Only suspicion and vague ‘linking’ but clearly a story, picked up from the Sun newspaper, that BBC Scotland want to dwell upon and hammer into the collective consciousness.
No evidence, no test results and so the deaths in a Scottish care home were not recorded as covid-19 deaths. Clearly disappointed, BBC Scotland reported what the NHS England director had to say on the matter:
‘It is with great sadness that deaths do unfortunately happen in the community,” Mr Powis said. “The figures we report from the NHS are the number of deaths in hospital.’
That’s ironic given what we’ve recently heard about massive under-reporting of deaths in NHS England and the introduction of new procedures in Scotland to make sure the figures here are accurate:
https://www.gov.scot/news/new-process-for-reporting-covid-19-deaths/
The Sun was less reserved and imaginatively described how the bug ‘swept through’ the care home.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
It’s a strange thing – suspected, but not bother testing, Covid19 deaths in a care home, but not adding the numbers to the statistics. I mean, for reporting purposes, you could argue that any death added to the stats could count as a Covid19 death, but just bandying about suspicion is not helpful. I also noted that there are similar reports elsewhere, from Swiss Propaganda Research:
“Italy: Russian experts have noticed „strange deaths“ in nursing homes in Lombardy: „According to newspaper reports, several cases have been registered in the town of Gromo in which alleged corona virus-infected persons simply fell asleep and never woke up again. No real symptoms of the disease had been observed in the deceased until then. () As the director of the nursing home later clarified in an interview with RIA Novosti, it is unclear whether the deceased were actually infected with the coronavirus, because nobody in the home had been tested for it. () In the homes, where medical and nursing teams from Russia are working, corridors, bed rooms and dining rooms are disinfected.“
Similar cases have already been reported from Germany: Nursing patients without symptoms of illness die suddenly in the current exceptional situation and are then considered „corona deaths“. Here again the serious question arises: Who dies from the virus and who dies from the sometimes extreme measures?”
Here they are suggesting that folk in nursing homes may be more at risk from neglect perhaps rather than the actual virus – we don’t know that and probably won’t ever know. Are all autopsies being suspended? I’m not sure of that either!
Well, all we can do is keep with the usual instructions, wash hands, don’t touch face, don’t go around having lots of dinner parties, don’t go hogging all the groceries, get outside in the sun at a safe distance from other people (squirrels are okay), and avoid the any news broadcasters that are beaming in panic to your home. Hopefully we will start to see a decrease in hospital admissions next week and the rate of death (from whatever) the week after. It better be working, because this lockdown stuff is pish.
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There were 4,719 deaths registered for the month of July 2019, surely the bench mark for statistical analysis starts with the historical data.
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