New national restrictions in Scotland

[nlogax]

Haven't yet heard this one...only the Wail...

NHS trusts urge people to 'walk like penguins' through the snow

With yet more freezing temperatures expected in the UK today, NHS trusts have issued an odd edict urging members of the public to 'walk like penguins' in order to avoid falls in the snow.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Hmm. Most people in the part of Glasgow where I semi-reside just wear ice grips on their shoes..makes way more sense.

 

[scotrail158713]

Haven't yet heard this one...only the Wail...

NHS trusts urge people to 'walk like penguins' through the snow

With yet more freezing temperatures expected in the UK today, NHS trusts have issued an odd edict urging members of the public to 'walk like penguins' in order to avoid falls in the snow.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Seriously? I don’t think I’ve ever come across anyone intentionally slips and falls on ice/snow.

 

[Islineclear3_1]

Seriously? I don’t think I’ve ever come across anyone intentionally slips and falls on ice/snow.

Yup, sounds like they're serious.

You wouldn't want "unecessary" visits to A&E or Minor Injuries due to slipping on ice now would you - come on, protect the NHS...

 

[kez19]

Haven't yet heard this one...only the Wail...

NHS trusts urge people to 'walk like penguins' through the snow

With yet more freezing temperatures expected in the UK today, NHS trusts have issued an odd edict urging members of the public to 'walk like penguins' in order to avoid falls in the snow.

www.dailymail.co.uk

I read that in my local paper few weeks ago... good god!, next I’ll be expected to flap my wings or my gums!

It help though if the councils were on top of gritting but hey!


Song choices next: walk like an Egyptian - The Bangles or
Walk Like A Panther - The All Seeing Eye..

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Wouldn't it be better - and less silly looking - to walk the way the army do in snow and ice in order to avoid falls?

 

[Bantamzen]

Haven't yet heard this one...only the Wail...

NHS trusts urge people to 'walk like penguins' through the snow

With yet more freezing temperatures expected in the UK today, NHS trusts have issued an odd edict urging members of the public to 'walk like penguins' in order to avoid falls in the snow.

www.dailymail.co.uk

I.... I just have no words. No actually I do, there are people in NHS administration with too little to do. Get on with helping deal with the logistics of getting vaccines out to the vulnerable & staff. Waddle like a penguin, I mean how many Teams meetings did that one take?

 

[takno]

I.... I just have no words. No actually I do, there are people in NHS administration with too little to do. Get on with helping deal with the logistics of getting vaccines out to the vulnerable & staff. Waddle like a penguin, I mean how many Teams meetings did that one take?

It is really icy up here, and we have loads of hills and a taste for slippery cobbles and stone paving. I am walking something like that a lot of the time, because I've learned to do it through 15 years of experience of this kind of weather. It's not something I've really experienced in England.

We didn't have a lot of bad weather last year, and we have a _lot_ of people who are new to Scotland in the population, and who may well not have had to walk on compacted ice before.

 

[RomeoCharlie71]

John Swinney, Deputy First Minister (and also Cabinet Secretary for Education), is to make a covid-19 related statement to parliament at 1420. No idea what it's about as the usual journalists haven't found the leaky pipe yet.

 

[Bantamzen]

It is really icy up here, and we have loads of hills and a taste for slippery cobbles and stone paving. I am walking something like that a lot of the time, because I've learned to do it through 15 years of experience of this kind of weather. It's not something I've really experienced in England.

We didn't have a lot of bad weather last year, and we have a _lot_ of people who are new to Scotland in the population, and who may well not have had to walk on compacted ice before.

In my part of England its pretty common. Haven't yet seen any advice to walk like an Antarctic flightless bird yet...

 

[takno]

In my part of England its pretty common. Haven't yet seen any advice to walk like an Antarctic flightless bird yet...

