Desperate to concoct a crisis, the above headline has no basis.
Here are the latest published data on the number of NHS staff reporting as absent due to Covid-19:
So doubling? Doubling from when? Absences have doubled since week ending 11th May but remain at less than half the peak in January.
What percentage are we looking at here?
There are 167 000 in total, so we’re at about 1.4%.
There are around 61 000 nursing and midwifery staff, so we’re at about 2% absent.
Will we cope?
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Decontextualised big numbers as usual.
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“Crisis with Truthiness” in gutter press!
“Hootsmon fabrications double since election”!
Herod looks on with envy.
BBC Hootsmon says “We will double-up the porkies”.
Hi Jack calls for heads to roll—or was it eggs on a roll?
Starwars mumbles into the wind.
Wee Wullie says “We are heading for victory, just watch”!
Lard Baron Ffoulkesakes calls for doubles all round.
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Great headlines there gavinochiltree! England gets what they vote for, Scotland gets lies and fabrication.
The UK/Britain is in ‘crisis’ and it’s all going to get much worse.
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O/T (apologies)
Bbc Radio based in Scotland 12.51pm
Paul mason ” There’s no Future in Scotland untill Independence “
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This is a good example of why it is vital to democracy, that the law is not forced to do somersaults in order to support the denial of material reality.
Unequal and Invisible: A Feminist Political Economy Approach to Valuing Women’s Care Labor in the COVID-19 Response
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2020.588279/full
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P.S. Just for clarity, “Women’s Care Labor” does not include prostitution. Are you listening Headway?
A Mule for the Patriarchy: Waking Up to the Harm of Prostitution to Wives and Families
https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/dignity/vol5/iss3/5/
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Maybe Jackie Baillie and Annie wells can fill the space while nhs staff get a holiday.
Imagine getting a jag from any of they two?
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For a minute there I thought you meant as midwives!
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I’d rather risk the Covid than have either Dumb or Dumber approach me with a sharp object .
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THIS IS ANOTHER TRAVESTY
A ONCE QUALITY PAPER SPEWING BILE TO GAIN FAVOUR
WITH A CORRUPT GOVERNMENT IN ENGLAND
THEUPY SHOULD IF THEY CONTINUE WITH THE BILE
MOVE PRINT AND OFFICES TO ENGLAND
MORE FITTING TO CRITICISE FROM SUPPORTING STATE
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