So, in Scotland with the lowest mortality rate, half that of the UK average, look at that headline. Similarly, the people of Wales and Northern Ireland can see quickly how bad things are. But in the UK:
Praise the Lord! The Chosen One is alive and well! And in England:
One plucky old woman succumbs but the live updates offer morale boosters and keep the soaring numbers from you.
This is the third day in a row with the same pattern.
Talking-up Scotland / Scottish media fact checking is like shooting fish in a barrel 
Boris Bullsh!t for Colonies.
We pay for our own demeaning by London.
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Yet another example this evening of ‘odd’ (but no longer surprising) BBC News editorial practice.
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52096049
Headline: ‘UK coronavirus measures ‘making a difference’
The article includes this: ‘Sir Patrick Vallance told a news conference that social distancing measures are “making a difference”. Transmission of coronavirus in the community is thought be decreasing which could mean fewer infections.’
The BBC then tells us how Vallance knows: ‘Hospital admission data suggests cases are not rising as fast as feared.” So based on this kind of data it seems like good news for all in the UK.
And helpfully the BBC article goes on to give factual information on hospital admissions. It states this: “There are currently 9,000 people in hospitals in England with coronavirus, up from 6,000 on Friday.”
Notice something? ‘UK’ in headline; it’s the ‘UK’ government’s science advisor that is referenced; the issue is about hospital admissions something which (obviously) happens across the ‘UK’; and it’s specifically the analysis of admission data which is the basis of the ‘good news’.
But despite this, the BBC ONLY provides data for England. So should the people in NI, Scotland and Wales feel more positive too based on hospital admissions data? Can they have confidence too that UK coronavirus measures are working in their countries? The BBC fails to tell us!
UK = England again?
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Well, it’s a plan and no mistake. A plan to show us colonies how rubbish we are.
Dunno about the other colonies but Scots are not impressed with someone else telling us we are shite day after day…that’s oor job!
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As well as the wall-to-wall coverage of Covid-19 in Scotland – almost every article on the Scotland page, the number of ‘confirmed’ cases in Scotland is always accompanied by a ‘but the likely number is thought to be (many – insert number for the particular day) thousand.’
Not even the Northern Irish or Welsh pages, which give the number of cases and number of deaths in each country has this ‘thought to be’ number.
Readers have to search hard to find the data for England.
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Who in fact makes up (and the double meaning is intended) the BBC Scotland online page? It can’t surely be someone in Scotland or they’d be able to point out how utterly bizarre the online pages often are. For example, over the weekend, there were, as always, 6 or 7 stories on the Scottish front page. Three of them were about the Alex Salmond trial. When I first saw it, I thought I’d stumbled on a headline from last Monday (the day he was acquitted) but no , these stories are still running on Monday night. The expression floggin a deid horse springs to mind.
Meanwhile, there remains a serious problem with BBC (and, to be fair, Sky and ITV reporting) on C-19: we’re offered raw figures: so many ill and so many dead. But there’s never a context:
– What %age of the population do these raw figures represent?
– Do we even know what %age of the population have been tested?
– Are the infection rates rising, stable or falling?
– What information do we have from the WHO or the ONS?
– How do the V-19 numbers compare with the annual flu figures?
Or do TV and press journalists plan just to let people die of being frightened if the virus disny get them? Do journalists ever question what government tells them? Well, I know the answer to that one – which is why I am grateful to you, John, for your comments.
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I’m convinced this is an orchestrated plan, by Westminster with the main media players in cahoots.
After this wave of covid19 has abated, they will want to make sure the collective feeling of relief from the nations and applause of “well done” is only directed to the richly deserving, magnificent, self sacrificing team at Westminster.
Hopefully they won’t manage to pull it off and that the NHS staff can get the message out on how it should have been handled.
The other thing we can expect, along with the relief when the restrictions are lifted, is how we could only have managed to get through this as “one United Kingdom” etc, etc. With sterling now reduced to AA minus the Westminster establishment will act like a frightened cornered animal as Scotland moves for independence.
Paranoia? I can deal with paranoia, it’s the scheming bastards constantly trying to control and belittle that I have trouble with!
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