It’s not a competition. This immature reporting in the Herald and BBC Scotland shames those who generate it.
Here is the news that matters:
The number of deaths in care homes fell for a fifth week, by 56 to 68.
https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files//statistics/covid19/covid-deaths-report-week-22.pdf
The overall numbers of cases and deaths have been falling for several weeks to levels allowing gradual loosening of the lock-down:
Infections in care homes are in steep decline:
Talking-up Scotland / Scottish media fact checking is like shooting fish in a barrel 
This presentation by the Herod demonstrates the opportunistic nastiness of the paper. It indicates that they do not give a monkey’s fuck about people in care homes. Their priority is to attack the SG.
However, increasing numbers of the public have become aware of this ulterior motive and feel growing distaste for the paper and its lackeys.
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BBC Reporting Scotland went big on the ‘care home deaths overtake deaths in hospital’s. Eventually they gave the numbers. It is 3 more!!!.
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They must be so pleased.
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Care homes are private businesses
Care on the cheap
That’s why they were so unprepared for covid19
They didn’t even have the basics
It’s only since the Scottish government made NHS staff available to help and give advice to care homes that the infection has been brought under control
Most of these care homes only have one trained nurse on duty overnight looking after up to forty patients with dementia etc
Big profits
Keep patients alive for as long as possible to get the money in
But spend as little as possible in doing so
No comfort
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“Keep patients alive for as long as possible to get the money in ..”
Yes and when a resident dies, fill the space as quickly as possible with another to keep the business-critical occupancy rate up around 90%.
The notion that commercial care homes would voluntarily admit they did not have proper infection control procedures in place, and therefore would turn down the offer of new clients, is hard to believe: if they did, then let them prove it!
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