The Herald posted the story 1 hour ago. BBC Scotland got it up on their website 40 minutes later. That’s investigative journalism for you!
As my previous post on the Herald piece exposes, there is nothing here, only rumour and scare-mongering.
BBC Scotland claim:
‘The Care Inspectorate have said they are in contact with the local health and social care partnership after Burlington Care Home in Cranhill, Glasgow, confirmed 13 residents have died of suspected coronavirus in the past week. A spokesperson said: “We are aware of the tragic death of residents at this care home as a result of Covid-19.”
‘As a result of?’ I’d like to see that statement. There’s no sign that I can find.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Reblogged this on New Scotland.
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Yup. And pigeons spotted lurking behind the hand dispensers.
Call for the Mounties, or better still—-the Monty Pythons !
Phone Jackie Baillie and Miles Briggs–and hide the pies.
Get them to make-up quick, and give them the script–they’ll be on the evening news getting their retaliation in first, second and last. Mortality in the “UK” overtaking Italy? Never mind that—get the Nats !
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Thanks John. Of course you pick out the key phrase, the one attributed to the Care Inspectorate: “… death of residents at this care home AS A RESULT of Covid-19.”
If this statement is accurate then why is the BBC and The Herald using journalistic tricks to imply and scare but carefully avoid claiming certainty?
And if this is NOT accurate – or cannot yet be confirmed as such – then is the BBC misquoting or is the Care Inspectorate in error? Surely it must be one or the other? And each is unacceptable.
On receipt of such a statement from a CI spokesperson, the BBC journalist on our behalf should have asked: ‘how do you know this at this time?’
It is deeply regrettable that the subject matter covered by the TUSC over recent times is so often linked with illness and death. However, as in this case, the issue being addressed is different: it is actually the nature of corporate media and BBC reporting – or misreporting – in and of Scotland. We should be better served by the public service broadcaster.
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Gold Dust Test Robots taken from Scottish University by Royal Navy
On “special request from No. 10 “ the Royal Navy turned up at Dundee University’s school of Life sciences to transport it’s two King Fisher Flex Robots to Milton Keynes to be part of the National Covid -19 Diagnostic Centre. “these machines are like Gold dust”
Also says in this article that They were donated by the University.
Were they part of Scotland’s testing programme?
https://www.universities-scotland.ac.uk/universities-step-up-to-help-tackle-coronavirus/
Further reporting in the times.
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