At the First Minister’s briefing yesterday, Lisa Summers asked, in quite a self-important manner, if she [NS] would commit to testing asymptomatic people and the FM responded:
I said at the end of my remarks that we’re going to have the major focus tomorrow in this daily update, on testing. That will be a progress report but also we will set out tomorrow what the next steps are in the extension of eligibility for testing.
Summers knew this and just wanted to appear smart, to be holding the Government to account, asking them to do something that others have been arguing for but on which there is as yet no consensus.
However, to leave this in the later broadcast would have made her question seem stupid so they just cut it out.
The First Minister did spend some time explaining the lack of reliability in testing asymptomatic patients and we heard that on the show but Summers just went on to repeat the Pennington line about testing.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
I see a major Survation poll of 3,000 UK-wide people, that the NHS was the most trusted institution on information on the current emergency with 81% but the Scottish government was, astonishingly, second on 71%.
UK government was at 54%.
BBC was at 52%.
BBC Scotland didn’t register, and the Holyrood Health Committee like wise (or not so wise).
The “Scottish” press?–Glug, glug, glug—sinking fast!
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Ms Summers has been teeing things up for an attack on the testing data. As well as yesterday’s innuendo, last week she spoke of the UK’s 100 000 tests target meaning 10 000 (sic) for Scotland. As well as being sloppy and mendacious interpolation, she is taking no heed of different strategies.
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One of the more unsubtle propagandists
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The Herald has been pushing this as well and getting its basic information wrong.
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someone needs to have their finger on the power off button for the tv screen, when some of these so called “journalists” ask the same f**king question that has been asked minutes earlier. They really are the very dregs of humanity.
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