it, or stop all the annual Flu deaths, nor does it fix you if you’ve already got it – but does help reduce the annual toll.

The difference being: in future, it won’t be: “I’ve the Flu I’ll be in to work after I’ve shaken it off in a week” (or the bastards ‘I’m indespensible to the company, I’ll still be in to give it to everyone – you’re welcome”
Due to the similarities of some symptoms; it will probably be “I’ve the Lurgy, I’ll be away down the Corona Centre to get tested and given my green/red wrisband or RFID card.

It may actually, paradoxically aid in reducing the seasonal Flu deaths in future, because now people may actually care about the vulnerable with a hacking bad cough and pneumonia – rather than just pull the curtains in the care home, they’ll be tested and treated… Well, we can all dream.

Anyway, there’s still a literal killing to be made from pharmaceuticals – just waiting on them coming out of the coma they’ve just wanked themselves into and we should be looking at paliative vaccines, together with various spurious ‘treatments’ and supermarket-shelf nostrums for years to come. Kerchiingg!

Prescient by either accident or design.

Killing Joke – I Am The Virus

link to youtube.com

link to nrscotland.gov.uk

From the above, the average number of deaths registered in Scotland in the month of march (2015 – 2019) = 5093

Deaths attributed to respiratory diseases since 2000 fluctuated between 428(2000)and 921(2005) last years being 546, this is probably due to the severity and timing of seasonal flu.

To try and get some covid19 perspective I cross referenced it with the current WEEKLY report.

link to nrscotland.gov.uk

And saw … “The provisional total number of deaths registered in Scotland in week 14 of 2020
(30 March – 5 April) was 1,741. This is an increase of 662 from the number
registered in the previous week”

And thought O-M-G! … THE DEATH RATE HAS INCREASED BY 35% AND IS LIKELY TO BE CONSIDERABLY HIGHER BY THE TIME A MONTH HAS PASSED SINCE THE FIRST FATALITY.

Then I looked at it a bit closer, paying particular attention to this footnote:

[1 Registration offices were closed for a number of days during week 13 to put arrangements in place for
remote registration of deaths. This will have artificially reduced the number of registrations for week 13
and increased those for week 14 while registrars worked to clear the backlog.]

PANIC OVER…but we will still have to wait another fortnight or so for enough information to draw any accurate conclusions.

Though it does look like we could get an extra 150 deaths a week while this thing is in full swing or half of what the TV will be telling us.

@ Ian Brotherhood

I’ve just watched the video you linked to – all the way through, which is why it’s now nearly 3am.

It contained some interesting observations, but the last minute or so put me right off. Yes, I take his point that mandatory vaccinations could be a cover for just about anything, but to dismiss measles and polio vaccination the way he did is, for me, a step too far.

I’m going to file it under “worth having watched”, but not much more, though of course I may come to regret that, depending on what happens!

Sorry….legally unsound epistemic foundations.

ologicaly

Ian More @ 2.37am

You raise a very important point about Police Scotland which is that many of the officers are just thugs.

Now I know everyone can have a bad day, being a policeman can be stressful especially with some of the folks that they encounter, but my experience of the police when earlier last year I took a picture of an overturned lorry at a section of trunk road I suspected was inadequate, was absolutely outrageous.

Having obviously irked the investigating traffic officers another officer came running across shouting what the fuck are you doing taking photographs your fucking lucky I don’t lift you for breach of the piece.

Explaining why I was taking an interest our man proceeded in the same vein. Recognising that this guy would say and do anything, and as a retired person I got back into my friend’s car and beat the retreat.

All in all an unpleasant experience but just shows how easy it was for a police officer to drop into fit someone up mode without a moments hesitation. My doctor friend who witnessed the incident said it’s a pity he didn’t have his phone to hand so that I could have made a backed up complaint – but with attitudes like this would you want to make a complaint.

For someone who some years ago received a commendation for going to the aide of an officer in distress my view of the police has changed based on this incident. Clearly there are very good police but this incident, where there were four officers on the scene, reinforces a mind set very much supported by senior management.

Truth, belief and justification.

The space invaders.

The American way.

Epist epast epology,dammit,what he said.

@Pete

Whoosh!

@ Golfnut – thx for the tip, I do sprinkle balsamic vinegar on salad to help digest the vitamins so will switch to cider vinegar as we have plenty in house. I think we can all do our bit to stay as healthy as possible.

I watched Contagion last night. All the usual cluches about panic buying and aggression. But then look at actual news from New York. Oh dear.

Some interesting links above which I’ll follow up today.

@ Dan, hopefully Scottish solicitors and lawyers and the Scottish Government won’t allow this, stop it in its tracks.

Highseastim@8.37am

Understand your concerns about folks criticising the Police but not all of our Police are fine upstanding Officers of the law. Very many of course are.

But maybe the question you should be asking is why in mid February 2020 HM Government were. running huge adverts to say that they and the NHS were well prepared for the virus and that people could help by coughing into a tissue, disposing of tissue and washing hands.

Not quite how it has turned out only a few weeks later.

And why might you also ask wad Cheltenham Festival, the Scotland France rugby game and even a 12,000 Lewis Capaldi concert allowed to go ahead in the period immediately before the lock down.

What was that all about. Deliberately trying to spread the virus I’d say. And now all change but with economic pressure again to let it rip.

Yes, Highseastim you maybe all for the police getting stuck in to those who would dare to infringe the curfew, but have a think about those in government who wanted to deliberately spread the virus to between sixty to eighty percent of the population whilst telling us the NHS was well prepared.

Like sacrifices to the gas ovens please have a think about the games being played in the background. But yes, minimising transmission is now crucially important, and whilst not all police might be good, many are just ordinary human beings trying to do the best they can.

But yes, think about the deliberate policy of spreading infection and telling people that the government was well prepared!

Wake up and smell the coffee!

Coronavirus: Police Chief U-Turn After Warning Officers Would Check Shopping Trolleys

link to archive.is

The National newspaper reporting that the Scottish government are thinking about taking a different exiting approach on Covid-19 than the rest of the UK.

The Scottish government shouldve taken a different approach from day one in my opinion.

This says it all, as BBC bosses order interviewers to take it easy on British government ministers with regards to questions on how they’ve handled the virus outbreak.

How many more lives could’ve been saved if the BBC had taken a tougher no nonsense stance with Westminster ministers on the virus, we’ll never know.

This is another one to add to the millions of good reasons to break this ufit for for purpose union.

link to archive.fo

For a bit of fun, go to YouTube and type in “Space Invaders Player One”.

Pretty funky tune from back in the day.

Republicofscotland

The oddity about that article is the fact the Daily Mail is highlighting the failure of the BBC to hold a Tory Government to account.

Interesting times.

Mike Cassidy @ 11:30

A U turn of sorts there, they are actually trying to blame the media to deflect this idiots comments – wee billy big baws in a uniform threatening the civvies who pay his wages.

Besides, forget shopping trolley checking/roadblocks for a second, the most worrying thing he said was that our 3 week GRACE period is OVER. What do we think that means?

It certainly doesn’t sound like he made that up on the spot and oddly, the quote is being removed from MSM reports.

From Auld Acquaintance – When You are Not Looking – linked by Dan at 9:28am.

‘It is chipping away at the Acts of Union to make Scots subservient and answerable to English Law. It is an assault on all of us, not just Scots Solicitors!’

Warning! Silence is consent.