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From NR Scotland.

Quote:

"The provisional total number of deaths registered in Scotland in week 14 of 2020
(30 March - 5 April) was 1,741. This is an increase of 662 from the number
registered in the previous week.

The average number of deaths registered in the corresponding week over the
previous five years was 1,098. This means that the overall number of deaths in
week 14 of 2020 (30 March - 5 April) was much higher than in previous years."

Comment:

Actually that doesn't "mean that the overall number of deaths in week 14 etc was much higher than in previous years". That is a total myth. The figure quoted for previous years was an average. It MAY be that the figure is much higher than all five years but this is not confirmed and the figure for W14 of 2020 doesn't MEAN that.

The figure for W14 is more akin to a figure in influenza winter months but influenza is not as seasonal as claimed. I have already provided one recent example where flu sharply peaked in the UK in late July.

In many recent years, Scotland's death numbers per year have been increasing. There is nothing unusual to Scotland in that increase. It reflects the fact that many people are living to older ages.

It is said in the accompanying press release that the greatest numbers of deaths is in old people's homes. Hardly a huge surprise given those ages.

It is also said that one third of deaths in W14 occurred in people who had tested test positive for coronavirus.

It remains the case that there is no test worldwide for Covid-19. There is a test for fluid in the area of the lungs and some other genetic material as there was with SARS in 2003. They don't actually know the range of conditions in which such material might be evident or if it would crop up in a lot of people ordinarily.

Then they look at the symptoms and say "oh yes this is Covid-19 by the way the symptoms are" when it is also accepted that the symptoms from person to person are so wide ranging as to be virtually nebulous. Incredibly they haven't even established a clear scientific link between this virus as perceived and someone previously being immuno-compromised.

Bring back Russell Grant as soon as possible. We might get a more scientific assessment from him.

BBC NEWS

"The biggest field hospital, NHS Nightingale in London, has already opened.

It has space for 4,000 patients but has taken only a few dozen so far.

Meanwhile, the facility in Birmingham has yet to take in any patients, while the site planned in north-east England may not now be needed.

Martin Wilson, the chief operating officer for Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which is overseeing the Washington (UK) project, said: "I don't think we will need to open".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52293762

QUOTES

"Ever get the feeling you have been cheated?"

Quote from Johnny Rotten, the great 1970s

"Ich bin der Schlumpfen Cowboy Joe
Man kennt mich im Schlumpf Saloon"

Quote from The Smurfs in German in 1995

THE STARS

Today the Moon is in the most eccentric sign, Aquarius, and in its Mooning the Moon is square with Uranus.

Uranus is in Taurus which as you are probably aware is full of The Bull.

Genuinely - that is how it is all genuinely aligned for 15 April 2020.

And I didn't need any scientist to tell me that 'cos I'm a natural mystic.

The Duke of Westminster has given £12.5 million to the NHS to help in the fight against coronavirus.

Not to be sniffed at, of course, but when one takes into account his overall wealth it's the same as a single pensioner donating 17p.

Quote: Rood Eye @ 15th April 2020, 6:49 PM

The Duke of Westminster has given £12.5 million to the NHS to help in the fight against coronavirus.

Not to be sniffed at, of course, but when one takes into account his overall wealth it's the same as a single pensioner donating 17p.

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Yes, quite. I do agree. I also feel I need to clarify a certain point so as to be accurate. The 1970s didn't always feel great. Sometimes they were totally brilliant like when I did almost all of the Pembrokeshire Coast Path on a spacehopper. At other times, I wouldn't slit my wrists because it was against my religion so I just slit my brain's wrists instead. That variation wasn't unusual. We were all living in the real world. Now, though, I have a new 7G microscope using a special privileged person's Zoom app. It enables me to see particles of nothing which in actuality exists floating in my room. And as I am fully funded by the manufacturers, I have said I have seen the 1970s through an entirely different lens. It's not only that. My ego is such that I want to be remembered for a pure fabrication which changed every mind on the entire globe.

Ooh, Andrew Cuomo has just said that he thinks New York State has turned a corner.

Ooh, and now the Tour De France definitely WILL be starting in La Belle Multinational Macron Soviet France.

Ooh....well, I fink you have got the new legally required picture.

How wonderful - It's a miwacle.

Just a quaint sort of question.

