There are times when I think why go like on this? All our readers are ‘woke’ to the lies, distortion and mere clickbait being generated by some Herald writers with a Unionist agenda. Then someone writes to say thanks for enabling them to see what’s going on, so I think, one new convert every week or so is still worth it.
Today, Tom Gordon, who surely knows what he’s doing, employs the ‘after’ word to imply that Scottish hospitals have failed their patients and irresponsibly scare your granny before she’s admitted for that long-needed hip operation .
Reporting Scotland loved the word last year when they were drooling over headlines like: ‘Baby dies ‘after’ infection linked to pigeon droppings!’
It’s an almost perfect word for implying blame when none can be proved:
Baby dies after his gran sooks a pan drop
82 year-old dies after bus passes window
The headline used today is more feckless than most after being scuppered by the opening paragraph:
ALMOST a thousand patients have developed coronavirus after being admitted to Scottish hospitals for other conditions, it has emerged, raising fears the disease has been rampaging in the NHS. All were patients on non-Covid wards who either acquired the infection from staff or other patients, or who brought it in with them before showing symptoms.
See that last bit? So, we can’t tell from the statistics how many might have been in the latter category who did not get it after being hospital.
I have an agenda here so we’ll need something more than just my unsupported view. I know, how about this:
In Winter 2019/20 there were multiple ward closures due to Norovirus outbreaks in England but none in Scotland, suggesting that the latter, because of in-house cleaning, are extremely clean and that most infected patients got the virus before being admitted:
Reporting Scotland Up reveals Scotland’s hospitals cleanest in UK as Norovirus reports halve here but double there
SNP accused of making Scotland’s hospitals too clean for Norovirus to survive ‘deliberately’ as 600 beds are closed every day in England!
Finally, fears the disease has been rampaging through the NHS? That is so ill-founded, so scare-mongering it’s a parody of journalism. If it wasn’t dangerous it would be funny.
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Looks like the feckle has up and feckled off from the Herald headline writing
app. Tom Gordon batters away at his ancient Remington like a woodpecker on speed , the same old monotonous line .There must be a place for him in the Kelvingrove Museum ,
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Feeeeeddd!!!!
The dinosaur section !
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or rodents or….
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Or hingin wie the heids fae the ceiling .
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John,
Your disgust is entirely understandable and your persistence in exposing the biased rubbish that masquerades as journalism is much appreciated by this (still surviving ) ancient Scot, and, I’m sure, by many, many others.
And, speaking of disgust, what about the BBC UK headline this morning –
“Coronavirus: Care home residents face steep hike in fees”
So ‘Business is Business’ is still the core theme of our wonderful, paradisical Union. “Disgust” as a word doesn’t really cover it.
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It all comes sadly naturally too them now.
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The FM said in April that the statistics on hospital acquired covid19 in Scotland would be released when the data was robust and reliable. Has that happened does anyone know?
In England a belief is that the R number there is low in the community but high in hospitals and care homes.
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According to the Herald article the report should be released soon. I think they have been trying to oidentyfing the different routes to the infection eg wholly acquired within the hospital or acquired from a patient who was asymptomatic on admission but then showed symptoms.
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Yep, their wording is key to twisting facts and telling downright lies. Propagandists, posing as journalists, how do they sleep at night, no doubt very soundly. Imagine telling lies for a living.
Your articles and others’ articles here are always very welcome and interesting John. With my short attention span, I also appreciate the articles being relatively short and to the point!
Have a good weekend all.
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“One new convert a week” long time ago The Rev. Said something along the lines of only one in 100 readers post comments ”
So one convert a week messaging you will equate to many tens of weekly converts .
Positive thought for the day . . . . Imagine the negativity swirling around in Tom Gordon’s frankenstein like vacuous heid.
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Good point. So our 414 000 readers in May, how many did they infect?
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Depends on the “Rtruth” number. But however you look at it . . .
Enough to influence a referendum result.
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Noticed The Times lately is jumping on the same kind of misstruths, today it’s Scottish headline is “Pandemic alarm was ignored in Scotland” in English edition it’s headline is “Shops may open on a Sunday ” the anti Scottish government message is being ramped up again , a certain poll will have it go into overdrive!
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The Hootsmon, production of, might be available to buy. Anyone fancy publishing a newspaper?
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They had a £50 million offer a few years ago, did they not? And the sniggering Brit Nits were furious in case it went pro-indy.
They are running hard to catch a bus that left a while ago.
John McLellan, Brian Wilson, Gina Davidson et al would have to find REAL jobs.
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Years ago a well known humorous Daily Record polemicist told a class I attended that she didn’t believe half of what she wrote. Circulation and, at the end of the day, employment were higher demands than truth.
That’s of minor consequence when social mores are pondered but not when establishment political propaganda is disguised as objective and factual reportage.
“If you’re a political journalist who has regular contact with people in power, and your analysis is always aligned with prevailing orthodoxy, then you’re not really a journalist, you’re a courtier.” Frankie Boyle
“82 year-old dies after bus passes window”
Many thanks for the first hard chuckle of the day amidst the daily enlightenment.
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…and then they ask us to urgently support dead tree ‘journalism’. Outstanding.
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