I spent 10 years in Leeds without experiencing anything like it. Difficult to know why it's different, but it can get brutal even near the city centre here. Mostly they just don't want anybody coming into A&E and catching the old Covid, which seems sensible. Probably a bit off topic though, since it's not really part of the restrictions

 

[221129]

Haven't yet seen any advice to walk like an Antarctic flightless bird yet

The advice has been there for years, just never really pushed, I can remember seeing it during the cold snap in 2010 and 2018.

 

[Bantamzen]

I spent 10 years in Leeds without experiencing anything like it. Difficult to know why it's different, but it can get brutal even near the city centre here. Mostly they just don't want anybody coming into A&E and catching the old Covid, which seems sensible. Probably a bit off topic though, since it's not really part of the restrictions

Travel 10 or so miles west and you get a lot of higher ground than in Leeds, it can get blumming cold on the edge of the moors.

 

[Yew]

The advice has been there for years, just never really pushed, I can remember seeing it during the cold snap in 2010 and 2018.

During heatwaves, should we also walk like an Egyptian?

 

[kez19]

During heatwaves, should we also walk like an Egyptian?

Boom tsk! If we are able to have alcohol by then, I suggest walk like a drunk? lol

The advice has been there for years, just never really pushed, I can remember seeing it during the cold snap in 2010 and 2018.

Yet for me the advice given out do we really believe even our local councillors or the MPs would follow the same advice? Of course not but I expect them to see people do this and they have a giggle about it in their offices.

 

[221129]

Boom tsk! If we are able to have alcohol by then, I suggest walk like a drunk? lol




Yet for me the advice given out do we really believe even our local councillors or the MPs would follow the same advice? Of course not but I expect them to see people do this and they have a giggle about it in their offices.

It's sensible advice to prevent people injuring themselves. No one has to follow it if they'd prefer to take the additional risk. But we are way off topic now.

 

[island]

John Swinney, Deputy First Minister (and also Cabinet Secretary for Education), is to make a covid-19 related statement to parliament at 1420. No idea what it's about as the usual journalists haven't found the leaky pipe yet.

He said they would have supervised quarantine for people arriving from overseas.

 

[Huntergreed]

He said they would have supervised quarantine for people arriving from overseas.

I see he's saying that they may well go further than England with restrictions (there's a surprise!!) and that:

If Scotland establishes a supervised quarantine regime, and England does not, that could be problematic if unrestricted travel between Scotland and England resumes

(https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-55808412)

I've got a bad feeling that the caveat for easing restrictions in Scotland (which I don't doubt will be much much later than in England, even though our cases are lower) is going to be that Nanny Nicola Sturgeon will make us stay in Scotland and not permit us to travel to England or the rest of the UK.

 

[takno]

I've got a bad feeling that the caveat for getting easing restrictions in Scotland is going to be that Nanny Nicola Sturgeon will make us stay in Scotland and not permit us to travel to England or the rest of the UK.

I suspect it will cost them quite a lot of support if they start getting clever about the Scottish border, without the cover of an urgently-pressing crisis, and this close to the election.

 

[theblackwatch]

During heatwaves, should we also walk like an Egyptian?

Only if you're listening to The Bangles at the same time.

 

[kez19]

I see he's saying that they may well go further than England with restrictions (there's a surprise!!) and that:



(https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-55808412)

I've got a bad feeling that the caveat for easing restrictions in Scotland (which I don't doubt will be much much later than in England, even though our cases are lower) is going to be that Nanny Nicola Sturgeon will make us stay in Scotland and not permit us to travel to England or the rest of the UK.

We all know this will go tits up in the process no doubt, If Nicola was to prevent your average citizen from travelling between Scotland and England then maybe should apply that to all her MP's for Westminster, may I suggest they Zoom one another or is that to much to ask, or would it be they be happy traveling to London for the sake of expenses?

He said they would have supervised quarantine for people arriving from overseas.

Would that be the police I guess and hotel staff? ... big brother is watching you springs to mind.