Why is it that countries like Spain - and there are many more of them - are now significantly relaxing lockdowns just at the point where the number of deaths have declined only to the number when they felt it totally essential to apply lockdowns?

Don't think Spain is relaxing anything. Just spoke to a friend whose daughter is in Spain and thre lock diwn is worse than here.

Quote: Briosaid @ 15th April 2020, 8:39 PM

Don't think Spain is relaxing anything. Just spoke to a friend whose daughter is in Spain and thre lock diwn is worse than here.

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That must be more fake new then.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/13/spain-relaxes-lockdown-as-daily-coronavirus-death-toll-falls-to-517

A RATIONAL PERSON'S DOUBLE BIND

As will be evident from my posts, I have huge doubts about this virus. I believe we are being lied to. There may well be political agendas. I was asked today by a friend who knows me well why I should then be so robust on adhering to the Government advice which is effectively legislation and appalled and anxious at those who are not adhering to it. Cheers!

It is very simple.

One, I am inclined to do what I am told to do even if I seriously doubt it. Call that the experience of 25 years in the Civil Service often putting forward lines for pay with which I vehemently disagreed. My disagreement in those contexts meant nothing because I had signed the Official Secrets Act and was very loyal to any democratically elected Government in a professional capacity. I was also forced into the school cadets for 18 months when I was 14. Totally not in my character but I didn't use that as an excuse to try to get out of it. Two, for all of my doubts, I believe until the opposite is absolutely proven, it is best to adhere to the lawful advice "just in case". This I have done relentlessly and I hope and expect others to do the same. Regrettably I have found that I am an in a minority even among the believers of what we are being told.

Some way up this thread one person expressed the feeling that to go against the grain was a man problem. I have to say that my experience is quite the opposite. It really is no lie to say that every single problem I have experienced during this period has come from a woman. This is not to excuse the so-called Mamils who I am extremely fortunate not to have encountered. They are not the sort of people I naturally get on with in any day. I am frankly surprised that they haven't been pushed off their arrogant bikes, had those bikes stolen and received a kicking. I would do none of these things myself but if it happened there is no law even now against me laughing and cheering. But women. I mean really. Really.

Some have been wonderful in their support. Others and you ask what f**king planet are they living on. I could understand it just about from my mother. The never seen before cold indifference to being supplied with food and the sort of getting out her tackle to shove what food she has herself back in my direction. Much of it is her age. But when it comes to being forced to accept a cake from a kind 70 year old neighbour whose husband is in and out of hosiptals as a guinea pig for placebo-or-not tests and whose daughter is a local nurse who believes she has had Covid-19 and come through it. I'm sorry. Then it takes it to the giddy limit. I am frankly sick and tired of petty petulant upsets which last three days when I have to ask myself if there is something murderous in her subconscious and that of many other apparently "nice" people.

I have had a woman in a shop take affront at the very notion that she could carry a disease. "I'm wearing gloves" she shrieked when I had asked her to leave me to take my bank card out of her machine and she did it anyway. Sorry love, but gloves protect you. They have been on everything so they ain't gonna protect me. I've tried to stand back for a woman who arrived outside a shop after me. We had a Covid conversation. "No you go in first, I am in no hurry", I said. She insisted no. I went in first. Then seconds later she decided to go in there breathing down my neck. I could have crucified her for her ways. And then I have the neighbour with whom it has all been lovely for years and now it is virtual war.

She has an absolute fixation on boundary issues. She's been hammering down the phone about a panel which has been wobbling a bit in severe winds. It is right at the end of the gardens and nowhere near her house. And I said to her "what exactly do you want me to do? - do you really think it is more urgent than life and death? - do you want me to bring in someone who has the virus even if anyone is available? - don't you think we are all stressed out enough not to have to endure this kind of bullying?". And she sort of laughs in an evil "I am superior" supercilious way - "oh you are having one of your turns". No I'm sodding not. You are having one of your rebellious bully moments. The illness, dear, is in you.

And now she has upped the people in and out of her house from her massive family. It's all down the side of my house which is about one foot away from hers. I'm about to go out any moment now when her young brother leaves and ask him if he is aware of the Government's requirements. Their arrogance is unbelievable and off the scale of acceptability. I am now in a very bullish mood. Very bullish. The irony is that these people probably believe every word and enjoy being leather jacketed bikers for the month while I think that much of it is total tripe. But until I know for sure I comply and generally do what I am told willingly. I'm the ultimate harmonious controversialist, me. I do what I disagree with on paper and would send it to the Royals if I felt like it. I never go gunning without prompting for these sadistic aggressive sheep.

