Once more, BBC UK let their Scottish colleagues down by showing ‘Sturgeon’, as she’s known to them, too much respect. Today we heard:
‘The Scottish (emphasis) Government has indicated it wants to go further than Westminster at the moment…Just in the last hour or so, Nicola Sturgeon (respect?) at First Minister’s Questions said it was inappropriate to continue as normal and the point she was making is that if you have these large public gatherings requiring the emergency service like police and ambulance to be there on standby. It’s taking them away at times of intense pressure elsewhere. So that’s her argument and she suggested stopping events of more than 500 people.’
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Well past time for this step. Ms Sturgeon has experience managing epidemics – Swine flu in 2009 when she was Health Secretary – therefore she knows what Public Health is all about in these situations.
At Boris johnson’s press conference earlier this week where he was flanked by England’s leading Health Officials the message coming across seemed to be more about protecting the gate receipts of the football clubs rather than protecting people.
The virus is known to be more contagious over short distances, less so over longer distances. Tens of thousands of people cheek by jowl in a sports stadium – perfect proximity for 1 person to infect the people around them. Furthermore these people are likely to be strangers to the infected person therefore no means of identifying contacts and thus no way to warn them to self isolate. A recipe for escalating spread of the infection.
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English/British nationalists are not happy about the FM’s logical approach to the virus. They’re demanding she follows the incompetent lead of liar and coward Johnson.
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She has form here. I’m sure she is being deliberately competent to show how incompetent the incompetent in Downing Street really is.
I take no credit for this insight. George Foulkes spotted her doing something similar a while ago when she was deliberately running Scotland more effectively than Westminster was England & Wales.
A serial offender!
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Perceptive!
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