 

[najaB]

Nicola Sturgeon has possibly outplayed the PM by questioning if his visit to Scotland is really essential.

Sturgeon questions whether Johnson's trip to Scotland 'essential'

Scottish and Welsh governments say UK government’s hotel quarantine plans do not go far enough

www.theguardian.com

 

[takno]

Nicola Sturgeon has possibly outplayed the PM by questioning if his visit to Scotland is really essential.

Sturgeon questions whether Johnson's trip to Scotland 'essential'

Scottish and Welsh governments say UK government’s hotel quarantine plans do not go far enough

www.theguardian.com

Dangerous line for somebody who insists on trotting into work every single blooming day to do an in-person party political broadcast press conference that never contains anything new and probably has an audience of approximately zero now

 

[najaB]

Dangerous line for somebody who insists on trotting into work every single blooming day to do an in-person party political broadcast press conference that never contains anything new and probably has an audience of approximately zero now

She doesn't travel from Edinburgh to London to do it though. And I suspect that she does more with her day than just hold the press conference.

 

[PG]

Nicola Sturgeon has possibly outplayed the PM by questioning if his visit to Scotland is really essential.

Sturgeon questions whether Johnson's trip to Scotland 'essential'

Scottish and Welsh governments say UK government’s hotel quarantine plans do not go far enough

www.theguardian.com

Raises an interesting question:

if you get pinged/contacted to self-isolate while away from home are you supposed to do so immediately or should you return home first?​

Given that the PM and various government ministers have already had to self-isolate (sometimes > once) its not exactly a hypothetical question.
Edinburgh castle dungeons on standby

 

[alexf380]

Dangerous line for somebody who insists on trotting into work every single blooming day to do an in-person party political broadcast press conference that never contains anything new and probably has an audience of approximately zero now

Surgeon doesn't cross a "closed " border every day though. I suspect that's her thinking here.

 

[RomeoCharlie71]

Surgeon doesn't cross a "closed " border every day though. I suspect that's her thinking here.

It is just as illegal to cross local authority boundaries in Scotland at present than it is to cross the English "border".

 

[najaB]

It is just as illegal to cross local authority boundaries in Scotland at present than it is to cross the English "border".

Unless your reason for crossing the boundary is classed as essential. Running the country might be considered essential by some.

 

[takno]

Unless your reason for crossing the boundary is classed as essential. Running the country might be considered essential by some.

Fairly sure Boris is doing that as well

 

[RomeoCharlie71]

Fairly sure Boris is doing that as well

Indeed. Not that I support Sturgeon nor Johnson, but I do not like the anti-English behaviour being portrayed.
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Interestingly, as part of the Scottish Government guidance, outdoor recreation is still permitted throughout lockdown.

Local outdoor recreation, sport or exercise, walking, cycling, golf, or running that starts and finishes at the same place (which can be up to 5 miles from the boundary of your local authority area) as long as you abide by the rules on meeting other households

Is this reflected in the regulations at all, as I was under the impression that it wasn't?

 

[Chester1]

I see he's saying that they may well go further than England with restrictions (there's a surprise!!) and that:



(https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-55808412)

I've got a bad feeling that the caveat for easing restrictions in Scotland (which I don't doubt will be much much later than in England, even though our cases are lower) is going to be that Nanny Nicola Sturgeon will make us stay in Scotland and not permit us to travel to England or the rest of the UK.

I said last week in a different thread that Scots wouldn't be allowed to travel to England for non essential reasons for a long time. I would be genuinely surprised if you can before the end of school summer holidays. Very few will want to holiday in Scotland and by depriving Scots of other options the SNP would be directing a massive amount of money to coastal areas in South England and South Wales. I can't imagine them doing that.

I suspect it will cost them quite a lot of support if they start getting clever about the Scottish border, without the cover of an urgently-pressing crisis, and this close to the election.

From an outsiders perspective it does appear that a majority of Scots will believe and support anything the SNP says, especially with covid.