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It's hardly informative for you to restate your support for vaccine passports without any supporting argument. One is left wondering why so many words are required.

Sajid Javid confirming no vaccine passports for England. Is there still a group of second class citizens? Anybody who lives in Scotland perhaps.

The Times has a story behind a paywall reporting that vaccine passports are not being implemented this winter. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/covid-vaccine-passports-scrapped-for-winter-by-boris-johnson-5g2fdb2zn The rest is behind a paywall so I have little idea of what to make of it. Is this being reported elsewhere?

The appeal to authority shouldn't be persuasive in general. How far does one need to travel through the looking glass before considering B.B.C. editorial decisions authoritative in any way?

Feel free to make any coherent argument against the point of substance.

If I want to go about my life as normal. Because I happen to attend large sporting events I can't. I either have to sacrifice my lifestyle or my privacy. I don't think that I should have to without good cause. I'm yet to see evidence that there is a good cause. Ask yourself what proportion of ~400k will catch covid. Ask yourself what proportion of that number already have antibodies due to prior infection. Ask yourself how many will catch covid concurrently. Ask yourself how many will catch covid due to attending a large sporting event. Ask yourself how many of those will have little or no risk of requiring intensive care let alone death. Answers to each of those questions will diminish the number further until we reach the point that the violation of privacy is obviously farcical. Although it is earth shattering to learn that I can vote I suspect that more is required. None of the parties are opposed to the vaccine passport as a matter of principle. The opposition parties have a duty to scrutinise the legislation and oppose it. Real protection from such legislation will not come unless the electorate wakes up. Political parties will neither uphold privacy nor leave us alone unless the electorate holds them to account. That means critique of every stupid, and unjustified, rule that is introduced. As it is the numerous feeble minded, or ignorant, souls will shrug and ask what's the problem?

Good result. I'm more concerned about how long Helander might be injured for than anything else. Any word on that yet? Although he is slow he would be a big loss.

St Johnstone 1 Rangers 2 First goal scorer: Morelos

Oh no she isn't!

It's not a choice between vaccine passports and another lockdown. The government has the option to do neither. This will affect every single person that attends a sporting event with over 10,000 present. So given the nature of this forum then I suspect it will affect many of us. I'm opposed to it because I don't believe that I should have to share my private medical information with a third party without good cause. I also don't believe that anybody should be obliged to take the vaccine if they don't want to take it. As far as I can tell the vaccine does not prevent you from catching the virus. Neither does it prevent you from spreading it. I does significantly reduce the likelihood of serious illness and death. If that's all true then the only person endangered would be the person who remains unvaccinated. So why not let the individual take this risk? I'm happy to be corrected about the impact of the vaccine on transmission. What is the stated impact of vaccine passports? How many lives does the government estimate that this measure will save? Is the N.H.S. in danger of being overwhelmed by the remaining 9-16% of the population? All questions that the government should have to answer before legislating for this. Any answer to these questions will reliably turn out to have been exaggerated. Would the vaccine passport survive an equalities impact assessment? Reportedly black and minority ethnic groups are significantly less likely to be vaccinated. People throughout public institutions are asked to assess decisions for a balanced impact across protected characteristics. Is that happening here? You might worry that the government applies certain practices only when it suits. As an aside this is the thin end of the wedge. Scotland suffers from an electorate with an inability to critique any government decisions. It won't end well.

Plenty of rumours about Dermot Desmond getting involved in too many decisions. A few things look suspicious to me. Strachan being hired as a consultant and the signings of Hart and McCarthy. I doubt that it helps to have had his predecessor on the board.

Decent news. Biggest problem for them has been a leadership void in the first six months of the year. Now it can continue for a similar period of time.

Yes, yes, centre aligned text is awful.

Anything to declare? @Bill? @Gonzo79?

Getting attention from unexpected sources.

Quite cryptic. Can you say outright which messages you are alluding to?

Although perhaps I may be too pessimistic!

That you will go so far as to accuse the Daily Record of a ridiculous miscalculation will cheer, and surprise, many! Nevertheless you are wrong about this. It's not a miscalculation as it will continue to drive traffic to the site. In my opinion the Record staff have little to worry about. I doubt that the relevant people will suddenly decide to start punishing people for using language like 'hun'.

So your concern is about the comments that forum users make. Is that fair to say?

These things are almost always hopium. Nevertheless you would like to think this episode will be unpleasant for some at the record. Such interesting times. I increased my subscription with Heart and Hand. I imagine many will do the same.

I would caution you against this rush to judgement. Besides that is a decision for Him alone.

The government decides and it has already happened.

Please explain this point.

How feeble minded would one need to be to care about what the Daily Record publishes? The Daily Record are in competition with fan media now. Any comment, by the Record, on the topic of fan media can be disregarded on that basis.