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Posted on 12/09/2021 4:08:59 PM PST by BusterDog
Scotland’s national public health body is “strongly urging” people to cancel Christmas parties after a number of Omicron outbreaks linked to festive get-togethers.
Dr Nick Phin, the director of public health science and medical director at Public Health Scotland (PHS), said: “There is much that we still need to learn about Omicron, but early evidence suggests that this new Covid variant is much more transmissible. The impact of this transmissibility has been seen in recent weeks, with a number of Omicron outbreaks linked to parties.
“We still need to learn more about the severity of disease caused by Omicron and the effectiveness of vaccines, but there are important things that we can do to help protect ourselves and our families now. To help minimise the further spread of Covid-19, and Omicron in particular, I would strongly urge people to defer their Christmas parties to another time.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
I’ve already been invited to more Christmas parties this month than I’ve ever been in my life—and that’s here in the deep blue SF Bay Area!
I think everyone (even leftists!) is missing parties and being around people. So many of us work 100% remote now. It’s nice to get out and about.
Has anyone died from this new variant? And are they saying the same thing for all Islamic cult events, etc.?
The airing of grievances cannot be yelled this year.
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Meanwhile, the pols party on...
Oh, you’ll eat offal boiled in a rams bladder but omichron skeers you..
Isn’t much of Scottish cuisine based on a dare?
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Although much remains to be learned about the true nature of the threat, Scots would do well to cancel ALL future events to avoid the possibility of succumbing to the various unspeakable horrors that have been attributed to the Loch Ness monster.
It’s a cold. Every Christmas party was always a cold superspreader. We just never tested for it and instead focused on enjoying ourselves.
England is generally conservative, Scotland far left. Even so I can’t help but think there’s enough individualism left in the Scots to tell this advice to bigger off
RE: Scotland far left....
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Darn it. So they’ve changed since the mid 1800s when my relatives came over?
The real Scots are already here. I am one.
Good. At least America has us.
Go fook thu fhèin.
Omicron is probably the best vaccine there is.
If Scots cared whether they lived or died, they’d cut out the booze and fried haggis.
“I’ve already been invited to more Christmas parties this month than I’ve ever been in my life—and that’s here in the deep blue SF Bay Area!
I think everyone (even leftists!) is missing parties and being around people. So many of us work 100% remote now. It’s nice to get out and about.”
olivia3boys,
What you’re saying is true.
I’m north of you in Oregon(30 miles south of Portland), where the same phenomenon is happening.
Merry Christmas.
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