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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

I honestly don’t care that much and please correct me if I’m wrong. The Scottish healthcare system is devolved? Under the jurisdiction of the Scottish govt, about as relevant to me as the French
 
Leftitshort said:
Why would you sack the most qualified/best person for the job in a medical crisis? She should apologise/explain her reasons, but to sack seems knee jerk.
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She has apologised and explained that she had no excuse.
Trouble is she is/was the face of all the Public Health Info being pumped out in Scotland.
All that will have to be re-done.
She will not interface with the public for the foreseeable future but will keep her job, which she seems to be very good at.
 
HappyHacker1 said:
Pointing out the fact that a number of weeks back, many on here were not taking this virus seriously, possibly yourself included.
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You playing Virus Bingo is irrelevant to how anyone on here is approaching the Virus then or now.
Government estimates are anywhere between 7-20,000 deaths and rising, all I hope is it’s as low as possible.
 
Doon frae Troon said:
She has apologised and explained that she had no excuse.
Trouble is she is/was the face of all the Public Health Info being pumped out in Scotland.
All that will have to be re-done.
She will not interface with the public for the foreseeable future but will keep her job, which she seems to be very good at.
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This is all that really matters
 
Doon frae Troon said:
She has apologised and explained that she had no excuse.
Trouble is she is/was the face of all the Public Health Info being pumped out in Scotland.
All that will have to be re-done.
She will not interface with the public for the foreseeable future but will keep her job, which she seems to be very good at.
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If a Tory did this you’d be all over it like a tramp on sandwich
 
Travelling to a second home an hour away was risky, wandering about on the golf course getting her picture taken was plain daft.
Odd really, could she not envisage something like this happening? Seems not.

From her accent it's pretty clear she's from Northern Ireland, does that change the view of the SNP/Sturgeon/Devolution/Holyrood/Scots haters any? People saying they dont care what happens up here then get all over this matter like a rash.
I dont think the CMO role is even party political, they're a senior civil servant, an advisor to Govt's. The media furore seems purely political - Ruth Davidson tweeting looking for a head just to point score. This lockdown is messing with people's heads.

Lady did wrong and will pay a price for it.

Moving on is anyone making a point of watching what HM Queen has to say? I really can't see it being influential, times have moved on, perhaps a comfort of sorts to some hopefully.
 
Imurg said:
Just because you've had it and have built up an immunity it doesn't mean you can't still pass it on to others.
Me and the Mrs are 95% certain we've had it but we're still following all the rules.
And although there's some evidence that you can't get reinfected they don't know for certain.
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Not sure that's right. As I understand it from what I've heard on the briefings, there are two types of test.
The antibody test( about which things have gone quiet!) tells you if you have had it , and recovered. And it generally believed that you are immune for about a year, and that you are not infectious. If that is the case, and it is believed to be highly likely, then you can return to normal living.
And that means if they are NHS staff , it is vital.
That's why I want to hear how near we are to this test for NHS, then other front liners, then us.
As to the other test , to see if you have the disease, that is not as useful except in the case of those who prove positive, who if they recover, then become able to return to normal, e.g Matt Hancock.
If you test negative however, there's limited benefit because you may be positive two days later,.
Mind you, for front line staff, it's better than no test, means if you get some symptoms of something, the test will check whether you can carry on. The symptoms you have may be some other thing, I.e cold.
As for contact tracing, I think that is totally unrealistic , unless there's something I don't know about the method.
 
Kaz said:
I'm serious, though. She's a civil servant not a politician. I have literally no idea what her politics are and I don't see how anyone else commenting here would.
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dft would have done a background check, he’d have known what she had for tea before supporting/backing her ?
 
maxfli65 said:
People saying they dont care what happens up here then get all over this matter like a rash..
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Because "this matter" stopped being a Scottish matter the moment it went on national news.
Everyone will have heard about it by now and it gives an excuse to anyone who wants to flaunt the rules and travel unnecessarily.
I dont care whether she's the best for the job or what her politics are...she's potentially caused the police a massive headache just at the time we need to keep people inside.
 
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