Don’t panic?

Could Edinburgh go into a local lockdown, just like Glasgow? Nicola Sturgeon has warned that similar measures could be extended to other parts of Scotland if infection rates continue to rise.

Locking stuff down doesn’t make the virus disappear, it’s simply slows it down so when people start moving about again, numbers increase. What is the long term strategy as it can’t be, “let’s lock things down”?

Leigh Minto

We have done as much as we can, are we to stay at home for the rest of our lives, shivering in terror in case we catch a virus?

Ismay Murray Brameld

I wonder how all these people claiming the virus is harmless know what the long-term effects are. Numerous people who had very, very mild Covid are now presenting with lung damage, kidney damage eye sight problems. It’s far too soon to try to claim it isn’t dangerous. The Government is quite right to continue to stop the spread.

Lesley Anthony

There is very little sense in what they are doing now They’ve definitely lost the plot. Is 33 cases out of 100,000 people a problem? No deaths no mad dash to the hospital. They are letting the public down. Get on with life.

Ken Smith

It’s now 44 in a million chance to die of Covid while there’s a 20,000-1 chance of dying in a car crash! Some perspective would be good rather than constant negativity

Ian Goodwin I came into Edinburgh this morning. It’s so upsetting to see it like a ghost town. We need to get the economy moving otherwise we’ll all be permanently indoors due to no jobs. It’s very worrying.

Marian Sutherland

It beats being dead.

David Balfour Mcintyre

Everyone dies – it’s just a matter of timing. You live in a cave if you want – meanwhile many of us would like to be allowed to get on with life and take our chances without the nanny state enforcing more and more rules on us.

Stewart Kirkwood

We cannot keep on having lockdowns. We need to get the country moving and stop panicking and live with it. It is crazy that we are shutting down the country for only 0.3 per cent of the population. It might not go away just like some other diseases we have learned to live with. By all means protect those at most risk but not the whole country. Time to get real

Raymond Mcgregor Oh no, the First Minister wants to protect us from coronavirus. How selfish of her.

Malcolm Greig

Nicola Sturgeon is doing what needs to be done .All you people out there, I hope you don’t lose a loved one and have to suffer grief at your loss, because let me say, it’s horrific when you can’t be with them to say goodbye.

Karen Pollock

The Edinburgh infection rate is pretty low, I think. I work in the city centre and can’t wait to get back. I worry about how travel companies will cope, how shops and every other business will cope if we can’t get back out there soon and if God forbid we had to go into another lockdown! Would be devastating for all.

Jane Mcpherson

Calf measures

A hill runner was left bloodied and bruised by a cow in the Pentlands after he came between it and its calf. Mark Hartree grew up in Kent next to a dairy farm and felt confident enough to shoo the cows away from the footpath. However, he did not realise there were also calves in the field, and that he had unwittingly attempted to shoo a cow away from her calf.

If you can’t walk round them then you shouldn’t be in the field. I’ve taken a five-ten minute detour to make sure I’m safe from them. It’s not difficult. They are big fields so jog right past them. I’ve watched farmers herd cows into fields and jump out the way of them. Don’t mess with animals bigger than you. It’s very much a case of: “I didn’t look while crossing the road and a car hit me.” Get off the road. Use the crossing. Walk round. Avoid the danger. That’s what I got taught.

Jamie Booth

I can’t understand this! I thought all the cows up in the Pentlands were on holiday. I heard they all had a ‘wee calf.’

Gordon Douglas

He should’ve went an udder way too.

Paul Duffy Just jog on and leave them be. No need to “shoo” the cows away.

Steven Mackintosh If it was a lion he wouldn’t have the guts to do that. Just walk around the field to avoid conflict with the animals and leave them alone.

Ken Fung Was this revenge for the steak he had the night before?

Benjamin Hackett