Nasty Nicola Threatening Scotland Again

[gordiescotland1]

Nasty Nicola held a briefing today, which I am sure she lover every second of threatening all sorts of potential changes in the coming days, tighter restrictions on social gatherings, a cobra meeting this afternoon where she is going to ask for more cash if businesses are going to shut down etc. One thing she said that came out of her loud mouth "We don't know how seriously unwell or mildly unwell people are going to be with the Omicron variant " clearly she doesn't have the facts. So why is she predicting dire events and potentially ruining peoples events. ?

[bobbinwales]

Bobb is not expert but only a fool or a brilliant mind would think they knew better than almost 100% of health professionals and those that study diseases

[Deskdiary]

Ok, I’ve got it.

I should ignore the RSA experts. Experts. And prefer your view.

[pat2604]

So you don't respect UK Experts DD?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59615005

[marksayers1]

Isn't it about time people asked themselves what

the actual purpose of the injections actually is .

Because whatever it is it is not a vaccine !

[pat2604]

Oh do tell us Mark. I can't wait to hear!

[Deskdiary]

I respect the optinions of all experts pat.

Forgive me for not respecting the opinions of those (on this site) who think, wrongly, they are experts. They know who they are…bob

[Deskdiary]

I find it interesting when Covidians and lockdown lovers like Bob, TCL and Gromit find a scientific opinion they agree with that they’re cock-a-hoop, but they rubbish any opposing scientific opinion. Funny that.

None of the Covidians are scientists - but they love the restrictions. I just find that odd.

[MrsCheese]

lol because sage have been right on everything so far, lets not talk about their vested interests in keeping this pandemic going.

[Spicerack]

Have total faith in big pharma and their minions.
After all, they have nothing much to gain and a reputation for scrupulous honesty.

[THECORBYLOON]

"lets not talk about their vested interests in keeping this pandemic going"

Tell us about the SAGE members' vested interests.

[bobbinwales]

DD don't be daft. We hate dlockdowns and want to avoid them.
As for 'covidians ' being selective about which scientists to believe ... yes we'er guilty. We accept on balance what 99.9 % are saying and ignore the 0.1 of those who claim to be scientists%

[Sqad]

Difficult times.
What do we know and not know?
The new variant will be the prominent variant by the end of next week.
We know it is spreading exponentially over 2-3 days.
We don't think it causes severe illness....at the moment.
Our only defence is vaccines and basic public health measures.
Even with two vaccinations and a Pfizer booster we are talking about 70-75% protection against Omicron (my instinct tells me 50%).....

We need everything going for us......and more.

[MrsCheese]

https://www.zoeharcombe.com/2020/11/sage-conflicts-of-interest/

[Atheist]

Zoe Harcombe PhD! Who she?
"I’m a researcher, author, blogger and public speaker in the field of diet and health. My particular areas of interest/expertise are public health dietary guidelines (especially dietary fat), nutrition and obesity. I also do quite a few media interviews – TV, radio, newspapers and magazines – plenty of examples here. (Any media requests – please tweet @zoeharcombe and please try again if I don’t get back to you quickly enough, in case I’ve missed it in notifications – many thanks)."
Not impressed, thank you.

[bobbinwales]

Funny isn't it atheist how some put more trust in an unknown one voice poster on social media than in the vast majority of scientists and doctors and epidemiologists. Ywt I bet they accept advice on order issues from there surgeon or gp. The same ones also usually distrust climate change scientists and prefer crackpot youtubers

[Atheist]

It's a human tendency to believe what we want to believe, rather than believe what we don't want to believe. Tories here believe that Johnson is honest and competent, and charismatic and caring towards his fellow humans. If he wasn't, they'd have been taken for mugs, and so they believe it.
I, on the contrary, sometimes believe what I don't want to believe (see the above).

[douglas9401]

Victor Meldrew or Bernard Wooley, the jury's out.