Celtic have apparently asked the Scottish Government to take a common sense look at their Covid restrictions for football players, but I don’t know if I have ever imagined a greater waste of energy than to appeal to this Government’s common sense.
Yesterday they shuttered the hospitality sector for most of the country, while locking down rural areas after 6pm, claiming this sector was prevalent in the rise of Covid’s second wave. You don’t say, Sherlock. Since August they permitted football fans to gather in enclosed pubs to watch games, while prohibiting games at open air stadiums, contrary to all scientific evidence. We have repeatedly discussed this folly here.
Encourage people into pubs, then blame pubs for the second wave, if only they were prepared to deviate from the policies of a Westminster government, scientific evidence would have had a chance to influence political policy.
Thousands of fans attend games across Europe, all outdoors, all socially distanced, all with strict travel, entry and egress protocols, mandated by governments who are not following Boris Johnson’s cabal. There has been no related increase in contagion – because, as we all know, this is not how contagion happens. It happens indoors, where there is no monitoring.
The hospitality sector needed to be thoroughly monitored (just as the football sector would have been) when it opened. Spot checks should have taken place many times each week, with licences pulled immediately for those who allowed unsafe practices. If it was monitored, social distancing practices would be sufficient to keep people safe.
I saw plenty of venues that had clearly spent a small fortune on partitions, with staff permanently wiping and cleaning handles, and others which looked little changed from the pre-Covid era. There was no consistency, which means there was no enforced monitoring, which means responsibility for the rise in contagion from the hospitality sector lies largely with the government.
If you do not monitor compliance and close offending venues, you know you are contributing to the problem. Despite this, you can continue watch afternoon games in a Dunfermline pub, with as much alcohol as you can consume, without any change in government monitoring policy.
Unusually, this wave of restrictions came several days ahead of Westminster’s planned move. Don’t get me started on it grabbing the headlines on ‘Oh, I forgot Day’. We are bereft of competent leadership in Edinburgh and London. The former can do what they like because their opposition is even less competent than they are, and the latter can do what they like because they have another four years before they need to care about you.
It is thoroughly depressing; our government co-joined twins care nothing of the game, do not expect any amount of evidence to bring about change. As long as they keep their legions of cognitively dissonanced fan boys (CDFBs) on side, competency will not improve. I buy none of their bull, self-promoting careerists to the last. Green and white are my only colours.
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Is there a vaccine for an asteroid hit?
THE BATTERED BUNNET on 8TH OCTOBER 2020 5:10 PM
Greenpinata – Exit strategy…
Post of the year.
Chapeau
HH jg
Billy Stark tests +ve for Covid.
HH jg
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@74frankfurt
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Fans watch St Mirren v Celtic at Love Street, 1979/80. Pic: Peter Degnan.
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More Celtic players in Israeli team than in Scotland team !!
Over the period the it has become abundantly obvious to anyone is not wound up at the back that this is a scam. Data from the Centre of Disease Control in the USA states that the recovery rate of those infected are as follows:
0-19 yrs: 99.997%
20-49 yrs: 99.98%
50-69 yrs: 99.5%
70 & over: 94.6%
At the beginning people were dying of Covid 19. Now they are dying ‘with’ Covid 19.
Since June, according to the ONS (The Office of National Statistics UK) more people have died of the cold than of Covid 19.
What i find absolutely astounding is that the majority of people think that the government cares about them, that mainstream media would never lie to them and that the pharmaceutical companies who make billions per annum from sick people want you to get better.
Keep wearing those masks though.. .. .eh!
P8ddy
Good luck with the wee fella- his interest in fitba should keep your own fresh.
If your father (and, let’s face it, all the vast majority of men of his generation) could not explain it to you adequately, I doubt it’s worthwhile me trying
In a nutshell, I see 800 years of genuine oppression in Ireland, as opposed to a Scottish Crown seking a transfer to England in search of a wage rise, and committing the rest of us in feudal bondage to a new master. We just exchanged the master but remained slaves. Apart from the two religious-ethnic ward in the 18th century that “union” has been accepted pretty much ever since, including the founders and early supporters of Celtic. There were occasional Scots Home Rule supporters on the Socialist side (James Connolly and Maxton & McLean) but the vast majority were into building wider working class alliances and not reverting to the 19th century solution of splintered Nationalism.
You operate under a delusion that we believe “pasionately in the Union” of the nations of GB in much the same way that the planter popuation in Norn Ireland do. If that is what you believe, I can see how your father had some difficulty. Nobody here, well apart from long-term departee Macjay, was a rah rah merchant for the Crown, the Empire and Rule by London. You don’t have t o buy into any of those things to stand for unity amongst working class people of Wales & England as opposed to a national union of worlikg class and upper class Scots. I believe passionately that I have more in comon with my sister and her English kids in Warrington than I have with the Duke of Buccleuch or the Earl of Mar or Bonnie Prince Charlie’s direct descendants.
Thats what makes it a million miles different from the DUP and well you know it.
