In classic tabloid journalese, remniscent of Reporting Scotland’s use in the pigeon poo scandal, Elle Duffy (?) employs the ‘after’ word to construct a link between the coronavirus pandemic and deaths in one care home:
‘More than a dozen residents at a Lanarkshire care home have died after a suspected COVID-19 outbreak. A total of 13 people at the Burlington Court care home in Stepps, North Lanarkshire, have died in the past seven days. Their families have been told the deaths could possibly be linked to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. None of the patients had been tested for Covid-19 as they were not admitted to hospital but their families have been informed of a possible association with the virus.’
That’s clear isn’t it? Nobody know anything. There’s been some gossip and someone has contacted the Herald.
We need to wait for the Procurator Fiscal’s report before we can say anything of legitimate public interest.
All this kind of reporting does is to scare the wits out those with loved ones in a care home. That’s not what the Herald used to be for.
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Playing politics during a pandemic? You aint seen nothing yet.
The Brit Nit media will use deaths to “get the Nats”—doesn’t matter if mortality rates are 3 or 30 times worse in England—perspective is something made out of plastic, for all they know.
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I note that BBC line running under their update today states, “In Scotland 218 people have died from coronavirus in 24 hours, up 46.
Slow readers beware!
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They have updated to 46?
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I used to live in old Lenzie which has now grown towards Stepps like topsy.
Here in my town in rural France there have been 6 confirmed infections in small hamlet 7km away.
Nobody knows the outcomes
Clues are in local undertakers windows with funeral announcements. All of which means no congregations and the Mas, the death peal from the bells of the Cathedral are silent.
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