There have been seven further deaths in Scotland since Friday, down one from the previous day and up from 3 and 6 on Wednesday and Thursday respectively. The mortality rate at 3.2% has been almost constant in this period. NHS staff take great credit for this.
There is no sign, for the moment, of the upward curve predicted. I’m not saying it will not come though I doubt the more extreme predictions coming from the Glasgow Anaesthetist Group (GAG).
Tragically, there were 260 additional deaths across the UK in the same period, a shocking 34% increase in one day which comes as the UK government plans to test frontline hospital staff. In Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, health workers are already being tested.
The UK’s average mortality rate is now 6% up from 5.2%, as some London hospitals are now at their limit of capacity for intensive care cases.
Note: I really do not take any pleasure in this. Some seem to think I do. Projection [Look it up]. I write with anger. I have friends and relatives in England. I know there are millions of English people who share my values but are trapped there, just as there are upwards of a million here who are damn lucky their Westminster pals have not been able to wound our NHS so severely.
Talking-up Scotland / Scottish media fact checking is like shooting fish in a barrel 
A Company not carrying out risk analysis on all probable threats would be somewhere not invest.
For a Government to prepare an analysis of a former near pandemic and to conclude the Country would have the resources if their was to be a another pandemic is revealing.
For a Government, because it would have cost money to equip and prepare, and they preferred to starve the NH S of funds in order to make money selling it off is crossing the line between incompetence into criminal culpability.
Austerity is a cover for the politicians to loot the national riches. It is only that.
The only thing that will move a wodge of voters In SE England is an indiscriminate killer stalking their Streets and postcode.
The Tories are criminally responsible for this but the lack of a codified Constitution renders such a recourse Tonthe Law al but impossible.
If that lot cannot be reformed, and it is not their best interest for that to happen, Scotland must strike for independence as soon as possible.
Nicola Sturgeon must carry some responsibility for being too hesitant and needs to demission, but in a managed, non acrimonious fashion, and Scotland needs to come together to go forward.
Covid-19 sadly and the continuing pantomime Westminster troop of Baboons may well be that, but not by acting badly with Westminster, for social cohesion.
The moral high ground means SFA to these Eton barrow boys.
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“ Country would have the resources if their was to be a another pandemic is revealing.”
Should read “would NOT have, etc”
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And yet they gained a huge majority! It’s a sign of the times, voter apathy, x factor popularity for sound bites over quality. Nothing good comes easy!
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Comparing countries is the best way of understanding cause and effect.
We will look back on this, hopefully as an international effort, to stop this happening again and by ‘this’ i mean our response to the virus.
Apparently South Korea has managed to stop it without economically damaging measures but only by mass testing and contact tracing. If we don’t compare we will never learn.
The Financial Times has daily graphs to compare the worst countries by cases and deaths and also by region.
To not compare would denial.
https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest
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