From NHS Lanarkshire yesterday:
Gabe Docherty, NHS Lanarkshire director of public health, said: “A positive COVID-19 confirmed case has been identified in a pupil at St Ambrose High School in Coatbridge. The pupil tested positive this morning (13 August), after displaying mild symptoms since 11 August, but they have not attended school at all.”
The St Ambrose child did not attend at all. None at Bannerman High attended at all. Two others at St Andrews attended briefly.
Despite this BBC Scotland repeatedly referred to the pupils in opening sentences as being ‘at‘ or ‘from‘ these schools.
Astonishingly, NHS Lanarkshire themselves have not helped with announcements using the same language.
We’re in the early days of a difficult step in the exit from lock-down and our media should be helping us to make that step with accurate and informative reporting but they, all of them, are shrieking scare stories at us like adolescent school newspaper writers.
We’ve already seen the First Minister and Professor Sridhar express disappointment in the coverage of these cases at the this difficult time for everyone. For the public service broadcaster to be engaging in this kind of behaviour is shameful.
ABC have adopted the dictum of International Terrorist’s
Get 1 infected pupil and frighten millions
Know thy Foes
And the depths to which their masters methods stink far less sink
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Considering the BBC has been wailing and berating about kids not being able to go to school right from the start, they’ve got a lot of damn cheek now wailing and stirring it over kids actually going back to school. Can’t they do something HELPFUL, for ONCE?
(Btw, premieroneuk, I think that ABC is actually the initials of the Australian state broadcaster – maybe a re-think required on that one??)
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For me, there’s always a song ready to force its way back into the front row of my mind:
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Poison Arrow? Prof Pennington’s nickname used by Aberdeen students?
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😀
Always your brain takes you off at a tangent! Lateral thinking shows a good creative mind 😉
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Your point is correct possibly
But once you know that A stands for
Absurdtistan
Then i do honestly believe that thou shall concur and more importantly always call it by its rightful nomenclature of The ABC
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You’re determined.
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John
Oh yes i am
I was brought up as so and particularly when confronted with lies never ever blink or avert your gaze as in the end tis the other who must do so and therfore admit that tis they that are wrong
END OF
Compromise cannot and will not ever exist or be given by me for persons of such type
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BBC prefer to LIE AND MISLEAD
THIS SHOULD NOT GO UNPUNISHED
ALL SCOTS SHOULD STOP PAYING
TV LICENCE
IT PAYS THE WAGES OF THE STAFF
WHO WOULD LIE AND DECEIVE
MOT MORE PUBLIC FUNDING
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