Covid Scotland - your views online


Jacqueline Carpenter
Viruses mutate - it’s what they do, it’s how they become immune to the various medications we throw at them! There will always be ‘new variants’ of it! However, the doctor in South Africa who discovered it said the symptoms are milder than previously so let’s not get our knickers in a twist about it!
Donald J Makin
Bit like when Covid started and we had cases in Edinburgh in December but no one told us...
Mags Smith
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Hide AdBit over this now. Wonder how long it’ll be before another lockdown. January maybe, once all the Xmas markets close and the money has come in?
Jimmy Burnett
We have, so far, nine cases in the UK, most but not all arrived recently by plane from South African countries. That entry point has now been closed. So far the people with the variant are experiencing mild symptoms and are being monitored. Who knows where this will go, but now is not the time for panic and over responding. Hospital admissions continue to fall significantly; deaths down, both by 90 per cent since January. ICU numbers down. The vaccines have been doing their job.
Gordon Smith
Down to number of delegates in the country for COP20. With a bit of luck the already vaccine rollout will help keep symptoms to a minimum.
Derek Patterson
It's hardly surprising; we were the host country of COP 26 which closed just a couple of weeks ago. Will the political classes never learn?
Dawn Mclean
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Cairney Steven
If the masks do catch Covid and stop it spreading, why isn't there bio hazard bins for the discarded mask being left everywhere and why, if that's the case, are our governments and councils not demanding fines for people throwing away these covid filled pieces of death?
Jackie Brownlee
I knew it wouldn’t be long before we got it up here. Common sense says lockdown everywhere in this island as soon as Westminster is aware of it, but no, they allow it in then blame the public if it spreads.
Gillian MacRae
Yet the government cancelled the contract for Valneva (French owned). Their vaccine was designed to cover all strains.
Marlana Bedrick
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Hide AdEven the doctor that found this variant stated the symptoms are more mild and flu like.
Andrew Naismith
So quickly altered means that those who have been vaccinated need to be redone. And how will it work with the vaccine passport?
Taylor Callaway
South African doctor says that there has not been a single hospital admission with this variant, and that the UK are "overreacting."
Sandra Donnan
Be realistic, why would it be made up? Really these conspiracy folks need locked up.
Strange catch
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Hide AdShock for Scottish fisher James Pearson who pulled a WW2 rifle from the Union Canal in Edinburgh
Steve Dunleavy
Catching a bit of history. It should have been sent to a war museum.
Mags Smith
I don’t understand why these get destroyed. They should be cleaned up, de-activated and given to a museum. That’s a quality bit of history and it’s such a shame just to bin it basically.
Shaun Sibthorp
Shame the police took it away and destroyed it. Should have made it safe then given it to a museum.
Karl Sprague
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Hide AdIt was a US M1 Garand used through WW2 and the Korean conflict.
Sean Cockburn
That's literally one of the things they look for. You see guns come out a lot.
Hal Hardin
An American M1 Garand. I would love to own one some day but they are pretty expensive.
Pat Lodge
Who put it there I wonder?
Tim Shields
Nice find. It could have been deactivated.
Storm Arwen
John Muir country park in Dunbar completely devastated
Steve Bell
It's absolutely devastating i was expecting a few trees but the whole forest has been taken out. Once all the trees are removed it won't be the same. A lot of old people walking around were very sad.
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