Contagion 2020

[2MatoFish]

It's all about delaying as much as possible so the strain is spread. Not just on the health service, but on essential services like gas, leccy, water. And then on secondary and support services. It's in the collective interest that we all avoid infection as long as possible. Getting it over and out the way is only fine if you don't then infect others, but you would and that's where numbers increase exponentially.

I'm not saying cancel your social lives, but maybe opt for a meal out rather than five hours in a hot, crammed pub.

[pondlife]

But definitely don't allow 14 kids to run around a football pitch on a beautiful Saturday morning, our first probably since the turn of the year!

[Jeff Resnick]

But definitely don't allow 14 kids to run around a football pitch on a beautiful Saturday morning, our first probably since the turn of the year!  

Bonnyrigg Rose released a statement yesterday saying they were told by the SFA, grassroots football was to be taken on a case by case basis. If you're one has been called off, thats the choice of who's running it.

[Shteve]

Stopping the kids football is shite like, there's no need for that in my opinion.

[Cheeky Gnando’s]

I read the 60% figure is down to how contagious it is thought to be. Something highly contagious like measles requires 90% while standard flu requires around 25%. This is somewhere in between that.

Yeah, I read that too - but can they really be sure that's the right percentage when cases are rising exponentially and we don't have any real idea how many people actually have it?

I'm meant to be through in Glasgow for my mate's birthday tonight

Do we just stop doing these things? How long for? I know everything has to change for a global pandemic, and that part of why we haven't been advised to do these things is because of the UK government's batshit response, but what are they doing in other countries? Is it literally just no social life for however many months it takes to get a vaccine? Seems pointless to be avoiding pubs when I've been at the uni and the gym every day this week, been going to supermarkets, etc?

I think it's just about being sensible and limiting the risk you're posing to others, and that means limiting the amount of unnecessary social contact you have. You get arrested for doing some of those things in Italy right now, and other countries have banned them as well. We are so out of step with the responses elsewhere.

It's not about your safety though, it's about those who are at fatal risk, when you take your infection that you got at folks houses and spread it around the local pub.

I'm sorry but it's just a few weeks, put your thinking cap on.

Correct. People still aren't really getting this. It's honestly selfish to be actively increasing the chances of you passing it on to others, especially when you're (fairly) young and can have no symptoms for a while.

I woke up choked with the cold this morning - splitting headache, sore throat, shivery. Fucking dancer

[Felix]

This is a really interesting article.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-51876080

[Cheeky Gnando’s]

This is a really interesting article.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-51876080

Aye, really interesting because it makes you feel less in danger

[Felix]

Aye, really interesting because it makes you feel less in danger

Ignorance is bliss.

[Drederick Shanktum]

Did felix no tear in to work all last week when he was at death door?

[Big Physical Acey]

I woke up choked with the cold this morning - splitting headache, sore throat, shivery. Fucking dancer

[Cheeky Gnando’s]

Fingers crossed a fever kicks in and I can self isolate until the schools close properly

[Felix]

Did felix no tear in to work all last week when he was at death door?

Nope - was banned from going in.

[Shteve]

I might have had it already like tbf, I had pretty much all the symptoms including a cough which is rare for me

[Big Physical Acey]

I might have had it already like tbf, I had pretty much all the symptoms including a cough which is rare for me

I imagine most fit young go-getters like the THF who get it will go through something similar. “Might've been the CV, might've just been a bug, so fuck”

[pondlife]

Bonnyrigg Rose released a statement yesterday saying they were told by the SFA, grassroots football was to be taken on a case by case basis. If you're one has been called off, thats the choice of who's running it.

Okay, that makes sense, Jeff. I got the impression from the BBC Scotland bulletins that all football had been suspended but I guess perhaps it came with caveats. Main guy for our age group at our club did say (when he passed on the info) that he didn't particularly agree with the club's decision on a personal basis but that obviously that was the direction they were taking. I wasn't sure if was specifically aimed at training sessions, which I can see being a bit more problematic because of the frequency and the increased numbers, or training and weekend games. I'd agree with a suspension of training but feel weekly games could continue as long as schools remain open (kids who are sick shouldn't however be playing, pretty much as per usual).

[Jeff Resnick]

The distinct lack of consistent information is a bit concerning. I've an underlying health condition (no, not the gout. Fuck you Mak), due to B12 Vitamin Deficiency/Pernicious Anaemia. That fucks about with the immune system considerably but the advice, from both Westminster and Holyrood, is 'you should be fine', whereas medical professionals are giving the doomsday scenario that we're all going to die.

Do we have anything in place, to hand over my account for shitposting, when I inevitably croak it?

[Vieri]

Don't go to the pub but do travel into the city centre on public transport to work in an open plan office with hundreds of others with shared kitchen facilities etc.?

I don't get the lack of consistency in this approach tbh.

[Shteve]

No football, pub or anything that brings you any kind of joy in life but business as usual in terms of going to work, and travelling to work   aye nae bother ya cunts.

If they're serious about this the bastards should be telling everyone to stay at home and dipping in to their pockets to cover the cost for people. Fucking wanks.

[Nive la France]

Sky must have all the old footage of the first PL season - they should just stick the 1992 fixtures on the various channels and the equivalent on SSN. Would do the younger generation good to see mud pitches and first tackles being free

[Billy Butcher]

Tynecastle High School were meant to be playing Forresters at Tynecastle in a memorial match for an ex-pupil (ko at 1 - pupils in the changing rooms etc at 12.15). You couldn't hold back Ann Budge as she skipped across McLeod Street to tell them it was off and there was nothing she could do