Continuing coronavirus happenings (Part 4)

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Why can’t these people just go away?

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by comparison

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  • An estimated 1.3 million people living in private households in the UK (2.1% of the population) were experiencing self-reported long COVID …
  • Long COVID symptoms adversely affected the day-to-day activities of 836,000 people (63% of those with self-reported long COVID), with 244,000 (18%) reporting that their ability to undertake their day-to-day activities had been “limited a lot”.

Self-reporting study, so caveat lector.

Reported and reviewed in Medical News Today: UK data sheds light on long COVID: Groups at risk, Omicron, and more.

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Two members of military counter-terrorism unit under investigation for allegedly taking part in convoy protests

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I knew this would happen. Our local Facebook group (that can see Canada from here) are taking this as a victory.

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Unless it is a book about how to accessorize with scarfs, it is probably going straight to the remainder section. :man_shrugging:

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Thoughtful piece by Judith Taylor, a sociology professor at the University of Toronto, daughter of a former corrections officer. Somewhat tangential to the topic, but I think it’s relevant.

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This comment takes the cake today

Many died “with” COVID not “due” to COVID. I know my grandparents would’ve rather died than see their grandchildren forced to wear masks at school. I’m sorry for the families that lost loved ones, but maybe this is a great time to start saying no to McDonald’s and yes to healthier diets and a tad bit of exercise

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Ignorance on full display. Including my favorite bit of stupid, “a tad bit.” You can have a wee tad, you can have a wee bit, but you cannot have a tad bit. This is the annoying icing on the piece of shit cake. This “Only unhealthy people die of covid” bullshit sounds reasonable until you get the “no true Scotsman” part, because as soon as you are hospitalized with covid, guess what? You are not healthy anymore!! Yeah, I am fucking tired of this shit, to my core I am tired of it. But it will not go away anytime soon, I guess.

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Hang on a sec there!

It might be a regional thing: I say “tad bit” and “wee bit” but have never heard “wee tad” at all!

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I knew Wee Tad. You’re no Wee Tad!

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Sofa king Wee Tad?

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Being this is (AIUI) an Irish idiom, maybe one of our mutants of Erin could clarify? @anon87143080, @Mercenary_Garage ? I am sure there are others. I may be just Americanizing something.

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Tad isnt used much in Ireland. Wee is used in specific contexts (“ah sure you’ll have a wee drop wont ya?”). Scotland is where you’ll be more likely to run into wee in conversation.

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As @anon87143080 said, Tad isn’t really an Irishism but when it’s used, it’s used on it’s own - “It’s a tad wet.”

In Ireland, to say a ‘wee tad’ or a ‘tad bit’ would be superfluous. FWIW, I’ve always thought that Tad was an upper-class Englishism.

“Have James retrieve the Rolls, I’m a tad typsy after that second glass of Pimms”

Wee isn’t much used in Ireland much either, except in the North where it’s used in every sentence. Along with Aye which is used at the start of every sentence. And Ardle which makes up the rest of every sentence.

“Aye, ardle ardle ardle wee ardle ardle?”

“Aye, wee ardle ardle ardle.”

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Ah yes, in nern-err-len (or nor-nor-len outside of Belfast)

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That would make sense, as the phrase comes down from my Scotch-Irish grandmother.

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