As of yesterday, the 7 Day Average for New Deaths in Scotland was 14:
travellingtabby.com/scotland-coronavirus-tracker/
As of yesterday, the UK 7 Day Average for New Deaths was 287:
The UK has 12.6 times the population of Scotland so, all being equal, it should have a 7 Day Average of 12.6 times 14 or 176 deaths. It has 287 or 63% more.
Note: The UK figure is, of course, primarily made up data from England and a spike (see above) caused, perhaps, by the VE Day celebrations there will have widened the gap.
Note2: The UK data is based on UK Government data which according to the FT/ONS analysis is a considerable underestimate of the actual mortality level. The UK level is likely to be be, in reality, more than 100% greater than the Scottish level.
https://www.ft.com/content/67e6a4ee-3d05-43bc-ba03-e239799fa6ab
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Every death is a personal tragedy for some family. We have to hope that England gets a grip on this.
Their death toll is dreadful, and with all the crowds milling about on beaches and parks, a second wave could be a real threat. South Korea closes schools it has just re-opened due to a spike far less than the daily infection rate down south, yet they are gleefully opening their schools. How will peoples reaction to a second wave, after Cummings got “excused”?
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Are people in England not being informed of the seriousness of this pandemic, and are they not aware of the number of deaths in their country as a result? Are people hoping for herd immunity? It’s very perplexing indeed.
It’s a huge concern that schools are being told to open in England on Monday. The outcome could be catastrophic. Is the ENGGov orchestrating this with ulterior motives? If so is it about Brexit? Would having long term lockdown, with huge restrictions enforced, with very high unemployment, therefore a ready army, either to pick fruit, or fight in a phoney war, with the actual army on the streets, be highly lucrative for the lying, scheming, troughing self servatives in government?
What is their agenda, who is pulling the strings, what do the Tories and their red Tory pals want out of this?
We know it can’t be anything remotely resembling democracy, in fact quite the opposite.
Scotland will need a very strong protective shield to combat any attempts by their destructive neighbour to maximise fear and er, keep ‘control’.
Keep your head Scotland, this is definitely the defining moment in securing a positive future, staying on a life affirming path and rejecting anything to do with the backward, and destructive path that the EngGov are going down.
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I think they’re hiding the awful truth by referring to them as UK deaths?
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Agreed! And this has been the case since the early days of the pandemic and it has been evident, as has been demonstrated time and time again here, by analysis of the way the BBC has covered the coronavirus issue in ‘England’ – hardly ever explicitly – as distinct from in ‘Scotland’.
Could the Brexteer Tories really consider that the pandemic disaster is a great cover – a useful distraction – for the headlong rush to a no deal Brexit? Anything is possible with these people!
A Brexit disaster diminished in public view in the context of a pandemic disaster in which the Dunkirk spirit becomes ever more necessary. Rule Britannia!
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Did you hear Murray slagging off the SG at every chance on QT last night,SNP really bad at every turn.
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Couldn’t watch. Can’t afford another TV.
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The Scottish branch office of the Labour and Conservative Party see care homes as a line of attack. Neil Finlay MSP has been using a column in the Morning Star to attack the SG and the SNP. Much is vacuous bluster for a mainly English readership which does not know much about Scotland. The Scotland editor of the star publishes pieces which are entirely consistent with those in the Daily Mail, Express, etc. He published, uncritically and without identification, the statement some weeks ago by the care homes spokesperson, rubbishing Jeanne Freeman, without informing the readers he is a Tory supporter and strong pro unionist (as the Star is). His stance is in marked contrast to the Welsh editor who is much more supportive of the Welsh Government. It, of course, is Labour, but markedly more pro independence than the Morningside Tory, Mr Ian Murray.
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Tweet by Chris Giles may be ominous, hope not.
“Chris Giles
@ChrisGiles_
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15h
Only yesterday I was remarking on the increase in ambulance sirens you can hear from my home in North London.
Turns out there has been a rise in hospital admissions. Let’s hope this is just a blip”
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Slightly earlier.
“Chris Giles
@ChrisGiles_
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16h
Update: following today’s data from hospitals, a cautious estimate of the number of UK excess deaths linked to coronavirus up to 28 May is
64,000
Of these 59,537 have happened and the rest are estimates over the past 2 weeks
64,000 would be a rate of 960 per million “
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The only explanation for the rush to unlock in England must be that they know more about this virus than anyone else.
They must have information that the virus is in retreat or has lost it’s virulence due to the onset of summer.
Hasn’t this theory been published in the Trump Medical Journal aka Twitter?
Not peer reviewed of course because these morons have no peers!
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That is the problem – they believe they have no peers. Cummings had his sojourn because the rules for plebs do not apply to him and his peers and just to make sure you know, Emily Maitlis gets sidelined and Laura Kuennsberg, who tweeted the ‘perfectly legal’ story is exonerated.
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Tweet
Director of the Wellcome Trust & SAGE member
@JeremyFarrar
says “in retrospect it was” a mistake to drop the test, track and trace strategy in early March.
We must not lift the lockdown without test, trace, track, isolate in place. Must not repeat mistakes
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The independent SAGE people have cocerns about raising the lockdown in England now.
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Swqakbox says this (says UK but means England):”At a point when the UK demonstrably has a larger pool of infection than it had when he called it – and one that is increasing – he is telling us all that things have moved so far in the right direction that the lock-down can be relaxed.
And this is all before children start to return to school next week, which scientists know will lead to an increase – even if the government wasn’t telling teachers who have been in contact with symptomatic sufferers not to go home and self-isolate.”
https://skwawkbox.org/2020/05/29/hospital-admissions-on-day-johnson-relaxed-lock-down-are-double-what-they-were-when-he-imposed-it-and-deaths-five-times-higher/
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https://twitter.com/Macnessie/status/1266337860178915328
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Slightly longer segment here where he again emphasises ‘England’.
Love it. Facts not spin.
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John,I have just heard the CE,say that over the next few years he is going to spend Millions on Carbon Capture where the north east will prosper,no mention of Scotland where we had Brown ,Cameron cancel these,so we now that it is England who is to get all this jobs.
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Also,there was originally supposed to be an interconnector for renewables between Peterhead and Norway which was scrapped,I believe by A.Darling.
Now going to be between NE England and Norway.
I suspect that this,along with all England’s other interconnectors will have a one way direction of flow.
Whitehall doesn’t want England to be dependent on Scotland for anything,at least publicly.
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Which was also why Blair and Dewar secretly changed the trend line of the border into the North Sea on a more northerly trajectory to transfer a substantial wedge of sea, with gas fields to England.
All these Labour careerists (including TU heid yins) clearly find Scotland too wee for their misplaced inflated delusions about their own importance.
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