Just as your preference for a Nationalist Scotland does not leave you tied to the philosophies of other Nationalists (Putin, Orban, Schicklgruber (avoiding Godwin’s Law there) , or Trump).
Now, unlike the vast majority og the Celtic-minded Yes Voters, I am off to watch my country beat Israel at Football- the true and safer expresssion of Nationalist sympathy
SFTB
Why ‘Nationalist Scotland?’
Why not ‘small, independent Sovereign state?’
Akin to Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Ireland?
Russia? Less so.
Enjoy the fitba’ and yon big dollop of political poetic license.
Stay safe.
HH jg
P8 @ Brigadoon Central
The opposite of nationalism is internationalism not unionism.
Identity politics has its moments — I think it was big in the 30’s.
However it created issues then and it is creating issues now.
To see your salvation in division and rancour is a strange place to be.
I fear your horizons are closing in and the future is Hame ‘l dae me.
Shit!!!’
Mis-read the wording of CQN’s most exact poster!!!
Schoolboy error!!!
SFTB – I apologise. I’ll clean your car for a month!
MeaStoopidCSC
Naibalance, looks like a scene from the Man With 2 Brains
If everyone In the WORLD self isolates for 14 days that would be the end of COVID-19 forever. Right?
Not withstanding all the deaths of those who would die during those 14 days from COVID and non-COVID factors.
Come on Scotland! Surely, for once….
TBB: As a small island it is easy to think that Ireland could have suppressed the coronavirus here.
However, the fact that there are two different governments imposing different rules in each part of the island doesn’t help.
Also, allowing people to travel in and out of the country, largely unrestricted and unmonitored, hasn’t helped either.
Today, in the North – with a population of 1.5m – there were 900+ cases, while in the south – with a population of 4.5m – there were just over 600 cases.
In both jurisdictions, cases have increased dramatically over the last few weeks.
I honestly hope Israel pummel them. They buried Res12 and everything else. The SFA deserve nothing.
Who’s singing at the Scotland game? Israeli bench?
Al ,,, @ 7.44
Interesting post highlighting the issues that political division can cause on one little island while others across the waters are shouting from the rooftops to create the division that you are trying to warn us about.
Interesting.
Although the only thing CoViD19 seems to be proving Ireland is that Donegal will be forever Ulster.
NFL wont b happy with NB I assume?
No sign of London getting shut down…..what a surprise…
Madmitch: Certainly, my post would highlight the need for an All-Ireland approach to the virus (and everything else). However, I’ll leave the debate over Scotland’s status within/without the UK to those who live there😁
Don’t recognise most of these Scotland players, would be surprised if we win after first 15 minutes. Was wondering who the number 8 was as he was doing nothing and no one passed to him. Then on the 8th minutes he got the ball, that clown Jack from hun land useless😱
O’Donnell without a club after leaving Kilmarnock, a couple of weeks ago got a 3 month contract with Motherwell, playing RB for Scotland ffs
Elhamed playing really well in left midfield
El Hamed MOTM from left back
P8DDY on 8TH OCTOBER 2020 2:55 PM
thumbs up, nice to see you on.
Hatem playing very well so far.
hope jack plays against us – he is rotten. Scotlands best hope is long ball to dykes and look for knock on. Mcburnie doesn’t look fit unless he’s always this slow. Elhamed doing well and biton will finish the match with no dirt on his strip , that’s how classy he is.
Who would Scotland get next if we win, sorry don’t follow the national stuff?
Bitton gets header in, gallscher did well
Hamden is cheap looking – the seating should be all dark blue – with a lion rampant and saltire. Non of this red crap
PPB Escotia would get Norway or Serbia away
Sitter missed by mctominay
McTominey misses a sitter for a 1-0 lead
Ernie,
Yes, I’ve spoken to a few folk who say that too.
Again, we’ve seen players who have had that thought in the past, some have left and been very successful, some have left and landed on their ar$e.
Ryan classes himself as a Celtic fan so I’d have thought the chance to be a 10 in a row hero would be at the forefront of his thoughts. Maybe it is but also maybe he’s thinking that would be the pinnacle of his Celtic career and needs to leave after that, maybe his mind is wandering.
Maybe my mind is wandering!!!
I’m fixing a hole where the rain gets in
And stops my mind from wandering
STEBHOY on 8TH OCTOBER 2020 8:23 PM
Hampden is just plain cheap!
0-0 for Ireland v Slovakia at HT.
That was as hard a watch as the first 90 minutes at Perth. What is that hun Jack actually doing and whoever is our number 2 is pish.
No idea what the tactics are either, Clarke a one trick plastic pitch merchant ???
Is it really true that Ollie McBurnie earns his living playing football ?
Feel sorry for Dykes , he has won most balls in the air but there’s never a blue jersey anywhere near him to pick up the scraps .
Nir Bitton looks very comfortable , no sign of injury as he strolls around picking out precise passes .
Are the SFA expecting Steve Clarke to miraculously solve all their problems for them?