With Professor Pennington clearly still asleep and Professors Bauld and Sridhar far too likely to say something positive abut the Scottish Government, BBC Scotland head south for Prof McCoy. He says:
What we know is that this virus and the lock-down itself has this differential impact across society whether it’s by ethnicity or its by age group or by you socio-economic position we are seeing this huge differentiality [sic] in risk and vulnerability.
Brewer, though based in Scotland, clearly hasn’t spotted the Anglocentrism in the prof’s reference to ethnicity. He’s correct that in England, BAME workers and patients are suffering disproportionately more but that’s not true in Scotland. McCoy, invited to speak on a Scottish TV programme has clearly not thought to check the facts.
Here they are:
In England:
Black and Minority Ethnic people make up 14.5% of the population in England but have had 17% of all Covid-19 deaths. However, some groups, are particularly affected. Black Caribbeans are likely to die at twice rate of their population share. Even more striking, Pakistanis are dying at three times the rate of their population share.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52219070
In Scotland:
Only 4% of the Scottish population is recorded as one of the non-White ethnic minority groups. 98% of the deaths are registered as ‘White’ so, the mortality rate among non-White groups is lower at only 2% [p34].
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Ah but as far as they are concerned
Humanity and life matters not a jot does it
Of far more importance to them are to do the bidding of their corrupt masters
We people are NOT as stupid as they hope for
The herd of sheep they are barking at with effect is getting smaller and smaller
The more they bark the less of them to herd
But for those sheep still willing to be herded then i say
Remember that more often than not
That when the collie dog drives you up the ramp of the truck
That the Trucks final destination is the ABATTOIR
Well certainly for your brain and the thinking part of it
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It’s worth recalling that the relatively higher proportion of people from a BAME background is being advanced by credible academic sources as one possible factor in England having a so much higher level of ‘excess deaths’ that the other parts of the Union.
See: https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2020/05/24/is-it-making-the-news-yet-where-they-are-england-eclipses-european-countries-in-excess-mortality-scores/
Typical of BBC Scotland: if it can’t make a straightforward SNP/Scottish Government ‘bad’ then present any ‘bad’ from somewhere else and then carefully muddy any differentiation between the somewhere else and Scotland which might put Scotland in a better light.
With acknowledgement of Wikipedia:
PROPAGANDA: ” communication that is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is presented.”
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England and USA both trying to make out that its non white people to blame for higher death rates in both countries.
Brewer using this English professor to try and make out that Scotland is inferior too.
Let’s seek out people such as brewer and send them packing once scotland is independent
If they were doing this to England they would be tried and convicted of treason
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Oh do not fret
He will be sent packing alright
But not in the way most think
His destiny is to pack shelves
I Asda and if up to it
Shall be be re allocated to cleaning toilets
The latter being quite similar in nature
To what he and his team of researchers
Find in their current employment
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You do wonder if Brewer and the wider bbc team actually do any research on the topic they wish to discuss or are they so arrogant to think that it does not matter as any question they put will be slanted. I choose the latter.
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Brewah and the Real McCoy.
Sounds like a TV cowboy series.
I suppose us Scots are the “injuns”!
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I’d like the job of the recording clerk at the Pearly Gates when such as those appear and are asked to give account of how they spent their time on Earth to the benefit of mankind..
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