Hancock. The genius. I have always closely identified. Clowns to the left of me. Jokers to the right. Stuck in the middle with you.You will note for all of my genuine protestations - I think we are being manipulated terribly, everyone has gone mad except the billionaire unelected puppeteers who know exactly what they are doing and almost all of it is fake - I have never advised against ignoring the advice. I may not ever have married but I'm satisfied that's a mature man in my book.

Yes, your info probably is fake news. My friend is hardly likely to have been crying on the phone if every thing is hunky dory..

Quote: Briosaid @ 15th April 2020, 10:17 PM

Yes, your info probably is fake news. My friend is hardly likely to have been crying on the phone if every thing is hunky dory..

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Erm, puzzled.

Do you have a friend who is ill or is close to someone who is ill?

What would you like people like me to do to help?

Yes, your info probably is fake news. My friend is hardly likely to have been crying on the phone if every thing is hunky dory.. The girl is only allowed out for 30 minutes to shop and has to show her receipt. Only way she can get fresh air is to go up on the roof,

Quote: Briosaid @ 15th April 2020, 10:23 PM

Yes, your info probably is fake news. My friend is hardly likely to have been crying on the phone if every thing is hunky dory.. The girl is only allowed out for 30 minutes to shop and has to show her receipt. Only way she can get fresh air is to go up on the roof,

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Ok, thanks.

Genuinely.

I pick up on vibes a lot, for what it is worth. I didn't say because it might have been imaginary but I felt that you picked up on the music posts I did one night which were often about council tower block living. Well, that was my Nan who I adored. I will tell you now that she had one of the lowest IQs of people I have ever met and I still think she was the most intelligent - and loving - person I ever met. Some think I'm crazy. That sort of idea proves it in their heads. I know it is true.

I have bombarded my (Tory) MP with loads of stuff but a part of it was that I demand to keep urban parks open for nice people. If the crap ones abuse it, clamp down on them. Don't let their crassness impact on folks who would otherwise be confined. I'm luckier. I can walk out. I don't actually know people in tower blocks now. But that direct impact lasts a lifetime and I fight for them for my late Nan. Or else, I'm not understanding. Sorry. Please come back to me if you wish.

Don't be so sure about your granny having a low IQ. My mother came from a fami,y of 6 all of whom were clever in school but because they were poor, none of them progressed to further education. It would have been easy for me to think my mother was thick, but sometimes I thought she was smarter than me but just hadn't have the chances. I find this a bit hard to explain clearly.

Quote: Briosaid @ 15th April 2020, 10:59 PM

Don't be so sure about your granny having a low IQ. My mother came from a fami,y of 6 all of whom were clever in school but because they were poor, none of them progressed to further education. It would have been easy for me to think my mother was thick, but sometimes I thought she was smarter than me but just hadn't have the chances. I find this a bit hard to explain clearly.

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Yes, well, she was born in The Mint in 1890 just after it had been cleared of its worse slums. I was so lucky. She was 72 when I was born but lived to nearly 92 in 1982. I was an A'Level History student up to the age of 18. She then saw me into work. We talked and I learned a lot. I benefited from IQ tests. Sailed through in that way unexpectedly. In work and other institutional life it didn't work for me. So be it. I think that is my point. You are right. Those tests didn't exist then. I am proudest to know that she saw Chaplin daily when he had no shoes and was dressed in shorts cut up from his mother's dresses. They weren't friends but their paths crossed that regularly. Thanks for your kind observations and thoughts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_of_the_Mint

With so many people in the world under lockdown and seeking relief from the boredom, it's not surprising that many of them are watching a lot more TV than they did when circumstances were normal.

Also, because so much of modern-day TV is such absolute drivel, it's not surprising that so many people are turning to streaming services such as Netflix.

Accordingly, Netflix is now worth more than Disney: its current share value is $187 billion.

Yes, there's some dross on Netflix but there's also some bloody good stuff and, unlike normal TV, there's lots of it!

PS. Other streaming services are available.

My DVD player is gonna explode - it's whirring away pretty much all day long now!