At the briefing today, the First Minister carefully inserted those lines into a section on care home deaths.
In some ways we shouldn’t need to hear them. Isn’t it obvious that the owners of a facility are responsible for it? When factory workers die because the owners have not invested in the safety equipment that law requires them to, we blame them not the Government.
When the death rates in homes for the elderly rocketed why did it not occur to the reporters at BBC Disclosure Scotland to investigate the extent to which employers have followed the guidance and the extent to which they planned for increased pressure on their PPE supplies which they must surely have seen coming in the months before the surge.
BBC Scotland love to use single traumatic experiences upon which to generalise a wider crisis. I feel sure, judging by their journalistic standards that they read the Daily Record. How did they [and all the others] miss this juicy piece on 8th April:
Care home bosses could face fines or even jail if they don’t comply with new measures to protect staff and residents. Following allegations that one care home had locked personal protection equipment away from staff who needed it, a union boss called for full enforcement legislation to be used against any care home shown to be negligent.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/dodgy-scots-care-home-bosses-21830850
There’s more:
But, for BBC Wales, the agenda is different, to protect the Labour Party:
Scotland’s media are interested in care home deaths but only if they can find some way to shift the blame from the owners, often Tory donors, onto the Scottish Government.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Reality. Is reality and there shall be a day of reckoning
Shareholders of such companies would be wise to extricate themselves NOW
As the insurance companies will merely appoint a loss adjuster to assess any claim
And those Care home business owners
Will soon be told in the event of such Loss Adjuster investigations that they indeed were informed by the Scottish government as to what was required of them in no uncertain clearly defined terms then they failed to act properly
They will be informed that their insurance has been invalidated
And pay a terrible price for their greed driven by a lack of a proper and legally reqd.reponse
They forgot a simple piece of wisdom
Humans shall ALWAYS place Health before Wealth
But they reacted in completely the opposite way to what even the daftest of knew was this virus was the single biggest threat for over a 100 yrs to our health and no matter what wealth had to play 2nd fiddle
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I have just heard that Gove has just told a committee that they only planed for the flu not Covid 19,who’s back has he got his knife in now,it would not be the new father again would it.
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Tis the voters who now must sharpen their knives and cast this lot into the history bin
And the one labelled Detritious
DANGER never re use under any circumstance whatsooeve
C/W skull and crossbones & Bio Hazard symbol
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Why are the BBC and other news media not calling the owners and management to account? What about the trade unions? What about the Labour Party? What about those charged with inpecting standards in care homes?
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If i were chief strategist on this my orders would be HOLD HOLD HOLD
Let them continue making gross errors
And when Now is the day and now is the hour arrives
Draw your mighty sword of law and lay them to waste
Wha will fill a traitors grave let them turn and flee
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The companies that run these care homes have a responsibility to those in their custody beyond simply collecting cash from them each month.
The clue to that is in the name of the businesses they run…CARE.
If they cannot do that,then some other way will have to be found to fund this service.
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I’ve been wondering why in England there has been such reluctance to include mortality in care homes in the daily statistics. It has now dawned – in Westminster the Government believes that care homes have nothing to do with them.
Some cross-border wire crossing going on, eh?
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