Tonight at around 6:05pm, we heard
‘The figures in Scotland and Northern Ireland are higher.’
In Scotland 25% of coronavirus deaths were in care homes but that’s because the total number of which they are a percentage is much lower!
By today, 21 April, there have been 985 deaths in total in Scotland and 237 were in care homes.
https://www.travellingtabby.com/scotland-coronavirus-tracker/
In England, by the same date, 15 607 deaths were reported.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274
So, taking the BBC figure of 10% we get get 1 560 care home deaths.
Per capita, the Scottish figure may be slightly higher, at the moment, but the Chief Executive of Care England has predicted massive under-reporting with around 7 500 already dead in care homes from coronavirus:
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
The UK has fallen to 35th in global rankings of free press.
I wonder how the press that operate in Scotland would fare?
Next to North Korea, perhaps?
East Germany seems to be the their model for State sycophancy, Boris Cultism and biased reporting.
Scotland’s Shame !
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Their is possibly something very sinister going on now and not with the BBC
but with the UK Gov.
The Scottish government as does The UK one give daily reports and updates on their respective web sites pertaining to the no.of cases /deaths & tests for covid -19
Up until today Scottish figs.for tests on a daily and a growing basis was outperforming the rest of the UK on numbers conducted/million of population
But somehow today Scotland was completely outperformed
How and why
Are we suddenly becoming incompetent
Is the rest of UK became super efficient
Or is unfair distributions on a pro rata basis been undertaken
If so this would have to been carefully planned as organising and distribution the tests,kits, actually conducting the tests and sending them to labs for confirmation of result and subsequent report of results
All in all takes at the very least 7-10 days
If this trend continues exponentially then this a matter of the utmost gravity
Particularly so as testing ability plays a huge part in effecting a proper phased control ending of lock down
If we are put at a serious disadvantage re.this then the economic and assured 2nd wave of infections WILL have catastrophic effects on Scotland
I do not in any way desire to cry wolf
But such is not beyond the modus operrandi of The British State
Their history is littered with such trickery
Please all be vigilant and beware
I most certainly will
Forewarned is Forearmed
If so it MUST be called out and the facts presented to our own Scottish political representatives as a mutter of the utmost importance and urgency
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“Up until today Scottish figs.for tests on a daily and a growing basis was outperforming the rest of the UK on numbers conducted/million of population. But somehow today Scotland was completely outperformed”
Not sure I follow this – what figures on testing are you using?
You may note that the UK briefings give two figures on testing: (i) number of tests; and (2) number of people tested.
“535,342 tests have concluded, with 18,206 tests carried out on 20 April.
397,670 people have been tested, of whom 129,044 have tested positive.”
So there is a big difference between the two statistics.
source: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public#history
My understanding is that the daily Scotland figures on testing is for ‘number of people’ tested only.
“Scottish test numbers: 21 April 2020
A total of 41,699 people in Scotland have been tested.”
source: https://www.gov.scot/coronavirus-covid-19/
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….and Jackass Carlot was saying at the weekend that the bbc were biased in favour of the SNP – are Tories unable to read??
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Richard Murphy here estimating excess deaths – no actual numbers are known of course, the reporting from England is dire, and there are delays to reporting deaths so ONS figures are never up to date:
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2020/04/21/its-not-the-excess-deaths-now-that-matter-although-each-is-a-tragedy-its-the-fact-that-they-will-continue-that-is-going-to-hurt-us-so-very-badly/
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Someone on Richard Murphy’s article above posted a link that’s worth taking note of:
Prof John Ashton, public health expert, after scathing Sunday Times article, commenting on incompetence of uk government
England is NOT a benchmark to compare our own response to – they may be on track to have handled the epidemic in the worst possible way – with lockdown being about the only correct move they made. None of the European countries appear to have dealt with the situation particularly well, but the uk is looking like the worst out of all of them so far. Prof Ashton is scathing of the propaganda that the gov’t and journalists are continually feeding us – they appear to all think it’s business as usual, they can’t seem to stop the spin. The radio talking about flights and how is everyone managing, and anything except the actual issues which is a uk government actually culling its own population. Look to the ‘excess deaths’ – those now compared with those of previous years – we have our own, and one reason the SG has been pushing people to still go to the doctor with other stuff, a huge fall in cancer patient referrals etc – they are pretty huge in England.
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I like the way the New York Times treats England and Wales as separate from Scotland.
although Financial Times has the UK death toll today as 41,000
https://www.ft.com/content/67e6a4ee-3d05-43bc-ba03-e239799fa6ab
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